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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎
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Mental wanderer but grounded in Wisconsin.
2025: Regenerative Unity.
Every student should get into their food: grow it, pick it, cook it, share. Views my own. #HSM4A

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At the Top of the World, a Fault Line Is Opening
The land we steward. The future we shape. The reason global politics matter here at home.
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No one should have to make the decision between a paycheck and taking their child to the doctor.

With paid family leave, Minnesotans won’t have to.
December 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Sometimes I recall that my great grandpa was an egg-candler. Held eggs in front of candles to check yolks

Brought double yolks to his family

And I’m a college professor

And I think: the US, land of immigrants, land of hope

It takes a nanosecond to see how out of step this regime is w/that truth
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Pretty sure it’s illegal to fuck with people’s mail and if you’re law enforcement you have to have a warrant to touch it.
Think your mail is private? In Columbus, ICE is playing "Postmaster General."
December 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The chorus of voices on #BlackEdu I used to hear before EM took over are ringing in my ears again.

This has always been the choice:

exploitation and injustice

or

image management for the powerful.
December 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I want to say I grew up in the Twin Cities in Minnesota and I didn't hear about this atrocity until I took a Native American history course in undergrad college. Which is pathetic.
Today 38 Dakota were hung in Mankato, Minnesota by President Abraham Lincoln. This is the largest public execution in U.S. history. After starvation & broken treaties, the Dakota demanded justice against the U.S. They were killed for it. #Dakota38
December 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
When the guy in Our House is posting pics of marble samples of theatre armrests, there are still good things out there.

My 3 Good Things for today:

1. Frank, face-to-face conversations
2. Hugs
3. Hydroponic Strawberries

Yours?
December 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Please folks. Learn the history.
December 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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"Olga" picks lemons in Orange Cove, CA. "I earn $48 per 900lb crate and makes 2-3 crates a 6hr day. Lemon picking is dangerous. I must move and go up and down a 12-foot ladder, while avoiding the thorns on the tree. The weather is cold & the ground is often muddy." #WeFeedYou
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Note the date. We knew a long time ago.
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We never pushed the Santa myth with our kids.

Was met with adult anger.

Don't regret it.

One son told a classmate: Everyone is Santa.

A legacy I'm good with. ❤️
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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The DOJ dropped more Epstein documents last night, and there’s some truly shocking stuff in there.

Here are some of the top lines and a few words on why we MUST continue to pay attention as we head into the holidays.
December 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Sending three ghosts tonight to fuck up Stephen Miller.
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The "greatest" country in the world.

😬
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It's Christmas and Christmas Eve everyone!

Best wishes to those who celebrate.

And to those who don't.

We all need a little love, right? ❤️

That's it for my Good Things for today.

Love and Goodness.
December 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM