Today we recognize Transgender Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ A day to celebrate the strength, resilience, and contributions of transgender and non-binary individuals everywhere, and acknowledge the very real challenges the community continues to face. At Minnesota Aurora, we believe soccer is for EVERYONE.

Yesterday, the US DOJ filed a lawsuit against Minnesota for including trans athletes in our high school sports. Let me be clear: I will continue to stand up to the Trump administration and do everything in my power to stop them from bullying vulnerable children in Minnesota.

Today’s earworm arrived as I was missing my father, and thinking about my parents’ partnership that began when they met in high school. He was born in Iowa, and he was a Dutchman. “Long ago, I used to be a young man, and dear Margaret remembers that for me.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=RstJ...

St. Paul will open two-day window to apply for emergency rental assistance The city recently allocated additional money to help residents affected by Operation Metro Surge. by Katrina Pross sahanjournal.com/housing/st-p...

There are a lot of cities where you can say the name of the city as a shorthand for the greater metro. And boy howdy is Minneapolis NOT one of them

No Kings #TwinCities

A coalition traveling across Minnesota says child care is as essential as roads and bridges. They argue that investing in accessible, high-quality child care supports families, strengthens the workforce, and boosts the state’s economy.

Today’s sign: both sides now Foxglove Daisy Tulip

While the federal administration continues to push their politics of cruelty, cities like St. Paul are choosing care. ❤️ 🏡 This week, the City Council passed a 60-day pre-eviction notice, giving St. Paulites more stability when it matters most. www.twincities.com/2026/03/25/s...

It’s day 114 of the ICE occupation of MN. Today the St Paul City Council unanimously passed a 60 day pre-eviction notice. Tomorrow the Minneapolis City Council has the opportunity to overturn Frey’s veto of a similar policy proposal. 1/2

The Minnesota Department of Human Services was months late in seeking federal approval to pay each nursing home employee at least $19 an hour, with many workers entitled to more based on their nursing license.

Pretty soon, Trump will declare he’s in talks with the radical left and that we’re very close to a deal.

Operation Metro Surge has compounded the child care crisis minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/23/o...

If this Monday is already overwhelming you (as it is me), may I suggest the balm of listening to the great Tony Kushner talking about one of the great life-affirming children's books, The Pushcart War. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This map is brilliant. What it maps is enraging Why cities are resisting ICE's detention expansion www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g...

Soul refresher: “Puerto Rico está bien cabrón”

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

Travel sketch: red ginger.

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Looking at the date on this YouTube clip and realizing I've been sharing it most years online somewhere for at least 19 years oh no. Probably at least since my first year on the bird app. Good lord. And yet it never gets old.

Does Head Start work? Is that even the right question to ask? A new paper from our own @chloergibbs.bsky.social examines 60 years of data to find the answers. Along the way, she also finds better questions to ask about the program. Read more at: zurl.co/V758M #education, #econsky, #headstart,

Paid leave is a core issue of affordability, security, and dignity, it boosts bottom lines and public health, and is one of the most widely popular issues in the country. Virginia just won it for the Commonwealth. It's time Congress followed suit. #PaidLeaveForAll

Blizzard walk by the river, Shadow Falls, St Paul.

A stunning (yet unsurprising) graph of who gets identified for special versus gifted education in Oregon. Graph reported by @mattbarnum.bsky.social.

Experts warn the pollution may damage lungs and other organs and will be difficult and costly to clean up. Source: Bloomberg

Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias, 1925 #WomensArt

The Portland Avenue Bunny has a whistle! 🥰

A new solar co‑op program launched in north‑central Minnesota to help households and small businesses transition to solar energy more affordably.

Today’s earworm. « Sometimes I get so hungry Think about pie all day Just a little whipped cream Honey, I'm on my way » www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTuF...

Minnesotans deserve restitution from ICE's terror campaign. The ICE surge cost Minneapolis $200 million in just one month. That’s before overtime, charter flights, and detention contracts. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize their own trauma.

I almost forgot to wish all a happy first annual National Loon Day! March 13, 2026, is the 65th anniversary of Minnesota's decision to make the common loon its state bird. Artwork by www.littledipper.store

Watching footage of this makes me openly sob. Disabled folks repeatedly put their bodies on the line in hopes for better. Needless to say, we’re not impressed lately.

And another

Hundreds of Minnesota attorneys volunteered to help challenge immigration detentions in federal court during a surge of arrests, forming a rapid pro bono legal network across the state.

We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.

"the precursor to Doing is Saying" is an admirably precise way of explaining why more Dems need to be Saying, loudly, even if they do not currently have the power to Do

Why does this matter? El Niño adds to climate change, shifting temperature + rainfall patterns around the world. That in turn affects wildfire, flood and drought risk; food, water, and health; and can even double the risk of civil conflict in tropical regions (Source: www.nature.com/articles/nat...)

BREAKING: The suspect in an attack on a Michigan synagogue is dead, AP source says.

Oh you are in for a treat.

Man, ICE is still driving around schools during school drop off times taking pictures of children. Fucking maddening.

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Let's travel to Wisconsin for a truly unique cross-country ski event—and not participate, that'd be too hard.

«  And you may ask yourself, ‘How did I get here?’ »

Trump should be designated a supply chain risk www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

St Paul, it’s our turn. Final vote by our City Council next Weds. Call or write in support of extending eviction notice. Several nonprofit housing groups testified AGAINST last night saying it extends the problem. See below for local study disproving that idea. conservancy.umn.edu/items/547c6f...

Jack Gramlich's excellent thesis finds that at a MINIMUM the notice period did not increase evictions and provided some compelling evidence that it lowered them in the short term which is what the Minneapolis ordiance seeks to do conservancy.umn.edu/items/547c6f...

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

« Make George Orwell fiction again »

In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.