Ben Baglio
@benfrommn.bsky.social
Husband, twin dad, & stepdad. AK-born, PNW-raised Minnesotan. Labor union lobbyist by day, but opinions are my own. #PatientsBeforeProfits
When Angie Craig says she supports Medicare “for all who want it” it’s because she’s raking in thousands in campaign contributions from the health insurance industry and will do nothing to take them on. We must eliminate the middlemen, not pander. #MedicareForAll #PatientsBeforeProfits #Minnesota
July 27, 2026 at 4:46 PM
When Angie Craig says she supports Medicare “for all who want it” it’s because she’s raking in thousands in campaign contributions from the health insurance industry and will do nothing to take them on. We must eliminate the middlemen, not pander. #MedicareForAll #PatientsBeforeProfits #Minnesota
Ah, I see that @angiecraigmn.bsky.social is now doubling down on her self-absorbed insensitivity and calling John and Yvette Hoffman liars. Interesting strategy! And by that, I mean that Angie is an awful human being.
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th! #Minnesota #DFL #Primary
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th! #Minnesota #DFL #Primary
July 26, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Ah, I see that @angiecraigmn.bsky.social is now doubling down on her self-absorbed insensitivity and calling John and Yvette Hoffman liars. Interesting strategy! And by that, I mean that Angie is an awful human being.
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th! #Minnesota #DFL #Primary
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th! #Minnesota #DFL #Primary
Calling John & Yvette Hoffman liars is disgusting & shows exactly the type of person Angie Craig is. But imagine being her and just doubling down by sharing these texts, which not only don’t address John’s story but also just affirm that you’re an insensitive, selfish jerk. Just drop out, Angie.
July 26, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Calling John & Yvette Hoffman liars is disgusting & shows exactly the type of person Angie Craig is. But imagine being her and just doubling down by sharing these texts, which not only don’t address John’s story but also just affirm that you’re an insensitive, selfish jerk. Just drop out, Angie.
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Angie Craig calling John and Yvette Hoffman liars was not on my bingo card. Just wow. They don't deserve this, especially after everything they've dealt with in the last year. My heart hurts for them.
July 25, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Angie Craig calling John and Yvette Hoffman liars was not on my bingo card. Just wow. They don't deserve this, especially after everything they've dealt with in the last year. My heart hurts for them.
Pretty awful stuff from Angie Craig, although unfortunately somehow also not surprising. We can’t possibly allow her to represent MN in the U.S. Senate. Thank you, Sen. Hoffman, for telling your story!
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th!
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th!
July 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Pretty awful stuff from Angie Craig, although unfortunately somehow also not surprising. We can’t possibly allow her to represent MN in the U.S. Senate. Thank you, Sen. Hoffman, for telling your story!
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th!
Vote Peggy Flanagan on or before August 11th!
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"Medicare for All means freedom for all. Peggy Flanagan is with us all the way!" -Mary Turner
July 25, 2026 at 12:36 AM
"Medicare for All means freedom for all. Peggy Flanagan is with us all the way!" -Mary Turner
“We’re so bad, we make Nixon look like a saint!”
JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
June 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM
“We’re so bad, we make Nixon look like a saint!”
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No one candidate is bigger than the work of building a better Minnesota. It’s frustrating to watch a campaign prioritize its own interests over the success of the rest of the ticket and the party as a whole. Sometimes you can win the battle and still cost us the war.
June 23, 2026 at 7:05 PM
No one candidate is bigger than the work of building a better Minnesota. It’s frustrating to watch a campaign prioritize its own interests over the success of the rest of the ticket and the party as a whole. Sometimes you can win the battle and still cost us the war.
In her last act as Speaker of the MN House, Lisa Demuth could’ve helped save home nursing coverage for thousands of kiddos on private insurance. Instead, she sided with insurance companies and wasted the final moments of session. Very fitting end to her tenure as Speaker and to this #mnleg session.
May 18, 2026 at 5:07 AM
In her last act as Speaker of the MN House, Lisa Demuth could’ve helped save home nursing coverage for thousands of kiddos on private insurance. Instead, she sided with insurance companies and wasted the final moments of session. Very fitting end to her tenure as Speaker and to this #mnleg session.
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Thank you to the Minnesota Nurses Association and National Nurses United for having me at the Red Alert Save Our Hospitals rally!
My mom has been sick my entire life. If you’re a child of a parent with a chronic illness, you know what it’s like.
My mom has been sick my entire life. If you’re a child of a parent with a chronic illness, you know what it’s like.
May 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Thank you to the Minnesota Nurses Association and National Nurses United for having me at the Red Alert Save Our Hospitals rally!
My mom has been sick my entire life. If you’re a child of a parent with a chronic illness, you know what it’s like.
My mom has been sick my entire life. If you’re a child of a parent with a chronic illness, you know what it’s like.
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During Black Maternal Health Week, Senator Clare Oumou Verbeten shares her firsthand experience of a traumatic and dangerous birth. She calls for more than apologies and safety stories, but action and policy change.
Read her full op-ed in @MinnPost here: www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
#bmhw26
Read her full op-ed in @MinnPost here: www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
#bmhw26
Black parents are not 'safety stories.' We deserve real change - MinnPost
If we want to lower the maternal death rate for Black parents in Minnesota, we need more than apologies and 'safety stories.' We need policy.
www.minnpost.com
April 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM
During Black Maternal Health Week, Senator Clare Oumou Verbeten shares her firsthand experience of a traumatic and dangerous birth. She calls for more than apologies and safety stories, but action and policy change.
