When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

✨Hunger Task Force is Milwaukee’s only Free & Local food bank. 🥫Their wishlist items include canned veggies low in sodium, low-fat boxed milk, spaghetti sauce (no sugar added), fruit in its own juice, and tuna/chicken in a can/pouch. Help fill up the bin this season at Ian's Pizza Story Hill!

THIS. I graduated college and was 1of 3 people to get a teaching job in the Detroit area in the late 70s. The dads all were laid off. The lucky moms had their 1st jobs at Kmart. My grandmother (on social security & pinching pennies) gave me food to bring extra lunch to share with kids.

Binders are clothing . They have uses beyond trans people. And even if they did not, this war on trans people is immoral and stupid.

OMG!!! This is horrible. I am old enough to have seen the complications of measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, polio, and the rest. I am old enough to have been trained years ago (as a student teacher in a kindergarten) to recognize the rashes of many of them. This will NOT make us healthier.

No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.

Beautiful and moving

Milwaukeeans, please note that American Science and Surplus continues to exist as a local brick & mortar store and would very much appreciate your holiday shopping attention.

and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you

Winter has arrived when you have trouble distinguishing whether the rough spot is the nail or the skin next to it. I don’t care what the calendar says. It’s winter

I just found the instruction letter for me to take the New York State Bar in Albany in July 1983. No notes or books allowed, exam writing books supplied, and “BE SURE AND BRING SEVERAL PENS AND NO. 2 PENCILS WITH ERASERS.”

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

SMH #FeartheDeer

When it snows a lot, go snowshoeing! (But don't loose a snow basket from your pole or put your snowshoes on the wrong feet. It ups the difficulty level and makes you feel stupid.)

7 inches or so of snow and still going. The guys just came to dig us out. (One of the good things about old age is giving up on shoveling because you know you can no longer do it safely. Some of the bad things are the reasons you can no longer do it safely. #Winterstorm

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

If every judge finds that the government didn’t act in good faith and repeatedly did not comply with their orders, but the conduct doesn’t meet the bar for sanctions, we’ve got a problem. You create if not precedent, at least a roadmap for the government to defy the court and act in bad faith.

The president is proposing that we take the 1 trillion gallons of water that fire departments use every year and give each American a 5-gallon bucket to fight house fires on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

Get their asses, Gov.

I have just had an absolutely delightful evening letting my weirdness hang out for my teenage grandson to see.

I love it when someone gets me to pause and look at the beauty around me.

A host of challenges face those choosing Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance for 2026. Here is some information that might help folks in Wisconsin who are feeling anxious or overwhelmed @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/how-...

This is horrible news. Teen vogue was really bucking the trend and covering things as they are. I hate to see such good journalists sidelined, especially these days.

Sign of the times. 4 yo playing store & charges 6 yo “$1.” He gives her the dollar bill the tooth fairy left him. She taps it against her “machine” & says, “It’s declined. Do you have another?”

OMG! Apparently, MAGA has incorrectly “decided” that men do not get breast cancer. As a child of a man who survived breast cancer, I am horrified. Truth: men have breast tissue. Men get breast cancer. And it is often discovered at late stages.

The City of Milwaukee, County of Milwaukee, the Bucks, and other area organizations are holding a food drive. You can donate non-perishable food at: Milwaukee City Hall: 200 E. Wells St. Milwaukee County Courthouse: 901 N. Ninth St. Zeidler Municipal Building: 841 N. Broadway . 1/

Y’all should watch this amazing video by the Milwaukee Public Library. #mpl #spellonyou

“This is the house John Roberts built.”

While there are several good things about getting old, the dark undersides of advancing age include all the losses and increased vulnerability.

Loving the creativity

Small correction: The Exponent *offered* to print the banned issue, but the IDS students were afraid that would get them punished/sanctioned. So instead, the issue that The Exponent printed and delivered is a new, special solidarity issue co-written by students from both presses!

Beautiful.

I got my covid and flu shots yesterday. I feel as though I was hit by a truck

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

And now we ask the really scary question: Will we be able to hold ‘em in the 9th? #Brewers

I love this little tidbit.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

I wish I could say that this state behavior is unusual. It is not. The system HATES admitting mistakes

Democrats cannot vote for a budget that funds troops being sent into American cities. If you believe this president is an authoritarian, then act like it.

I don’t swear all that much. My mother used to allow swearing for “extreme provocation.” Well, this counts. If I could type these letters in 48 point font I would. WTAF???????

I've had two out of four of those diseases (mumps once, chickenpox twice if you count it coming back as shingles), and I recommend against any of these advisers having a job.

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

Good to know if you live in Wisconsin

Today is the kind of day that you need a laugh—even at my expense so: A Very Sticky Thread 1/

"I apologize for not saying some exception should be made for the (nebulously defined) *good* members of the group I want to be cruel to" is neither an apology nor a change in views. He meant it. He still does.