Funny how the degrees that "don't pay off" are linked to fields that are consistently undervalued and therefore underpaid in US culture generally - education, social work, psychology - and most needed to support the development of thinking and mental health among most financially rewaredd positions.

Pinball Lizard @stevesack.bsky.social - another of Minnesota’s gifts to the world.

Yup

With Jesse Helms as Senator “No” - major obstructionist enacting any tactics that would enact his ideological opposition to liberal policies and pretty much any “mainstream” legislation, then 🍊🌮47 is President No with added dashes of cruelty and self aggrandizing necro-capitalism.

Yeah, this.

Yup. This.

Also: What if I told you ICE is right now going after anyone who isn’t a white cis maga citizen with immigrant lineage that is pre-1890 and European (with pre-1700 even better - and if you’re trans or black or brown or indigenous or immigrant, they’ll villainize you first.

A “great honor” to kill people and environments, and to destroy countries and cultures - so says a US president who is the most vile being, the most disgusting enabler of others’ villainy since whites began colonizing the Americas.

Excellent Guardian report on UN panel's report regarding 47's "broad and viscous invective." Many of the hyperlinks are worthy follow on reading.

The whole document - and why project 2025 is scary beyond this decade.

This, too 🤬👇

A little music for the day - about a “gobshite orange tyrant…who’s thick as turf and rump.” Thank you, Sligo Bandits.

“Aliya Rahman, who was forcibly removed from her car by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is removed from the chamber during U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.” I’m not seeing reporting on this - anyone know the details? #STFU #SOTU

The names she has a right to know.

Unhinged - in a self-serving way.

“These people are crazy” - points to Dems not standing for his transphobic gibber. “Democrats are destroying our country.Thankfully we’ve put a stop to that.” #STFU #SOTU

“should be my third term” - #STFU #SOTU

Yup, this is a #STFU #SOTU

And the GOP claps for something that impacts large numbers of families in their base - oh, wait, they’re clapping for their other base - the corporations that pay poverty wages, boost bottom lines, and collect new tax breaks. #SOTU

“We ended DEI in America.” His out loud part. Our out loud part: “And committed to a kakistocracy.” #SOTU

What does the GOP do as Rep Al Green is escorted from the front of the chamber after his sign "Black People Aren't Apes" is torn down? They break into USA USA USA chant as endorsement for/distractor from the expulsion. Shame. #SOTU

Any one else counting number of times “like no one has seen before” he drops? #SOTU

Fetterman up front and shaking 🍊🌮hand 🤦‍♀️ - ewww

💜Amazing show - thankful for the live stream bringing joy and rebellion right into my flat. And a world of gratitude for all the streamers raising donations for neighbors across this state I love to the bones of me.

Yup - oof.

Give light, and the younger generation will lead (to paraphrase Miss Ella Baker).

Day 76 - with trickery via “everyday” disguises is on the increase 🥸

Hey friends - it’s always a good day to read @eddsmitty.bsky.social, and this is a great starting place if you haven’t yet checked out his posts.

I'm putting a cabinet together as I listen today and I swear that the music has kept me engaged in such a happy way that I've not been all actually sweary in the process. So thanks for that @adamthomaswalton.bsky.social 😎 - and for Georgia Ruth interview calling me to pause and just listen.

This piece 🔥💯 Demographic and economic data, direct experience narratives, and unredacted historical analysis.

“Bitch can be a very fine dog. That is not what this woman is.” Yup.

This. (And they’ll also tell you there’s nothing to see in the occupied West Bank.)

Of course 47 donated money to illegal settlements.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Good. A reminder of his many substantial (and substantiated) fraud along de the links to Epstein would be a lovely combination for the world to see.

Yes, definitely yes to all the actions yet being our attention and activity if they’re actually to happen.

👍

Yup. This is home to the Curling Club linked to current Olympians, some who are outspoken about the 🧊occupation. It’s my neighborhood, too, tho I am on the multicultural working class/lower middle class, historically black area of the neighborhood, which has seen regular 🧊activity.

Timely, insightful analysis of ways that "politicians’ use of visuals to eviscerate the truth" have showed up in White House postings these last weeks - and the damages done via this dishonest visual encoding. (Gift article)

Yes, this.

Watching from Minnesota so my #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow best list always starts with #Prince - and dang, seeing #LadyGaga tonight took me to her 2017 show (on my 60th birthday no less) as one of the top 3, which tonight adds #BadBunny to that list 😘

Bingo!

THIS👇

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Yes, Don Lemmon was arrested, and so were 3 Minnesotans, including journalist Georgia Fort, who shared this video while agents were at her house.

Wanna support a friend/former student who will be running for a San Francisco congressional seat as an independent once he raises filing fee funds. David has been a social worker, health care activist, and housing advocate as a renter for 30 years in the district he seeks to represent.

This 🧵in light of Greg B’s moving/being pushed aside.

“This page exists to correct the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) repeated false claims regarding the Minnesota Department of Corrections' (DOC) cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Please see the media fact sheet, press releases, and videos for more information.”

What Eddie says here (and all of what @eddsmitty.bsky.social says on the regular).

What Tim said 😎💙💯