Queet and Secular Meetup event description at First Unitarian Society in Minneapolis at 3pm in Saturday Aprul 18th, 2026
If you live in/around the Twin Cities and are queer and non-religious and would be interested in building a community around shared experiences, HumanistsMN is hosting a Queer and Secular Community Dialogue on Saturday 4/18, 3pm. Details are in the Meetup event description: meetu.ps/e/PYt7j/15Rx...
TAX FOUNDATION: “.. tariffs can explain essentially all of the excess core goods inflation relative to pre-pandemic trends starting in 2025 ..”
#CPI
Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.
To all who celebrate
The US military has 22 sites in the UK.
Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran.
This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more.
The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.
I left a voicemail suggesting that Amy Klobuchar could chain herself to the gates of the White House instead of wringing her hands, but I’m not holding my breath
Letter to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology advocating that their annual meeting have an online option in addition to the in person meeting in Cleveland. Unfortunately, alt text cannot have all of the letter text but the reasoning involves threatof violence to at risk groups in the US as well as issues related to contracting dangerous diseases and other safety threats.
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Today, for the safety of all SVP members, I request with this open letter that the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social provides an online option for this year's annual meeting. Myself and many others no longer feel it is safe to travel to and within the USA. Please share the letter everywhere you can!
"what could democrats do" break solidarity with their GOP colleagues once and for all by leaking comms with them and naming names. ask everyone in the caucus who can report conversations or even better, has texts or emails from them. perform a public vote count - headshots and expressed positions.
Meanwhile, while we're engaging with this through social media feeds, I keep thinking about the real people on the ground who don’t get to experience this as news but as their immediate, lived reality. Most of those people didn't ask for any of this. They are human beings, with heartbeats.
Tehran's got a population of 15 million and is in the middle of a severe resource crisis. A conventional strike can kill millions of people in very slow and painful ways and I wish we could talk about that instead of jumping to the worst thing we can think of and getting freaked out about it.
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Dear Republicans,
This is how it's fucking done, you goddamned cowards.
If civilization lasts that long, I cannot wait to voter for her to be our next MN U.S. Senator.
And yes, Tr*mp must absolutely be removed from office.
Democrats in the U.S. Congress need to get their act together and pull every parliamentary move and trick to gum up the works and prevent any additional funds from being distributed.
💯 ...and I would add to this that ALL nations that value human rights, etc., should withdraw all military support for the U.S.
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
There are a surprising number of people in politics + media who don't understand that nuclear launch authority rests solely with POTUS. Trump doesn't need clearance from Congress or the courts. Even preemptively. All that stands between him and nuclear war are military refusing to follow his orders.
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.
Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.
Hi friends! this is still moving through the US Congress.
It’s basically an anti-trans censorship bill disguised as “protecting children” (and its worded so vague, a corgi butt could be “obscene”)
You wanna do something for #TDOV ? Call your reps. Call for all your trans friends 🤍🩵🩷
Trans people have always existed and always will
No matter what any oppressive government or illegitimate Supreme Court tries to say, Trans people have always existed and always will.
We will keep fighting until we dismantle all systems of oppression that try to oppress people’s identities and control who they are.
Super good news 🙌 genAI art sucks
Friend-shaped froggie 😄
Wow, I had no idea. A completely insane group of people are running the U.S. and they apparently aren't crazy enough to mollify each other.
Citing the precedent set in Leopards vs. Faces
for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war
They said it. We’re all thinking it.
