If you're interested in the playbook for how our government is intentionally (and illegally) withholding funds appropriated by Congress, this @nytimes.com article explores to playbook: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

Millennial sandwich generation: Teaching your kid and your mom about the Bechdel Test at the same time

As a public health worker and liberation theology Christian, I get that @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social is pinging allllll my confirmation bias with Everything is Tuberculosis. But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. He’s very, very right. 💛

Husband found All Women’s Sports Network on Pluto and we’re camped out for a late-night Minnesota Roller Derby bout 😍 Bless the @rosecityrollers.bsky.social announcers for mispronouncing Lefse for Dead’s name, that tracks. Such a great Midwestern name.

Love seeing Juche on this list. Pride of the East Side for years; don't sleep on it. The mapo fries will change your life, right after they clean out your sinuses. www.startribune.com/the-30-resta...

So exhausted from hustling & singing for public health’s meager supper (& the health of Minnesotans) when what works to build a budget is apparently just fear-mongering & racism. A hard week for folks who believe in gov’t to make life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness a real thing for *everyone*

Catching a @rosecityrollers.bsky.social game online tonight; massive heart eyes to the broadcast announcers with fantastic commentary and banter. So solid 😍

For the first half of my kindergarten year, my family lived in a shitty little apartment complex somewhere in Central Texas. I forget where. I think Waco? Copperas Cove? We moved around a lot. If memory serves correctly, I attended three different schools that year. (thread)

Fact: 8 in 10 Minnesotans don't want the government to cut Medicaid. Source: May 2025 poll conducted by @shadac.bsky.social and Minnesota Department of Health More info: www.health.state.mn.us/news/pressre...

🙌 hands in the air if the way you learned about Soylent Green was from Drop Dead Gorgeous 🙌 #mostsmartest

Strib's Ka Vang nails it 👏 "We are, essentially, expected to be a dress that is also secretly a skirt, and while that sounds useful, it’s actually just another outfit designed for containment. The dress doesn’t liberate us. It camouflages the labor." www.startribune.com/vang-the-vir...

Here for @austwu.bsky.social 's donut theory of development in Minnesota. Accurate.

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But please, keep telling me how our $200K public health program is wAsTeFuL 🫠

Essential government work is being dismantled under the guise of streamlining. But the real result? We’re less prepared, less informed, and less protected.

and once again I ask - if not Gestapo, why Gestapo shaped?

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Nearly all people in public service are smart, ethical & hardworking, & nearly all bureaucratic rules at least originated for good reasons.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The biggest influence on how a system behaves is often its team’s last reorg, not its purpose or mission.

The parade St. Paul threw to honor Olympic gymnast and hometown heroine Suni Lee had significantly more impressive turnout than Trump's birthday party.

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

On the fridge:

CDC leadership just told staff on Monday that they could stop sending their "5 things I did last week" emails. Finally. Per source, people were mostly just sending the same things every week. Many folks added read receipts and were able to see that no one at DOGE was actually reading the emails.

Take me on a trip, I'd like to go some day Take me to New York, I'd love to see LA I really want to come kick it with you You'll be my American pope

Midwestern Pope = There’d better be an encyclical ASAP about how we’re all calling it hotdish from here on out 🙌 #HabemusHotdish

I hate to break it to folks, but these evil fools will always be replaced by other evil fools under Trump. The long line of evil fools behind the incumbent evil fools doesn't mean we shouldn't hold evil foolishness accountable.

We live in a world of manufactured scarcity.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Apparently RFK is trying to walk back his bullshit comments by saying he doesn't mean autistics like *me* are bad and awful and need to be irradicated; no, he just wants to get rid of the "low functioning" autistics and let me just say FUCK THAT I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

Facts.

The work of public health--working to make whole groups and populations healthy and prevent disease--often happens outside "traditional" spaces like health departments. In this case, a student saw a need, the school stepped up, and the USDA supported it. BAM: PUBLIC HEALTH. 💛 🌿 😍

It is always appropriate to carry around Homer in times of conflict, grief, and rage 💛

I wonder if JD Vance showing up yesterday had the pope wondering if he’d accidentally been sent to the Bad Place.

Man, every time I feel down about the world, I need to remind myself to just go read Laura Yuen for a while. And subject matter aside--she's such a fantastically skilled writer, it's like getting a tiny lil' tutorial on how to write a great article with every piece she does.

There should be, like, a little goody bag that balloons down from the sky when you're wearing a band T-shirt and one of their songs comes on their radio. Like in the Hunger Games.

Some real bucket list stuff happening at Gustavus tonight 💛

I wish CEOs understood how much *more productive* their employees are when they can work from home or on flex schedules. And the amount of time I can then spend with my children, instead of on a commute? These years are short. I don’t want to miss them. Looking at you, @governorwalz.mn.gov

Good public health communications is built on real people and real experiences 😍

In the federal worker purge so far, Trump + DOGE have terminated public health experts who were: * Protecting kids from harmful tobacco products. * Keeping mothers and babies from dying. * Upgrading the donor organ network that saves critically ill people. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Today in How to Be Minnesotan: I spilled lingonberry jam on my favorite trans rights t-shirt while trying to recreate a State Fair recipe for lunch

The best lil bookstore around. They almost always have what you want, and they always have something you didn’t know you wanted. 💛

Man I thought I knew what the word “doomscrolling” meant, but I was wrong

Today’s beautiful, serendipitous nirvana: Le Tigre’s TKO on the radio while publishing LGBTQ+ public health data 🪩🏳️‍⚧️🪩🏳️‍🌈🪩

I love it when public health people talk about butts. So cheeky. This is a webinar later this month from the New England Public Health Training Center: www.nephtc.org/login/index....

At CDC studies on the H5N1 bird flu, scheduled for release on Jan. 23, remain withheld despite the spreading outbreak.

We’re gonna need a bigger book