minnesotapride

Lake Minnetonka born 'n bred. Family first. Pearl Jam fanatic. Skol Vikes, Gophers, Twolves & Wild...but bleed Carolina Blue in March.

[minnesotapride @sabryan2525]

Pearl Jam Spokane. Possibly the greatest set list of all time.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Another Fed paper finds Americans paid almost all Trump's 2025 tariffs ("pass-through of realized tariffs into import prices was close to one hundred percent"), AND that local labor market effects were "economically negligible."

All pain, no gain. https://t.co/FIgzz7XDAC

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The PBS NewsHour has documented the Trump family's unprecedented conflicts of interest. Jared Kushner, a 'volunteer' with no official position, has $6 billion in assets from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar-the same governments he is negotiating with on Middle East peace. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have invested in drone companies that are now competing for Pentagon contracts in the war their father started.

Forbes estimated that Eric and Don Jr., they were worth about $40, $50 million each before the 2024 election. About a year later, Eric at $400 million and Donald Trump Jr. at about $300 million.

They're using war and diplomacy to enrich themselves

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Republicans are investigating Jack Smith, but ignoring what he found.

New bombshell reporting from MSNow:

• Smith uncovered evidence Trump took top-secret docs tied to his business interests
• Investigators saw this as a possible motive for keeping them
• Trump allegedly showed a classified map on a private plane
• Took documents so sensitive only 6 people in the U.S. could access them
• Hundreds of classified records found at Mar-a-Lago after subpoenas
• Grand jury indicted Trump on 37 counts

Instead of digging into THIS…

• Republicans are targeting the investigator, not the evidence
• DOJ blocked release of key findings
• Trump allies pushing probes into Smith himself

Republicans are chasing the messenger, not the message or the crime.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Dear MAGA,

trump was NOT exonerated.
Stop saying that he was.

He hasn't been deposed.
He hasn't been investigated.
He has been IMPLICATED.
He has been credibly accused.

He appears in the Epstein files more times than God and Jesus are in the Bible, combined.

ONE MILLION TIMES.

He gets no credit for releasing the files; he did everything he could to prevent it. He was forced by Congress to do so.

He had 1,000 agents flagging and redacting his name.
Now he's making files disappear.

He called it a hoax.
He said they didn't exist. He said Hillary and Obama created them.

He said America is ready to move on. We're NOT.

The victims, who he's gone out of his way to ignore, THEY aren't ready to move on.

Hillary testified under oath, fearlessly. Now HE needs to testify.

If he's truly innocent, what's he so damn afraid of?

Why is he protecting all those pedophiles? WHY ARE YOU?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

He was pardoned for serious crimes - facilitating the financing of terrorists and sex predators.

Because he agreed to put millions into Trump’s pocket.

Naked corruption. Out in the open for all to see.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.

Immigrants:
📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits
📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker
📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades
📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride

[john randle @johnnyrandle93]

Stand together & love one another 💜💛

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Read this. The Minnesota state prison system suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

They told us Democrats would turn America into a show-your-papers society.

They told us Democrats would strip away the Second Amendment.

They told us Democrats would jail us for what we say.

They told us Democrats would drag us into more foreign wars.

They told us Democrats would cover up a child sex trafficking ring.

And then Republicans took power and decided to do all of it themselves.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

Minnesota Department of Corrections chief Paul Schnell tells Erin Burnett the sex offender DHS is searching for is already in custody.

"He is, in fact, in prison. ….They should know, because we did notify them that they were in our custody."

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

JD Vance isn’t this stupid, so what he’s doing here is deliberate and evil.

You don’t just need “some kind of warrant” to enter a home. You need a warrant from the judiciary.

He knows this. He knows they’re breaking the law when they enter a home with an administrative warrant.

He uses the phrase “administrative law judges” to mislead.

An administrative warrant comes from DHS. They are writing their own “warrants,” which makes them no more valid under the Fourth Amendment than if a random person wrote on a piece of paper, “I can enter your house.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley: "The last 2 weeks we as a law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color ... it has to stop"

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

🚨🚨🚨🚨Kristi Noem gets brutally destroyed, as she’s forced to witness the devastation she has left behind with her actions🚨🚨🚨🚨

[CAP Action @CAPAction]

BREAKING: Manufacturing jobs have plummeted under Trump's tariffs—this is not putting America first.

[Yassamin Ansari @yassaminansari]

The oil companies were informed about an act of war before it happened, Congress was not.

That, my friends, is what an authoritarian regime run by oligarchs looks like.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This must-read investigation lays bare just how unprecedented Trump’s corruption really is.

Donald Trump didn’t just pardon a political ally. He erased the verdict against a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker, blowing up one of the most ambitious drug prosecutions in U.S. history. The case was built over years by career investigators, witnesses who risked their lives, and communities devastated by narcotics violence.

Trump wiped it all away with a stroke of a pen.

The hypocrisy is staggering. Trump claims to be “tough on crime” and obsessed with stopping drugs at the border, yet he pardoned a convicted kingpin whose cartel flooded the United States with cocaine.

The damage is real. Witnesses are exposed. The message to traffickers is clear: if you have political access, justice is optional.

This is not normal.

No modern president has used the pardon power to sabotage the rule of law on this scale.

https://t.co/kFBiWFNHG4

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

CBS News in MN reports Nick Shirley went to 2 nonoperational centers, an after-school center in the morning, and an open center with video proving kids were inside. He misinterpreted the staff's resistance to open their doors to a random group of men with kids there.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”