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j. patrick coolican

@jpcoolican

Editor in chief, @MNReformer. Contact me if you wanna write for us. DMs open. Formerly @StarTribune, @LasVegasSun, @UMWallaceHouse. Go Irish.

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Late last week the Department of Defense did something interesting: It made four tech executives from Palantir, Meta, & OpenAI lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army. JVL on the implications thebulwark.com/p/how-big-tech…

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Melissa Hortman’s mother shares with our CBS News team that the speaker emerita kept this prayer of St. Francis of Assisi in her wallet on a card: “Make me a channel of your peace.”

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Vance Boelter voted in the March 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential party, according to a screenshot obtained by the Reformer of his voter profile in a national GOP voter registration database. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/van…

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Thanks to Nicole Neri for the wonderful photos of a powerful event: Mourners mark the life and death of Melissa and Mark Hortman with candlelight, music and silence minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/19/mou…

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Commentary: We turned the Wellstone tragedy into something good. We can do it again. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/20/we-…

Max Hailperin (@maxhailperin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Smart analysis. Candidates win not because of their ideologies but because of their skill at connecting with potential voters, turning them into actual voters.

Smart analysis. Candidates win not because of their ideologies but because of their skill at connecting with potential voters, turning them into actual voters.
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hope we did her justice. Remembering Melissa Hortman: Republicans and Democrats say her power came from her selflessness minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/26/rem…

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Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.
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Everyone should read this quote from Justice Sotomayor on today's SCOTUS ruling: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens

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This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.

This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.
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After 5 p.m. the line to view the caskets of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark still stretches down to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.

After 5 p.m. the line to view the caskets of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark still stretches down to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
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Glints of joy among the horror. With Michelle Griffith After violent deaths, children of Hortmans pray for peace at parents’ funeral  minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/28/aft…

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In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.