Aurora borealis over Maplewood, Minnesota, tonight.

Blue and gold.

Also November.

November.

Happy Halloween!

Boo.

May 1 Worker-Immigrant Rights Rally, Minnesota State Capitol. #Mayday2025 #50501MN

Front and back if my sign for tomorrow's May Day worker-immigrant rights rally at the Minnesota State Capitol and a place near you. Be there or be square #maddowblog #indivisibletwincities #mn50501

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

Observed the 250th anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War and Earth Day today at the state Capitol with thousands of Minnesota patriots. #50501movement #50501minnesota #mn50501

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that. Oops! Day one funding freeze Oops! Ebola Oops! Nuclear security workers Oops! Bird flu Oops! PEPFAR Oops! HHS firings And on and on and on... Now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

More power to the little old lady protesters. #rachelmaddowblog

More power to the little old lady protesters. #rachelmaddowblog

I know everything seems really bad right now, but here is a dog trying to be an Easter lamb cake

Wow. he hits the ground running in a very different direction. 🔥 Watching now with my kids.

I know everything seems really bad right now, but here is a dog trying to be an Easter lamb cake

Absolutely brutal, and 100% accurate, from @djrothkopf.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/the-supreme-...

Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

Yay! It’s almost Friday! Trump’s stock market can tank for one more day and then we have two days off.

A win for truth and history: A National Park Service page(removed by Musk) on the Underground Railroad has been restored to prominently feature Harriet Tubman, after her image and quote were removed earlier this year. Now, her legacy as a fearless champion for freedom has rightfully been restored. ✊

To sum up: An estimated 5 million people protested in 50 states but the stories were deliberately relegated to the back of most major newspapers.

Big Journalism (esp. @nytimes.com) failed to adequately & accurately cover the #handsoff pro-democracy demonstrations. Local outlets did *much* better. Newsroom leaders need to defend democracy from autocracy. Read our latest blog post. 1/n mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/local-news...

Thousands defending democracy at today's #HandsOff protest at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Sometimes it snows in April in Minnesota.

Mini just had her teeth cleaned and three extractions. Here she is resting comfortably on Maxi, who also is resting comfortably. #dogsofbluesky #blueskydogs

Has democracy died at WP? #washingtonpost

Repeating, for no reason whatsoever.

Maxi got a haircut today, and she's cuter than usual. Mini gets a haircut Thursday, and she's cute, as usual.

Retired service band members united to play in concert with young musicians after their show was canceled due to President Trump’s executive order ending DEI programs. https://cbsn.ws/4iaHcKm

Still more from today's protest at the Minnesota Capitol. #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #Minnesota

More from today's 50501 protest at the Minnesota Capitol. #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #Minnesota

Today's 50501 protest at the Minnesota State Capitol. #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #Minnesota

March 4 protest Minnesota Capitol right now. #march4protest #50501

#slavaukraini #standwithukraine

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

Just watched the whole clip of of Zelenskyy and Trump. I.Am.So.Embarrassed to be an American. I can't BELIEVE a President treated a President of a different country like this. I guess the US is now the Axis of Evil. I want outta here.

Someone please tell me again about the “Russia hoax”

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

They embarrassed the USA.

Where are the voices of reason in the Republican Party, willing to put country first? Such profiles in cowardice!

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

Respect to President Zelens’kyi for going on Fox and saying sensible things at a time when that is rare.

What happened in the Oval Office on Friday — the obviously planned ambush of Zelensky by Trump and Vance — was something that had never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country! Our president sided with the aggressor, the dictator and the invader of Ukraine! PUTIN FIRST USA LAST

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

HOW YOU CAN HELP: ✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs ✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful ✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change

1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world. If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Happy National Love Your Pet Day. We are celebrating with treats and a walk. #dogsofbluesky

How we entertain ourselves inside during Minnesota cold waves. #dogsofbluesky