By speaking out, this Major has likely relinquished his right to millions of dollars of future benefits and entitlements of his service. Health insurance, pension, etc. When Hegseth was threatening Mark Kelly an other veteran members of Congress, that’s what he was after. Not a small show of courage

Killing because they enjoy killing.

Political parties at least nominally can be held more accountable by voters than billionaires can be

Unpopular opinion here, but allowing *political parties* to spend more money is better than billionaires flooding campaigns. I'd prefer spending limits and even public financing, but given the devastation the Supreme Court has done to campaign finance this is the better of two evils

3/ That shouldn’t stop the momentum to break the Courts corruption and anti constitutional behavior.

2/. a matter of course. That was never the case even among the most activist, most anti-reform Courts. The Courts corruption must be broken for the future of the country’s democracy. It’s one or the other. As reform gets closer they may start to trim their sails.

Always important to remind people that the occasional non egregious decision doesn’t make the Court any less corrupt or in need of reform. Even those who despise the Courts corruption have been accustomed to the idea that it reviews every law, prohibition or imperative embraced by Democrats as …

former homeschooler here and this is nonsense. homeschoolers, like many other conservative communities, are taught to hate the vast majority of americans and huge swaths of the constitution. this hatred gets coded as “patriotic” while other critiques of america can literally get you deported.

study: not only do apartments reduce emissions through improved energy efficiency and better travel patterns, they also have significantly less embodied carbon per resident than low density housing because they use building materials more efficiently www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you'll allow me some of your late Friday evening; I've dropped a new article. Let me know what you think as I discuss the art of the War Movie and the experience of War. inconvenientwarstudies.net/2026/06/26/w...

"The Trump administration is cracking down on waste in low-income welfare programs, but the GAO finds that the highest improper payment rate is in the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)—a subsidy program that mainly benefits high-income farmers." [Dominik Lett and Chris Edwards, @cato.org]

Barb Mork-Woodford was the long-time baker at the Bruegger’s at Energy Park and Raymond until it closed. Memorial vigil Saturday 8pm, Hamline Ave and Midway Pkwy. She’s the 6th pedestrian killed in Saint Paul this year (there are others just over the border).

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

Hegseth would never forgive a US Soldier who helped the YPG prove that Muslim women could make some of the best fighters

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

You already got your renewed Camelot buddy. Most powerful Kennedy in office in many years married to a TV star and he’s busy mixing dog cum with chia seeds to “see what grows.”

Another victory for The People's Lawyer @keithellison.bsky.social

Congrats to @bradlander.bsky.social who came to Minneapolis during the heart of Operation Metro Surge to help us resist ICE’s illegal occupation of our City. Can’t wait until he’s in congress where he’ll work to abolish ICE.

a cool moment -- Kaitlin Collins tells Brad Lander that he won his primary live on air during an interview with him. Lander responds by saying, "I'm thrilled. I did not expect to be on air when the race was called."

Big props to Brad Lander on winning his primary. Dude has done the moral thing many times and put his body on the line against ICE. He even came to Minnesota during the ICE Occupation to see the injustice firsthand. It’s nice to see moral courage rewarded by voters.

A piece about Prince and the “Sign o’ the Times” record, written by Steve Perry. In the June 1987 issue of Buzz. Published by City Pages.

Slashing Medicaid is threatening hospitals across Minnesota, including rural hospitals. We have to reverse these harmful cuts. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/22/frustrated-rural-hospitals-in-minnesota-are-still-waiting-on-federal-funding

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.

My lucky @equaltimesoccer.bsky.social shirt helped the @mnaurorafc.bsky.social clinch the Heartland Division Championship with a 4-1 win.

The murders continue. An attack on 6/18 killed three more people. The campaign has left 213 civilians dead, in total. We're tracking every strike @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

On the 161st anniversary of #Juneteenth, America’s unions celebrate and commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. We’ll continue organizing and mobilizing across the country to fight for and protect our civil rights and bring economic justice to all workers.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.

The SEIU MN State Council, bringing together over 70,000 workers across Minnesota, is proud to announce our latest round of endorsements: -- Jake Johnson for First Congressional District (CD1) -- Matt Little for Second Congressional District (CD2) 🧵 (1/4)

Makes sense when you realize inflation is a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.

This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk. This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.

The HPV vaccine was approved 20 years ago this week. In a new series, CIDRAP News looks at what we've learned. In this story, we profile two sisters: Hailey was eligible for vaccination in 2006. Erica was not. 6 yrs later, Erica was diagnosed with cervical cancer. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

The @wedge.live empire grows!

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

This is simply murder

Good sign from new TIZA govt: "Congress also took note with cautious optimism of the Minister’s stated intention to restore trade union rights and the right to strike" www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/7360...

If during the ICE Occupation, you saw Brad Tabke, who won his last election by 14 votes, doing amazing work protecting his community from masked, armed paramilitaries, including stopping a warehouse concentration camp, because he knew it was the moral thing to do, you should help him win reelection.

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

RIP Marjane Satrapi - a brief thread. A firm belief of mine is that there's no such thing as a truly "alien" culture. While some people may interact with each other in different ways, underneath the user experience it's all broadly the same base code.

There's a certain kind of teen girl, usually dismissed as "insolent," who knows from jump that the way her world is treating her is more the world's problem than hers. I'll always appreciate Marjane Satrapi for giving that girl a strong voice. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Growing up, the only Iran I knew was the hostage crisis & the Beirut bombing. Persepolis opened a whole new world to me.

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

🚨 215-208, House PASSES a Democratic-led resolution to end Trump’s war in Iran.

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

This. Plus complete lack of fear that the opposition will punish them.

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”