@skarjune.bsky.social
Skarjune writes, edits, blogs, designs, and publishes content in the Twin Cities of Minnesota; and manages the popular Longfellow Villa Little Free Library promoting community, literacy, literature, science, and education.
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
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Thank you Meidas Touch for bringing this new song by Dropkick Murphy's to my attention.
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“The war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and no-one can do anything about that.”
US military commanders tell troops per Military Religious Freedom Foundation
U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Gets worse. Hegseth claimed powerful weapon got through Kuwait air defenses hitting a fortified tactical operations center. Trailer with protective walls outside, but open to direct Iranian "kamikaze" #Drone hit overhead on the roof. 3 soldiers dead.
Same air defenses shot down 3 US planes.
I dunno guys. I kinda feel like the administration overplayed their hand starting a war to distract from ICE to distract from the economy to distract from the Epstein Files...
A favourite tactic of war is to try to decapitate the enemy leadership. While such strategies might work in certain contexts, in the Middle East, they have proven to be a disastrous choice.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
So CIA knew where Supreme Leader was in #Iran, but not the thousands of attack #drones with 2000-km range killing #US #military Service Members & civilians across the #Mideast ???
The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.
If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?
“Washington Post … reported that #Trump decided to attack Iran after #Saudi crown prince #MohammedbinSalman made “multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a #U.S. attack” while at the same time publicly calling for a diplomatic solution” #Iran
SCOTUS sinks a key part of Trump's tariff scam, provoking epic childish tantrums .. (cartoon Steve Sack)
No more forever wars.
No new wars.
People who’ve never served are often the quickest to start dropping bombs without a plan for what’s next.
The American people have seen this play out before and they’re tired of it. Trump is sending our servicemembers into harm’s way without a clear explanation or an end goal.
Abolish Ice AND The State of the Union.
Casey Means, Trump's nominee to be Surgeon General, makes her living promoting questionable medical products online. I confronted her in today's nomination hearing over her practice of regularly illegally hiding that she is getting paid to promote these products.
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
Reminds me of the study that showed those with higher income were more willing to steal candy from children. Just plain Evil, like the pedophiles who robbed their bodies and souls, those at the White House as documented in the Epstein files per NPR.
Alone in #Minneapolis hospital waiting room, partner in surgery, #Somali man appeared with takeout platter of food saying:
Please eat some
Just ate thanks
Take some, you should eat
Of course I did. Their #Human of... https://blog.skarjune.ink/2026/02/25/alone-in-minneapolis-hospital-waiting.html
Minnesotan Aliyah Rahman arrested and injured at Trump's State of the Union www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Aliyah Rahman was removed and arrested for merely "Standing Up" silently at the SOTU. Others were also standing but were not arrested or removed. Rahman is being targeted because she is articulate,determined,a U.S citizen who was brutalized.She has the distinction of not having been murdered by ICE.
I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.
The US Surgeon General is America’s top doctor. So how is it possible that Trump’s nominee:
❌ Never completed her medical training
❌ Is not board certified
❌ Does not hold an active medical license
Casey Means is not qualified to lead our nation’s public health infrastructure.
Casey Means’ confirmation hearing is over.
My impressions:
Means has zero understanding of or concern for the most vulnerable Americans.
Means will absolutely not promote vaccination or in any way push back on RFK Jr.
Means doesn’t understand public health at all.
"He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends.The scale of the corruption is unprecedented...there's the cover-up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over..."
Gov. Spanberger
Nobody is interested in the lies Donald Trump is telling about his tariffs.
Americans just want their money back.
Donald Trump whining that Democrats won’t stand and clap for him is a peak narcissistic tantrum.
This discussion lumped THC & CBD together, the same problem as the bill. Binging on THC drinks is not the same as massaging CBD salve on knees. The bill does not help with research, it's political rather than science-based. Nice try, but try harder than a single source of expertise.
Federal judges have ordered the Trump administration at least 35 times since August to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases, according to a New York Times review of federal dockets.
Can the Sunday show bookers please let their Republican guests know ahead of time that you are going to ask them specifics about Trump’s deranged “hospital boat” post so they can’t claim on the show they don’t know anything about it.
Of course, the irony of Trump’s post about us needing to send a “hospital boat” to Greenland was that it only emphasized the point that we, in fact, do not have any hospital ships in service right now that are available, while Greenlanders have free universal health care.