Merrill Aldrich

No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.

#Avelo #AndrewLevy

😲 Guys, Avelo painted their ICE jets all white! The tail number matches. How pathetic is that? 👀

A delicious taco

🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process.

This is not law enforcement.
This is authoritarianism.

Demand accountability.

Stay loud.
Stay informed.
Stay safe.

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

Elle Cordova
@ellecordova.bsky.social

Bike ride to Lake Nokomis, where a beer was waiting

May 20, 2025 Today was a rough day for administration officials on Capitol Hill as Senate committees held hearings on the 2026 budget requests for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and ...

May 20, 2025

This. 1000x this.

Incorrect

An amazing 40 seconds here. The ease with which they lie is so disturbing.

Super excited to be headed to Sweden in a month, not least because we'll be 4,000 miles away from Donald Kim Jong Stalin's ridiculous military parade.

I'm in the middle of a nice ride, with a stop at Pryes Brewery. First time over the Lowry Ave bridge today. There are some nice extensions to the two bikeways open, or coming soon, up here

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

(🎁) GIFT LINK to a stunning but also inarguable New York Times piece that says in no uncertain terms that America is no longer a democracy but an autocracy.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

Before you made her quit? Or after?

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Had a really nice ride today from Minneapolis to Wayzata and back. Unseasonably warm 82 degrees (according to my car, anyway)

In about 5 weeks we get to visit Sweden again! I'm so excited.

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...

When white people say "meritocracy," watch what happens next

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.