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For communities to change, community data, especially qualitative data, needs to be collected. The Coalition of Communities of Color in Portland is changing the landscape of local decision-making by transforming community data collection in their city. Watch to learn more:

Go MDE!! 💙 (Minnesota Department of Education)

I have found the Inner Resource Cards by movemjndfully to be super helpful lately. My unit at work randomly pulls one card each morning and we share it in a Teams chat. move-mindfully.com/product/move...

Join APHA this week for a series of exciting National Public Health Week events and webinars! From advocacy to climate change, there's something for everyone. Explore all our free events and register today: www.pathlms.com/health/cours... #NPHW

National Public Health Week is here! Public health starts with each of us making a difference in our homes and communities. It’s how the places we live, work and play affect our well-being. Join us April 7-13 www.nphw.org #NPHW #ItStartsHere

I enjoy this practice and a friend of mine is the Initiative coordinator. I consider Bluesky a good thing in my life. #resilience

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

I am really dismayed at how many animal welfare accounts I see regularly using AI generated images. It's really cool to see orgs like @woodstocksanctuary.bsky.social taking a public position against it. 👍

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

The Wind Is Shifting The wind is shifting, can you feel? The cracks beneath the cold reveal. Where silence smothered what we knew, Now voices rise in shades of blue. In courtrooms once too blind to see, Now truth reclaims its dignity. 🧵

This is hilarious and so on the spot!

What everyone needs to be packed for a good trip. The #vss365 #prompt for April 1, 2025, is #luggage.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

Eid Mubarak! I’m wishing our Muslim neighbors a peaceful and blessed celebration with good food and good company.

For silent Sunday

Patrick Stewart looking like he’s about to drop the hottest electro-funk album of 1983

Every day brings new executive orders, bills, laws, and court decisions that threaten the rights, liberties, and very lives of LGBTQIA+ folks. If only a hero would save us! Guess what? THERE IS NO HERO. 🧵/1

We all feel a little lost sometimes. Look for light in the darkness, like the incandescent glow of a bookstore, the flickering lanterns of your local tavern, or the ancient shimmering witch-candles to lead you through the old forest and home.

Had a fantastic time on the road in Wisconsin yesterday, stopping in Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Ashland to get out the vote for Judge Crawford and make it clear: Wisconsin is not for sale! Let’s keep up the momentum—make sure to vote this Tuesday, April 1!

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"Using Signal enables American authorities to violate the rights of Americans. Signal is attractive not because it is secure with respect to foreign adversaries, which it is not, but because it is secure with respect to American citizens and American judges." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

🧵 Ten reasons authoritarian leaders deliberately crash their own economy while attempting full overthrow of democracy:

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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"Loving yourself is a political act. We are taught not to love ourselves, and from that place we are easily manipulated...Love yourself so much that this love changes the world." --Rita Shimmin, UNtraining [dot] [org] co-founder

People--esp women-- have been told and told and told that parenting is fun and fulfilling and any hardship is either roll-your-eyes funny or somehow your fault or deficiency. IT IS NOT.

#academicsky If any of you have had a grant cancelled in this administration and would be interested in talking to a journalist, private message me...