Peeking in at #elcacwa25 👀

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

NEW from me - Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

This Tim Walz quote from The New Yorker pairs well:

Really worth watching this. Rep. Bill Keating is clearly feeling a little out of his depth here—not quite sure what to say, not quite sure how to react—but he sees work that needs doing, sees a stand that needs taking, and so he just does it. He just does it. Right on.

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

My 2.5yo can now start the washer (once I've loaded the soap), load and start the dryer, fill and start the coffee maker, and preheat the oven to 350. He thinks it's all the best.

Take the Black Lutheran History Month Quiz www.livinglutheran.org/black-histor...

There it is: a six-word thesis of democracy. But if you have time for two more, allow me to suggest these for a punchy conclusion that sounds great when it's shouted by a crowd: NO EXCEPTIONS.

Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US: * 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized * 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia * 1 to 3 in 1000 die If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time

Today's small and miraculous favor is that the dryer is not in fact broken but was on Air Dry instead of Heat Dry and all the clothes are drying properly without major appliance service needed.

“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.” www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

make me ready, Lord, for whatever

12 straight hours of norovirus. No thank you. Had to cancel a trip up north to speak at a church and I'm bummed. But being able to hear, whenever I was deliriously awake, my wife keeping our kids so safe and happy: amazing. I'm so lucky.

Literally what do they think happened at Stonewall

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Who what when where why not be our Valentine? Send these to someone you’re headline over heels for. 💌

This is murder.

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

Just heard a Minnesota anti-hunger group that supplies food shelves with fresh, nutritious food from Minnesota farmers still can’t access federal funding. They’ve had to pause some of their work. It’s causing a lot of uncertainty for families trying to figure out how to put food on the table.

"Trump may want to normalize the idea of there only being two genders, and he may even be successful in establishing a law that affirms that idea, but that doesn’t mean Christ’s body has to agree."

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

If they were doing this to a single bank they would be immediately arrested but the Treasury of the entire United States doesn’t even have a guard at the door?

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

3/ Aid groups and government officials say they’ve never faced a catastrophe this sudden and extensive. Here's a stark example from a group of malnutrition clinics in Sudan.

I feel guilty for saying this but I had a really nice day today.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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gm MPLS & folks in surrounding areas — MN (and specifically hennepin co) have hit the red zone for case rates of illness & hospitalization for the virus orgy of noro, flu A, RSV & covid. tomorrow, the health system where i work is putting mandatory employee masking in place again.

🎶✨🎶 THE PO TEN TATE OF TIME 🎶✨🎶

Minnesota Public Radio has a Christmas* classical stream so I am about to become even more insufferable than when I discovered Dominic the Donkey

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

mental health break? you bet it did