Daphne from MN

Population - With a Disability, 16 Years and over Population - With a Disability, 16 Years and over

Here's a direct link to the source from FRED (Fed. Res. Bank of St Louis):

Population - With a Disability, 16 Years and over (last updated: Sept 5, 2025)
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00...

OMG food truck in our yard, AMAZING. Happy to be test tastebuds for Shmoodily Foodily #grandrapidsmn #missyoujesse

Orange sunset over rural trees and calm lake, few clouds with a hint of orange at the edges.

Tribally owned and operated compost facility opens southwest of the metro Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Dakota Prairie Composting will help the state reach its target of recycling 75 percent of metro area waste by 2030.

The new facility is expected to process up to double the amount of organic waste. It will also divert 25,000 tons of food scraps from local landfills each year, turning waste into soil and mulch.

Statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman Sophie and Colin Hortman released the following statement on behalf of the Hortman family: "We are devastated and heartbroken at the loss of our parents, Melissa and Mark. They were the bright lights at the center of our lives, and we can't believe they are gone. Their love for us was boundless. We miss them so much. "We want everyone to know that we are both safe and with loved ones. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family's privacy as we grieve. "Our family would like to thank law enforcement for their swift action that saved others and for the coordination across communities that led to the arrest of the man who murdered our parents. We especially would like to thank the officers who were first on the scene to our parents' home and their heroic attempts to rescue our mom and dad.

"Our parents touched so many lives, and they leave behind an incredible legacy of dedication to their community that will live on in us, their friends, their colleagues and co-workers, and every single person who knew and loved them. "If you would like to honor the memory of Mark and Melissa, please consider the following: • Plant a tree. • Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail. • Pet a dog. A golden retriever is ideal, but any will do. • Tell your loved ones a cheesy dad joke and laugh about it. • Bake something — bread for Mark or a cake for Melissa, and share it with someone. • Try a new hobby and enjoy learning something. • Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace. "Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

Statement from the two children of Melissa and Mark Hortman.
“Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together.”

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.

https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Viewpoint: Eroding trust by making COVID vaccine decisions with no transparency

The latest commentary from the Vaccine Integrity Project notes that, in the past, CDC vaccine use recommendations were based on a thorough, public review of relevant evidence

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Orange sun setting across rippling lake over distant tree line, dark trees right foreground, sky with wispy clouds blue fading to orange horizon, reflection of sun in water

Long wood table and chairs, indoors, about to be moved outside.

A new seasonal holiday, Table Migration Day: the move between house and yard, signifying the change of focus for gatherings, arriving after ice out and frog singing, but before dock in.

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

New agreement geared toward universal avian flu vaccine

The mRNA vaccine targets all major clades of the H5 avian flu subtype.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/n...

TimeTrack Pro, I use for invoicing also.

To quote my friend Janet Mills: See you in court.

Pale yellow sun nearing horizon, partially obscured by clouds, over mostly frozen lake with open water near the shore.

First “watery” sunset of 2025.

Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of technology experts, had pushed back on the Trump administration's plan to move the migrants' names into a Social Security death database, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages and, officials hoped, spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pearre had clashed with Scott Coulter, the new chief information officer installed by Elon Musk. Pearre told Coulter that the plan was illegal, cruel and risked declaring the wrong people dead, according to three people familiar with the events. But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre's office told him it was time to leave. They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy - pushed by Musk's U.S. DOGE Service and the Department of Homeland Security - to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency's Death Master File. The dataset is used by government agencies, employers, banks and landlords to check the status of employees, residents, clients, and others.

The WaPo article on SSA IT and DOGE is really something. But this guy—who appears to be my age, so not near his pension, with 25 years of service at SSA has more patriotism than every last GOP elected whispering their concerns in the halls.

Good for him. It’s brave to do the right thing.

Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Small Town, Big Turn Out!

We in Minnesota understand and support Canada. We all need to do what we can to stop the madness.

Biggest cheer today was for man carrying Canadian flag at protest in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (northern Minnesota - close to Canada!)

Strom Thurmond’s record 24 hour filibuster AGAINST The Civil Rights Act of 1957 has just been broken by a black man named Cory Booker. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌

The Beloved Mesolithic Girl As a new mother, an anthropologist makes a moving discovery at an infant’s burial site.

10,000 years ago an infant was buried with care, indicating deep emotional bonds in Mesolithic societies. The discovery of her remains and trinkets buried with her show that love and grief are as ancient as humanity itself. 🧪

Rushing river backed by snowy mountains and a blue sky with puffy clouds.

Enjoying a different kind of Cashmere this weekend.

Perkins Coie Drags Trump Administration Clear To Hell In New Lawsuit - Above the Law They're cooking.

This is how it's done. Thank you Perkins Coie. Others watch and learn.
abovethelaw.com/2025/03/perk...

For over 100 years this library straddling Vermont's border with Canada has been a real representation of our harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship with our neighbor. This decision is simply wrong.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Interesting. I have many more followers on X/Twitter than any other platform but it's such a cesspit now.

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, a big thank you to all of the doctors, nurses, patients, advocates, plus IAQ & mask engineers and innovators.
Also, thanks to everyone else trying to share quality info, share their journeys (ongoing for way too many), and folks supporting others suffering from C/LC.
🙏🙏🙏

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...

NEW from me -
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...

from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...

link.motherjones.com/public/38940...

Is this who we are now? If one person can be detained without due process, all of us can.