Ed Ramthun

.org stands for Organize!

About President Mung Chiang - Purdue University Mung Chiang became Purdue University’s 13th president on January 1, 2023. Learn more about his background.

The President of Purdue University, Mung Chiang, was born in China (a fact not mentioned in his online bio) but studied in the United States.
www.purdue.edu/president/ab...

No, you did not.
Perhaps he heard a conservative pundit(s) say that "the Democrats" had done this?

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

If, like me, you are not in Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

This also has good suggestions for those of us not in Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

In addition to organizing where you live, you can support people in Minnesota: www.standwithminnesota.com

On a related note, thank you for voting against HR 7006, the "Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act" (also known as Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda) today!

Photo of a river - looking upstream on a sunny day with the sky and clouds and trees lining the river reflected on the surface of the river.

These days it is the White River (Wapahani) in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Didn't you see the memo about "the enemy from within"? /s

I think you meant wells. Oil wells.

Martin Kerr - God Rest Ye Merry Billionaires Out now on Sleigh: A Holiday Place

A song for the season by @martinkerrmusic.bsky.social -
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Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

Large bird perched on a dead tree limb, with clear blue sky in the background and part of a large tree full of leaves in the foreground.

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

Osprey by the White River (Wapahani), Indianapolis, Indiana, October 9, 2025.

Great! The festival and the tours both sound good.

Sweet! Do you have a Sewer Museum and offer tours like they do in Paris? (Paris, France, not Paris, Ohio.)

SOG = U.S. Border Patrol’s Special Operations Group.

"What good is a union in Hell?"

You can pry my Buckthorn Blaster filled with glyphosate from my cold, blue marker dye-stained hands...

Strategies for Strength: Nonprofit Resources – Matlin Legal Resources for advocacy nonprofits serving community members who are targets of the Trump Administration’s executive orders.

This page by @saramatlin.bsky.social‬ offers practical resources (legal tools, safety guides, and messaging strategies) for advocacy organizations on the frontlines of racial, gender, and economic justice that refuse to be silenced. (H/T @rustystahl.bsky.social‬)
matlinlegal.com/strategies-f...

The Four Ecologically Crucial Things You Should Do in Your Garden (Gift Article) The ecologist Douglas Tallamy says your landscape can help manage the watershed, support pollinators, bolster a viable food web, and sequester carbon.

Some advice from Doug Tallamy on how to be an ecologically responsible gardener...

Text superimposed on the flag of Greenland: Kalaallit Nunaat tapersersorpara Jeg støtter Grønland - I support Greenland Kalaallit Nunaat kalaallit pigaat Grønland tilhører grønlænderne - Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders

Actually, Indianapolis should secede to Illinois | Letters Let Indiana state government return to Corydon and leave Indianapolis alone.

Indianapolis resident says Marion County, Indiana, should secede to Illinois.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social

www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Well, at least you are not thinking about the potential impact of the SCOTUS Loper Bright and Corner Post decisions on agency regulations concerning transparency & disclosure to consumers & workers, right?

WILL Empower apprentices work in unions and other worker-centric organizations in a variety of capacities, including organizing, research, communications, politics, mobilization, and policy.

2025 Apprenticeship Info Be a Part of Today’s Economic Justice Movement! Women Innovating Labor Leadership - WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program WILL Empower invites applications to its selective Apprenticeship Program, a ...

Applications are now open for the eighth class of Women Innovating Labor Leadership (WILL) Empower apprentices, which builds the next generation of women and non-binary labor staffers and leaders.

Prospective apprentices can find out more about the program here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Labor Spring 2025 - Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor #LaborSpring 🌹 Labor Spring 2025 is HERE! We’re bringing together students, workers, unionists, allies, environmentalists, elected leaders and more to support workers’ organizing efforts in a broad ra...

Labor Spring 2025 will bring together students, workers, unionists, allies, environmentalists, elected leaders and more to support workers’ organizing efforts in a broad range of events, anchored on college campuses and in the community.
lwp.georgetown.edu/labor-spring/

My poems are not legal advice.

Donald Trump could try to buy Greenland once more Donald Trump could try to buy Greenland for the United States in a second term, according to an international relations expert.

Alan Mendoza, executive director of London-based think tank The Henry Jackson Society, quoted in this March 2024 article: www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

I thought my wife was a member of the United Mine Workers, but she actually was a member of the United Mime Workers.

Done.