Fervent Midwesterner | Opinions are mine, in search of better ones. | Dictated but not read.
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Like has happened across the country, my Minnesota office was sent a letter containing a suspicious substance, and we were promptly notified by the Capitol Police and postal inspectors. Thanks to the postal workers and investigators who identified and intercepted it, no one in our office was in immediate danger. We’re grateful to everyone involved for their quick response and we will continue working closely with law enforcement as the investigation continues.
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
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The Amtrak Borealis (St Paul - Milwaukee - Chicago) is so popular & capacity strained that they are adding a 4th car to the consist this week!!
startribune.com/borealis-tra…
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The St. Paul-Chicago Amtrak Borealis adds a fourth superliner passenger coach car this week in each direction, because it keeps selling out twincities.com/2026/10/05/am…
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The fact that Amy Klobuchar could set the record straight because she’s a #Gophers fan, and knows sports…
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Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order.
Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Another argument for a Reformer sports section: Klobuchar’s knowledge of Midwest college sports comes in handy during hearing minnesotareformer.com/2026/0…
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I guess I’m old-fashioned but I think if you accuse someone in Congress of committing perjury based on your own confusion of the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlantic Hawks, you ought to take a minute and apologize.
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Amy Klobuchar refused to let this go, returning to it after questioning and calling on Eric Schmitt to apologize for his remarks about Jack Smith. “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team — which I knew, knowing my Midwestern sports — and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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mHUB has been ranked No. 14 on TIME’s America’s Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026 list, presented in collaboration with Statista.
The recognition highlights mHUB’s work supporting hardtech founders with the infrastructure, expertise, capital, mentorship, and industry connections needed to move physical technologies from early development to commercialization. Since 2017, mHUB has worked with over 200 public and private partners and supported over 500 startups that have collectively generated $5B in economic activity.
Congratulations to the many others recognized from the Midwest startup ecosystem: The Garage at Northwestern University; The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; University of Illinois Research Park; gener8tor; MATTER; 1871; Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University; and more.
This collective recognition underscores the Midwest’s growing role in America’s innovation future.
Read more about the recognition: hubs.la/Q04tmC100
#HardTech #Startups #Innovation #Chicago #mHUB
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Great story by Owen. When I was a Legislative Director in the Senate, I used to joke that you could send the wizards at Leg Counsel office anything from a detailed outline to a cartoon sketch on the back of a Monocle napkin and they'd find a way to turn it into a workable bill.
And then if the bill became a law, future judges would spend weeks poring over the placement of each word and comma to parse the meaning in a tough case.
NEW: Hill staffers and outside groups are relying on AI to draft legislation — but those bills are often riddled with errors.
The office tasked with catching mistakes is inundated. For @politico:
politico.com/news/2026/08/17…
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In Minnesota, trust is not given – it’s earned. I’m honored to have won this nomination and earned your trust, and I’m ready to get to work.
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SCIENCE MINUTE: Hard-boiled egg vacuum.
Science is powered by people. If we don't invest in research, we risk losing talented scientists to other countries.
That sucks ... eggs.
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Met with young leaders representing Minnesota at American Legion Boys and Girls Nation — Carter Klein from Bloomington, Izu Ayika from Maple Grove, Greta Gronfeld from Johnson, and Mariam Al-Areedy from Sartell. Great to see high school students interested in public service – their future is bright!
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Eating champion Joey Chestnut defends title but blames heat for lower hot-dog tally reut.rs/3QQrADt reut.rs/3QQrADt
