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Lynda Milne
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Learner, reader, insister
Because this is how it's going to work. We'll advise you to take a PREVENTIVE medication after enough of you have gotten really sick or died.
A leading U.S. health official urged people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states and as the United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status.
'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise
A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states. The appeal is from Dr.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
"Actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see #Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a lab for libertarian social experiments: unregulated “freedom cities”, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, labor protections."
Tech billionaires behind Greenland bid want to build 'freedom cities'
As Europeans try to redirect Trump, his Silicon Valley supporters have ideas of their own, involving low-regulated communities and access to rare earths.
responsiblestatecraft.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
In detention a few women were eventually brought in. Two of them were U.S. citizens and former U.S. Marines. #Minneapolis #ICE
‘I heard screaming, I heard crying:’ Inside ICE detainment at the Whipple Building
Two U.S. citizen observers share a rare look inside ICE custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.
sahanjournal.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Sen. Melissa Hortman has died. Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were both shot.
further update from sources: it’s john a hoffman in surgery, NOT melissa hortman

no word on hortman yet but the articles say a man was shot in brooklyn park
June 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
3-mile radius of Edinburgh Golf Course. From calcmaps.com.
June 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Awesome example of inclusion and outreach: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opening up the experience of dance through sensation, audio description.
#blind #disabilities #art #dance
Feeling the Dance - Cal Alumni Association
Blind patrons experience Alvin Ailey through sound and touch
alumni.berkeley.edu
May 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Yes, but alcohol is a multibillion-dollar industry so we're right on track with American priorities.
Profits first. No care. Carry on.
May 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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1955: Whites-only water fountains

2025: Whites-only immigration.
May 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Dear @mprnews.org. Please make a more strategic fund drive pitch. Not “Oh, we’re threatened. Give us $1 million.” Something more like: “We want to create an endowment.” Or “We need to increase our rainy day fund. Your $1 million will keep us operating for NN months if federal funds go away.”
May 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal on Friday asking the Supreme Court to allow the Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems.
Social Security holds sensitive data including personal, school, bank, salary, and disability medical records.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions ...
ground.news
May 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
May 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the study of #autism. #Disability.

Science. Not Opinion.
Coalition of Autism Scientists critiques US Department of Health and Human Services Autism Research Initiative
The newly formed Coalition of Autism Scientists (160 members and counting) today issued a statement in response to remarks and actions taken by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department...
www.eurekalert.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Don't miss The Arc Minnesota's Protect Our Future event at the Minnesota Capitol this Saturday May 5. #disabilities #MN
April 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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DEI NEVER meant hiring the unqualified just for diversity. It ALWAYS meant giving diverse applicants a fair shot. Unlike the current administration's hiring of grossly unqualified sycophants.
April 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Have I shared this yet? If so, once is not enough!!!
April 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
And more "now you see us being evil, now you don't."
April 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"In April 1933, Hitler passed one of the earliest antisemitic laws, purging Jewish and also Socialist judges, lawyers, and other court officers from their professions. "

Easy to see the playbook being used. (Read Law and Justice in the Third Reich at the online Holocaust Encyclopedia.)
Trump’s FBI Just Arrested a Sitting Judge
FBI Director Kash Patel proudly announced the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over an immigration case.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Yes. This is an explosion. A bomb thrown by the administration.
April 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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It’s hard for me to believe this is a “radical, leftist, socialist, commie” way to think.
April 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The cover of this week’s Economist.
April 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
So neither she nor her Secret Service agents could keep her personal property secure in an enclosed space. Why isn't this grounds for immediate termination.

She can't keep the "homeland" secure. Never could.

What a disgrace.
April 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The FAILED Secretary of Handbag Security
From now on, no matter what job she holds, I’m calling Kristi Noem the “Secretary of Handbag Security”
April 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM