Does anyone else find it hilarious that the recently closed Bakers Square that’s probably been in Highland Park since the ‘70’s is now a dispensary?

MPR News host Angela Davis diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer Angela Davis is taking a leave of absence from MPR News to focus on her health.

Our colleague Angela Davis is taking a leave of absence after a recent breast cancer diagnosis. Thank you to all who have checked in and shared kind words. Angela is touched by your support as she focuses on her recovery.

YouTube video by Holly Golightly - Topic Tell Me so I Know

Today’s ear worm: great cover of Ray Davies’ Tell Me Now So I Know by Holly Golightly

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Just listened to this album a day before you posted, one of the greats.

Just like in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine—the mifepristone case—ADF used anonymous complaints of harm they found on an anti-abortion forum online.

Again, it's a fucking joke.

Close up of a black and yellow swallowtail butterfly atop a vivid orange Mexican sunflower.

This may be the last swallowtail of the year as we finally feel October’s chill in the garden.

The Supreme Court just took legal status from 300,000 Venezuelans Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

The Supreme Court just took legal status from 300,000 Venezuelans

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

Important read

All of us who are US citizens suffer from moral injury from the things done in our name, including the denial of basic needs this country can well afford to address, including healthcare to all immigrants. It would heal that moral injury to do this; it's an ethical act, not just a practical one.

Always read Will's columns
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Learn more about immigrant students’ rights this #HispanicHeritageMonth and find out how you can support students ⬇️

Check out #LearningForJustice's resource featuring 15 ways you can support undocumented students and their families 🔗: https://bit.ly/44ktTD3

YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic Box of Rain (2020 Remaster)

Petrichor! The scent of rain.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4sA...

Watercolor of a violet colored clematis flower with leaves and vines behind it.

October in the garden: clematis is still blooming!
#watercolor

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Once again Trump and regime ignoring the courts.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Ooooh this will be great to visit when I eventually am forced back to the office!

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

The word for these horrendous murders is femicide, death by misogyny. The U.S does not keep accurate statistics of femicide. If it did, the numbers would terrify.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

Check @unraveledpress.com for onsite footage and info

In a shower of frightening events, here is one I did not expect

This is quite an escalation by ICE to go after immigration expert @davidjbier.bsky.social for his always accurate social media posts. Wow.

YouTube video by John Gorka John Gorka - Thoughtless Behavior (2025)

Not sure why this song is stuck in my head, maybe:
“I went off in the cruel word like a gun in a crowded room”
“You know I slept through the whole night, when I slept next to her”
“Then all my thoughtless behavior brought me this way again”

Or just so singable

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B&W sketch of a grand house and a tree on a table, covered by a bell jar, with two little men in the left corner carrying a ladder to get up to it and my signature electrical outlet in the background on the right, and a text reading “the bell jar” in the lower right.

Today’s mood: Sometimes I wish I lived in a bubble #sketch #belljar

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

The Washington Post poll finds 71% want them extended vs. just 29% who don't.

The KFF poll finds *78%* want them extended vs. just 22% who don't.

That includes 82% of independents, 59% of Republicans and even 58% of MAGA Republicans!

Close up of a dahlia from the “ happy“ series: single petals deep pink at tips to red at center.

Pool of water with a dead cabbage white butterfly and the purple and pink tiny flowers of Brazilian verbena floating on the surface.

Garden tangle of golden rudbekia flowers, pale pink to white spotted bee balm, tall Brazilian verbena stalks topped with tine purple blooms, dry feather dill stalks and a deep pink hibiscus bloom in the background.

Close up of a linna dahlia: water lily style, pale yellow petals fading to paler yellow then deep pink at petal tips.

A warm September in the garden

#FlowersonFriday
#Bloomscrolling

Federal raid in St. Paul neighborhood a ‘rude awakening’ for community leaders • Minnesota Reformer The roofing job looked as if its entire crew had abandoned it, with a ladder still leaning against the house, tarps covering the yard and materials sitting at the peak prepared for a productive day.

About two dozen residents gathered at Marydale Park Thursday to show solidarity with a group of Latino roofers who were detained by federal agents while on a job in the North End neighborhood of St. Paul.

YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields - Topic Papa Was a Rodeo

Not sure why this ear worm won’t go away- is it possible Steven Merritt’s deep tones help with self regulation? Or maybe it’s their questioning eyebrows.

“I could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to stand.”
The Magnetic Fields

#Music

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_m_E...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero