Beth Hawkins

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28. Northwestern will uphold its commitment to Title IX by providing safe and fair opportunities for women, including single-sex housing for any woman, defined on the basis of sex, who requests such accommodations and all-female sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities. 29. Northwestern and its Feinberg School of Medicine shall not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries, including but not limited to mastectomies, phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, and/or any other procedure intended to alter an individual's sex characteristics, on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately upon the Effective Date of this Agreement. a. Northwestern shall revise all policies, protocols, and public-facing materials at Feinberg School of Medicine to reflect the commitment set forth in this paragraph on hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries to individuals under the age of 18 years old and ensure compliance with federal laws. b. Northwestern shall notify all faculty and administrators of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern's commitments set forth above regarding transgender surgeries on minors within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date. 30. Together with its first quarterly certification as set out in Paragraph 49, Northwestern shall submit a report to the Assistant Attorney General, confirming compliance with the preceding paragraph. The report shall include documentation of compliance, such as revised policy documents and copies of notifications sent.

"Sex," "female," "male," "women," and "men" are defined in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and related executive orders.

Among the provisions are ones agreeing to the Trump administration's definition of sex as "biological sex" and agreeing "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries ... on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately."

That was my guess!

Then yes, do it. Stuck at Midway = never. O'Hare = eh.

Is the sandwich AT O'Hare?

Annual #snowplownoir pic as they head out.

Sooooo were any Republican officials on the Sunday shows asked about Trump saying the word "Retarded?" Or are they just going to avoid talking about it the way they got to avoid being asked about the AI video of Trump dumping shit on protesters?

KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?

KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.

Tim Walz on Meet the Press about Trump calling him "Retarded":
"We have fought, three decades, to get this out of our school. Kids know better than to use it. But look, this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language."

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

Q: "The Heritage Foundation, the architect of Project 2025, has said that it wants to dox your editors. How do you protect people from that?"

A: "It’s embarrassing for the Heritage Foundation. I remember when they were intellectually respectable."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.

Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.

New tool tracks how media covers trans communities The Trans News Initiative quantifies and categorizes coverage with data

New! @bethmccowen.bsky.social talks to the people behind the new data vis tool, the Trans News Initiative, by the @transjournalists.org.

the-word.news/2025/1128/tr...

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Great 20min documentary about early days of the amazing Minn hardcore band Husker Du.

Grant Norton‘s (bass) Midwest nice mom invited stranger Bob Mould for Thanksgiving. The three jammed in the basement.

Am giving thanks today for Mrs Norton changing musical history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xNc...

My Accidental Thanksgiving With the Tran Family How years of strange holiday emails landed me at a remarkable celebration thousands of miles from home.

In 2007, @jamespwest.bsky.social started receiving group emails from the Tran Family, detailing Thanksgiving preparations. Assuming they were sent by mistake, he ignored them.
But the messages kept coming.

So, he tracked the family down, culminating in a journey from Australia to Florida.

On my way over

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Laurie Metcalf in Little Bear Ridge Road

me, every time i log on:

MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul. At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants. Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization. The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected. Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency. We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.

From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.

This is fun!

I had too many nominations for @the74.bsky.social upcoming 2025 Jealousy List, so I'll play.

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul.

Read our full statement: www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/m...

REVERE, Mass. — A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother. Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana. Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

Please don’t. Fwiw I imagine any feedback vacuum is folks utterly collapsing before the holiday, which starts tomorrow for many. Having crammed to front load the next week.

You’re not even a tiny bit inarticulate or alone.

FYI there is no meat pie emoji

We are hosting a historic, first-of-its-kind Ojibwe-language game broadcast in celebration of Native American Heritage Day on Friday, Nov. 28th!! The broadcast will be available to stream on the FanDuel Sports Network and the game will be called by respected language speakers Gordon “Maajiigoneyaash” Jourdain, Ph.D.; Chato “Ombishkebines” Gonzalez; and James “Ginoonde” Buckholtz. Pictures of 3 announcers and a view of the ice from the Boothe.

@nhlwild.bsky.social

Ojibwe language broadcast of Wild game
Nov 28

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

What do you call an ice-resurfacing machine partly funded by a ’90s grunge band? A Pearl Jamboni, of course. Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam helped pay for the Two Harbors Youth Hockey Association’s new Zamboni.

Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam helped pay for the Two Harbors Youth Hockey Association’s new Zamboni.

I have enjoyed many New Zealand meat pies and stand ready to accompany you to ensure you fulfill this pledge completely.

night time photo of the mississippi river looking towards the Minneapolis skyline partially obscured by fog. the river is calm, the busy I-94 bridge in the distance. Two bikes can be seen on the rough river gorge trail below only because of their headlights.

It's a pleasant warm and foggy midnight in the great Purple City. Some bicyclists are on the east river trail. By all accounts by this time tomorrow it will be winter.