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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Everyone should pay more attention to this story.

When past is present: Ansel Adams, "People walking, Manzanar Relocation Center," 1943. From my perambulations around the website of the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

Welcome to middle age. The cicadas just live in your ears now

This is not even that difficult of a decision. You know as well as I, there is no metric where Jacob Frey measures up to leader, let alone exceptional. We deserve good things. Don’t sell yourself short accepting anything less.

Wow.

This is another one of those things that illuminates just how in the fucking tank so much of the mainstream media is, how jingoistic and servile. Slobbering over any president like this would be a bad idea, but to do it for Trump is malfeasance on a civilizational level.

Gross. Full story here 👇 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?" Slim (Lauren Bacall) gives Steve (Humphrey Bogart) some amorous instructions in To Have and Have Not (1944)

We can’t afford to bomb Iran AND give children access to healthcare

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

I still remember how long the USA argued over whether or not there were 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq. Colin Powell did a whole thing at the UN. Now it's just 'Trump said they have them.'

man evangelicals are gonna be SO mad when this doesn’t trigger the rapture

Kind of impressed that the apocalypse is this stupid.

Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

Victor Avila, a 66-year-old legal assistant — and a green card holder for 58 years — was detained after visiting his son, who is a member of the U.S. Air Force.

I posted this message at 7am on Saturday, as soon as I had woken up & news had broken. As a NE Minneapolis resident, clearer emergency/safety instructions should have been provided. And the shelter-in-place message should have extended to North Minneapolis.

Every single person in Minneapolis should be demanding answers about this

The fact that Northsiders were not told to shelter in place, nor were we told when the search was called off, is just endemic of how shabbily North is always treated. The idea that we don't need to know about our safety in the same way people in the suburbs do is equal parts absurd and repugnant.

mpr rehabbing the image of a fucking assassin

It is impossible not to read this in conjunction with the Supreme Court's heartrbreaking, awful decision in Skrmetti allowing states to deny transgender teens the health care they need.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

See this for what it is. An authoritarian regime and its secret police are targeting political enemies and marginalized people they have vilified and dehumanized. We're in it, folks. Deep, deep in it. Fascism. Stop dancing around it. Stop playing games. Give up all remaining denial. We're in it.

#OnThisDay June 17, 1889: Frederick L. McGhee is admitted to the bar in Minnesota, becoming the state's first African American lawyer. McGhee was a consequential early civil rights leader, the only Minnesota public figure born in slavery, and became famous for his courtroom victories.

If you’re interested in learning how to be a legal observer of ICE actions, and join the growing Rapid Response Team in the Twin Cities, Unidos is offering 2 more trainings in July. There will be more, stay tuned if these dates don’t work. Please share. We need more people to stop this madness.

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

Feds: Assassin Vance Boelter went to four Minnesota lawmakers' homes

Every single one led by a Black mayor.