Phyllis Brashler

Photo of a license plate reading PY352 Minnesota license plate and it is an undercover vehicle

Side profile of the undercover vehicle it is a gray SUV

Two very tasty ice undercover agents in their undercover vehicle waving to the camera

More blurry image of the driver of the vehicle a very, very bald, very angry, looking older gentleman

So I’ve been following an undercover ice vehicle from Franklin Ave South towards the Greenway for the last five minutes or so roughly 12:30 PM central time this is a picture of the vehicle and the inhabitants of the car who opened the window when they saw I was taking photos of them.

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

Reminder that MAHA is an explicitly socially Darwinian, supremacist, eugenics movement that is building the infrastructure for social murder at scale under the mantle of “public health”

MAHA is explicitly inverting public health into eugenics and preventable mass death.

I’m not crying, you’re crying

Not really, no. I just asked Google how it would take me to the Highland Park Lunds—literally straight down either Cretin or Cleveland from me — it suggested I go to Minneapolis via Lake St. Bridge, take 46th down to the Highland bridge and back over to STP. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ooooh this will be great to visit when I eventually am forced back to the office!

Vile. Absolutely vile.

cool free tool here if you want to get quick information about a bunch of different climate interventions, along with some estimates about their effectiveness. probably good for students too

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

This is another absolute banger from @wired.com and it’s huge to boot. I don’t even think I’m halfway through. You should subscribe to wired. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Would be great to get primary prevention into high gear, if we could only figure out how to adequately staff, fund, and sustain public health in these times. These deaths are inevitable if we continue to gut governmental public health.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

‘The news devastated me’: Pennsylvania NPR station will be first in the US to go dark following Trump’s cuts A public media organization in a university town just a few hours northwest of Philadelphia is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS. 

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

I talked to my kids about it and they were like “yep, cancel.” But they are older and they get it.

Weaponized unreality is about to crush people under its fully authoritarian weight

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.

So apparently the second most frightening thing one does as a parent, after bringing a baby home from the hospital, is sitting in the passenger seat while they learn to drive. 😳 Lord have mercy. 😬

One of my favorites. It was so good.

The worst. 😔

😆 - but it’s true! Brother printers are the best printers! I had a $99 one that lasted years and years!

What happened to the Steve Simon rumors?

Ooooh I’m a little fired up this morning. A family member sent me a reel of a Black woman talking about why Chicago needs the national guard, and how privileged white women who speak out against this just don’t get it.

Constitutionality aside, how do the most impacted communities feel?

I will not. I will not. I will… not…

I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not

I mean, yes, but who’s “they”?Your local health department? Your doctor? Who will pay for it? Vaccines don’t produce themselves, sadly.

Great, informative thread.

The climate campaigns I’ve been in have been about working to get something bad OUT of neighborhoods. But being serious abt both climate & pollution reduction also mean sometimes putting IN things that seem risky or have other real downsides. Great example to learn from

Depends. My childhood best friend started around 12 with small/easy jobs but she grew up in a large Catholic family taking care of younger siblings. My teen just started at 15. Her friend started at 13 as a “mother’s helper” while mom was working from home before going solo at 14.

I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not turn the heat on I will not

!!! I’m so sorry. It’s so hard when a health emergency happens at work. Take good care.