Kieran Vriezen

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Block and move on. Don’t engage with filthy little trolls who have no game. Let them wallow in their squalor and they’ll get bored and leave back to their Nazi bar.

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Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

I have never seen Napoleon Dynamite, The Simpsons, SpongeBob SquarePants, or The Mummy, much to the chagrin of my fellow millennials sometimes

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

There we are.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated, "Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

To be very clear:

ACIP is still recommending BOTH the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and Varicella (chickenpox) vaccines, just not the combined MMRV shot.

This is due to a reported increased risk of febrile seizures from the MMRV compared to when the MMR and Varicella are administered as two shots.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I had the exact same thought. I'm glad I'm not alone.

Sign On to "Open Letter to State DFL Leadership in Response to Transphobic Behavior by Leadership of the Feminist Caucus" Please fill out this form to have your name added as a signatory to the letter "Open Letter to State DFL Leadership in Response to Transphobic Behavior by Leadership of the Feminist Caucus." Please en...

Friends, the DFL Feminist Caucus annual meeting on Tuesday was painful. Trans DFLers - our friends and neighbors - were deliberately harassed. Please read this letter, and sign on if you’re a DFL voter or volunteer. Does the DFL think trans folks deserve human rights and dignity or not?

People need to understand that Gamergate is the most important domestic political event of my lifetime

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.

And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

Solidarity ✊. I think the hospital has also started blocking off IP rooms that we can't fill because there's not enough staff. I heard on Monday there were I think ~14 boarders in our 45 bed ED with 40 people in the waiting room. I do not envy ED folks right now.

My unit was told they aren't going to consider posting the ~4 vacant RN positions we have until "productivity" improves 🙃

Yep. Allina is struggling right now. Hiring freezes, staff shortages, revenue/reimbursements not keeping up with expenses. Sure would be nice if the CEO took a paycut instead...

Tonight, I attended my first and last DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. As someone who did not come by my feminism through how I was raised, but rather fought my way through to live as the gender I am and to exist as a non-binary person in this world, I found the experience to be demeaning, demoralizing, and actively anti-feminist. If being a feminist in the DFL means caucusing with this group, count me out. My pronouns are very simple and yet the caucus chairs and caucus leadership could not get them correct, despite being repeatedly reminded and corrected at every single opportunity. However, they could suddenly use the singular “they” when it came to my fellow caucus member who happened to be a trans woman, despite her repeatedly giving her pronouns as she/her. This was just the beginning. It was clear from the start that no one leading this meeting understood Robert’s Rules, and very clearly wanted to vote for their friends and be done with it. At the very beginning, an illegal motion was made to just adopt an entire slate of leadership, despite there being challengers to those positions known to the caucus.

For me, however, the most hurtful thing was that despite repeatedly affirming that underrepresented people should run for caucus office, should be prioritized in the process, no trans or non-binary people were represented in any of the caucus leadership, much less respected in the meeting. My pronouns - they/them - were clearly seen as an inconvenience, met with eyerolls and annoyance whenever I corrected people. At one point, one of the newly elected caucus leadership claimed her pronouns are “Black Queen,” a clear mockery of the process of asking for pronouns altogether. Does this reflect DFL values? To mock a non-binary person whose community is under direct attack from the president himself? To refuse to use a person’s proper pronouns so repeatedly and without care that I had to make a SIGN with them on it for the meeting? It wasn’t as though my pronouns were a surprise. I sent in my statement of intent to run for Vice Chair the day before the meeting and it was sent out to all members. I identified my pronouns in that statement. And yet, they were ignored. The DFL Feminist Caucus is anything but. I resign my membership.

My statement on tonight's DFL Feminist Caucus Annual Meeting. This statement is being emailed to the Feminist Caucus Chair, Alicia Gibson, and to the State DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom.

This caucus should be ashamed of itself.

I got mine at Cottage Grove CVS today (they only had moderna), just had to check "yes" on the online appointment form that I had one of the conditions the CDC stipulated. Looked most of the CVS locations nearby also were stocked with vaccine.

My hospital is no longer requiring the flu vaccine for their healthcare workers, and not even offering the COVID vaccine anymore at the free shot clinics for workers. This will be a fun respiratory season, I'm sure...

#twincities

the past few weeks i’ve heard a lot about how great it is that slop rhetoric not backed up by action “makes trump mad” (you can swap trump with any tyrant) and i keep thinking “that’s not an achievement; it’s a very low bar; they’re always apoplectic” and yeah to everything in this thread.

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Florida’s decision to erase school vaccine requirements will cause preventable illness and death.

Not just for kids in Florida.
For whole communities. Of all ages.
Across the country.

Because pathogens don’t follow state lines.

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2 shots from tv show Frasier. One shows Frasier holding a sign, "You're Fired." The other shows the producer of his radio show, Roz, holding a sign that says, "I'm union".

Happy Labor Day 🙂

Too coherent, uses em dash, and almost no exclamation points or random all caps. This is AI.

The Trump administration tried to snatch unaccompanied minors from foster homes, put them on planes and deport them illegally, on the weekend, during the night

lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac

words fail me

Businesses having Labor Day sales while preventing their workers from organizing