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deb mensinger
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Wife💚mom💜dyke🏳️‍🌈gardener🌱preservationist🏡carpenter🔨forever blue🌊read everything👓learn history📖book bans are stupid📚woman voter ☑look up🌌look down🍀plant trees🌳I love puns, corgis & sensible shoes👞I have questions💡I fix stuff🛠
I'm in treatment on the 30th. I'm bringing a sign.
January 28, 2026 at 5:32 PM
With tons of paperwork at each place
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
As a patient, I stand with nurses.

I'm bringing a sign to treatment on Friday
January 28, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I have a question:

If ice is intimidating women in L&D, refusing to leave the room, staring at those giving birth or are undressed, isn't that an assault or even sexual battery? It would feel like that to me
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
What about medical settings?
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
They literally saved my life
January 27, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Thanks. Nurses are the best of us.
January 27, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Cherish
The Association
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I took nonviolence training. (Wish I could find my handbook)

Here are some options:
Sit down
Sing--I like 60s protest music, I'm old
Teach ins, it'd be great if dems held 1 in congress, constitution for idiots
Shut down & walk off job
Bring joy & humor
Stand together
Vote
Shop local
Be kind
January 26, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I can feel the horror & pain of these folks saluting & honoring Alex Pretti, their friend & colleague. I'm so sorry for the loss of this wonderful & kind son, brother & friend
January 26, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Isn't extortion an actual crime? She's impeachable.

I fear we'll find our history recs 'epsteined': the US never enslaved folks, we never murdered indigenous folks, Hitler won WWIl, civil war won by south, never had pub ed, women never had the vote, LGBTQ don't exist, trickle down econ's great.
January 26, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I guess he missed that day in kindergarten when we were taught "sticks & stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"

Do they offer remedial kindergarten for adults with anger & cruelty issues?
January 26, 2026 at 9:51 AM
That's so very Minnesotan
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 AM
I'll be getting treatment that day. I'll bring my new placard & stand with healthcare workers. (Actually, I'll be sitting with them.)
January 26, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Our car has disappeared under the snow. Hope we find it before spring.
January 26, 2026 at 5:58 AM
My wife was a college writing teacher for 28 years. In our house we call this being syn-taxed.

I love this
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM