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Writer, editor (Carleton College; formerly Walker Art Center, MNIndy, Adbusters). Longfellow, Minneapolis paulschmelzer.com
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Weak sauce, Ken.

Happy 92nd, Yoko!

All top level Dems need to do a united presser every day and highlight every crime committed by a pardoned January 6er. Hang them all on Trump. They also have to highlight every nightmare story his DOGE cuts are creating. They have to personalize every narrative. Every day.

Incredible journalism.

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@amyklobuchar.com push for this

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.

My kids and I have been discussing why we no longer shop at Target. Not only do we stop contributing to profits of amoral corporations, but we get better service. Great experiences of late at Groth Music, Seward Coop, CalSurf, and Freewheel Bike.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

With all the incompetence and upheaval in every federal agency, are we a sitting duck for the next pandemic or terror attack?

"Analysis of multiple waves of the American National Election Studies (ANES) reveals that racial resentment and white grievance now explain twice as much variation in anti-democratic beliefs as they did in 2012." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy Valentine's!

Allegory alert!

Just an evergreen callout: if you’re affected by Trump’s EOs regarding trans or nonbinary federal workers/contractors/student athletes, please contact me on Signal — kurtzleben.01 — to tell me what’s up. I am keeping my eye on this and want to tell what’s happening.

Something something preventing government waste

Here are a few circuits made with components from the factories where my parents worked. My family and many other refugee, immigrant, brown, and black families built what is now Silicon Valley and the technological economic powerhouse of the US. On view now at the MCA-SB Satellite Space.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

Minnestota mentality: my son, who for months has had a constant low-grade nasal thing that won’t respond to meds: “[shrugs] It’ll go away when it’s warm again.”

They’ve been telling us what they’re about for years.

Ben Schwartz's photo at the Broad in 2015

Sonya Clark these days. this country. this history. unwoven and rewoven commercially printed flags (US and Confederate) 16⅞ x 11½ x 1¾ in. 2019 sonyaclark.com

Trumpflation

Trump will ignore the courts.

Is that the Gulf of North America or the Gulf of Latin America or Central America or South America?

Katha Pollitt was right: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

call your senators and representatives one more time for the people who live in DC and have no representation in congress

🚨BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association files federal court lawsuit against Department of Justice over the improper targeting of agents previously involved in politically sensitive investigation. For more details follow @democracydocket.com. www.democracydocket.com

Klobuchar, WTF? justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/ke...

BREAKING: FBI agents and employees sue to stop Justice Department officials from creating and sharing a list of staff involved in the Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago Trump investigations, arguing it could lead to retaliation and threaten their jobs.

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

January 6 as Groundhog Day

Further remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

Now we’re cooking! Thank you for doing something, @schatz.bsky.social. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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