Marigolds! Color-changing Strawberry Blonde and a fiery row of orange at the St Anthony Park Community Garden. #FlowerReport

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Hey, let's look at some amazing and fun art! The State Fairs show at The Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery is a must-see. Seed art by Liz Schreiber

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

Great Sun Day pictures keep pouring in--here are the Make Way for Ducklings ducks at Boston Common

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Okay the conservative argument on abortion and birth control being bad for women is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the link between vaccines and autism is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the anti COVID vaccine stuff is based on bunk cherrypicked science. But this one is legit!

Also I appreciate Max directly saying "civilian vessels" I noticed article headlines say "suspected drug boat" and thought, you can just say boat. You know that to be true, and you know the administration lies constantly, so your headline doesn't need to even suggest there's a reasonable suspicion

Happy Free Speech Day at the U where all the faculty were advised to hold classes only online because the Turning Point Tour's still coming to campus

This is the part of "Abundance" that I think we urgently need: our bureaucratic agencies/systems are not up to the task. They end up being small c conservative. And I think progressive mayors/govs/etc seem unwilling to think about what it would be like to explicitly reshape bureaucracy.

We must create swift, affordable, safe ways for people to get to work, with the caveat that these methods must be healthy for the commuter *and* for the communities through which they travel, and that furthermore by supporting more residential development in the center we can avoid toxic sprawl.

I met Dr. David Ho! He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Gender affirming care in children is almost always fully reversible, unlike many sports injuries, which can impact long-term health and quality of life... But the obsession with gender affirming care isn't really about protecting kids, is it...

It's Sunday and I'm on a route 94 bus! This wouldn't have happened last spring because the 94 previously only ran on weekdays. Yay for expanded service hours! #MSPTransitExperience

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Monarchs getting ready for the big flight. #FlowerReport

Sun Day at Graco Park, Minneapolis- just north of Boom Island Park - starting now!

Former soldier’s Strib LTE describes sensible gun regulations. Ends w, “Freedom is not free if it comes at the cost of living in fear that any trip to a concert, a school or even a church could end in gunfire. Responsible gun ownership is not an attack on liberty. It is the only way to preserve it.”

Star Tribune stripy about million dollar Medicaid housing fraud loose oversight, while above it UnitedHealthcare bilks billions and goes unindicted.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

There have been three presidency-defining scandals inside Trump's Department of Justice just in the last 48 hours. The Republican Party truly is a crime syndicate wrapped in a flag. www.unchartedblue.com/the-trump-ad...

When you let autocrats and dictators achieve any level of control, they use it to take more control. And more. And more. We knew that.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

So glad that my little suburban yard can be an oasis for wildlife. There were at least 3 monarch butterflies in my gardens yesterday. Every time I turned around, I found one on another flower. Such a wonderful sight during yet another cruel week in this country.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

if I can give a piece of "theory of change" advice: never never never make a purchasing decision to stay away from a brand for ethical reasons *without letting them know that's what you've done*. they don't have a way to know otherwise. spend 5 minutes and send an email to the company.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

This is amazing.

I tried to visualize a left equivalent of Charlie Kirk- an 18yo who starts going from campus to campus ad builds an organizing base nationwide. And probably someone who could have been that has existed! But they wouldn’t have had billionaires funding them, so no such luck.

And to be clear the merger between Tenga and Nextstar *shouldn’t* go through. It blows past the FCC limits of local stations that one company is supposed to own. But Carr was expected to change the rules bc they *want* right wing media conglomeration

Omar is the only MN rep who voted no. In case you didn’t want to scroll through.

Completely let down by @mccollum.house.gov 's YES vote. What an incredible disappointment.

Yesterday I was guided to one of Dahlia Dell’s gardens in Prospect Park (Minneapolis). What a neighborhood treasure! Posting by type. #FlowerReport

Close to the Raymond Station Green Line stop + on the 63 67 and 87 bus routes. Parking behind the CEZ bldg and at nearby Gopher Plumbing (704 Vandalia) and the Wright Building (2233 University Ave). See you tonight! Rain or shine!

Tonight's Chroma Zone art block party IS MOVING INDOORS due what looks like a rainy evening! Join us at CEZ's HQ, 2171 University Ave W. St Paul (NW corner of Vandalia). Live painting, a maker's market, dance music, LEGO mural and activity, mini-mural tours, and free community meal.

The infant HepB vaccine went into effect in 1991, when there were 20,000 kid cases a year. Now there are *20* a year. RFKJr wants to kill children.

Those were the days.

I gotta give them props, the opening to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was pretty good. 👇

This, but the whole admin

When everyone was clamoring for more civics education over the last couple years, some of us warned that that meant a very different thing to people on the far-right. This is the white nationalist version, a Trojan horse for religion in the schools and for censorship of a full history.

The “Mortgage Fraud” Fraud. Watch until the end. www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

The escalation is ... no words. And in this case from Dr Feelgood Illegal Drug Dispenser.

Am I the only one who’s heard that MAGA is trying to dox Wikipedia editors/writers who are too “leftwing”?

Love that we can’t trust weather forecasts anymore it’s so awesome

what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more

Defund Stephen Miller.