A quick, practical note on digital privacy.
This week, the Minnesota Attorney General shared that federal agencies, including ICE, use data that is sold by private companies. That data can come from apps, phones, and everyday online activity.

He also gave advice on how to protect your data.

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

This is what integrity looks like.

FEMA Staff Bracing for Dismissal of 1,000 Disaster Workers

This is so bizarre. As an MN resident, FEMA isn't as important as it would be for other red states such as Florida. The US can't handle even another year of this craziness. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/c...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Retired CPA here. The Alternative Minimum Tax is a method that the government uses to try to have individuals and corporations pay a more equitable amount of tax on earnings. Society calls these loopholes. We should care about this. It's one of the reasons we have such a wealth disparity.

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Does anybody else think about the humans in the kid movie, Wall-E., when they think about AI and jobs?

Hasn't heard the name in so long? Really?

Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? In 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, a local county clerk from Kentucky made national headlines when she refused […]

Justice Alito swears he isn’t trying to overturn marriage equality, while the Supreme Court just so happens to be looking at a case that could do exactly that. Kind of like how Trump totally had no clue about Project 2025, right? 🙄

I hear you, Barney, I hear you.

Yep, that's what they are implying... 🙄

The shooter did not act alone.

He was assisted by one president, 219 House members, 53 senators, and the NRA.

Holy moly!

Ready!

Ditto. 💛

Hank is a superstar.

BREAKING: A federal judge has just BLOCKED President Trump from defunding Planned Parenthood

This

Yep!
One in the same…

@bab102.bsky.social
More KINDNESS
Less Muskness
Less Trumpness
PS, your bio is excellent.

Yes!!!

My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Grrr... Bear or Supreme Court.

Doing my nails in Trans flag colors to support those who will be affected by last week's SCOTUS decision. #NailsAsPoliticalSpeech

Do you suppose Pres. Trump had a less-than-stellar birthday? I had a fun, energizing day filled with hope. How about you?

Moorhead/Fargo #NoKings rally. We estimate about 3000. Our Community had fun and the energy was electric. I am so proud of our Community.

Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

What's with this lady? Criminy. I feel for her constituents. Did they know beforehand?

I am in love. 💛

Veterans Are Marching Against Trump. Here's Why Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have betrayed America’s veterans with their mass firings and diversity purges.

From @membrich.bsky.social: Why the new Bonus Army is taking it to the streets: "Trump’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), will gut over 15 percent of the VA’s workforce — some 83,000 people, many of them disabled veterans." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...