Michael Lowder

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan.

We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised.

That’s how democracy should function.

As a Scorpio who knits, I can verify this.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Yesterday in St. Paul

Good question!

Good question!

He was such a handsome fellow.

One of my favorite Marriane Faithful songs.

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Banana Republic, that’s where we are headed…

Passenger plane crashes just days after Trump puts a freeze on hiring of air traffic controllers California Representative Norma Torres was among those who tweeted out the report shortly after news of the incident had emerged.

60 passengers and four crew members were on board the American Airlines flight that came down near Washington DC.
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I like these, Nina

I love the Pacific Northwest. We are thinking seriously of moving to the Portland area this year, where we have family and friends.

Once, When We Were Heroes - My Fabulous Disease I will never explain the early days of AIDS any better, so I post this essay to commemorate WORLD AIDS Day every year.

Today is World AIDS Day. A whole generation now has no experience of the desperation, discrimination + death still within aging memories.

This @marksking.bsky.social essay is particularly apropos, with proposed govt officials who reject science for crackpot theories. We will need heroes once more.