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Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

and the "thing" they do? let's just say it's simply supine

Food co-op loses Kalamazoo Farmers Market bid amid leadership shakeup For the first time in 13 years, the Kalamazoo Farmers Market will not be operated by the People’s Food Co-op of Kalamazoo this summer.

In a statement, an attorney for the co-op board says the PFC is "disappointed" by the decision. They also believe the decision was influenced in part by "incomplete or one-sided accounts presented by a limited group of dissatisfied individuals."
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Former politician pulls strings to build the housing Kalamazoo County needs Kalamazoo County is one-third of the way to addressing its housing shortage. Meet the woman at the center of the effort.

Kalamazoo County is one-third of the way to addressing its housing shortage. Meet the woman at the center of the effort.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

Trump’s VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes, from @npr.org ⬇️

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Biggest turnout yet :)

Update on Stryker Cyberattack: Company says medical products are "fully safe to use.” The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity arm says it's investigating the attack launched by an Iranian-linked group.
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A tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service in south Michigan (Union City)

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On a personal note, still glad to not have re-enlisted. 🤠👍

Let's also draw attention to the ire of hate that destroys the physical security of Americans' futures: decades of intentional planning of a national defense strategy that preserves American hegemony progressively weakened to an unsustainable overreach of military presence.

It's the same good, old-fashioned American greed and inability to show compassion that fueled ICE, the Iraq War, Gulf Wars, Vietnam War, Segregation, Internment Camps, Genocide of Native Peoples, Slavery, etc.

The insatiable bloodlust demonstrated by Trump, SECDEF, and military officers in this abhorrent, unjustified war on Iran does not show unbounded strength - it shows an empty and lacking capacity for compassion, giving way to a downward spiral.

Reflecting on my own time in the US submarine service, I am reminded of Mush Morton's command of the Wahoo: when the fear of your enemy strips their humanity away, you don't shy away from dishonorable conduct - you consider it as a viable option.

YOU CAN FIGHT ICE BY ANNOYING THEM - MESS UP THEIR FOOD/DRINK ORDERS - LOSE THEIR TICKETS/RESERVATIONS - OVERTIGHTEN LUG NUTS, STRIP SPARK PLUGS - GIVE THEM INCORRECT BUT REAL-SOUNDING INFORMATION - RECORD THEM WITH YOUR PHONES - DISRUPT THEM WITH LOUD NOISES (CAR ALARMS, MUSIC, BANGING METAL) AND BRIGHT LIGHTS (FLASHLIGHTS, HEADLIGHTS) - SHAME THEM Fuck yeah THE FASCISTS WANT COMPLACENCY. DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM. Fuck them White supremacist IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE «MISTAKES"

Monkey wrenching is such an under appreciated form of protest

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

7,000 butterflies from 4 continents will soon fill Frederik Meijer Gardens The annual Butterflies are Blooming exhibition returns on March 1 with 60 tropical species from Africa, Asia, Central and South America.

More than 7,000 butterflies from four continents will soon fill Frederik Meijer Gardens.
This annual exhibit brings families, students, and visitors to West Michigan and highlights one of the cultural institutions that makes our region such a special place.

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ICE Isn’t Slowing Down. It’s Moving Into Michigan. The administration keeps whispering “slowdown,” but the paperwork, real estate, and detention infrastructure say the opposite.

They're coming, Michigan, and staging in the midst of big immigrant communities in Ann Arbor, Ypsi, Dearborn, Canton, & Detroit.

One of two nearby airports is a cargo facility where new B-24 Liberators left the line to bomb fascists in WW2 Germany.
A sick irony.
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NO KINGS Kalamazoo · No Kings **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Congresswoman @hillaryscholten.bsky.social knows there’s more that unites us than divides us and that it is critical that we put people above partisanship. She has always shown up and delivered results for West Michigan.

Join us at Sarkozy Bakery in downtown Kalamazoo on February 9 for National Pizza Day! As we continue to celebrate 100 years of impact across Kalamazoo County, we're giving 100 customers a FREE pizza. 🍕😋

Come see us between 11am and 5pm to grab your pizza and share your love for where we live! 💙💚

Without sparing a single dollar, you can still donate hundreds of products to folks in #Kalamazoo. Here's how:

Send us a message saying you'd like to run a product drive! We'll tell you everything you need to know about spreading awareness and collecting products.

#EndDiaperNeed #MenstrualHealth

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.