Emily

Omg!!!! He’s so cute!

So combined more than one-quarter of MN's federal #Medicaid funding is in the process of being blocked. While MN has legal recourse through a complex admin appeals process (and eventually through the courts), that will take a lot of time. (4/x)

“If you just did what I told you to do, then I wouldn’t get angry and have to hit you” - Feds to MN

idk if people not in MN realize it but we’ve been through such tremendous trauma in the past few months. Melissa Hortman was murdered only 8 months ago. Think of all we’ve endured since then, locally AND nationally!

Federal program cuts, murder of public officials, a federal occupation, thousands

We live in a metropolitan area of the United States. People who are going about their lives like other Americans are being taken away for no reason and trauma is being inflicted at schools, hospitals, neighborhoods. It’s appalling that complaints are made about their dining options being affected.

Okay. Between this and the attack on @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, wtf is with Dem members of congress getting attacked this week?

Another reminder that the largest cuts in Medicaid’s history were made by this Congress in part to fund a tripling of ICE/DHS budget.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

My two interests - sad cold wet Nazis and Broadway music.

CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota On January 6, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, sent a letter to the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, notifying him that his state’s Medicaid agenc...

My colleague (and expert on Medicaid law) Andy Schneider’s new blog explores the approach and fact checks the Trump Administration’s threat to withhold a significant chunk of Minnesota’s Medicaid funding.

ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/16/c...

The surge of DHS agents into Minnesota has done tremendous harm to the people of Minnesota, and I urge those who have personally experienced or directly witnessed that harm to share their stories with my office.

To submit a report, visit: ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Action/

For me, this became evident last night during Walz’s speech.

It seems pretty clear Trump intends to bomb someone soon. I just can’t tell if it will be Iran, Greenland, or Minneapolis.

Yes

You can honor the advocacy of moms without being condescending. The thing is, our work is often snubbed by the media and men in the movement.

We need an economic shutdown for the 9-5 PTO office workers until we are no longer occupied.

Thread: The Trump Admin tried to inappropriately withhold federal funds to 5 states with Democratic governors (including Minnesota) under block grants like TANF. While that was temporarily stopped through litigation, the Trump Admin is now threatening to withhold #Medicaid funding from MN (1/x)

The Republican solution to “fraud” is to get people killed.

There should be more attention on how republicans are making children, families, and people with disabilities suffer. Even during the federal shutdown, they went to the Supreme Court to make sure they could starve children.

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

Over 1.1 million Minnesotans depend on Medicaid for their health care access, 43% of whom are children. What’s more, 34% of births in MN are covered by Medicaid. files.kff.org/attachment/f...
This is people’s lives. This is not a game, & anyone who views it as such should stay the hell away from CMS

Minnesota will lose its limited bench of true health care expertise in the Senate with the departure of Wiklund and Mann at a time when our state needs it most.

It’s not sexy but we absolutely need to recruit and retain more technocrats in government.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

he believes that if they die they were meant to die and that those that live are the fittest

Dr. Malone thanks Blaxill and Niven for their balance, integrity, rigor and work ethics.

Done with working group. Acknowledges there is no hepatitis B working group, it's in childhood/adolescence schedule workgroup. Members still not listed.

Anti-vaccine activists spark a state’s worst measles outbreak in decades In Minnesota, the Somali American community has been hit hard, with a fourth of the young patients hospitalized.

Hepatitis B safety by Mark Blaxill, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, which, as @bylenasun reported, worked to mislead people in Minnesota during the measles outbreak: www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...

Trump pardons nursing home owner and supporter convicted of $7M tax evasion A former Florida nursing home owner who last month received an 18-month prison sentence for tax evasion has been pardoned by Donald Trump, weeks after his mother attended a big-bucks fundraiser held by the president

Great time for convicted fraudster nursing home owners who pay off POTUS tho.
#priorities
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