"Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive." Solar power, when smartly built, can improve agriculture *and* provide clean, pollution-free, low-cost energy. www.anl.gov/article/inse...

Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

Due to his decision to put trans people in the DFL in danger by speaking with Alpha News, Nick Kruse has been banned from Stonewall DFL for the next five years. I'm proud of our board and our membership for standing by our principles and protecting each other.

That's a great opening line.

Israel treats American presidents exactly like how police departments treat big city mayors

In January, Zohran Mamdani took action against bankrupt landlord Pinnacle, which was responsible for over 5,000 housing violations. Thanks to his intervention, Pinnacle's new owners have forgiven millions in tenants' back rent. This is what governing for the people looks like.

The UK is forcibly detransitioning trans kids.

Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

It is the end of the school year for Minneapolis Public Schools and it is impossible to adequately express gratitude to the teachers, administrators, volunteers, families, and organizers that made school a safe haven from the onslaught of state violence that tried to consume this place.

NEW POST IS UP: ICE Said It Would Handle Shootings by Its Own Agents. MPD Held the Perimeters and Helped ICE Leave the Scene. This is the second story in a series analyzing more than 2,000 public records from MPD during Operation Metro Surge.

Incumbent now for world cup referees to show FIFA what unity actually means, and refuse to officiate until Artan joins them. Enough of this racist bullshit already.

Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back

The Minneapolis Police Department is $23 Million Over Budget. How much is due to “double dipping” by Police Officers (who are basically committing fraud). Mayor Frey isn’t providing the oversight or leadership to prevent fraud in our city. A deep investigation is needed.

As @gregpak.net pointed out, this man is one of the most destructive in this admin with worldwide & longterm ramifications. I also want people to stop acting like he's just "stupid" or doing things for no reason. His reason is eugenics & wellness grifts.

Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and I are all old enough to remember that this isn't Iran's first rodeo. www.strausscenter.org/strait-of-ho...

If you're looking for an affordable bike, this is a good sale to check out! thriftyminnesota.com/the-umn-reus...

Putting together a massive collection of 990's from conservative nonprofit and dark money groups. Donors Trust is heavily funded by Leonard Leo through his 85 Fund and Marble Freedom Trust. Donors trust itself funds most of the major anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ orgs.

Elderly yet jacked real estate mogul Bruce Dachis: "I don't take the bus because quite frankly I'm afraid to take the bus." Then what the fuck is all the HGH for, Bruce?

Stephen Miller’s pathological hatred of immigrants has made stupidity and cruelty official policy across every department of the federal government. “Only American citizens and green card holders can be airport janitors” is ridiculous. This man legally worked there for almost 30 years!

"All the agents who had been to Minnesota told me they never wanted to go back, for any reason."

She’s right that most people don’t have time to go to a state convention. What she skips over is that for the last 4 months, DFLers have been meeting in our communities to elect neighbors who represent our values. My neighbors are there this Saturday to represent my community, and they matter.

We know that ICE broke the law on the regular during Metro Surge while the Minneapolis Police Department arrested not even one ICE agent while collecting overtime. Bloomington took ICE more seriously than Minneapolis. www.hometownsource.com/sun_current/...

Mayor Frey unmentioned in a story about his police department being insanely expensive and non-responsive during a major public safety crisis. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

While true, the operator is more likely to kill themself than operators of loosely regulated vehicles that kill over 40,000 Americans per year.

Reminder. thedeets.com/permission-g...

All eyes on New Jersey. Minnesota stands in solidarity. ABOLISH ICE EVERYWHERE

Morris Day's book is worth a read. bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...

#Freedom250... DC's very own Fyre Fest

Chants of “Be like Renee, get in the way!” this evening outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility

NEW: ICE officers just beat and used tear gas on detainees at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, per family members of people inside. This is as the hunger/labor strike at the facility continues for its seventh fay. gothamist.com/news/family-...

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

Guns are a powerful drug.

she isn't an accuser. she won her case in court. he was held liable for sexually assaulting her. she is a survivor of being sexually assaulted by the president of the united states.

It's about . . . Time.

Give Kilmar Abrego Garcia the whole $1.776 billion and we'll call it good.

It is everyone's patriotic duty to make e-bike summer a thing this summer and for every summer that follows.

Talked with the incredible Marisa Kabas pretty much immediately after our charges were dropped about our case, how emotionally and financially traumatizing this process was, and how we need to change the culture in our legal system.

They are high on their own supply and this is not going to end well for them. This is mask-off Klan shit. We are a racist country, but they are acting like the frog is fully boiled. And it just isn't.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

Go fuck yourself @gluesenkampperez.house.gov

🚨 BREAKING: After an armed intruder was arrested at a Minnesota mosque, neighbors and faith leaders came together to send a clear message: hate has no home here.

People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.

Most people will only see the spin around Trump’s $1.8b settlement fund. But once you walk through the timeline, the level of corruption becomes impossible to dismiss. Read this one all the way through. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The person who referred to "bike Nazis" was wearing a "vote climate" button.

Imagine the response if a couple Muslim kids killed 3 people at a church or a synagogue. Imagine the uproar about how broken Muslim culture is. Imagine all the bills white legislators would introduce to strip rights from Muslims. None of that will happen here, of course.

Pizzagate vibes.

A christo fascist MLM mom believes in prediction markets. Makes sense.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

This is torture. Physical for the babies and psychological for the people who love them. Palliative care is the ultimate protection of human dignity - it admits that we aren't all powerful and allows people to die in relative comfort. But they view babies and children as property, not as people 🤷🏻‍♀️