Editor in chief, @MNReformer. Contact me if you wanna write for us. DMs open. Formerly @StarTribune, @LasVegasSun, @UMWallaceHouse. Go Irish.
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Colin Hortman, son of late House Speaker Melissa Hortman, urged state legislators in a private meeting in April to tone down the rhetoric that can contribute to the kind of political violence that destroyed his family. minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
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Union of 500 Target Field concessions workers announces strike minnesotareformer.com/briefs…
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Minnesota resumes payments to most of the Medicaid providers it cut off in mass anti-fraud effort minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
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the most sophisticated election fraud operation in American history was carried about by Donald Trump in 2020 when he coordinated across multiple states to submit fraudulent Electoral College votes to Congress in an attempt to overturn or stall the certification of results
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The LA fraud story is really unconvincing on my read, but I wish people would be less knee-jerk in rejecting allegations of fraud. It does happen and elections have even been reversed in my lifetime because of it. The moral of the boy who cried wolf is not that wolves don’t exist
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Boom. Another case falls apart upon just a little bit of scrutiny. Background below.
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
Jun 9
Something pretty obvious I was talking about with a Dem strategist the other day:
Nobody in the party has a problem celebrating Islam, Hinduism; any faith brought to US via later immigration.
But celebrate Christianity loudly and other Dems look at you funny, assume you’re RW.
I just love the idea that after presumably coming out to her community, doing IVF and raising two children with her non-Muslim, tattooed, lesbian life-partner, the woman in question remains committed to full Islamic modesty dress
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This is huge for our @statesnewsroom colleague. Livingston is like Pulitzer for folks younger than 35. Bulletin’s Skipworth named Livingston Award winner for series on NH’s disability care system. newhampshirebulletin.com/bri…
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Great reminder that government is frequently engaged in really important work that you probably don't understand.
A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. newsmax.com/platinum/screwwo…
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
Jun 8
Dolores Huerta, famed farmworkers leader, honored with first ‘Si Se Puede’ award by AFL-CIO minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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A potential unlikely ally for religious pluralism but he'll never get there.
Mike Lee has posted 37 times in the last 24 hours about Hegseth removing the Mormons from the Pentagon’s approved list of recognized Christian denominations.
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
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story: ICE releases Andrea Pedro-Francisco, woman with large ovarian cyst, from Texas detention center minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
Jun 4
In March, I interviewed Andrea Pedro-Francisco from a Texas detention center, where she was suffering excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst. Her case got the attention of politicians, human rights advocates and clergy, but her efforts to seek release failed. Until yesterday
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it was actually @nickhaltermpls who found this, i'm reliably told.
Fascinating pull from @toreyvanoot in Axios this morning in their issue on the 90s. Illustrates how quickly we moved on the issue.
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Fascinating pull from @toreyvanoot in Axios this morning in their issue on the 90s. Illustrates how quickly we moved on the issue.
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Foolish shoehorning here: Newspapers are not thriving in low tax, lax regulatory states. Newspapers had a monopoly on print and classified advertising, and now they don't. Game over.
I’m not one to celebrate people losing their jobs or the struggles of a Minnesota company, but it’s no coincidence that businesses all across our state are shrinking & closing. Missing from the article is an honest assessment of the role higher taxes & employment mandates played.
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j. patrick coolican retweeted
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Study: Operation Metro Surge cost Minnesota an estimated 4,600 hospitality jobs in 3 months minnesotareformer.com/briefs…
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