Neil Bhaerman

a valentine card graphic that says: "Roses are red, pancakes are flattened. Someone please wake me when it happens."

happy valentine day

I watched "Death by Lightning" this week (it was ok, Nick Offerman as C.A. Arthur is the highlight) and it is notable that our secretary of health has the same views on germ theory as the doctors who killed Garfield with an infection. (Which I believe was an accurate portrayal of the care he got)

I don't think Senator Moreno really wants to play this game.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!

The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

This is a quotation from AAUP-Ohio State. “Based on what we know now, this incident is a vivid illustration or a larger problem- the way the Chase center and other so-called intellectual diversity centers have been forcibly and unnecessarily imposed on Ohio’s universities. unfortunately, this assault in the embarrassing actions around it make it clear. These centers aren’t really about encouraging civil discourse, and intellectual diversity. We are in favor of free speech for everyone on campus, not just for the ideas that politicians want to promote.”

Our statement.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

we don't have the luxury of assuming that every elected democrat is the best person for that job. primarying electeds should be the norm. make them work, make them defend their record, find the best people.

time for a Teeth Guys episode

Photo of UFW martyr Rufino Contreras

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My perfect cat Charlie on a rug, surrounded by toddler toys (magna tiles, Fisher Price little people, cars). Charlie is looking at the camera in quiet resignation.

The face of a cat who misses having the rug all to himself.

Maine shaken by ICE raids as backlash threatens Republican Senate control Workers and unions condemn ICE operation as ‘horrific’ as pressure builds on Susan Collins, facing re-election this year

I spoke with workers about their experiences with ICE in Maine as Senator Collins claimed to have halted the operation as she faces re-election this year
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

One of the most unique careers in MLB history.

Werner Herzog

Congrats!

America’s toxic future looks like East Palestine, Ohio, today Three years since one of the worst industrial disasters in US history, politicians, the media, and the public have forgotten about East Palestine. But we haven’t.

Just got back from East Palestine. So much going on in the world, but yesterday was the 3yr anniversary of the train derailment & chemical disaster that upended residents' lives forever—I had to be there. They are getting sicker. People are dying. Please remember them
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AAUP-OSU Statement on DHS Violence as a Threat to University Values As we witness the violence perpetrated by federal government agencies in Minneapolis and elsewhere, including the murders of Alex Pretti and many others, we are aware of how this brutality is affectin...

New statement from @osuaaup.bsky.social on DHS violence as a threat to university values: “These are impossible conditions in which to work, to learn, to teach, to exercise academic freedom. Our community deserves better.”

This is a PERFECT example of how Republicans use Jews. They hauled Claudine Gay in and hurled antisemitism accusations at her that cost her job, now they've hired a Jew and that's not acceptable either. They don't give a damn about us, they just want to weaponize us whichever way they can.

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing: 'They messed with the wrong profession' “What Alex did that day was pure instinct, pure professional behavior,” NNU President Mary C. Turner tells us. “That’s just what you do when you're a nurse.“

USA: Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing: ‘They messed with the wrong profession’ therealnews.com/nurses-union...

We have nothing to lose. We have a world to win.

Federal agents deployed tear gas on thousands of union members, families, and community members while we protested peacefully today.

This was an attack on working people and an unacceptable escalation from federal agents in Portland.

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he's a good bird brett you should have brought him snacks

Happy Jackie Robinson born day

"We live in Maine. The idea is that we’re all neighbors and in it together. Immigrants are our union brothers & sisters. We all work side by side with these folks & we’ve come to know them & love them & all of a sudden they’re in fear of coming to work. That should have an effect on all of us."

Union Carpenter Derek Ellis of Skowhegan was down the street from his job site in Portland when he saw ICE agents shout at a woman to "get the hell out" of her car. As they tore her out of her car, she screamed "I'm a US citizen! I'm a citizen!" as her small child in a carseat cried hysterically.

CBS News headline: Israel strikes in Gaza kill at least 30 Palestinians, one of the highest tolls since ceasefire began

Not a ceasefire

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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