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Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Toddler parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
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submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Good reminder of how little people hear about even massively important policy proposals.

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

“Finding a way to combine these two objections — to fuse, as Trump does, the domestic with the foreign — is a means to a properly majoritarian politics in the United States.” Very good (as always) from Lydia Polgreen

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

submitted 5 hours ago • 264 comments

How is it remotely legal that MnDOT still has the Cedar Ave sidewalk under Hiawatha blocked off with fencing? With zero detours for people walking and rolling?

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

> Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment: “I can’t even describe how good it feels to know that someone who was trying to obliterate me and all the other women that he harmed did not succeed… His path to victory was to destroy all of us… and it didn’t work.” More below:

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 17 hours ago • 202 comments

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...

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Troubleshooting some code and, as usual, the most time-consuming part is remembering how to log on to the restricted server where I'm allowed to look at the data

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

If you're interested in matching algorithms (I once spent a holiday weekend reading a book about them, because it's always more fun to read about work problems that aren't yours than to try to solve your own), this article is cool as hell

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

The municipal sidewalk clearing costs are less than expected, & deliver the same sort of accessibility for pedestrians that we provide to drivers. Expanding this is just good policy for a city that wants to get more people making more trips without a motor vehicle. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I agree with this but I have to say: the optics were also very *appealing*. I see politicians yell at each other all the time. Watching a ragtag crew support each other to do something that seemed impossible was simply pleasant. More Ocean’s Eleven politics, please

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Most of the impactful, powerful classrooms I've stepped into were in many ways a result of a teacher genuinely and transparently leaning into what they loved. (Giving teachers a chance to lean into what they love? Often the best way to make better classrooms.)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm teaching my kid "coding" (playing w algorithms) bc a fun part of my childhood was learning logic from my dad & that's a culture I value & want to pass on. Maybe she'll follow in her dad's footsteps & be a working musician; maybe she'll have a job I've never imagined. Anyway, this essay is good

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The most Minnesota resistance

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

CuoNO, motherfucker

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

“‘I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,’ she said.”

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Discussing w the 3-y-o which bathroom to use as we exit her school, she advocates for the gym, but mentions, “The gym only has a small toilet. So if you have to pee, you can hold it until we get home.” I guess thinking of someone’s needs in order to dismiss them is SOME sort of step toward empathy!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I hadn't thought about the benefits for other parts of the metro area. Would Minneapolis-St Paul metro suburbs benefit if we had congestion pricing, alongside actual mass transit, here?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments