Tell me more about how terrible student loan forgiveness is the problem.

May Day is a holiday in 144 countries www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Delusional creepy great uncle.

Dems should be running on UBI and M4A. The time to go big is now.

Fun stuff in the youth services department at Pearl Bailey Library.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it. Hasn't our state suffered enough? www.savetheboundarywaters.org

Klobuchar pulled hard on Minnesota history while holding the floor, noting she is standing at the desk of Hubert Humphrey, who introduced the bill that was later signed to protect the Boundary Waters.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Can we please stop pretending like Vance ever did anything approximating diplomacy or governance prior to being VP?

The elementary school down the road was renamed from a plantation owning enslaver of kidnapped and imprisoned humans to Katherine Johnson and I'm so grateful. She's one of my favorite people of all time.

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

What an amazing thing to witness. So proud of NASA and the US Navy and everyone that has worked on this mission over many years. Congratulations to the parachute folders and the tile manufacturers. Etc. Etc. You’re amazing. And congratulations to the amazing crew of Artemis II.

Just over here watching the live broadcast for the re-entry of the Artemis II crew. Told my husband that I will likely cry no matter what. As a Gen-Xer, I already have some space feels. It will all be better when the capsule has splashed down and the astronauts are safe.

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

This.

Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

The Evergreen Project is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5.

Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors? Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.

Henrietta Lacks was a Black woman whose (ovarian) cancer cells were used wo her/her family’s consent. Her cells are what would become the HeLa cell, the first immortalized human cell line & one of the most important in medical research. #BackHistoryMonth

I can say with certainty that I've never read a Supreme Court opinion as thoroughly as this one. FDT and his chaos machine.

SCOTUS, in a 6-3 vote, rules against President Trump’s global tariffs. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Ah yes. The rancid stench of fetid and moldy locker room oversprayed with budget air freshener.

When I'm feeling a little down or lonely, a thought pops into my head. A reminder. I am not just me. Not only am part of a legacy and lineage of ancestors and cousins and descendants, I am a constituency of bacteria and other organisms; of specialized cells and entire ecosystems. 1/

For real. Just stop it.

UBI isn't shot down because it doesn't make economic sense, it's shot down because it empowers workers. You don't have to hate your job under UBI because you can afford to leave. Employers will be compelled to respect your rights because they can't count on your desperation any longer.

This gig as a youth librarian is giving me the opportunity to bring all my various side quests into a meaningful tool box of discovery and play. In process garment for one of the baby dolls in the youth department’s imagination zone.

Last minute overly complicated Valentine’s Day project.

They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Our Members of Congress can rein in ICE with the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill. Tell your senators that you demand ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... And contact your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous... #ICEOutForGood

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

If you are a Dem that cannot commit to abolishing the goddamn American Gestapo, you are not on the side of the people, you are on the side of the billionaire pedophile sex trafficking ring currently rounding up our neighbors. Resign.

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

"The swift degradation of CBS's reputation under Weiss’ leadership is just one more proof point that the American media is being commandeered by an aggressive and coordinated conservative movement that is moving as quickly as possible to usurp control and rewrite history in deference to Trump."

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

Senate primary list 😡

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Not seeing any ICE goons at a rugby game at Soldier Field where there are sure to be white undocumented Irish people. 🤔

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I'm looking forward to that time when I can remove "transition period" from my description of life. This past week has been the final wind down of my time as a contractor and significant contributor in my open-source community of practice, a hella lotta teaching responsibilities... 1/

Sometimes, your performance improvement plan gets lit. It will be interesting for him to "not see" the point and "not see" himself as a major leader of problems.

This is "he spelled potato wrong" level shit.

If RFK Jr. and the HHS don't get sued by Johnson and Johnson, I'll begin to question the moral arc of the universe. I am preemptively filled with gratitude to the generations upon generations who will invoke RFK Jr.'s name with loathing and disdain until he is forgotten outright.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Just throwing this unoriginal but very important idea out there - ICE needs to be completely disbanded. Not defunded (well, yes - that too). It needs to be obliterated. Those who chose to take jobs with that agency need to answer for that for the rest of their careers. They are fascist enforcers.

This appears to be a great resource for mutual aid. www.mutualaidhub.org?utm_source=c...