Jim Davnie

Dad, husband, recovering pol, educator, foodie. Executive Director Minnesota Alliance with Youth. Opinions may be strongly held but are only my own.

[taylr @taylr]

jacob frey, the mayor of minneapolis who only stood up to ICE by swearing on TV instead of joining city residents even just for a school patrol shift, is now featured in north star dawn’s new ad on behalf of angie craig and it’s being funded by dark money

[Jonathan Karl @jonkarl]

The intelligence community – in the very documents Trump himself declassified – assessed that one of the most damaging things a foreign adversary could do would be to falsely convince the American people that their elections had been rigged.

The person who has attempted to do exactly that — over and over, for nearly six years, and most dramatically on Thursday night — is Donald Trump, who, contrary to the very evidence he himself presented, tried to tell millions of Americans that foreign powers had corrupted an election. Specifically, the one election he lost.

[Jim Davnie @jdavnie]

@TheRightMelissa This is the bill he refused to sign into law, right?

[Doran Schrantz @DSchrantz]

He setting the pretext, in sooo many ways, to stage a dramatic play to sabotage the Midterm elections. Tonight was not about 2020. It’s about 2026. Whether or not he is successful depends on whether we are willing to believe our eyes and ears and act accordingly.

[Jim Davnie @jdavnie]

@ElgyeMets69 @hasanthehun He didn't suggest they voted. Only that they were allegedly registered. Big difference.

[Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan]

I want to pass Medicare for All. I want to ban prior authorization.

The insurance companies don't. That's why they're backing Congresswoman Craig in this race.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).

Through all this, we've had:

1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation

2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)

3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact"

4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta

5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud

6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic

It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.

Those are the facts.

Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.

[Governor Janet Mills @GovJanetMills]

This development makes this tragedy even more disturbing and infuriating, and it underscores the reckless and haphazard manner in which immigration enforcement operations are being conducted in Maine and across the country. This has to end.

[Jim Davnie @jdavnie]

So the GOP State Auditor candidate has been lying about his credentials? Claiming certification that he doesn't have and hasn't even applied for? Falsifying your resume to get a new job usually gets you fired real quick.
https://t.co/kpcTBVvuJ7

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

Krugman: "there is no legitimate use case for crypto. They’ve had 18 years to come up with one. ... Every one of them has turned out to be baseless. The only real use for crypto is tax evasion, money laundering, and crime."

https://t.co/pkJlTjs8dW

[Charlie Rybak @charlierybak]

Indicative of how a lot of companies have handled the inflation price spikes of the past few years. When costs go up, prices go up, and when costs go down, prices stay up.

[taylr @taylr]

wes from MN 50501 after ICE murdered lorenzo salgado araujo: “authoritarian regimes depend on ordinary people staying home. democracy depends on ordinary people showing up. and history is not just written by presidents and officials, it’s by ordinary people who decided there was a line they would not let their country cross. i hope that for all of us, that line is now.”

[Katie Gibson @KatieGibson32]

@vihaaneaswar reminder the mens team also agreed to this split and the USWNT has historically generated higher overall game revenues including ticket sales and specific jersey sales compared to the USMNT audited financial statements show that the women's games out-earned the men's game

[Jim Davnie @jdavnie]

@PatGarofalo Yeah, sure. Except Americans won't see any benefit from this. Trump instead is proposing an over 40% in the defense budget. Remember the peace dividend at the end of the Cold War? We didn't see much of that either.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ken Burns: “They’re not asking us Americans to look into our complex past. We’re being told to abbreviate it, to make it only positive. These are all examples of a deep and abiding insecurity. Lincoln needed no monument in his lifetime. You have to get past the presidency for the country to judge, not for you to judge how great you are”

[Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan]

Donald Trump has made more than $1 billion (yes, with a B!) from his crypto schemes. 

And last year, Angie Craig was the only MN Democrat to vote to let Trump get rich selling crypto coins.

It's just wrong - and we deserve better.

[Award-Winning Floyd B Otter @FloydBOtter]

The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the star;
While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires.

There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom.

Dems need to learn this.

[Jim Davnie @jdavnie]

Always remember the 1st Minnesota.

[The Twins Almanac @TwinsAlmanac]

Outnumbered at least 6 to 1, the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry suffered 82% casualties when they heroically charged headlong into enemy forces to shore up a gap in Union lines during the Battle of Gettysburg on this date in 1863.

The role these brave Minnesotans played in preserving the United States of America cannot be overstated.

General Winfield Scott Hancock said that "no soldiers on any field, in this or any other country ever displayed grander heroism," and insisted that "there is no more gallant deed recorded in history."

In a speech in Cannon Falls, MN on the Fourth of July 1928, President Calvin Coolidge said these men's heroism that day entitled them to the rank of "saviors of their country."

The next day, the survivors from the 1st Minnesota helped repel Pickett's Charge and lost another 17 killed and wounded.

Minnesota is in possession of a blood-stained, bullet-pierced Virginia battle flag captured July 3rd.

Virginia has been asking for it back for over 100 years.

Governor Jesse Ventura's response at the White House in 2000: “Why? I mean, we won. … We took it. That makes it our heritage.”

[Jim Davnie @jdavnie]

Kicking off the holiday festivities at a Minneapolis Park Board sing along showing of the movie Hamilton. For the haters, the Somali's here are belting it out. Is that assimilation?