Ben Finkelstein

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[Ben Finkelstein @benfinks]

Cop: "How many beers have you had, Ben?"
Me: "Just the one, officer"
Meredith, from the other room: "Are you talking to a make-believe police officer in there? Are you drunk?"
Me: "Yes...and yes"

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

An instant classic in the Minnesota Boys Hockey State Tournament 🏒

Warroad defeats Hibbing-Chisholm for the Class A title in overtime 🔥

📺 @KSTP

[Matt O'Brien @ObsoleteDogma]

If you didn’t know that he’s an insane racist, you’d think that Stephen Miller was proudly describing the best thing about America

[Quantіan @quantian1]

A question I would like answered is whether Larry Summers blew a billion-dollar hole in Harvard's endowment with an interest rate swap trade in 2006 because he thought it was a good idea, or because his very good friend Jeffrey Epstein, who was dabbling in rates at the time, did

[Quantіan @quantian1]

A wild plot twist I was not aware of until today: JE's redemption from Bear Stearns High-Grade Structure Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund (real heads know this one) due to his impending arrest might have, uh, actually been the proximal cause of the GFC?

[Chris Madel @CWMadel]

I am ending my campaign for Minnesota Governor. I describe why in the below video. Please watch until the end. (It is 10 minutes, 52 seconds.)

Thank you,
Chris

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

BREAKING: Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. https://t.co/s3ucA6C97y

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Whew US 30-year yield.

You're not getting a cheaper mortgage

[Tony Reali @TonyReali]

The Best Invention in Sports in a long time.

One point. One million dollars. Pros and amateurs in the same bracket. Tha Bracket !

[City of Minneapolis @CityMinneapolis]

We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Most disturbing part of the Renee Good murder was the rhetorical shift from any pretense of her being a danger to the ICE agent to just accumulating evidence of her being on the left as justification for her death.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Trump mouths "fuck you" and gives Ford plant worker middle-finger after he shouts to Trump: "Pedophile protector!"

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The excessive force, incompetence, unnecessary violence, and genuinely authoritarian-looking actions of these masked ICE is not a blip. They are a pattern. Just in the last 10 minutes with a quick search of "ICE" on X it is stunning all the video evidence out there (thread):

[Charles Woodson @CharlesWoodson]

Just can’t take delay of game out of a timeout

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

I’m old enough to remember him saying he was democratizing this app when he bought it; now he’s creating a hierarchy where you literally pay for the right to harass and abuse people. Wretched stuff.

[Ben Finkelstein @benfinks]

Boy let me tell you it is JARRING to watch national coverage of a state sanctioned murder and recognize the streets in the video as your streets

[Ben Finkelstein @benfinks]

@Ike_Saul This is murder

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

Banks are always like “We are the future of banking! Anyway what was your mother’s name… when she was a MAIDEN?”

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

CNBC did an excellent report on Medicaid and Medicare fraud in a similar manner but with better sourcing than Nick Shirley 2 years ago, and it never went viral because it didn't have an anti-immigrant angle to it and the fraud was in a red state https://t.co/YWkNryJ9ff

[james hawkins @james406]

it's messed up that there a million songs about love but zero about hopping on a quick call with key stakeholders

[NWS Twin Cities @NWSTwinCities]

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