St. Paul, MN today. #50501 #50501movement

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

Proud of my fellow Minnesotans today. #HandsOff #HandsOff2025

I’m in insurance, which, tbh is a challenging market right now. Insurers are losing their shirts due to losses from severe storms, wildfires, and other natural disasters. The litigious nature of the US, where folks will jump to sue anyone for anything and hungry… (1/6)

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Went in to set up a My Social Security account. Got to the final step, agreeing to their Terms of Service and stopped. The last bullet point reads "I agree…” 👇

The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts. @washingtonpost.com

So my husband got ahold of my phone & now whenever I type “Christmas” it changes to “The only oven I know how to use is a Dutch oven” & we made a pact to not delete each other’s prank shortcuts, in case you were wondering what marriage after 24 yrs looked like & why my texts don’t make sense anymore

Gee, I wonder what Judy wants to do. (These are her talking button presses)

I’m new here, a writer without words this week. In place of words, I offer these pics of my grandkitty on his birthday (with a bonus pic of the his adoption day cuz who doesn’t love baby pics)