John Hest

Rural Minnesotan Ruminator 🌾 | Historian, educator, family farm grown | he/him | personal account

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

"You didn’t lead with politics. You led with joy. And the politics followed because you created space for people to think together about the systems shaping their lives." https://t.co/8JQMBh0Sb8

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

If you are a Minnesota politician who is even nominally on the left and you issue a statement that doesn't explicitly call for ICE to leave Minnesota, you are part of the problem. This is not the time for wishy-washy corporate speak; if you can't meet the moment, you must resign.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

If she wants to be the Governor of Minnesota, she needs to do better than this.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Renee Nicole Good was a mother of three, including a 6-year-old boy who is now an orphan.

Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”

This is who we lost yesterday. By refusing to coordinate with local law enforcement, ICE is not making our community safe. It is making it less safe. 

https://t.co/rkMAHhx0mv

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

Re: Emily Larson's piece in the Strib, I keep thinking about the night and day contrast with our current mayor. This was the utterly chickenshit response he gave last year to ICE abducting our neighbors. Duluth deserves so much better.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

How very dare you, @NYTGames

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

You can just tell. Setting aside policy positions, there are politicians who believe in democracy and self-government — who really believe that the people are sovereign — and politicians who don’t. Sliwa is clearly in the people’s camp.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

And if you think for one second that a sale to private equity is going to move the needle on renewable energy, then I've got an electric company to sell you.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

To complain of factual inaccuracies and then compare wholesale private equity ownership with the ownership and reporting structure of a publicly traded company is a confusing position, at best. https://t.co/d8oYeTU5c8

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

Consistently, the most frustrating response to my public opposition to this sale has been "it's not technically privatization since Minnesota Power isn't publicly owned"

Thank you so much for the condescending reminder about my electricity provider.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

Incredible photo

[Francis Martin @PhrancisMartin]

A fascinating story from @RNS @jackmjenkins about clergy defying ICE. It mentions a pastor, David Black, who has had several confrontations with ICE, one of which was captured in this extraordinary photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

https://t.co/rqziyRdwrb

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

No one is ever obligated to vote for a certain politician. You have to continually earn those votes as part of the democratic process, and her continuing lack of self-awareness on this issue is both frustrating and a bad sign for democracy.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

Harris slams protestor during book tour.

“You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

@michaeldomps Northern Minnesota is becoming a hub for data centers, yes, due to the abundant clean water and available land.

Mining companies on the Iron Range also gobble up a huge slice of Minnesota Power's generating capacity and I know BlackRock has holdings there, too.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

As a Minnesota Power customer, this is malpractice by the MPUC. Private equity owning an electric company will never be in the public interest.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has voted to let BlackRock buy Allete, the company that runs Minnesota Power.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

And as everyone knows, the "legally correct" decision is always the best decision https://t.co/lSfLmEAN3I

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

Please for the love of God don't sell my electric company to private equity https://t.co/y7g5yWlBn5

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

AI is not, and never will be, the answer to our enrollment challenges and I'm just so tired of pretending that it is.

[John Hest @JohnEHest]

They said it couldn't be done...

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

The Lord honors those who honor Him.

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

As an earnest millennial I agree, but it says something about our culture that “being sincere about matters of life and death” is considered a fairly unique quality for a political candidate to have

[Goatstein @MandelaFace]

Most of these studies are quackery but I do believe this one is true because the political Left disagrees mostly on when and how the state should do things instead of the market, while the political Right has yet to come to a consensus on the shape of this planet