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Pam Schmid

@pamschmid.bsky.social

Minnesota transplant. Words are my medicine. ✨️📚 CNF ed., Sleet Magazine. Find me: Barren Magazine, Belleview Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, more.

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Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 8h ago

Repeat after me: The process IS the punishment.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 9h ago

The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.

Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 12h ago

Twin Citians, if you haven't yet tried the sweet potato gnocchi at Indigena by Owamni, what are you waiting for?

Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 13h ago

Not too late to be in the game here in MN.

James Neal - will know what will happen when it does. @jameswneal.bsky.social · 20h ago

If you voted today, you're in the game. If you didn't, you're in the bleachers. This November, join the team. We're going to need you on the field.

MKrebs 🇺🇦@mkrebs.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ooo, that smell. youtu.be/nG0GjjakjaU

Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell (Audio)

YouTube video by LynyrdSkynyrdVEVO

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Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d ago

The smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 5d ago

Missteps Mount in Justice Dept.’s Case Against Minnesota Anti-ICE Protesters

The problems plaguing the case have not only hurt the government’s chances, lawyers say, but have also undermined the bonds of trust that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.

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Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 5d ago

350,000 Haitians hold their breath as Congress decides their future | Josiane Valsaint www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m a Haitian TPS holder. 350,000 of us hold our breath as Congress decides our future | Josiane Valsaint

Temporary protected status allowed me to rebuild my life. Now thousands like me help keep this country running

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Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · last wk.

Visited Alex Pretti's memorial site this evening and didn't expect to get so emotional. So much heartbreak& anger here, but what stands out most powerfully is all of the love. 💔❤️

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · last wk.

Europe burns. North America’s largest cities choke on smoke that would have been almost unthinkable just a few years ago. Yet we’re told to dismiss what we can plainly see—and breathe. Trading the planet for political expediency is a choice.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · last wk.

forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze

Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.

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Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stellarly mind-blowing? 🔭🌌

Corey S. Powell@coreyspowell.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's a "maxi-moon." It's a "planet-planet." It's an "exosatellite." A newfound Jupiter-size object orbits a brown dwarf (halfway between a planet and a star), which in turn orbits a star. So what do you call this object? It's a remarkable discovery, by any name. 🔭🧪 www.eso.org/public/news/...

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the centre. The star –– the point source to the left –– has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right). The brown dwarf has about 37 times the mass of Jupiter: too massive to be a planet, but not massive enough to have sustained nuclear fusion like stars. This brown dwarf is, in turn, orbited by a newly discovered object at least as massive as Jupiter, seen at the centre of this image.

This new object, found with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), is difficult to label. It behaves like a moon in the sense that it orbits an object that orbits a star. But this ‘moon’ is massive enough to be a planet, and the object it orbits, a brown dwarf, is neither a planet nor a star.

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: The man who assassinated Melissa & Mark Hortman, and John & Yvette Hoffman, has been sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison. www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/u...

Minnesota man gets 2 life sentences for killing Democratic lawmaker and her husband | CNN

The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison on Thursday, a little over a year after the political at...

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

@dorothyeubanks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Emily @emilyrose.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh please please let the pillow man win the GOP nomination 🙏 www.startribune.com/mike-lindell...

How a 2016 meeting with Donald Trump launched Mike Lindell on his political journey

The MyPillow founder has become one of the president’s most loyal political allies, facing legal and financial fallout as a result. The relationship culminated this week as Trump endorsed Lindell’s bi...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

My quote of the day Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE murders. ICE murders. ICE murders.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” Fleeing. The vehicle was driving away. That’s murder. A legal resident of the United States is now dead. The threat to public safety is ICE. It must be eliminated.

Homeland Security: On July 13, 2026, at approximately 7:00 AM ET, ICE was conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal. An illegal alien departed the residence in a vehicle. ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop. The vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.

The driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries.

The Biddeford Police Department and FBI responded to the scene. DHS OIG has been notified and like all discharge of firearms this will be investigated. This is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information is available.

Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 3w ago

So so fun 🎢🎪

functional moron@fiveburger.bsky.social · 3w ago

olivia miles was created in a laboratory to make the sport of basketball as fun as possible

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3w ago

OK, this was the second thing that made me laugh today.😆

The Mitch McConnell hospital hostage video with Bernie Sanders and his mittens photoshopped in.

Pam Schmid @pamschmid.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh my heart💔

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 4w ago

In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.

A jug of lemonade that reads “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE.”

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 4w ago

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.