To clear up any confusion: HealthPartners is an insurance company but in Minnesota- especially in the Twin Cities area it is also a health care provider of one major trauma center, a several hospitals and a multitude of clinics and specialty centers.

Btw, a not-for-profit - just means they have to put profits back into the company (non-profit is a charity). They put some of that 💰 into the big-wigs’ pockets 🤷‍♀️. Andrea fights hard against any wage increases. Happy to let experienced people leave 4 younger, less paid workforce. Good for patients???

Lol! Why? UnitedHealthcare HQ is here too 😐 HP used to be an awesome company to work for until Andrea took over. Morale has gone to shit. I spoke to the local SEIU president and he said when he started 10 yrs ago they’d have maybe 4-6 grievances at a time, rn they have nearly 70 contract violations

I agree, in theory. HealthPartners is not-for-profit, yet their CEO is paid millions, she fights the unions (they fight valiantly against her -so far) yet in April they dumped 1000s of disabled from the Minnesota Medicaid program b/c of profitability. HP is now all about profit less 4 care.

US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return

Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tariffs were NEVER going to “bring manufacturing back to the US.” There are many reasons, including:

•Even with tariffs, US labor is prohibitively expensive
•America’s supply chain isn’t ready
•Most Americans don’t want to do manufacturing jobs
•Not enough unemployed workers to fill new factories

All of us…

So be BRAVE

Makes me kinda sick thinking we HAD that. We. Had. That. Took it for granted because we were supposed to take it for granted. But I’m nauseated because of what we face now. And my T voting family talk of Obama and Biden as if they are the evil ones that T was the salvation for. 🤢. We must win again

"America is ours. It doesn't belong to whoever is in the White House.

It belongs to you.
It belongs to us.
It belongs to we, the people."

-- Vice President Kamala Harris

Had this song on repeat the minute Trump was elected the first time. I posted the YouTube link on Facebook… Trump voters I know “liked” the song as a great blast from the past. They didn’t get the reason I posted it 🙄😑

Living Colour releases their debut LP today in 1988 — with “Cult of Personality”, a song inspired by a chat during rehearsal about what makes a leader charismatic.

“Vernon played a riff,” said drummer Will Calhoun. “And next we knew we had a song. All while we were setting up for sound check.”

This shows how much harm antivaxxers have done already. Expect more of this, tragically, as people follow RFK Jr's lead, and as the corruption of our public health institutions spread.

#TrumpTariffs

Even though I give that advice I still find myself saying, out loud, directly to them, multiple times a day, “why did you…?” As if I really expect a reasonable explanation 😂 (or an actual answer… but that’s another issue altogether 🙃). #catsbeweird 😻

Just a bit of friendly advice, which I am sure you already know, but I offer only in the spirit of understanding and solidarity: Never try to understand cat logic - you’ll only hurt yourself 🤷‍♀️ ❤️

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

At a GOP town hall last night, heckling from constituents was apparently too much to handle—so they used police force and even stun guns on their own constituents. What are they so afraid of? Someone disagreeing with their views?

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East Germany (1989)

The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because of bombs

it fell because East Germans protested week after week, peacefully, until the regime cracked.

Real power lies with the people, not the walls they build to control us.

#FallOfTheWall #WeAreTheMajority
#BerlinWall

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There you have it

Does this make America great again ???

That’s been the hardest of the past decade… I mean, I knew the hate was out there but to see these people empowered to come out of the woodwork and gleefully now express their hatred. People I thought were at least tolerant but were evidently just acting… we now see their ugly truth 😐

Top researchers ousted by Trump poised to be poached by Europe: report President Donald Trump's purge of U.S. government staff could soon pay dividends — for other countries. According to Politico, a group of countries in the European Union have hatched a plan to poach o...

Top researchers ousted by Trump poised to be poached by Europe: report

www.rawstory.com/fired-scient...

Marines learn on Day 1 to never wear their cover inside and damn sure never to eat with it on. Maybe Corporal Correspondent went to a different boot camp than I did.