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Minnesota parent doing user experience, accessibility & strategy for big tech. People over process always. Stop making up weird words for your corporate jargon.
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Ugh. These owners just ran Wuollet into the ground. www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...

Just so you know, while you're lost in your glorious routines: Last night, Gaza's last working hospital—Baptist Ahli—was bombed. Gaza now has zero functioning hospitals. Congrats, humanity. You really did it. Hope officially shut down.. #gaza

Trump's budget proposal would cut all funding for Head Start — the federal preschool program that serves nearly 800,000 kids. (Project 2025 called for this.) The budget would also gut LIHEAP, the program that helps millions of poor families pay their energy bills www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Holy shit “Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”

Contemporary shower fixtures are only one of the items that rankle the president. He has frequently denounced toilets that he claims require flushing “ten or 15 times” and LED lightbulbs, which he faults for making him look orange. By @peterelkind.bsky.social

"Four Loko is all about reducing inhibitions. So why inhibit hiring mostly straight white dudes with names that Ricky from HR can comfortably pronounce?"

And if you have enough money to feed yourself and your children, which eliminating WIC, SNAP, Medicaid, and other safety net programs would undo. As I was talking about old death records before —most of those deaths of “inanation,” “cholera infantum,” and even “convulsions” are deaths of poverty.

If you're a fan of Wordle, Spelling Bee et al, may I recommend Pilfer by @merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com/games/pilfer

This week, Ash and Will Tyner’s "The People’s Way" premiered in Minneapolis. This film follows the journey of myself, Toshira Garraway, and Jeanelle Austin as three Black women who served as organizers and leaders for Black liberation following George Floyd’s murder.

Hey Mpls transit supporters!! @metrotransitmn.bsky.social is holding a community meeting about the 46th Street Light Rail Station, Thurs May 8, 5:00-7:00. Please attend if you can and drown out "Karen the Camera" and other ppl who want to close a public sidewalk!

The yard bunnies are really making themselves at home over here.

Ms. Rachel is Hamas now: defector.com/ms-rachel-is...

the muppets in famous works of art: thread

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

TOMORROW: HYBRID NAME CHANGE CLINIC! We’ll be in person at Family Tree Clinic (1919 Nicollet Ave) and register online at bit.ly/AprilGenderClinic This clinic is free to attend and for those seeking name and gender marker changes in MN

When I rescheduled the cat's vet appointment, I didn't tell them @zekemd.bsky.social is doing a really important presentation and the cat is sleeping behind him on camera, so I couldn't sneak her out.

Every few years they do this experiment and every time the result is the same and then nothing changes

Honored to talk about advocacy this morning in the 2025 Midwest Regional Education and Research Center Symposium sponsored by #NIOSH with @amira-adawe.bsky.social and Rebecca Reindel of AFL-CIO! Esp. with NIOSH funding and #PublicHealth dangers to worker health/safety right now!! #OccEnvMed

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

trimming my cat's nails

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It's a tactic, right? Rolling out tariffs, then pausing them, except not all of them. It's a tactic to make us feel all unsteady & isolated, and like there's nothing to do, right? If it is, then it's almost easier to stay grounded in power & not-reacting to every fucking news release.

Amy Klobuchar demanding to speak at the massive Hands Off Rally in Saint Paul and then spending the next week confirming Trump appointees is amazing. Just tremendous contempt for her constituents.

This is incredibly dangerous. If he can get away with this he will open a flood gate of targeted investigations of private citizens. We are stepping through the looking glass of fascism in real time! Congress needs to act immediately.

In any normal administration, the Director of National Intelligence committing voter fraud would lead to an immediate resignation and criminal investigation.

Repurpose all your TikToks, Reels & Shorts to Bluesky and Skylight Social — automatically. Try it free at Repurpose.io #bluesky #repurposeio #shorts #reels #tiktok

Trump straight up did an illegal pump and dump. He even posted about it. What will happen? Nothing. Rich get richer. Rinse repeat. newrepublic.com/post/193823/...

We have plans this summer to provide fresh veggies, fruit & sacred medicines like sage and sweet grass for at least 5,000 residents. This is the beginning of East Phillips plans to becoming a self sustaining food hub that meets its neighbors needs. Money donates will help with outreach & education

We have plans to grow good food this summer and to grow deeper roots - but we need support! Donations support seeds, workshops & surveys, all of which help build toward a locally-rooted and liberated food future in East Phillips, & beyond 🌱 Learn more & give here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

1. You may have heard about the anti-trans fencer kneeling and conceding to a trans opponent. Now, news has emerged that she collected a $5,000 prize for doing so, while saying her decision will "destroy her life." She also called her kneeling "god's will." Subscribe to support our journalism.

This alone would be the end of amy Democratic administration. Nobody will even notice it now

They've now made decisions, revoked those decisions, paused those decisions, and adjusted those decisions so many times no one has any idea what's going on anymore.

Markets are experiencing Stockholm Syndrome right now but at some point the real world will have to reckon with the fact that 10% universal tariffs plus 125% tariffs on China (and maybe the EU?) and sector tariffs on steel, aluminum, lumber, and pharmaceuticals are still a huge problem

Outcry matters. Keep using your voices.

They mean criticism of the Gaza genocide

Instacart has the ability to comparison shop your entire grocery cart across stores in your area, but it'll never do it because it'd anger the stores.

This is outrageously upsetting. From Minneapolis. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

When hundreds of thousands of people coordinate across an entire nation to protest governmental policies, that’s not a page 18 story. That’s not a “see more in section B” situation. That’s front-page news. Period.

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

Meta's fact-checking programme in the US officially ended yesterday afternoon, according to its chief global affairs officer. x.com/joel_kaplan/...

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration, U.S. officials said Monday.