Demuth declared winner. 45% to 31% over Lindell. My prospective reporting on MyPillow lawsuits for naught

Jubilation at Demuth HQ. She has been grinning from ear to ear while she equates Amy Klobuchar to Tim Walz.

Lisa Demuth supporters here, many seasoned GOP volunteers and campaign workers, said that the polls, which said Mike Lindell would win, were skewed too much to younger voters who didn’t turn out

Pandemonium in a moderate Republican way at Demuth hq. She is decisively winning with 40% reporting and has all but declared victory. “Is that what you expected?” I asked her. “It’s what I wanted,” she said.

Things are very upbeat at the patio of Burger Moe’s where Demuth is at her party hq. They feel like they have win in hand

Many state reps spotted at Demuth gathering including Nolan West, Walter Hudson, and Matt Bliss. “She took the arrows for us, said Rep. Biss, especially on opposing the DFL’s active push for an assault weapons ban

Demuth supporters say Minnesota GOP will have lost its way if it goes for Lindell. “We need to walk away from the abyss” warned former state Senate prez David Osmek

Duluth is to Santa Barbara what Walter Mondale is to Ronald Reagan

overheard during my first trip to Duluth "I've never had ice cream before dinner before"

All these Tina Smith-associated donuts seem to have a jelly filling

As of almost one in the morning, most strobe lights had been confiscated

The DFL convention today was utterly mired by the Klobuchar campaign distributing strobe lights. The anti-rave delegates repeatedly went up to the microphone and decried the strobe lights, saying they cause seizures

It took over an hour for 1,207 voters to cast their ballots in DFL endorsement race. Many initially forgot to hit the “submit” button

Klobuchar gets endorsement on first ballot BUT Kobey Lane got 28%. Lane said she will keep going to primary

At the DFL convention in Rochester. One of my WiFi options is “Angie Craig is a poor loser”

State and federal regulators have limited information about how much "related-party payments" bolster nursing home profits. The latest from @rlyrealmattblake.bsky.social

How dire are Minnesota nursing home finances? It's hard to judge

Minnesota state and federal regulators say they lack the resources to investigate a widespread practice of dubious accounting.

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MinnPost's newly launched Capitol Conversations Newsletter by @rlyrealmattblake.bsky.social is sure to be a must read. Sign up: www.minnpost.com/capitol-conv...

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Minnesota state government reporter Matthew Blake shares the latest from the Minnesota State Capitol. Delivered Wednesday afternoons.

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Was Rick Pitino actually right to trade Chauncey Billups?

Since Bastille Day, every time I go out I either get COVID or it violently rains

My sister, Molly Blake, is part of a group of Univ of Minn librarians that started a database of signs and monuments that the Trump administration has ordered the National Park Service to take down. Their work was featured in the mighty NYTimes today - www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hzA... Everytime I’ve used Bluesky so far this song gets stuck in my head

Kate Bush - The Big Sky (Original Album Version) (Audio)

YouTube video by The Sensual World Of Kate Bush

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My colleague @brianarola.bsky.social wrote a v. informative story about MN cities welcoming/not welcoming legal weed stores while subtly using the phrase "to be blunt" www.minnpost.com/greater-minn...

Cannabis retailers navigating regulatory landscape ahead of debuts

Cities and counties can’t opt out of the cannabis industry, but they are afforded tools to restrict the location and number of businesses.

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People I meet in Minneapolis seem to really like it when I repeatedly tell them I've lived in cities bigger than Minneapolis. I'm going to keep doing that

Here is a story I wrote about how the Trump tax and spending bill's Medicaid cuts seem to mostly revolve around making the process of applying for Medicaid more tedious and labor intensive www.minnpost.com/state-govern...

Will Medicaid work rules cause people to lose their health care?

Minnesota counties and health care advocates focus on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Medicaid requirements and administrative burden.

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My clean energy story cribbed heavily from a great explainer on energy tax credits history nccleantech.ncsu.edu/2024/11/19/t... @nccleantech.bsky.social

I wrote that Minnesota is moving to carbon-free electricity but the Trump beautiful law complicates that. The story is info-packed but I would like to say more about why clean energy is so much cheaper now than 20 yrs ago if someone has a source on that www.minnpost.com/politics-pol...

Apocalypse not now? Understanding how the Big Beautiful Bill unsettles Minnesota’s clean energy goals - MinnPost

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act accelerates the end of Biden-era tax cuts for solar and wind, putting many projects into question.

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