Emmy Kegler

Peeking in at #elcacwa25 👀

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.

First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.

Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...

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Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

I had a similar assignment (were our professors sent to the same training seminar?) and to really fulfill the "college freshman on PETA's mailing list" stereotype I created an entire new level of hell for animal abusers

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

“I would argue that the road towards authoritarianism has been paved with people saying, ‘You’re overreacting . . . I don’t think you can underestimate how far [Trump] will go”

This Tim Walz quote from The New Yorker pairs well:

Really worth watching this. Rep. Bill Keating is clearly feeling a little out of his depth here—not quite sure what to say, not quite sure how to react—but he sees work that needs doing, sees a stand that needs taking, and so he just does it. He just does it. Right on.

now I have to make up a reason for laughing in front of the toddler!!!

DEX.

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

A lot of it is the novelty of the buttons. Everything clicks and beeps. Who needs Fisher Price? 🤣

He does get a LOT of coffee grounds on the counter but that's a small price to pay for the joy.

My 2.5yo can now start the washer (once I've loaded the soap), load and start the dryer, fill and start the coffee maker, and preheat the oven to 350.

He thinks it's all the best.

Take the Black Lutheran History Month Quiz
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There it is: a six-word thesis of democracy. But if you have time for two more, allow me to suggest these for a punchy conclusion that sounds great when it's shouted by a crowd: NO EXCEPTIONS.

Measles – NFID Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death

Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:

* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized

* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia

* 1 to 3 in 1000 die

If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time

Today's small and miraculous favor is that the dryer is not in fact broken but was on Air Dry instead of Heat Dry and all the clothes are drying properly without major appliance service needed.

AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong Other Democrats, from Schumer to Hochul, should follow her lead.

“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.”

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make me ready, Lord, for whatever

12 straight hours of norovirus. No thank you.

Had to cancel a trip up north to speak at a church and I'm bummed.

But being able to hear, whenever I was deliriously awake, my wife keeping our kids so safe and happy: amazing.

I'm so lucky.

Literally what do they think happened at Stonewall

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text in white and red: You’ve made an impact on me, with the word “impact” in all-caps.

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text in white and red: I’m Pro-You. (The “Pro” is in the style of the ProPublica logo.)

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text in white and red: I’ve got a thing FOIA.

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text: No one can redact our love. (Black boxes are in between the words, as if certain lines have been redacted.)

Who what when where why not be our Valentine?

Send these to someone you’re headline over heels for. 💌

This is murder.

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

Just heard a Minnesota anti-hunger group that supplies food shelves with fresh, nutritious food from Minnesota farmers still can’t access federal funding.

They’ve had to pause some of their work. It’s causing a lot of uncertainty for families trying to figure out how to put food on the table.

5 Things Your Religious Community Can Do to Support Trans People As the U.S. government escalates its discrimination against trans people, religious communities must escalate their support of the trans community.

"Trump may want to normalize the idea of there only being two genders, and he may even be successful in establishing a law that affirms that idea, but that doesn’t mean Christ’s body has to agree."

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

If they were doing this to a single bank they would be immediately arrested but the Treasury of the entire United States doesn’t even have a guard at the door?

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls