A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

I was able to take the “Partners in Policymaking” training in Austin, TX over eight months in the early 90s. Fantastic program—which was developed in Minnesota.❤️

“It's been said that there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” —Mark Twain, attributing the phrase to former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who may have never said it.😌

When I was waking from a nap earlier, I could feel just a little touch of some bug trying to start a throat/respiratory infection. In response, I have had Echinacea, Goldenseal, fresh Honey Lemon Ginger tea, and I made a batch of stew with Jalapeños, Adzuki beans, rice, carrots & broccoli. SO good!

Happy Moon in ♍️!

A major CME hitting Earth really is inevitable. Like it or not, we are all basically in a Solar System-wide game of Russian Roullette. The magnetic poles of Earth are weakening, so if it happens sooner than later, it might actually be less catastrophic.

“Will Stancil, a local attorney w/ a large internet presence who has been driving around to track ICE for weeks, said this moment feels markedly different than 2020 because it’s not the state’s or city’s own institutions failing them.” Such an excellent piece.🌟⤵️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yes.

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

Joaquin Castro is my US House Representative.❤️ Sending Liam, Adrian and Joaquin so much love.💗🐶💗 If you live in a US State, you can get a list of the elected officials in your area here… nn4youth.org/legislator-l...

Congratulations to my friend and our newest State Senator from Tarrant County, Taylor Rehmet! I met Taylor years ago through labor organizing. Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.

For those who dismiss last night's special election results in Texas as "just a state Senate district," actually...as @ECaliberSeven points out, "TX SD9 contains nearly a million people - larger than a congressional district!" bluevirginia.us/2026/02/its-...

Just off of the big Texas result—but there's a lot happening next week, including a *Dem-held* legislative seat in quite *red* territory in Louisiana.

A 5-yrr-old boy and his father who were detained by ICE and taken to a concentration camp in Texas have returned to Minneapolis after a federal judge ordered their release. Rep Joaquín Castro (D-TX) shared images of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father leaving the ICE camp early Sunday morning.

Polls show that the percent of adults in the USA drinking alcohol in 2022 was at 67%, right after Jupiter joined Neptune in ♓️ on Dec 28, 2021.🍹 After 2022, the rate dropped significantly, all the way down to 54% in 2025. Saturn joined Neptune in ♓️ on March 7, 2023. news.gallup.com/poll/693362/...

What they want to “give” them is a sewing machine, so they can make them work to get their $50 monthly ration of food stamps, while their labor enriches a state- authorized Drumpf enterprise. Nope.🚫

Holy. Shit. Not even close! Lots of pants-shitting by Texas Republicans now.😈

Ride starting now. About 1500.

✨THE NEPTUNE IN PISCES SURVEY IS LIVE!✨ Like the Pluto in Capricorn Survey, I have drafted one for the ONCE IN A LIFETIME casual fifteen year experience with the Piscean Neptune!! You can participate here!: forms.gle/4S7QT7rAkK4u... Please boost and share! The survey will be active until 02/20💓

This series is delightful.🎹🎼 They only hear the vocals and drums, and have to imagine what the bass, melodies, chords, etc. are like. He works on it, then plays his version, then hears the original track. Remarkable, and very entertaining stuff. Lovely young man, too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmS3...

This TX Senate district is far from my home, so I have no direct experience with this race. But many eyes are on it—a Rehmet win would surely make the TX Republican party shit their pants. A close race would still scare them.😈 We’ll know results in a few hours. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Recently subscribed to BenOfTheWeek on YouTube. He has 9M subs?👀 His latest video is investigating Looksmaxxing. As usual, it is fantastic. He eviscerates things that need eviscerating, in the most entertaining way. My Venus conj Mars enjoys it. “Let’s all lovemaxx & kindnessmaxx, how about that?”

Saturn in ♓️ is now square my secondary progressed True Lunar North Node at 28♊️11, 6H-WSH. It was exact on Monday. I get the distinct feeling that if I were not regularly taking in ginger right now, I would be sick. I do feel a bit sore & stiff from this humid, cold weather—but not sick, thankfully.

“To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.”~Leonard Cohen, Interview Magazine, 1995

Just last weekend I watched “I Like Me,” the documentary on John Candy. Catherine O’Hara gave the sweetest eulogy for him. Now they can once again laugh together— perhaps while they watch The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crowening, starring Dr. Clara Beatrice Mandrake.😂 We love you forever, Catherine.❤️

I usually really enjoy riding my bike at night.🚲🌟 Last night was a good example of how biorhythms work. A physical and intellectual high reflected my energy level & productivity, and my “in my head” state of being. But the emotional low reflected a much lower than usual level of joy in night rides.

