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Emma Ní Cheallaigh

@eks42.bsky.social

MN ➡️ DC ➡️ MN. Irish politics/dumb rants/LBJ/articles you should read. MA in World Politics. Sí/í.

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Latest posts by eks42.bsky.social on Bluesky

Thanks, but you could've pushed for DC statehood at any time.

11.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 1066    🔁 127    💬 42    📌 10

Just to give the TL;DR on this one:

*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

07.08.2025 22:55 — 👍 506    🔁 298    💬 19    📌 28
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Police Report: Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Assaulted in Alleged Carjacking President Donald Trump shared a photo of the DOGE staffer after the alleged attack and threatened to “federalize” Washington, DC. WIRED obtained the police report.

Did not anticipate that “Big Balls” would ultimately play such a key role in the Trump Cinematic Universe we’re all trapped in.

www.wired.com/story/edward...

06.08.2025 09:40 — 👍 105    🔁 14    💬 8    📌 1

Can we blame Norm Green for this?

03.08.2025 16:48 — 👍 35    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Imagine believing and casually repeating as truth Donald Trump saying "I will pay for something" in the year of our lord 2025

31.07.2025 21:11 — 👍 132    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1
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How MN Game Masters Are Going Pro and Building Community - Racket Thanks to series like 'Stranger Things' and 'Critical Role,' interest in gaming has gone from 'zero to 60' over the past few years. These experts hope to guide you in your journey.

Thanks to series like 'Stranger Things' and 'Critical Role,' interest in gaming has gone from 'zero to 60' over the past few years. These experts hope to guide you in your journey.

31.07.2025 19:09 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Why people think violence is worse

31.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I liked Persimmon Nail Spa on Eye St

28.07.2025 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

:: sighs ::

Hire more religion reporters.

And also, Bluesky: READ more religion reporters.

28.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 99    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 3

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

23.07.2025 16:27 — 👍 12234    🔁 2876    💬 73    📌 44
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How many Twin Cities cops live where they work? Both Minneapolis and St. Paul trail most other large cities in the proportion of officers who reside in the cities they serve.

This is an old article, but I'm guessing things haven't changed a ton. I think you're more likely to want to solve/improve things when it's your city www.mprnews.org/story/2015/0...

21.07.2025 14:01 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Appreciate the support from the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social. This story is unreal. And yet, it's real.

20.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump administration imposes limits on Mexican flights and threatens Delta alliance in trade dispute Mexico is the top foreign destination for Americans with more than 40 million passengers flying there last year.

Mexico is the top foreign destination for Americans with more than 40 million passengers flying there last year.

20.07.2025 00:54 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

17.07.2025 01:03 — 👍 20836    🔁 4271    💬 382    📌 367

“I clearly identified myself as a US citizen and an employee at the farm, yet federal agents ignored me,” the US military veteran said.

"According to Retes, he was in custody for three days without being charged, without access to a phone call, and without legal representation.”

16.07.2025 14:31 — 👍 116    🔁 68    💬 3    📌 1
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In crappy move, Congressional interference forced D.C. to close its public bathrooms Urination without representation.

Urination without representation ... ? Now, Congress is even trying to control where D.C. residents go to the bathroom. 51st.news/in-crappy-mo...

10.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 54    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 4

I've been predicting that there will be an American Schism by the end of the decade. One church near me didn't let a woman alter serve for Good Friday; meanwhile, mine is working with an interfaith group to support our immigrant neighbors.

10.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

IT'S THE SECOND MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

(the first being the MN High School Boys Hockey Tournament All-Hair Team video)

09.07.2025 15:54 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

For years, conservatives have warned that if you vote for the most boring Democrat you've ever heard of you'll be prevented from practicing Christianity in public. Under Trump, Catholics are being given permission to skip Mass, where you eat Christ, due to fear of being kidnapped by the government.

09.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 104    🔁 50    💬 3    📌 1

i wish i could be more helpful in this moment. i think i’m just paralyzed by everything we know is coming.

03.07.2025 20:53 — 👍 3568    🔁 224    💬 114    📌 13

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.

And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.

Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

01.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 11829    🔁 3315    💬 217    📌 137

Open for a surprise (in many ways)

30.06.2025 18:49 — 👍 42    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

Either America will be a country that understands its people are its most vital asset — like other rich, developed nations — or we’ll do it this way.

Remember the “death panels” nonsense? Well now the death panels are tech bros & pols but they really hope you don’t notice

bsky.app/profile/kent...

25.06.2025 08:16 — 👍 175    🔁 66    💬 24    📌 1

Hard to choose just one Bible verse for this huh

22.06.2025 03:13 — 👍 47    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

22.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 37140    🔁 7893    💬 406    📌 313

this is going to be an unpopular take but this is 1000000000% bait, this is 1000000000% vance intentionally driving far right traffic to this website, this is 1000000000% implicit brigading (surely to Musk's great joy), and therefore you should 1000000000% not take the aforementioned incoming bait

18.06.2025 22:22 — 👍 4333    🔁 1608    💬 193    📌 83

Thanks for the update, I’ll delete my early post!

14.06.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

if you don’t live in minnesota and can’t even go to our events today, stop this shit. stop encouraging other people to put themselves at risk from behind a fucking keyboard. this isn’t a game

14.06.2025 16:28 — 👍 367    🔁 56    💬 5    📌 0

who decided that @kare11.bsky.social would go off the air for golf!

14.06.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live: Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, Sen. John Hoffman shot in ‘targeted shootings’ Gov. Tim Walz said there were targeted shootings in both Brooklyn Park and Champlin on Saturday.

Strib coverage is in front of their paywall. Please follow their coverage and resist the urge to speculate about *anything* about the attack itself.

www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

14.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 461    🔁 239    💬 7    📌 15

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