J. Patrick Coolican

1 week ago | minnesotareformer.com | J. Patrick Coolican

As the last rays of light gently touched down on the State Capitol campus Tuesday evening, Minnesota Orchestra brass players struck up “Amazing Grace,” and suddenly hundreds of people broke into song, or at least as much as could be expected through tears. They were there to begin saying goodbye to state Rep.

1 week ago | rawstory.com | J. Patrick Coolican |Minnesota Reformer

Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a “report” that hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.

1 week ago | nevadacurrent.com | J. Patrick Coolican

A faddish phrase on the right is something called “the administrative state,” which refers to the federal workforce deputized by Congress to craft and enforce rules over the environment, banking, health care, product safety, mass communications, the power grid, etc. A recent profile of the Claremont Institute — which has the unenviable task of stitching together an […]

1 week ago | minnesotareformer.com | J. Patrick Coolican

by J. Patrick Coolican, Minnesota Reformer June 14, 2025 Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.

2 weeks ago | southernminn.com | J. Patrick Coolican

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