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Fred Beukema

@beukema

Sir Not-Appearing-On-This-Social-Network. @beukema.bsky.social

Minneapolis, MN Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
Find me over where the threading is messy, GIFs are JPEGs, and DMs don't exist yet: @beukema.bsky.social
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Loonbird@Loonbird1·
@SharylAttkisson You don’t go downtown. Weather getting nicer. You don’t walk the lakes alone. You never leave your garage open. You never get out of your car without checking all your mirrors. You never stop at a light without leaving room to escape from a carjack. I live in Edina. No joke
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Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋
Based on my recent reporting trip to Minneapolis (and we were told as much by the locals), it is unsafe for people who are white and not known to key people in the area to be in certain neighborhoods or stores. If you are not accompanied by a known local, you may be profiled, followed/tracked, approached and questioned by people who will demand answers but not tell you who they are, told you "don't belong," told to leave, and/or made to feel threatened. I'm talking about peacefully going to public places in an open society. I was surprised, too.
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
@SharylAttkisson Have lived here my whole life, very whitely. Doubt I'm known by any mysterious Key People. This is absolute hogwash.
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Jane N@janenb·
@CheyCab @SharylAttkisson Soooo...Minnesotans who've reported being tracked, followed, had their license plates photographed, been confronted, etc....are all making that up?
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
@chrislhayes I didn't say they weren't *now*, I said there was a failure to anticipate legal weed/gambling would be a problem. But (setting aside how we define the left), there are a lot of liberals who happily went along with sports betting (e.g. Tim Walz) which has been rather bipartisan!
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
This is excellent, especially the point below. As I’ve written before, I think it’s desperately important for the left and liberals to rehabilitate the idea of human nature and not reflexively eye roll at accumulated, traditional human wisdom as if it’s all mere superstition.
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McKay Coppins@mckaycoppins

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
Like anti-abortion Trump-voting pastor Victor Martinez, loser of a couple City Council Races. Both these guys are also in the orbit of our shitty mayor (now riding the national media circuit taking credit for what the people have done to resist ICE.) x.com/hellodonavon/s…
hello, donavon!@hellodonavon

@M_Nikki_dUrso After Julius looked me dead in the eye and said, on the record, that Victor had 350 people visit his house at 11:30 at night to individually sign up to caucus on the same iPad, I knew right then that this level of bullshit was destined for presidential politics.

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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
Coming out of post protection to let you Texans know who Julius is. He's a Republican who lives in Mpls and works for the most conservative Dems who have a shot of winning something. His advice is worthless to Democrats.
Julius Hernandez@juliush34

Hard pass on "rally behind Talarico" energy when his supporters spent the primary attacking a Black woman & treating anyone who backed her like a traitor. Electability shouldn't just mean "white and polished." Some of us will remember how y'all acted.

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Ed Krassenstein
Ed Krassenstein@EdKrassen·
This is absolutely horrifying in Minneapolis, Minnesota.. Ice just allegedly shot this woman in the head and killed her after her and her wife (speaking in this video) pulled out their cameras to videotape their operation. She was reportedly serving as a legal observer when she was shot in the face and killed in a Minneapolis neighborhood. This is Trump's America
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
@CoachForGov Finally, people who don't know what a cummerbund or waistcoat is are allowed back at WH holiday celebrations.
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Tommy Tuberville
Tommy Tuberville@CoachForGov·
Thankfully, Christmas is BACK under President Trump.
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
Saw Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair this afternoon, and had a great time with it EXCEPT that @AMCTheatres put 30 MINUTES of ads & trailers in front of it. Including 2.5 ads for AMC, the theater chain I was already attending, and 1.5 Coke ads, one of them that awful AI one.
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
@ScottThompson_ @Glinner My god, this is disappointing. Established comedians standing by each others' shittiness is worse than cops backing the blue.
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
@SportsVikingBro @daviss As Frey himself used that arrangement to hit Hodges in 2017: "some of the worst police-community relations in a long time. And that’s the Mayor’s job. The police report directly to the Chief, the Chief reports directly to the Mayor, and, ya know, that’s how it works."
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
@WedgeLIVE Worth noting, all you folks coming here via @AllOfMpls emails or @bloisolson snark, that this photo was taken during a scheduled prayer break, when most delegates were in the concourse.
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Wedge LIVE!™
Wedge LIVE!™@WedgeLIVE·
Minneapolis DFL convention 12 hours since check-in.
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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema@beukema·
@Gary_J_Fisch @WedgeLIVE It was originally scheduled for North High School. It was moved at great trouble and expense in the last month to a securable place in the wake of the Hortmans’s assassinations. As a consequence, it had to be compressed to one day for the party to afford it.
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Kyle Stokes
Kyle Stokes@kystokes·
Welcome to the @MinneapolisDFL convention. Delegates will decide whether to make what *would be the most crucial endorsement in this year's mayoral race — though endorsements here are rare. 🧵> Follow here for occasional updates 📚 > Background >>> axios.com/local/twin-cit…
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