Read her full op-ed in @MinnPost here: www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
#bmhw26
Read her full op-ed in @MinnPost here: www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
#bmhw26
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The year is 2027. Hakeem Jeffries steps out of his nuclear bunker for the first time in almost a year in full hazmat gear. His fingertips are stained with graphite and marred by thousands of papercuts. In his hand he holds the most strongly worded letter ever written in all of history.
April 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The year is 2027. Hakeem Jeffries steps out of his nuclear bunker for the first time in almost a year in full hazmat gear. His fingertips are stained with graphite and marred by thousands of papercuts. In his hand he holds the most strongly worded letter ever written in all of history.
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Moderator: Welcome to the debate
Flanagan: Thank you for having me
Craig: Thank you for having me, and thank you, ICE
Flanagan: Thank you for having me
Craig: Thank you for having me, and thank you, ICE
April 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Moderator: Welcome to the debate
Flanagan: Thank you for having me
Craig: Thank you for having me, and thank you, ICE
Flanagan: Thank you for having me
Craig: Thank you for having me, and thank you, ICE
When they return from break next week, #mnleg has six weeks to act on a funding solution for Hennepin County Medical Center or Minnesota’s largest safety-net hospital will close.
mnnurses.org/healthcare-w...
mnnurses.org/healthcare-w...
Healthcare workers issue dire warning to legislators time is running out to save Hennepin County Medical Center - Minnesota Nurses Association
Today healthcare workers gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol to issue a dire warning to legislators on break that time is running out to save Hennepin County Medical Center—a critical safety-net h...
mnnurses.org
April 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
When they return from break next week, #mnleg has six weeks to act on a funding solution for Hennepin County Medical Center or Minnesota’s largest safety-net hospital will close.
mnnurses.org/healthcare-w...
mnnurses.org/healthcare-w...
Workers w/ MNA, AFSCME, HCAPE (paramedics), CIR (interns & residents), and The Guild (translators & interpreters) - all Hennepin County Medical Center employees - held a press conference this morning calling on legislators to prioritize work to save HCMC when they return next week from #mnleg break.
April 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Workers w/ MNA, AFSCME, HCAPE (paramedics), CIR (interns & residents), and The Guild (translators & interpreters) - all Hennepin County Medical Center employees - held a press conference this morning calling on legislators to prioritize work to save HCMC when they return next week from #mnleg break.
Would say I was surprised by how disingenuous this post is from the Angie Craig campaign, but hey, par for the course.
March 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Would say I was surprised by how disingenuous this post is from the Angie Craig campaign, but hey, par for the course.
Love my job at MNA. Easier to love it even more when the union endorses my guy, and the only one running for Congress with a consistent, coherent, and clearly supportive position on Medicare for All: Matt Little! #CD2 #DFL #PatientsBeforeProfits
March 26, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Love my job at MNA. Easier to love it even more when the union endorses my guy, and the only one running for Congress with a consistent, coherent, and clearly supportive position on Medicare for All: Matt Little! #CD2 #DFL #PatientsBeforeProfits
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Peggy Flanagan was a former school board member who was elected state rep in 2015 and Lieutenant Governor in 2018, which is when Angie Craig left the corporate world for Congress.
Craig’s repeated claim that Flanagan, a qualified candidate, needs “training wheels” is offensive and embarrassing.
Craig’s repeated claim that Flanagan, a qualified candidate, needs “training wheels” is offensive and embarrassing.
i don't think the candidate who has been clear-eyed about ICE needs training wheels. i think the woman who voted for the laken riley act then had to walk it back needs training wheels, and it's clear DFL delegates agree with me, since angie craig can't even walk away with a single one in MANKATO
March 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Peggy Flanagan was a former school board member who was elected state rep in 2015 and Lieutenant Governor in 2018, which is when Angie Craig left the corporate world for Congress.
Craig’s repeated claim that Flanagan, a qualified candidate, needs “training wheels” is offensive and embarrassing.
Craig’s repeated claim that Flanagan, a qualified candidate, needs “training wheels” is offensive and embarrassing.
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It’s also just whack that Angie Craig doesn’t think being Lieutenant Governor is a role that qualifies you for Senate considering whose seat she is hoping to fill.
March 21, 2026 at 10:52 PM
It’s also just whack that Angie Craig doesn’t think being Lieutenant Governor is a role that qualifies you for Senate considering whose seat she is hoping to fill.
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Standing with nurses from the Minnesota Nurses Association today at the Maple Grove Hospital. As a veteran and lifelong public servant, I’ve seen what it means to serve others, and our nurses deserve a contract that reflects that commitment.
March 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Standing with nurses from the Minnesota Nurses Association today at the Maple Grove Hospital. As a veteran and lifelong public servant, I’ve seen what it means to serve others, and our nurses deserve a contract that reflects that commitment.
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angie craig drove all the way down to mankato for a DFL convention, got heckled over the laken riley act and AIPAC, AND got 0 delegates
brutal. this campaign is crashing and burning
brutal. this campaign is crashing and burning
March 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
angie craig drove all the way down to mankato for a DFL convention, got heckled over the laken riley act and AIPAC, AND got 0 delegates
brutal. this campaign is crashing and burning
brutal. this campaign is crashing and burning
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"If you want to understand why we have an affordability crisis, focus on concentrated markets and the sophisticated tools large corporations are using to replace beneficial competition with consumer deception."
February 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"If you want to understand why we have an affordability crisis, focus on concentrated markets and the sophisticated tools large corporations are using to replace beneficial competition with consumer deception."
First 8 days of this #mnleg session have felt like 8 weeks. SUCH an election year.
a man wearing a crown stands on a balcony
ALT: a man wearing a crown stands on a balcony
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February 27, 2026 at 1:57 AM
First 8 days of this #mnleg session have felt like 8 weeks. SUCH an election year.