MAGAt in-laws get their knickers in a twist when my family wear masks. (I’ve got a medically complex kid & it’s respiratory season.) But when ICE agents wear masks to terrorize, beat, and kill people they’re all: “Well, they have to wear masks for their protection.” 🙄 🤦🏼‍♀️

This is a new one for me. Gonna give it a try. “But his emails!” “Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!” That’s how it goes, right?

Minnesotan here. This feels a lot like George Floyd. My heart is broken for Renee Good and her family. And my rage for the current administration is infinite.

I still can’t believe Tim Walz is leaving us. He’s a good man. I hope we find someone worthy to take his place. (But not Amy Klobuchar! We need her in the Senate!!)

Change doesn’t happen overnight, but tonight, we saw the tide turn. Let’s keep pushing for the future we believe in.

Teacher to my kid’s class as she was coughing: I’m not feeling well. I hope I don’t give this to all of you! Y’all. The teacher was not wearing a mask. I’m sure her “hope” will do the trick though. 🙄

Covid outbreak at local nursing home. 3 residents at first, now 6. One person has moved to hospice care. Staff are wearing, you guessed it . . . baggy blues. Ridiculous. I would be beyond pissed if my loved one lived there. It has to be willful negligence or something at this point, right?!

Called 5 places to try to find a child COVID vaccine in rural MN where supposedly there are no limitations as to who can get one. Finally found a grocery store pharmacy 50 minutes away that’s willing to order some for next week. I have high risk kid who should’ve had it already. Ridiculous.

Well, it’s not like we didn’t already know his escalator doesn’t make it all the way to the top . . .

Just had to lie to get my teen a COVID vaccine. I can’t believe this is where we’re at. Sure. She has a mood disorder. Whatever.

ACIP anti-vaxxer member is upset that the ACIP committee was called anti-vax. 😆 Losers.

So far the ACIP public comments are 🔥. Lots of highly-credentialed, well-spoken people (so far) have advocated for continued availability of vaccines. Nice job to the 75 year old woman who told it like it is, too!

Milhoan is now indicating that since COVID19 vaccines don’t always prevent infection, it’s not effective. The COVID19 vaccine prevents hospitalization and death very effectively. One might argue that this is an important fact.

I’m yelling at my screen during the ACIP meeting. It seems, beyond all rational reasoning, that I might just know more about COVID vaccines than they do at this point — and I’m a social worker.

Well f%#k ABC and Disney. They can go to hell right along with CBS. First Colbert and now Kimmel. 🤬

Week 3 of school & 2 of 4 kids are sick. Covid negative so far for both, and neg strep for one. This sucks. We do everything we can & still end up with sick kids — and that means extra precautions around my high risk kiddo. It’s been a bumpy start to the year even outside of this. I’m tired.

Ope! Hello der, @governorwalz.mn.gov! Mightcha just scootch on over der lickety split and join with dem der states listed? It would be da bees knees fer sure if we could, ya know, not get sick and die, don’tcha know? Okie dokie. Catch ya later.

SIL has no problem with a plane full of kids being thisclose to being dropped off in Guatemala — kids that were supposed to be protected. Also SIL: “Come with me on a church mission trip to Guatemala to help poor children!” She doesn’t make any connections. Ever. Never ever. None of them do.

Holy hell, more like this:

Why must you get my hopes up? You can’t just be out there speculating that he’s dead/dying unless you KNOW. It’s like dropping hints to a kid all week that they’re going to Disney World & then being like: “Nah. We were just thinking about it. We’re going to the Walmart for groceries instead.”

I remember fighting for vaccines for under 5-year-olds, emailing, calling, and then searching for someplace to find one, etc. And now, years later, here we f-ing are again except it’s even worse — even many adults can’t get them now. I’m tired.

Actual conversation from this weekend. Me: I just really don’t like my town. Person: Is it the Mexicans? Me: What? No! Person: The Somalians? Me: Are you serious? Person: *waits for response* Me: It’s racist MAGA’s I have a problem with. Town is full of them. Person: *abruptly changes subject*

This makes me happy. More of this, please! Dental exams are stressful when you’ve got vulnerable people in your household/are vulnerable yourself/just plain don’t want to get sick from random people breathing directly in your face.

Back to school comes with an astronomical level of stress when you are parent to a medically complex kid. There’s so much illness & nobody wears a mask when actively ill and unable to stay home. So my kid (& siblings to protect her) wears one all the time at school. And that super sucks.

There is no reason to be friends with or put effort into MAGAs. Some people are for me & my family. Some aren’t. It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that. Blood isn’t thicker than politics. Or a family culture that promotes racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia & excessive drinking.

Parenting a child w/ a disability comes with its share of amazing, wonderful things. Big picture: positives far outweigh negatives. Today, however, it comes with significant extra stress and what feels like the beginning of caregiver burnout. It’s frowned upon to say the 2nd part out loud though.

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

What the hell @cnn.com? Why are you posting this garbage?

When criticizing Trump, let’s make sure to pointedly include the entire Republican Party. It’s not just Trump that’s evil. It’s the entirety of the R’s that are spineless and refuse to stand up to him that are just as much of a problem. Their complicity and underhandedness is sickening.

So MAGA’s think Walz should have run some kind of dictator-like loyalty test on each person related in any small way to the state government upon being elected? That tracks. Also, even if the “he appointed him” thing had any teeth (it doesn’t) — how many criminals has Trump appointed now?

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the suspect accused of killing a Minnesota state representative and attempting to kill another, is in custody, according to the Associated Press

My heart is heavy today. And my heart is light today. I’m discouraged. And I’m hopeful. This feels like a point of no return. I’m not sure which way it’s going to go.

Higher intelligence correlates with left-wing liberal beliefs. No kidding.

Trump has now elected liberals in Canada, Australia, and the Vatican

I thought it was satire. Nope.

The truth is, we never, in any systematic way, made classrooms safe, like ensuring upgraded ventilation and air purification in schools. And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus. But we don’t talk about THAT.

I believe it. I have a kid with Flu B right now. 4 kids in his class of 20 had Flu B last week and 6 the week before had either flu B or strep. Both are spreading like wildfire around the building. About half of current flu cases also have strep throat with it per the school nurse. 😩 😷

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

“No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession – if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning.” Anne Applebaum

I don’t like to use the word “stupid” — but also, this is exactly what happens.

Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.

Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."

Trump: We can’t import antibiotics because it threatens national security. Trump Administration: We will eliminate our entire federal public health research and disease monitoring infrastructure and destroy the FDA. The stupidity is maddening.

What an idiot.

Parent of a school aged child tested positive for COVID on Saturday (per his relative, a friend of mine). The parent was in the crowded hallway, visiting with a teacher & other students at drop off. No mask. Right across the hall from my immune compromised kid. Sometimes I hate everything.

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

My guess: Trump will say IDEA is a woke, radical leftist law enforced by Obama-appointed judges who are biased. He’ll say it isn’t fair and harms non-disabled students who don’t get special treatment. He’ll also call it DEI (which, I mean, it is) so that his supporters will automatically hate it.