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Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveiled his new Twitter home page only yesterday. Then why does the color scheme suggest it was designed for a Soviet socialist in the 1920s? (After the jump is Aleksandr Rodchenko’s cover for the 1927 book, “Materialization of the Fantastic” — not a bad campaign slogan for Pawlenty ‘12 actually.)

Sixth-district podiums left empty by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann are getting grabbed by public figures who pepper their talk with revolution and profanity. Avowed socialist, one-time Most-Wanted radical and now University of California-Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis made a public appearance in St. Cloud last week. Fresh off a very vice-presidential F-bomb, Joe Biden visits St. Cloud Tuesday for [...]

Barry Clegg wanted to irritate Republicans who had scheduled an offshoot event from their national convention a couple blocks from his house on Nicollet Island near downtown Minneapolis. So he ordered a large Obama banner to hang in his yard from an Iowa-based vendor he found online. Now the banner’s decidely unofficial red-star design (which the vendor, not Clegg, came up with) has taken on new meaning in the context of Republicans taunts that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is a “socialist.”