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Economic demographer & govt stats. Living my best life in Mpls St Paul. Disclaimers: Views found here are my own & NOT representing my employer. PFP from 1989.

Medicine Lake, MN & Queens, NY
Joined April 2009
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What a summer. 😉 (This pic is from the postgame fireworks that #nymets put on. We were all so coated in fireworks powder residue we had to head back to the apt & shower.)
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Exactly. Shotcallers at StarTribune are totally uninterested in the "whitecollar" "victimless" criming of their golf buddies and frat bros. And MPR has to #bothsides ridiculous & NOT equivalent policebrutality and racism 🙄 against "leftwing" studentloan forgiveness?!? – at Medicine Lake, MN
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A vote for Ron would haunt Minnesota for years. IWillVote.com
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I have to admit that this Kare 11 blockbuster story about $420 MILLION in Republican fraud has been a gift to me in trying to get people to understand the true nature of the Star Tribune & MPR...
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This is outstanding
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Son: Hey Dad, what was your favorite song when you were in high school? Dad: Son, let me take you back to 1995 for a minute. This will give you goosebumps.
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educational display on metric system measurements, demonstrating... circles... of varying widths
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Replying to @MikeRogersForMI
You both have something very intimate in common.
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Replying to @itisalovelylife
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Dear MAGA, since you're always asking me, "What laws has Trump violated. Be specific." HERE IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST 1) The Principle of Non-refoulement is an international law prohibiting a state from returning a person to a place where they would face a real risk of persecution, torture, or other serious harm. SEE - 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, which the U.S ratified in 1968. 2) The Convention Against Torture (CAT) prohibits the removal of any person to a country where they would more likely than not be subjected to torture. Signed by the U.S.: April 18, 1988 Ratified by the U.S.: October 21, 1994 Enforced in the U.S.: November 20, 1994 3) The Refugee Act of 1980 prohibits the return of a refugee to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened. 4) INA § 241(b)(3) states that the U.S. cannot remove an alien to a country if it's determines that the alien's life or freedom would be threatened in that country. 5) Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (FARRA) - codified 8 U.S.C. § 1231 - states the U.S can NOT expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture. 6) Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 (Election Clause) by attempting to control federal elections and intimidate State and election officials. 7) Article I, Section 8 - Congress' authority to create and/or abolish government agencies/offices - by creating DOGE via Executive Order and by dismantling government agencies WITHOUT Congressional approval or involvement. 8) Article I, Section 9 , Clause 8 - the Emoluments Clause - prohibits any person holding a government office from accepting any present, emolument , office, or title from any "King, Prince, or foreign State ," without congressional consent. 9) 1st Amendment free speech clause by silencing the scientific community - via Executive Order - and by trying to silence the media by kicking out certain media from the press room and by filing frivolous lawsuits. 10) 5th Amendment for violating due process rights of immigrants. Which is confirmed by the U.S Supreme Court in two separate rulings. 11) 10th Amendment by sending ICE agents into sanctuary cities. Under Printz v. United State, the Federal government "may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program." — thus, protecting sanctuary cities. 12) 14th Amendment Section 1 - the birthright citizenship clause - by signing an Executive Order attempting to end the protections of birthright citizenship. 13) 5 USC § 403 by illegally firing 18 Inspectors General's from the Defense Department, State Department, Health and Human Services Department and the Department of Labor. 14) 8 USC § 1373, the courts have ruled that this law cannot compel local law enforcement to act as immigration agents. 15) 18 U.S.C. § 4 – Misprision of Felony, by "having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony" in regards to covering up the Epstein files. 16) 18 U.S. Code § 401 for blatantly ignoring and disobeying an immigration Court ruling, a U.S. District Court ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. @realDonaldTrump and this regime have blatantly defied, disobeyed, and ignored FIVE federal court orders, thus far. 17) 18 U.S.C. § 1505 by "willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material" in regards to the Epstein files. 18) The Posse Comitatus Act by deploying active military armed forces on U.S. soil. 19) The War Powers Resolution Act by NOT consulting with Congress nor meeting the threshold in order to bomb Iran without consulting Congress. This list does NOT include violations of international laws.
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Felt like pancakes 🥞 so im at Perkins.
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There it is baby
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I like that in this scenario, Maple Grove and Brooklyn Park are now West Coon Rapids.
"Hey where did St Paul go?" Minneapolis [with a strangely St Paul shaped belly]: buuuuuurp idk
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I hope you understand how insane this chart is. There is a decile of US Americans who consume 10+ alcoholic drinks per day. The three bottom deciles don’t drink at all.
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"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million. One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million. The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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We’ve always known. Letterman was so good at this. Yeah, he’s a racist. (And no, not Letterman)
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winning the midterms isn’t enough I need people to go to PRISON
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Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by ICE against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. wired.com/story/ice-is-runni…
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When people violate MN voting laws, County Attorneys prosecute. That's always the case, continues to be case. It's pretty clear from the replyguys that loudmouths and sexists DO NOT LIKE that the "lady attorney" enforces these laws. I say, "Godspeed @hennepinatty.​bsky.​social…
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Advice for fellow men: Stop being so fucking embarrassing. Nobody is trying to replace you. You're underachieving and aimless, so other people are more qualified than you for most things. It's your own fault. Stop getting your philosophy from the dumbest grifters on the internet.
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