once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

Look this is dumb but it's also telling you someone, somewhere really wants to defund libraries. So... call your reps and tell them you support them, ok?

If you're a dude and you think you have a clever joke to offer about a woman's rape: no you do not

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

She is perfect. 🩷 Wishing Minne cuddles paid the bills…

Shoutout to everyone fighting a panic attack and still trying to do good and kind things in this world! 💛

There were more people in the room at my dad’s cancer treatment consultation today than there were at the GAS Fair.

AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

“Gonyea was working as a poll worker Tuesday afternoon at the Central Library on Salina Street when agents called to meet with her … She said she did not want to meet them outside alone. ‘I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota,’ she said. ‘And I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all.’”

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

May we be like common milkweed / Asclepias syriaca: - Grow and thrive wherever you find yourself. - Stay strong and upright in your way, no matter what’s happening around you. - Be a good neighbor and take care of others. - Spread your good work everywhere.

The 15 pillars bolstering White Supremacy Culture:

Beginning in 1934, the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, never denied the existence of concentration camps, instead he defended them as necessary to defend the blood and honor of the German people from murderers, rapists, pedophiles and drug dealers.

Public service is sometimes feeling like being a old, beaten-up catcher’s mitt for complaints about things for which you have no authority but somehow, to the person before you, you bear all the responsibility. Sigh. Be kind, friends; people are trying their best even if their best is insufficient.

Alarmed by the dame’s rockets all over our region. I am hypervigilant about that shit getting near my yard. MN native Phlox pilosa only! Petals of 4, show it the door. Petals of 5, keep it alive.

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

Strongly considering wearing a handmade sign reading “NOT A MOTHER” today. Just because I am a middle-aged fem*-presenting woman does not mean I am someone’s mom. Unless you’re giving me free stuff like dessert, in which case, yes, I am Mom to my three cats which is close enough…

Remember this, though: Amazon has calculated that poisoning water & making restitution payouts for sickness & even death is CHEAPER than whatever they plan to make on the Data Center. They’re STILL gambling with human lives with impunity.

Good morning from Minne (and me, too)!

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Pahl’s Market has a half-price pansies sale this weekend. 💛 I have no regrets.

This is 100% what my Friday needs. 🥹 Volume up if you love kitten squeaks!

You don’t have to read a script. Just saying “vote no on the Boundary Waters bill” is plenty. Elaborate if you feel like it but they’re just counting yeses and nos.

Since they’re abusing the Congressional Review Act to get around the filibuster, I am reserving some of my time so I can make closing remarks in the morning before the final vote. Maybe they’ll listen to reason after a night’s sleep. Stay tuned. Save the Boundary Waters.

Huh… You’d think that fancypants St. Thomas Academy private education would have taught him the actual meaning of those words the way my Minnesota public school education did.

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

She is the most precious being in my whole universe.

“The Pope is weak on crime” is the kind of thing I expect to hear at the public library from someone who has been failed by the U.S.’s grossly insufficient social safety net.

Not if you’re sober, sane, or smart… Good luck finding someone in this administration who can check a whole two of those three boxes.

I struggled with leaving the house and the cats today. I can only imagine how much others are also struggling today. If you find yourself in my library, please know I am trying my best to be kind, gentle, and present with you while I just want to be home with my dearest ones tonight.

Shoutout to everyone trying to regulate their parasympathetic nervous system today but — holy moly, friends — touching grass and somatic breathing techniques aren’t meant to be substitutes for goddamn institutional checks and balances.

Apparently too many of my fellow white people never read or never had read to them “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” and now we’re all in hell.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

After everything, I really needed this album. It’s a gem. Thanks, my favorite Bruce 💙💜🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwD7...

Matthew 6:5, mostly: ‘And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray… to be seen by others.’ Also, Luke 18:9-14. All of it. These people do not know Jesus.

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Get ready for MRI's to start getting restricted to emergency care only. Helium is what makes MRIs run. With Iran war there will be a shrinking supply. Perhaps this is a GREAT time to talk about banning balloon releases everywhere. At least in #Minnesota it should be done, protect lakes & rivers.

Signs of spring in MN: the neighborhood Cooper’s hawk was collecting sticks in our backyard yesterday, and I absolutely lost my shit with delight over their long legs, because my assigned middle-aged lady activities are birdwatching and not minding my own business — in exactly that order.

As a longtime reader/appreciator of both Ashley Ray and Lindy West, I found this piece to be the most thoughtful, most honest — and therefore most kind — take on West’s new memoir. Lots to consider, thanks to Ray’s ever astute attention, experiential wisdom, and graceful assessment.

So many people and beings hurting right now. It feels difficult to get up and continue trying to do good in this world, but there is no other choice — you deserve a better, kinder world. We all do. I’m going to keep trying; please do, too. Love from one of your internet aunties x

I was 17 when the Iraq war started. I was livid watching my peers shipped off to fight a war for rich people. Almost 7,000 service members died. I’m now 39 and here’s a new war for rich people. But it’s a brand new rage being told our troops dying is just “the way it is”. War is a choice.

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

They are trying to revoke this ban with HJR 140, please call your senators now because it will impact all public lands! Call every senator now. Vote no on HJR 140!