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Nick Harper, he/him

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Nonprofit political law & policy attorney. Proceduralist & anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. Tweets are mine, not my employer's. Minneapolis. Idealist w/ weltschmerz. I’m on Signal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nharpermn/

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Oh I guess this second franchise is after WWI, not before. Ok pre-Great Depression then, not pre-WWI

07.03.2026 06:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

07.03.2026 03:03 👍 4495 🔁 2369 💬 124 📌 137

If I had a nickel every time Helena Bonham Carter played a mildly nontraditionalist mother to a British girl sleuthing a deadly mystery in London in a historical fiction pre-WWI period piece franchise on Netflix, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

07.03.2026 05:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s basically just an inside out jalapeño popper!

07.03.2026 03:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

something amazing-sounding

07.03.2026 02:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Roasted mushrooms, apple-jicama slaw, a fried egg, cilantro, and some kind of cheese. Is that an INSANE combination? Yes. Does it still taste absolutely amazing? Also yes.

07.03.2026 01:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know just what to do! bsky.app/profile/nhar...

07.03.2026 01:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The burden of shutting down those rural healthcare centers goes to HCMC, which is now going bankrupt because of it.

07.03.2026 01:21 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Not-for-profit Mayo Clinic reports record profit last year Rochester-based health system saw more patient demand and growing philanthropy last year, though it also closed clinics in southern Minnesota.

Remember when the Mayo Clinic fought and successfully killed the nurse staffing bill, with one of the reasons being it would cost them too much money to do so...just asking...

You also save a lot of money by shutting down rural healthcare. www.startribune.com/mayo-clinic-...

07.03.2026 01:18 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1

"Ogilvie, put your hand down." LOL ilu Dr. Robby

07.03.2026 00:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m fine with that, but I doubt we could get it legislatively

06.03.2026 23:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We can call it the Temporary Share the W/Health Tax

06.03.2026 23:36 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Great minds, yadda yadda! bsky.app/profile/nhar...

06.03.2026 23:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ok yes “not supposed to have profit” is dramatic, it’s allowed to have revenues that it can store in savings but generally nonprofits don’t keep much more than 6 months to 1 year of operating costs and I’m annoyed that we keep giving Mayo exceptions for everything but don’t get anything back.

06.03.2026 22:23 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in armor holds a sword with a red handle and looks to the side Alt: a man in armor holds a sword with a red handle and looks to the side clapping

Welcome

06.03.2026 22:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I propose a one-year 3% tax on revenues from nonprofit health care organizations with over $15 billion in revenue and based in Rochester, with the tax going to pay for the Hennepin County Medical Center budget gap.

06.03.2026 22:15 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

Mayo is a nonprofit; it’s literally not supposed to have profit, especially $1.5B…

So what are they doing with all that extra revenue?

06.03.2026 22:10 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0

In my Immigration Law class, I remember physically recoiling in horror at how little ability there is to appeal the rulings of an IJ.

An IJ who works for the exact same people working against the immigrant in question.

06.03.2026 16:29 👍 358 🔁 69 💬 8 📌 1

type of shit I was posting on myspace to get my ex gf to text me

06.03.2026 20:52 👍 476 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 0

the stove has been well and truly touched, man

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 376 🔁 26 💬 14 📌 2

Lot of people calling this a bubble pop, meanwhile Meta and Nvidia are moving in right now to lease the property.

My guess is that OpenAI’s moat is evaporating and partners are getting nervous. And they should! It’s not even close to the best product out there anymore.

06.03.2026 21:02 👍 64 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1

Feels like a tiny fine for nearly one and a half million chickens, but I guess it’s better than nothing

06.03.2026 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aerial view of five rows of graves being prepared by people and digging equipment, with vehicles on the left side.

Aerial view of five rows of graves being prepared by people and digging equipment, with vehicles on the left side.

Once you see this image as a grim American flag you cannot unsee it.

06.03.2026 15:08 👍 348 🔁 144 💬 7 📌 11

The video of the bounty hunter in the fake plumbing van pointing a gun at the protestor nonviolently blocking his car seemed ripe for charges. (I’m assuming it was a bounty hunter.)

06.03.2026 17:10 👍 82 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0

Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.

06.03.2026 16:33 👍 3423 🔁 430 💬 70 📌 9
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tl;dr takeaways:

- Turnout is up, we may see 2026 general election turnout exceed 2018, which had the highest turnout rate since 1914
- Democrats are more enthused (adding to the mountain of evidence)
- Early voting predictive
- Republicans may have hurt themselves by adding mail ballot burdens

06.03.2026 15:59 👍 32 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Exactly right.

The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

06.03.2026 15:25 👍 832 🔁 242 💬 9 📌 2

Cannot, or will not?

06.03.2026 15:48 👍 130 🔁 32 💬 14 📌 2
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Wright County prosecutors allege off-duty Hennepin deputy raped woman he met at bar Charges say Jared Sprunk assaulted the woman at a home in St. Michael.

An off-duty Hennepin County sheriff’s deputy met a woman at a bar and raped her at a Wright County home, according to prosecutors.

05.03.2026 16:38 👍 37 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 6