Not necessarily a student, but she was a mentee. This is disgusting

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.

I went to Wild Birds Unlimited today and got an excellent set up for the bird feeder. Chewie is already reaping the benefits. We talked about squirrel protection but decided not to do it for now. The cats will enjoy squirrel watching as much as bird watching, and this is all for the cats.

I don’t care what your religion is if you are claiming to provide healthcare. You either actually provide healthcare or you are denying healthcare and forcing people to suffer because your cult doesn’t believe in science. We should not pay tax $ to religious facilities that deny people healthcare.

polisci and conlaw professors standing round the coffee machine asking what level of functional decline makes congress legally dead for constitutional purposes

This op-ed by a historian of drug policy is SO good (gift link). People have always and will always use drugs. The only question is how we make that as safe as possible.

Chewie has a very pleasing shape on this Caturday morning.

Thank you @dexanderson.com and everyone else involved in this. As someone who has been DFL endorsed in the past, this current iteration of the DFL does not represent me. MN DFL needs to be better than this. Y'all can't keep channelling Wellstone and pulling antics like this. 🧵 in this quote.

Actuarial insurance is something you hope never to use. Social insurance is something you expect to (and should) use at different points in your life. Health insurance is a funny combination of both those things.

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon. The rest of us will live in a society.

"Excluding MPH and DrPH from the 'professional degree' category could restrict students’ access to higher federal loan limits, making public health education less financially attainable and potentially weakening the future workforce pipeline." Get ready to submit comments! aspph.org/department-o...

“You have to know how a newsroom works;” I don’t, actually. I have to see a product coming out of it that reflects known reality. You wouldn’t say “you have to know how a sausage factory works” if there was an E. coli contamination problem in pepperoni

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

City sunset: nice

Former NY Times reporter, ladies and gentlemen. The contents of the Epstein emails are not newsworthy. Only the manner of their release.

oh emails aren't a news story, that's interesting

Anthem BC/BS came back, 10 months later, and decided that it was going to deny me and my son's rabies treatments, after already approving the claim last December. Denying a claim where if treatment were not given, results in death 100% of the time!

Derek Guy never misses on the photos he uses to prove his point. The guy in the left looks *so cool*

RFK Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of vaccine scientists in September, a top official at the FDA suggested doing just that. Here's how Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg are reshaping vaccine regulation: www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...

This is the type of dad that was not involved in the daily labor of child rearing. The type of dad that does not go to his kid's doctor's appointments. The type of dad who does not know the name of his kid's kindergarten teacher. 👇

Poor sad unloved cat pretends to be a rug

Not as bright looking toward downtown, but still beautiful with the tiny skyline

Northern lights in Minneapolis.

by god skinner, aurora borealis?!

It is spectacular

Look!!!!!

There are dozens of people at Lake Jarriet standing on the beach.

also i told jamal osman on election night that elizabeth shaffer had won and he told me a story about asking for safe needle disposal in a park and shaffer saying no because it will "encourage drug use." he was just like "it'll encourage kids not stepping on needles!" GOOD LUCK TO US ALL

Is it because the Mayor can't get the police to do their jobs? Is it because we haven't invested nearly enough in non-police public safety programs? Is it because the Mayor's homelessness response is a total policy failure? Is it because we're offended by the sight of poor people existing in public?

Why is the City's answer to public safety almost always to make our home a worse place to live? Why can't we have places for people to sit at one of the busiest bus stops in the City? Why is the answer to just give up, throw up our hands and not try to reach people?

Rather than replace the benches in the current art installation, MPRB wants all seating removed and for the area to be fenced off because of "public safety issues." Similarly, Council Member Jamal Osman joined MPRB Commissioner Elizabeth Shaffer and the Park Police in requesting they all be removed.

Well that’s ominous

This week’s roses are getting prettier every day

Someone on here pointed out that there are a lot of alternative “medicine” grifters in the Trump orbit. Insurance companies require evidence of effectiveness before they agree to pay for things.

His children lose their father's care. Our economy loses his skill. Our treasury loses his tax payments. This family separation makes America poorer & less joyful. President Reagan's amnesty program would have let him become a citizen after paperwork & paying $185 ($550 w/inflation).

Women born with vaginas, raised as girls are suddenly not sufficiently womanly enough. They're branded as "men" and humiliated. They are stripped of everything they have worked to achieve and called cheats. It only serves to police womanhood based on the ability to be a breeding vessel.

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman. They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

Listen the Republicans took our noses and the only way they’d agree to give them back would be to

Like Senators, my family has fairly affordable health insurance thanks to the quirks and good fortune of my specific job—but unlike some Senators, I desperately want EVERYONE to have that (or better!), and I'm furious they don't. I want everyone to get the care they need. Pretty simple!

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Americans deserved a better deal than this one.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

You will hear the screams of health policy scholars in 3… 2… 1… aaaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh

because of COURSE

Hey birdwatchers—how do I hang this? Do I buy a freestanding metal pole? Is there a place in Minneapolis where I can buy such a thing?

I’m going through some very old boxes and found this artifact.