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🚨 NO NEW FOREVER WARS 🚨

VoteVets launched NoForeverWars to stop the Trump administration's dangerous mission creep & ill-defined military actions.

Reps. Lieu, Deluzio, Ryan, & veteran leaders are fighting back. #NoForeverWars

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MN Gov Walz: “I tell all of our neighbors in Minnesota,
you’re respected.”

“Donald Trump's hateful words don't stand in Minnesota.”

If you don’t condemn
❌Trump’s garbage remarks,
You are complicit

“You should very easily
be able to say
we need to continue
to work together”

Donald Trump’s hateful words don’t stand in Minnesota.

Just this year, Minnesota has ranked:

A top 10 state for safety.

A top 5 state to live in.

A top 3 state for jobs.

A top 3 state to retire.

The 2nd best state to raise a family.

The 2nd best state for children.

A bet against Minnesota is a bad bet.

It’s disgusting and easily debunked.

Photo of a row of five smiling Bolivian women in colourful tops and skirts holding mountajn climbing equipment while standing on ice with a mountain ridge behind them

In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

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Nowadays, with e-bikes everywhere, this is no big deal. But when Bedazzled came out back in 2000, it seemed like special effects witchcraft. (Actually it was just a cable pulling Brendan Fraser and his bike up the hill).

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Brendan!
Born December 3, 1968

Illustration featuring a small child bundled up in rain gear sitting on a child seat on the back of a bicycle, with a woman pedalling. In the background we can see the outline of cars and trucks.

Artist: Adrian Tomine

Caregiver pushing a stroller over a snow covered sidewalk while the street is clear of snow

Winter makes a city’s transportation priorities extra obvious:

Bikelane: nonexistent on this street

Sidewalk: covered in snow with a caregiver getting a major workout pushing a stroller through

Street: perfectly cleared for drivers

We can and should do better @minneapolismn.gov .

The Aunties of Active Mobility: Alice and Reyna Profiling two auntie-advocates whose community-rooted biking leadership in Duluth and Minneapolis strengthens active transportation networks, challenges inequity, and expands mobility access across…

“If you want to build great cities, you build them for women. We are the ones out there taking more transit, hauling our kids and groceries around, making lots of the buying decisions, and deciding if our kids can walk or bike to school.”

-Alice Tibbetts

Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!

this is one problem with urbanist spaces being male dominated - their ideas of what is safe are completely different from mine, if they even ever consider safety. it's why they'll see nothing wrong with moving buses from nicollet mall to another street - why not, they'd go faster, right?

I want everyone to flip out over this proposal to give the mayor a $46,000 raise. I completely agree that our elected officials should be well paid. But people tear their hair out over council pay, so we need to bring that same energy to this one.
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Best Campaign Expenditures of the 2025 Minneapolis City Elections Dan Orban's Vehicle Advertisement by JP Bullfrog: $450.00

the post-general campaign finance report was due yesterday, so here are my favorite expenditures of this city election season

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NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.”

@ryanjreilly.com
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U.S. Senator ... @Sen.. •48m ... As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate. Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it's fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker. Acting CDC Director O'Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy again makes a concern-shaped face and types out futile demands to undo the horrific decisions that are being made because he voted to confirm RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary and encouraged others to do so.

He makes sad noises but doesn’t DO anything to stop this travesty.

Now is the moment to choose your fighter.

Who do you want fighting for you?

Somali Minnesotans are a part of the fabric of our beautiful state.

Somali Minnesotans are teachers, nurses, neighbors - our friends. Trump's vile hate has no home here.

📣 This week, ISAIAH leaders showed up with allies at MSP Airport to say: End deportation flights. #DeICEFlights

Pastor Jane McBride is right. Jesus himself was a refugee. Our faith traditions teach us to offer shelter, not inflict suffering. 👏

And on his first day in office, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht. Why does nobody mention this? The man is beyond unfit.

NPR battles Trump executive order in court NPR was in court for a pivotal hearing arguing that the Trump administration had broken the law with its treatment of public media.

NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media

The case isn't getting much attention.

But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers

My story:

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CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.

The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
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BREAKING: A CDC panel voted to push back the first dose of the safe & effective hepatitis B vaccine.

This is a tragedy in the making.

This unfounded change to the childhood vaccine schedule will only lead to entirely preventable disease outbreaks in the years ahead.

I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True "Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."

CDC's @drdebhoury.bsky.social calls on Congress to act.

"It is a purposeful reshaping of CDC away from evidence-based practice & toward ideology-driven governance...I did not resign to make a symbolic point. I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." time.com/7338714/dr-d...

Elizabeth Jacobs makes an important point:

Lying about medical facts
will kill us. 🐍🤢It’s snake oil.

Lies are an attack on public health

Stop giving the mic to liars.
Give the mic to Experts🎤

📣Amplify facts, truth & trust.

2020 🔴Trump federal budget
🟩🟩🟩$3T Revenue
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 $6T expense
⭕️⭕️⭕️$3T deficit
&

2025 🔴Trump Fed budget
◼️$0.4T Rev
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 $7T Exp
18% more spending than 2024
Govt Contracts🎁 to Musk
⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ $6T deficit
👇
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MN Gov Walz is thrifty & thoughtful
with our public resources

He proposes 🟰Budget in Jan.
Last cycle, he cut $70B to $60B

better idea
✔️prosperity for all
So we gain more tax revenue &
2:1 payback programs

GOP 🔴federal budget is bad
❌ tax giveaways to Rich 1%
❌ tariffs ➡️ we can’t afford it

1/2

Thank you @governorwalz.mn.gov

ACIP votes to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.

ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected.

The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.