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12.03.2026 03:00
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Please read and reflect on this quote from the lead GOP candidate for Governor, Rep Demuth:
“When we have other things that are popping up, assistance due to people making choices to either not go to work or do other things, there is not an appetite in the House Republican Caucus for that.”
It is meaningful that this needed support passed (and with bipartisan support from Sen. Abeler).
It is a *choice* if House Republicans do not move this forwar.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Sitting with some beautiful and heavy things this evening. Grateful. 💖
As troopers hoisted activists up from their seats, the group sang in harmony:
“No one is getting left behind this time. No one is getting left behind. No one is getting left behind this time. We get there together or never get there at all.”
kansasreflector.com/2026/03/10/c...
Senator Klobuchar’s position:
““What’s happening is simple,” Klobuchar said. “Some people don’t want some people to vote.””
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A person on a train
A scrubby landscape with a mountain in the background from a train window
Trans for mass transit 🏳️⚧️🤝🚉
Primer on the harms of the SAVE Act for folks who need it:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Minnesotans rejected strict voter ID requirements back in 2012 at the same time our state rejected a ban on same-sex marriage equality.
We should be proud of our state’s election systems and voter participation; not working to undermine them.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
A letter from Minnesota Republicans urging the passage of the SAVE Act
I know some folks aren’t feeling the Klobmentum; but this letter supporting the SAVE act signed by all of the GOP House contenders for statewide office - Reps. Demuth, Robbins, Bennett, Niska, and Engen - lays out the stakes pretty clearly on voting rights.
The SAVE Act is *bad* policy.
Really should have stuck with Walz's weird framing.
“The resistance doesn’t win by being angrier or louder than the regime. It wins by being structurally smarter. By applying targeted, sustained pressure to make the legs give way.”
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/understand...
Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.
She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.
Litigation alone won’t save us, but it is a tool that compliments mutual aid, advocacy, and organizing.
And from beating back illegal efforts to claw back funding to challenges to state and federal overreach on anti-equality policies we are getting wins and building a legal record of harms done.
I know it’s easy to feel down on the state of litigation on LGBTQ+ issues, especially given the Supreme Court’s recent record.
But there are good reasons to be hopeful about challenges at multiple levels (state and federal).
And perhaps more important: Every challenge can buy time.
It matters.
Really important update for folks in Kansas - SB244 is on pause for at least a few more weeks while legal hearings are in process.
"Kobach told McCabria he agreed to give Kansans who needed to update driver’s licenses until March 26 to complete that."
Tonight’s colorful sunset sky over downtown Minneapolis, as seen from Mendota Heights
Let’s keep choosing into care.
A little Ada Limon for International Women’s Day.
Don’t you want to believe it?
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149814...
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Gratitude and care to our St Paul City Council and Mayor who have been showing up for our community. 🩵💙
This is a well argued editorial about political violence by @jburcum.bsky.social. I especially appreciated that she does not implicate ordinary if divisive political speech, as almost every other take on this topic does. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mn-political...
Joni Mitchell’s album Clouds
Today I am not prey to dark uncertainty
The shadow trembles in its wrath
I've robbed its blackness blind
And tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to me
I think I understand
Fear is like a wilderland
Stepping stones or sinking sand
Can confirm.
“when you’re fighting a death cult, life is a threat”
A path in the park, the sun is shining through bare trees
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood
Photos from a benefit concert today across from where federal agents killed Alex Pretti and just over a mile from where Renee Good was killed 17 days earlier
Dropkick Murphys performed prior to their show tonight in St. Paul.
L signs during "First Class Loser".
Minneapolis March 6, 2026
I once on a lark decided to see about making a “Minnesota dog” as an answer to the Chicago dog: tater tot crumble, cream of mushroom w/wild rice and sweet corn gravy, topped with shredded cheddar.
Once was enough, but perhaps inspiration.
The disassembled front of a Subaru
Subaru somehow managed to create the most convoluted headlight assembly of any car I have ever owned, but feeling accomplished at my ability to…change a light bulb 😂
