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Minneapolis-based Podcaster of Advanced TV Herstory®, documentarian & writer. Connecting the dots of TV & feminism to American culture & politics since 2015. Sign up for my newsletter - www.tvherstory.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@advancedtvherstory

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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

A Must Read: When Michael Flynn, Kari Lake, and a DHS official with the Bond Girl name Heather Honey gather to plot on “election integrity,” we better pay attention.
As @leahgreenberg.bsky.social always says: “They won’t succeed because we won’t let them.” RESIST.

www.propublica.org/article/elec...

04.03.2026 11:34 — 👍 47    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 3
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The 53 cars at the Hagerstown Maryland warehouse this morning, appearing a few hours after we left, are NOT the 100 on their way from Minneapolis.

Detention center is more MASSIVE than you can imagine. All this “moving in” while there’s a law suit from MD & other actions to keep from opening.

01.03.2026 21:12 — 👍 2929    🔁 1514    💬 117    📌 64
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Vance says Minnesota’s Medicaid funds halted as part of Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ Vice-president makes announcement with Mehmet Oz, who says other states will be next after Minnesota

Let’s call this what it is, the Trump regime is punishing MN for being a blue state. Seniors, children, people of low income will be negatively impacted by this. They’re showing their depravity, cruelty & immorality daily.

26.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 419    🔁 240    💬 42    📌 17
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Politics Chat, February 24, 2026 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

@hcrichardson.bsky.social So great!! HCR’s State of the Union could also be used as a primer for anyone who needs to get up to speed.

www.youtube.com/live/g_PnMMX...

25.02.2026 00:23 — 👍 280    🔁 85    💬 6    📌 2
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"People have to give birth in their homes in secret, because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them....This is lived reality right now. This is the country you live in."

JVL and Tim Miller on what they saw in Minneapolis.

24.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 1600    🔁 671    💬 43    📌 52

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

19.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 30165    🔁 8713    💬 1152    📌 463
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FBI, St. Paul police probing ICE arrest that resulted in skull fractures Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating claims that immigration officers shattered a Mexican man's skull while taking him into custody last month.

ICE agents wrested Alberto Castañeda Mondragón from his vehicle, threw him to the ground and repeatedly struck him in the head with a steel baton—they said “he fell and hit his head against a concrete wall.”
Doctor says—fractures to his skull are inconsistent with a fall.
apnews.com/article/immi...

18.02.2026 07:12 — 👍 178    🔁 127    💬 8    📌 5

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

16.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 10250    🔁 3291    💬 171    📌 106

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

14.02.2026 16:12 — 👍 10851    🔁 3516    💬 307    📌 150

You can shop many of these businesses online. Every transaction means a lot to these businesses that have struggled for 6+ weeks now 💜

14.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Voting rights groups sue to block Ohio law that purges voters without warning At stake, the plaintiffs argue, is nothing less than the fundamental right to vote.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

14.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...

Minnesota has the rats on the run.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

05.02.2026 05:17 — 👍 256    🔁 78    💬 7    📌 2

Makes you wonder what they’re REALLY doing with your kids’ class pictures.

13.02.2026 21:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Howard Lutnick misled the American people about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein because he didn't want to admit he continued interacting with Epstein even AFTER Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor.
 
It's a disgrace. Lutnick needs to resign as Secretary of Commerce.

12.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 9666    🔁 2833    💬 899    📌 211
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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Corey Lewandowski "fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after [Kristi] Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane" — a decision that was reversed when they realized they needed someone to take them home.

People said Noem and Lewandowski "do little to hide their relationship inside the department."

13.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 1928    🔁 805    💬 227    📌 91

Or the inconvenience of having your windows smashed, being ripped from your car & thrown to the ground. Doesn’t matter your skin color. Suck it up going through TSA. Small price

13.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.

Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

11.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 1919    🔁 1348    💬 3    📌 8

This pic is worth thousands of words.

11.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 48    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0
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“LESS THAN 14%”

They have been lying all along

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

09.02.2026 17:47 — 👍 2422    🔁 1039    💬 141    📌 51
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08.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 5387    🔁 2558    💬 254    📌 154
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GREEN DAY’S BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: “This goes out to all the ICE agents — quit that shitty job… because when this is over, Noem/Miller/Vance/Trump will drop you like a bad habit.”

(From @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

07.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 2102    🔁 644    💬 48    📌 29
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.

“He remembers ICE agents pulling him from a friend’s car outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him & striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he was beaten again.”

07.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 1348    🔁 836    💬 70    📌 59

Concentration camps lead to disease and death.

07.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 363    🔁 182    💬 11    📌 3

A reminder:

06.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 2443    🔁 607    💬 25    📌 7
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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries.

A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa

06.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 871    🔁 314    💬 17    📌 24
HRC’s post to James Comer saying she demands a public hearing, cameras on. This Epstein hearing is going to bury the GOP.

HRC’s post to James Comer saying she demands a public hearing, cameras on. This Epstein hearing is going to bury the GOP.

When you think you’ve won the war, chest bumping and all puffed out, and then a strong woman enters the arena with a case of beer for you to hold.

I give you Hilary R. Clinton.
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#DemVoice1

06.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 1244    🔁 379    💬 50    📌 12
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When NPR asked what federal agents should do now, my answer was simple:
Leave. Immediately.

05.02.2026 22:26 — 👍 41    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Stop asking if they’re “rigging the election.”
They. Already. Are.
But the most dangerous part isn’t the mechanics. It’s the message.
They’re doing it in public to make you swallow the real lie:
That voting is pointless.
If they can get you to quit before Election Day… they don’t even have to win.

04.02.2026 01:28 — 👍 3960    🔁 1520    💬 175    📌 79

1/ Congressmembers should take turns notifying ICE facilities that they will inspect exactly 7 days from now, so that as many ICE facilities as possible have a "Congressional inspection" scheduled for every single day of the week. As I understand it, Congressmen can send their "staff" members to

04.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 88    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 2
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ICE agents draw handguns on unarmed observers in Minneapolis for documenting their actions.
Guns escalate fear, not safety. Pointing firearms at civilians enforces silence through terror.
Congress keeps funding this behavior. Own it. #FundHealthcareOverICE
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

03.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 269    🔁 198    💬 26    📌 4