Kieran

Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.

I think about this so frequently. Even before the mass deportations/ethnic cleansing, we were headed straight for disaster.

Just thinking about how we don’t have money to keep the public hospital open but there’s an unlimited budget for police overtime

It's obviously bad for so many other reasons, but I can't get over how truly terrible the speech writing for Hegseth is. Just absolutely middle school level writing.

a cartoon character sits on a bus with an emergency exit sign behind him Alt: a Simpsons character sits on a bus, he says (with captions over his body) "haha, I'm in danger" while staring straight ahead and smiling

Me, about to leave for my shift:

And sure, critiques about Corporate Pride and all that. But it sure was nice to see a mainstream national store put in an actual effort to get LGBTQ+ shoppers in their store

Queer folks gave up on Target even before the anti-DEI backlash. They turned their back on the queer community and went from having a great, thoughtful mainstream selection of Pride Month products to generic, sad, and tiny Pride sections.

I don't remember how my parents explained it to me. No classmates to talk to. I was too young probably to sit through the church sermon the following Sunday. Yeah. A strange experience for such a pivotal historical/cultural moment.

Sometimes I think about the very strange experience of being a homeschooled elementary school aged child in a household that didn't have TV at the time, nor subscribe to the daily newspaper. My parents went to a friend's to watch the news and I was brought with, but that's my only real 9/11 memory

The most important hospital in Minnesota isn’t Mayo, it’s HCMC. Oppressed people statewide end up as economic refugees in Minneapolis, where HCMC is the hospital of last resort. If you’ve seen “The Pitt,” HCMC is our version of that. Their people care about you when nobody else will

The Mutual Aid Art Fair at the Ivy Building is absolutely packed!

Literacy was a mistake

Can’t believe we are still doing this

“and me? i never even opened my eyes!”

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

I had a pregnant client who was experiencing abdominal cramping for three days and was deprived of medical care. When we interceded, she was punished.

A first grader snatched two days after surgery denied wound care.

A client who developed a large painful cyst but was ignored.

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I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them.

A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.

3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.

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Very important thread 🧵

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The background is blue, with a thick wavy white line about 2/3 down from the top. Below the line is green. A loon is positioned on the white wavy line (as if on a wave in the water) facing right. A red laser beam shoots out of its eye. The text underneath the image reads: "F15, Minnesota State Emblems Redesign Commission"

The laser loon came about in 2023 when someone submitted this as a design in the competition for our new state flag! Unfortunately it didn't win, but we did get a limited edition St Paul Library card featuring the laser loon. It's become a very popular motif/meme around MN.

Property > people, with actual dollar amounts. Getting retribution for the on-camera embarrassment of DHS/ICE is worth more than a woman's life.

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

They were literally stealing people at their construction worksites/off of new construction. Who could have foreseen this... /s

This photo should win a Pulitzer prize.

Correction: it is one snow sculpture, but made in tandem by the two aforementioned teams

Ah I see. My mistake, it looks like it was a snow sculpture made in tandem with the two disqualified teams per their Facebook.

I believe the first image depicts a snow sculpture re-made by @smokiwuff.bsky.social/their team. They were disqualified/their sculpture defaced at the St Paul Winter Carnival for being "political." The 2nd image is by Team USA from the World Competition in Stillwater.