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Differing accounts reveal a fissure between the Minnesota governor and Minneapolis mayor. Hear the "Playing Politics" analysis from WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman and the Star Tribune Editorial Board's Patricia Lopez and John Rash.

Among the thousands of messages was one that read, 'Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber,'" Haley Taylor Schlitz writes. "It was not simply the cruelty of what was said, but the ease with which it was written."

Saturday's protesters waved signs in opposition to kings and tyrants in America, but we continue to support kings and tyrants around the world, Ahmed Tharwat writes.

"We won't solve homelessness through lethal injection," Chris LaTondresse writes.

"It is the digital equivalent of letting the fox design the locks on the henhouse," Erich Mische writes.

The stakes couldn't be higher. My family would know.

"It does indeed take a special circumstance to get introverts to rub elbows with a literal mass of humanity," David Banks writes.

"What we cannot afford are Trump's efforts to drag us back to the past," Pete Wyckoff writes.

"I knew this feeling well. My rural elementary school closed when I was in second grade, adding an hour to my bus ride. My kids' small town elementary school was bulldozed shortly after they moved up to middle school," Aaron Brown writes.

"Certainly, Minnesota's governing bodies have an obligation to protect the rights of the transgender community here. But women have rights too," Andy Brehm writes.