Ethics Grand Rounds webinar featuring speaker Sarah Gollust, PhD, on Friday, Oct. 3 from 12-1 p.m. CDT.

Mark your calendars! Ethics Grand Rounds, “Public Perceptions of Health Equity and How Communication Can Shape Understanding and Action” featuring @sarahgollust.bsky.social, PhD.

🗓️: Friday, Oct. 3, 2025
⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT)

Register Now! It’s free: z.umn.edu/ap9m

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

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Why can’t all humans be like these adorable fur babies the world would be a better place… 🐱 🐶
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The End of Unlimited Grad-School Loans Could Leave Some Colleges and Students in the Lurch The tax package President Trump signed into law this month eliminates a financial-aid program that distributes billions of dollars to higher ed each year.

Prospective medical and law school students are anxious over changes to federal student loans. The elimination of Grad PLUS loans and a new cap on borrowing for professional students at $200,000 have put some of their dreams at risk. chroni.cl/46NuOgr

We the People will not bow down to tyrants. We will respond by getting in good trouble instead.

On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together.

Because #GoodTroubleLivesOn. See you in the streets 📣

BREAKING NEWS: Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark, have both died. Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife were both shot & now out of surgery where they expect to make a recovery.

The shooter was impersonating a police officer and is still at large.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

The folks hollering about “family values” are out here tearing families apart with unlawful ICE raids, militarized police, & the weaponization of government.

All while ripping away food & healthcare from working-class families.

Are the family values in the room with us?

The popo pepper sprayed a sin bather in a a Georges Seurat painting

LAPD out there like

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.

Thursdays at 7pm, Americans Are Taking To The Streets to Fight Fascism The Simple Weekly Ritual Anyone Can Do—And It Works

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BREAKING: Historic teacher pension improvements pass the House and head to Gov. Tim Walz for his signature!! A stronger pension is an investment in our state's education workforce that will improve teacher recruitment and retention for years to come. 💪 #mnleg #edmnvotes

President Denise Specht: We are here with one simple message for those who celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week: It’s nice to be seen, but words are not enough! Celebrate teachers less, care for them a whole lot more!! #mnleg #edmnvotes

Persisting students’ explanations of and emotional responses to academic failure Academic failure is an important and personal event in the lives of university students, and the ways they make sense of experiences of failure matters for their persistence and future success. Aca...

Persisting students’ explanations of and emotional responses to academic failure
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Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

MTGreene you need to step out. Come to Minneapolis, visit the site where George Floyd was murdered. Get your facts straight.

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow:

George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

She needs to step the F@&$k BACK!

That is in fact what this administration has done.

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.”

*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

- Carl Sagan, Contact

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

FindTreatment.gov Find state-licensed treatment near you for addiction and substance use disorder.

May marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health care is a right, not a privilege. We must break the stigma, invest more in care, and make sure our communities have the support they deserve. You are not alone. Find Support at: FindTreatment.gov

BREAKING: Republicans just installed a self-proclaimed ‘DOGE person’ to be in charge of your Social Security.

Friendly reminder that Elon Musk, head of DOGE, said Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that should be eliminated.
 
Every Dem voted no.

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting while working on wires from a large computer from tbe mid 20th century

Photographer Berenice Abbott, 'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the Documenting Science series (1938-58) #WomensArt #Monday