The States Where Life Is Better? Guess which state ranked at the top?

Woot! Woot! So excited for this ticket!!! Congratulations to the team! 💙🩵💙

Wearing red with my MN House colleagues on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Awareness Day; May 5, 2026. #MMIR #mnleg

CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Still thinking of the gun violence survivors and Annunciation parents who also testified in favor of the Minneapolis gun ordinance today. Everyone - from the dais to the overflow room - has a story. This is a uniquely American 🇺🇸 crisis, and we need to bring back the assault weapons ban.

Report: VA investigated employees who spoke publicly about Alex Pretti www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repo...

Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress cut healthcare, but give unlimited funding to sustain a war in Iran that nobody wants. The cost of gas and groceries have increased significantly while you struggle to afford medicine. Vote them all out in November! #HealthcareNotWarfare

SESSION DAILY: House lawmakers consider updated sales tax plan to aid Hennepin Healthcare #mnleg

STUDY: “Nearly 1/3rd of eligible US residents don’t have a driver's license. An even larger share of the population likely lives without driving for various reasons, including disability, aging, financial constraints, or anxiety related to driving.“ Hat tip to @nondriver.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

We have results at the moment from 5 of the Indiana senate districts featuring GOP incumbents who opposed redistricting. (No district is even half-reporting.) Across these 5 races, only one incumbent is up (SD38). Two others are trailing by 1-2%. And two are trailing by 20%.

Voters in my suburban district want MN lawmakers to do something to stop the increasing rates of gun violence. Eliminating easy access to weapons of war is an important first step. www.minnpost.com/state-govern...

"As fuel prices climb and a possible new energy crisis ripples across Europe, a coalition of cycling and mobility organizations is making a clear, urgent case: the fastest path to energy independence may be as simple as getting more people on bikes."

I get deeply tired because everything touches me. I am never indifferent. -Anais Nin Rest up, Resisters!

TODAY: Americans are gathering again at nationwide events in defense of immigrants in our communities. As the regime buys up warehouses to convert into concentration camps, we must come together to oppose the literal warehousing of people in our country. Join us: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Organizers now say more than 180 protests planned for this weekend -- Saturday April 25 -- against Trump ICE prison camps nationwide: www.mobilize.us?org_ids=44001

Amtrak optimistically expected 75,000 passengers along the Mardi Gras Express line in the first year. We are 7 months in and they are about to reach 100,000. Build. More. Passenger. Rail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5w...

Save the date! MN Postpartum Support Wellness Fair May 16, 2026 10 AM - 1 PM @ The Chanhassen Recreation Center

Women are 32% less likely than men to consider running for office. But that's about to change. Ready to Run is a national rally for anyone ready to step up and serve their community this Women's History Month. RSVP 👉 contest-every-race.org/readytorun/e...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

One of the best things about bikes is that, unlike cars, their infrastructure doesn't bulldoze the very nature that makes our cities livable. 🌳

⚖️ Sen. Klobuchar Fights Back Against Corporate Monopoly Deals 👉 goto.powertothepeoplenews.org/3PvKkah 🌟 Corporate power and public accountability are deeply connected. Subscribe to Power to the People News. #PowerToThePeopleNews

Wisconsin is showing that you can fight creeping authoritarianism by getting organized and consistently voting, year after year, in small races and big ones, to win back democracy by voting in people who actually support democratic process.

Peace is coming!

Hear, hear. On the same day, MN House Republicans brought up bills to narrowly define gender in kids' sports. GOP members tried to stop Dems from talking about the real threat to girls (and boys): pedophiles, all those in the Epstein class who either were perpetrators or enablers, and warmongers.

Cruelty is the point. Texas judge denies petition to release woman detained in Minnesota with medical condition www.newsfromthestates.com/article/texa...

Chaska's manufactured housing park, Brandondale, is featured in this article about rising rental fees and out-of-state private equity firms buying up Minnesota's parks. I am a proud co-author of the manufactured housing owners' Bill of Rights, HF 2381.

Getting ready for the fuel shortage in Australia.

Hear, hear!

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

We Americans are so much better than this.

Thank you for the endorsement today, 48B! #LucyRehmForMNHouse #RehmRe-ElectionCampaign #BolderBetterBrighter #Vote

The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum offers winter activities, from conservatory visits to snowshoeing, that help visitors reconnect with nature. Written by Lynette Kalsnes Photos by Mark MacLennan Read the full story online. @mnarboretum.bsky.social eplocalnews.org/2026/03/17/r...

Happy National Agriculture Day! 🌽🫘🫛

This is not good. We need to take a comprehensive look at what is happening to young people online. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...

Thinking about the late Senator Paul Wellstone tonite... "If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Everything is fine

The reported 2300+ ICE agents here in #MN continue to abduct neighbors from their vehicles even tho the Trump administration announced plans for an end to the unlawful and deadly federal occupation. Last night we saw drones and today we saw small planes circling our neighborhoods. #ICEOUT

🚨🚨🚨Operation Metro Surge is still active in the suburbs of Mpls. Lots of ICE activity in Shakopee, Chaska and EP and other suburbs south of Mpls/St Paul.

#HartfordVisibilityBrigade spreading the love this am in CT! More love all around please! Help us keep getting the messages out!! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

low-info voters are very responsive to national conditions. which is they they voted for trump in 2024, and now why they're even more anti-trump on affordability than high-knowledge (dem-leaning) voters thanks to @verasight.io for partnering on this poll! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

"The news this week that prosecutors sought grand-jury indictments against six Democratic lawmakers over a political video stands out as the most flagrant abuse yet of the administration’s criminal-legal powers." The latest from the Editorial Board: https://wapo.st/3OcNEX9

To the surprise of many, on social media Hanson started condemning ICE activity: "Tear-gassing a car full of kids (with an infant inside, no less) is bad police work. Breaking into a home without a warrant is bad police work. Arresting observers who are not obstructing is bad police work." #ICEOUT

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. – Ida B. Wells

Sadly, here's another example showing that this battle for our constitutional rights is a marathon, not a sprint. "Deputy attorney general says administration will appeal order to release 5-year-old from ICE custody" www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Some stand out moments from the #GRAMMYs tonight.

Noem has actually relaxed drug interdiction efforts on the frontiers, meaning that drug smuggling has almost certainly increased on her watch.

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say 'thanks to God,' I'm going to say 'ICE Out.' We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."