The “River Return” portal to the San Antonio Riverwalk at Concepción Park is just a half mile NE of my little, old house, and a half mile west of Mission Concepción. Some night views…

#Fishmans will heal you🐠 “You, my lovely baby, my crazy baby Throw a kiss into the gap of the night Even in gloomy times, baby, you're crazy, baby Ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha When I was sad You would always make me laugh When I was sad Your face would always come to my mind” m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ya...

I take a lot of supplements. Kava, Stinging Nettle, Saw Palmetto, Garlic, Inositol, Magnesium Malate, Lithium Orotate, Glucosamine Chondroitin. I added Ginger recently, and I also make batches of honey-ginger-lemon green tea, which I have with my lunch every day. I feel like the Ginger is magical.✨

Got sent one of those videos of someone who says they’re not registered, but swear they were registered. Not saying it does not happen. But videos like that can actually discourage voting—unless they include a way to check. But you get more views if you exploit fear.😒 turbovote.org/check-your-r...

I think this one will be big.🚫👑 THE day of the Saturn♈️-Pluto♒️ sextile, Sun sextile USA-DOI Uranus, AND Pallas-Mars conjoined in ♓️. Also, Jupiter is still in the degree where it was Station (Direct) March 10, AND the degree where the USA-DOI 2ndary progr Jupiter also recently was Station (Direct).👀

This is delightful.🫨 m.youtube.com/shorts/vMs6l...

Yessss. Shortly after I moved to San Antonio in 2017, I turned on the local college student radio station, and the first song I heard was an Aztec Camera song that I had not heard in a very, very long time. One of many things that happened which helped me to know I was in the right place. ksym.org

When #JHope was in San Antonio, he came out at one point in an outfit that people who clean horse stables wear—NOT a cowboy hat & boots, jeans and a snap button shirt. J-Hope was connecting to the people who take care of horses—not the people who own & ride them. And the crowd loved him for that.💜

In very basic terms, the second house is about what we value, and the eighth house is about all the ways our values interact with the values of others. Kind of like “the marketplace of life”. A big question posed by this house polarity: “Will you stand by your values in your exchanges with others?”

Just a PSA for people, FreeTaxUSA is an excellent tool for filing taxes. Do not, I repeat, do not give your money to TurboTax. They lobby congress to keep tax filings difficult and inflate their prices to make it more expensive. FreeTaxUSA.com is about as good as it gets today.

Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.

Just paid my property taxes. My home and my lot on the south side of San Antonio are both VERY small, so my yearly property tax bill is an amount that many people pay monthly in their MITI for large suburban homes. Even still, it’ll be a somewhat tight couple of weeks until I get my next paycheck.😬

With Mercury EXACT opp my natal 8H Mercury in ♌️, I just got water at a “Primo” 💧station—as the Water Mill across the street is broken. I‘ve also biked 1.8 miles more to another Water Mill—as it is .35/gal, but .50/gal! at Primo. NOW Primo wants .60/gal! 🚫FUCK THAT—looks like more biking for me.💦🚲😎

🌟EXCELLENT blog entry.⤵️

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

Bovino sounds to me like🍷 a box wine brand for cows.🐮

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Ilhan was about to knock his ass out

Gemini is the sign that reminds us that we are all siblings, and that each of us has a unique role to play in this great, unfolding story, and that each of us has a personal story, which we are invited to view from multiple perspectives.🤓 This post brought to you by Moon in ♊️ trine Mars-Pluto in ♒️.

I’ve never been, and I will never be on spotify. Fuck em.

“Thiel was Donald Trump’s first high-profile supporter in Silicon Valley, has donated to his campaigns and has financially supported Vice-President JD Vance over the years. Palantir’s software has been used by ICE, the US’s federal immigrations enforcement agency, for years…”

Drumpf’s 2ndary progr Saturn is at 03♌️44. He *needs* spotlights, public adoration, & gold all around him.✨ Today, Mars (conj Pluto) is opp this 2P Saturn— Pluto exact opp Feb 2. Drumpf’s heart skipped and public outrage peaked when his SS killed a white man— This was his own Saturn’s “red line”.🚫😒

If the humidity is low enough, which it usually is here in SA, I will still often bike home from work on 100F degree days. I just go slow and drink lots of water. There is some stress on the body, but after these last few days, I can definitively say that the freezing weather is much more stressful.