Kristen

Hey, those of you who pay better attention than I: when did the Supreme Court of Wisconsin start doing anything unanimously?? Kaul v State Legislature is unanimous in favor of Kaul!

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“Critics say” is a weird way to say “The Constitution says”

That could be argued! I often think about what is cowardice and what is self-protection. Maybe the difference is whether the pushback we fear is emotional discomfort or physical violence?

Have you spent much time in the counties around Milwaukee? Washington County has “Go Home Dems” signs. There are definitely places I hide my party affiliation around here.

Puppet shows

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to…

During Trump's first term, some EPA scientists said managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. In some cases, they said, the managers deleted the information themselves.

(Published Sept. 2024)

Random fun fact: there are more French speakers living in the continent of Africa than Europe.

Ouch, Carrot. Ouch.

Why would you try to keep them off the shelf that is clearly ✨theirs✨ 🙃

Perhaps give them more options with fewer decorations?

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out

Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

I have never been a mother in a world where kids weren’t murdered at school. Sandy Hook happened five months before my oldest was born.

I wonder what it was like, before it was just some inevitable thing to prepare for.

I’m so sad, and I feel so hopeless.

Agree. We aren’t all equally able to exist in society. Some need supports and that’s okay.

When nothing makes sense, I remember that we’ll all end up as crabs anyway.