Minnesota is the 32nd state admitted to the United States
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By Elaine S. Povich for Minnesota Reformer
When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a two-foot stack of books—including a ...
by Minnesota Reformer
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Biden, Trump (mostly) sweep; Haley drops out; McConnell endorses; Protests haunt Dem victories in MN, CA; Few (though some noteworthy) Election Day voting system failures... On today's BradCast: We distill a whole bunch of stuff -- results, problems,...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 07:32 PM PST
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Another incident that makes gun control very necessary kstp.com/… A domestic abuse call in Burnsville turned into a deadly armed confrontation Sunday when a man shot and killed two Burnsville police officers and one firefighter paramedic. Officials...
by ca cokz
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 08:02 PM PST
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024 · 3:02:50 PM +00:00 · FlannelGuy Updated to include a link to Stauber’s opponent, former state representative Jen Schultz. She’s awesome and would make a significant improvement to the state’s delegation. (Ty commenters...
by FlannelGuy
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 06:51 PM PST
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Governor Walz has proposed a $982 million bonding package to improve roads, bridges, water supplies, and public safety. This follows a $2.2 billion package passed in the last session. The reason that one was so big was because Republicans had...
by yogibear1963
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 09:38 AM PST
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Four Palestinian-American men were victims of what is being decried as a racial profiling incident on a recent Delta Airlines flight. The alleged profiling was done by a member of the Anoka County (northwest suburbs of Minneapolis) Sheriff’s...
by FlannelGuy
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:06 AM PST
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____________________________________________________________ How many of your state’s lawmakers are women? If you live in the Southeast, it could be just 1 in 5. ___________________________________________________________ They’re all young. They’re all...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 04:30 PM PST
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Happy New Year. Remember to flip over the calendar and write 2024 on your checks instead of 2023. If you still write checks. I don’t remember hearing any gunshots at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in Detroit earlier today. There used to be this...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 01:18 PM PST
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For too long, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee was overlooked by the party apparatus and the donor class, which were more focused on presidential and congressional elections than on races for state legislatures. But that has changed in...
by Charles Jay
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 06:50 AM PST
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Nearly three years after rioters � stormed the U.S. Capitol , the false election conspiracy theories that drove the violent attack remain prevalent on social media and cable news: � suitcases filled ...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Considering that we are only discovering the actual prior planning of the J6 insurrection, legal textualism and originalism may come into play, as well as general prohibitions of insurrection. If Trump seizes power again he has already promised...
by annieli
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 03:35 AM PST
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Yesterday the Minnesota State Emblems Redesign Commission selected a new design to replace their old messy, racist, state-seal-in-a-field-of-blue state flag. The new flag features “an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like...
by lufthase
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 03:21 PM PST
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In my attempt to become a social person with empathy again, I realized that I needed to stop my self abuse and ordered new shoes that fit. The pain is intense like a Klingon torture booth but that never stops a Kirk. Also told multiple people on...
by BLUE YETI
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 11:03 AM PST
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It has been a while since I've posted on Daily Kos. I had been living with my family in Kansas for the past 20 years. My family is extremely conservative and I made the mistake that they still cared about me because I cared about them. They think...
by BLUE YETI
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 09:36 AM PST
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz went on CNN Thursday to talk about what Democrats are doing versus what Republicans are not doing. Walz is the new chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and was asked about a comment he recently made to Politico about...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 08:50 AM PST
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The Kate Cox case, happening in Texas right now, is the perfect example of how right-wingers’ promises of “exceptions” in their anti-abortion laws are completely hollow. Kate Cox received the ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 05:09 PM PST
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JTA We believed diverse coalitions would include Jewish women. Now we fear we are alone Seven weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, the strangely silent women’s rights group UN Women issued an Instagram statement on allegations...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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A group of delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party State Central Committee recently submitted a proposal for a vote to remove the state party’s leadership. Their reasoning? Fiscal ineptitude, incompetent management, and a continued string of...
by FlannelGuy
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on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 09:09 AM PST
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin 's appeal of his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd. The justices did not comment in leaving in place state court rulings affirming...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 07:07 AM PST
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A Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state’s primary ballot because it's unclear whether a Civil...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 06:32 AM PST
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