225,000 ACRES OF PUBLIC LANDS AT RISK. Senate votes tomorrow on HJR 140. It would strip protections from the Boundary Waters watershed and open the door to toxic sulfide mining near one of the most protected wilderness areas in the country. Call your Senators: 202-224-3121

River in the Boundary Waters is again named to list of country’s most endangered waterways American Rivers says the South Kawishiwi River is threatened by proposed copper mines in the watershed. The clock is ticking on a Congressional effort to reverse a 20-year mining ban in northeast Minn...

A conservation group has listed a major river in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area as the third most endangered river in the country on its annual list of threatened waterways.

Public libraries are democracy's great equalizers.

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The regime had no idea what it was going up against when Trump decided to invade Minnesota. #NoKings

The Swearing-In of the First Woman Elected to Congress, Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives On this date, Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, was sworn into the House. Rankin had campaigned as a progressive in 1916, pledging to work for a constitutional woman su...

Jeannette Rankin was the 1st woman elected to Congress, in 1916. She was a women's rights advocate, & she introduced legislation that would become the 19th Amendment. She championed civil rights causes over her 60 year career.

#WomensHistoryMonth
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

Everybody, go to a No Kings Rally on Saturday. Also read this about the scientists who witnessed a group of whales assisting the mother whale deliver her baby. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...

‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack

Amazing story about moving on: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/m...

SUNDAY Bonus—Sack Classic The Trump Show….we’re just along for the ride.

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Senate Dems probe personal email use in endangerment finding repeal Court documents show members of a Department of Energy working group used personal email addresses.

Trump appointees at the Dept. of Energy used their personal email accounts to evade transparency laws in their efforts to make it easier to pollute, and EPA was in on it.  

We are demanding answers and accountability for this blatant disregard for the law.

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
-Virginia Woolf

Demonstrate for democracy and human rights. Attend the No Kings Rally on March 28 in a community near you. In November, vote!

In the Epstein files:

Northland senator pushes back against federal agents accessing Boundary Waters Rep. Pete Stauber supports the bill, saying it would prevent illegal border crossings. Environmental groups call it a threat to a place that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

We have high-quality water in Minnesota. It needs to be protected from copper-sulfide mining. www.northernnewsnow.com/2026/03/20/n...

This is the story of Weda Bay – and how nature is being sacrificed for mining Analysis has found more than 3,000 mining operations within the most naturally precious areas of the planet – a much bigger footprint than previously thought

Protect fresh water resources. Stop copper-sulfide mine proposals in Minnesota.
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Local View: Minnesota has the power to stop Twin Metals, but will the DNR use it? From the column: "We are not victims of a lawless federal government. We are the agents of our own future. The law is clear. The science is settled. The choice belongs to us."

Minnesota has the power to stop Twin Metals, but will the DNR use it? www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...

Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops

Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."

- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

Trump’s War With Iran Is Also a Climate War Fossil fuels are structurally embedded in modern warfare.

"At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice."

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Protect Wild Rice this Legislative Session! — Rise & Repair Alliance Current calls to action to protect Minnesota's state grain, Wild Rice, known as Manoomin to the Anishinaabe an Psin to the Dakota.

Protecting wild rice also protects water quality in Minnesota. riseandrepair.org/protectwildr...

LOFGREN: Are agents trained to break the windows of people whose cars they encounter and drag them out forcefully without asking questions?

KRISTI NOEM: Our officers are all trained for situation where they are interacting with the public and detaining someone

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, ap...

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Lying seems to be the main strategy of this administration.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Interesting spin. By this logic, shouldn’t we be seeing tons of young Christian men volunteering to go to Iran? I mean, if it’s God’s plan and all, aren’t you eager to meet him, dudebros?

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

After Khamenei, What Now? Iranians want democracy. Trump wants a brief conflict. Neither seems likely.

After Khamenei, What Now?
Iranians want democracy. Trump wants a brief conflict. Neither seems likely
by Hanna Rosin
Atlantic Gift Article

Before strike killed Khamenei nuclear deal was ultimate objective, now maybe regime change but Trump has no plan on how that might come about

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