Veronica Baasen

$4.5 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires. Billions added to the debt ceiling. Billions cut from Medicaid. All but one GOP House member voted for this. Every single House Dem opposed it. The middle class will pay for these handouts to the super wealthy. People who depend on Medicaid will die.

MN Sen. Tina Smith on X: "This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick." 🤣

I am horrified as I watch each day the current administration shun our allies and align us with dictators. Horrified.

"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts."
-AOC

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

"Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency." -Rebecca Solnit

Folks, we're in an emergency.

January 28, 2025 During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025, a plan for a second Trump term prepared by a number of right-wing institutions led by the Heritage Foundation.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The million dollar question is: Are we (ALL of us, regardless of political leaning) going to let him get away with it? Or are we going to fight back to save our democracy? Sounds crazy, right? But that's where we're at. I don't know about you, but if I have to go down, it's going to be kicking.

"We are in the middle of a constitutional crisis..." This was recorded live a few minutes ago by renowned historian Heather Cox Richardson. Listen to the whole thing and then act unless you're okay living in a dictatorship.

fb.watch/xp2--6thda/

Acts of authoritarianism: Yesterday, T took revenge against and had fired those prosecutors who investigated his failed attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Last night, T illegally froze distribution of congressionally appropriated funds. Pay attention, folks.

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I don't think he's human.

When the high for the day in Minnesota is -20 with -55 wind chills (and it's been plenty colder), duckies get frozen to their water buckets. He's fine and thawing out in our bathroom. Are they really bitching about the 28-degree "cold" in D.C.?

One thing I loved about FB is that we could just save whatever info to whatever folder we created. I have a long book-list saved there. Recipes and other stuff too. Wish we could do the same here, but I don't see that option.

I wrote a graduate thesis on SH's translation of Beowulf (specifically, on the character of Grendel and his parallelisms with Beowulf). I also named a dog Beowulf.

Fergus Falls Area NOW is co-sponsoring the Fergus Falls People's March on Saturday, January 18th at noon. Please join us!

Perhaps we should have done a long time ago what South Koreans did yesterday? Perhaps this is what we need to do now before it's too late? Not advocating for violence here, but interested in your thoughts about how we can resist.