Nick Harper, he/him

I'm actually a little curious as to why West Virginia is like that?

Where Christian nationalism is most dominant in U.S. states A 50-state look at Christian nationalism.

Least surprising map in history dropped.

hennepin county sheriff dawanna witt has her department out here wearing “THE OTHERS” patches, taking photos of people and covering their faces behaving like ICE agents. we desperately need someone to run against her this year, this is unacceptable

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many very smart people have proposed the running out of goons theory

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YouTube video by Comrade Tripp In Defense of Mayor Jacob Frey

This roast of the mayor is very very very meta and very very very on point. Goddamn.

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File articles of impeachment then.

“But that doesn’t do anything, they don’t control the senate”

Ok? And a letter does do something? Please be for real

And you’re right

Kash Patel heads to Milan for the Olympics — on the FBI jet The FBI director has plans to watch the U.S. men’s hockey team vie for gold, sources tell MS NOW.

Breaking MS NOW:

FBI Director Kash Patel flew today on the FBI's Gulfstream jet bound for a trip to the winter Olympics in Italy to watch one of his favorite sports: men's ice hockey.

Patel's trip to Milan is likely to cost as much as $75,000. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer — who herself is under investigation for an affair she had with a subordinate, and also instituted a monthly prayer service at the department — has been banned from HQ after two female employees reported he sexually assaulted them.

Minnesota suburbs see ‘stealthier’ tactics as ICE stays active Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs.

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Someone else at the press conference told me it was a KSTP camera operator with a thin blue line sleeve patch.

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Unfortunately, hundreds of habeas lawsuits in Minnesota may soon be rendered moot; the 8th Circuit appears likely to follow the 5th Circuit in endorsing a view of a 1996 mandatory detention law that not even ICE thought was legitimate until last year.

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

This Homan claim is stupid and has been debunked. It's not a tally of "missing" children in the way any normal person understands that phrase. It's children DHS considers unaccounted for from an immigration paperwork perspective. It doesn't mean they aren't with family or a legal guardian.

Which reporter, I want to know whose life to make miserable

Sure but that’s because of the individuals in the positions who were supposed to be doing the checks. A parliamentary system doesn’t magically fix that flaw.

Jesus, how was this not mentioned in law school?

After a 2 year hiatus, Our Streets says this year they're back to host the kind of Open Streets you know and love on Lyndale and Cedar.

“Whether by expanding supreme courts, stacking judicial selection commissions, or changing judicial selection mechanisms altogether, these red states have become innovators in ensuring that only Republican priorities receive the protection of the law.”

No, but at least now we can point to the failure being one of executive leadership rather than legislative policy.

Yeah I'm not inclined to do a review of checks and balances from junior high social studies class. Not to mention the fact that legislative activity is a full time job and being executive leader is basically two full time jobs, so they definitely shouldn't be combined.

I can’t even start with that

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life

billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

None of those things require a parliamentary system. Snap elections, proportional representation, and stronger parties are totally different things than a system where the executive branch and legislative branch are merged.

🇺🇸 trifectas get <one> shot at doing something

Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

The platform must be <immediate> institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

I don’t understand the obsession with parliamentary systems. Why do people think it fixes anything?

I Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter X.com One of the reasons I got serious about reporting about pediatric gender medicine is that when I tweeted in Dec 2022 that it was a shame that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioning, Alejandra Caraballo brutally attacked me on Twitter. I was not going to let a bully push me around and lie about me, for one thing. And two, I knew that any field which was guarded so aggressively by activists forbiddng anyone from asking *reasonable and substantive questions* had to be newsworthy and important. And I quickly realized that most reporters were too scared of the Caraballos of the world, meaning there was a massive amount of uncovered territory for me as a reporter, so long as I could stand being routinely attacked, maligned, defamed, lied about, excommunicated, and so on.

Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.

🖕to incumbents, the district maps are ours, not theirs.

I bet we could get 6-2 if we keep 8 seats. But yeah, if we go down to 7, 5-2 is the best we could do, and even that seems suspect.