A yellow graphic with a crown that has a red x through it. It reads no kings, Saturday March 28, 1-3 pm, drake springs park, Sioux Falls. Nokings.org
Sioux Falls. No Kings. 1:00.
I’ll be sharing some words promptly at 1:15!
A new Wall Street Journal investigation finds DHS is increasingly turning its wrath on U.S. citizens, punishing them for simply filming or observing officers.
Belle Cushing is one of the reporters behind the investigation. She spoke with MPR News guest host Emily Reese about it.
Remember that time a few years ago Republicans in Pierre put forth a bill to keep single and LGBTQ+ parents from becoming foster parents?
I haven’t forgotten. Oh — and those folks are still in the legislature.
Police fielded 50,000 calls during the surge, canceled over 1,000 days off and extended 500 shifts. The department says that more than $5 million was spent on policing between Jan. 7 and Feb. 1.
Stopped by Green Dream Screen Printing to pick up campaign materials.
Small businesses are the backbone of Sioux Falls. I’m grateful to partner with one that’s family-owned and environmentally conscious.
Welp. These didn’t age well.
Just another latte-drinking suburban mom sitting in her Subaru. Felt cute; might fight fascists later.
I’m telling you this to say: volunteering for a campaign doesn’t always mean door knocking or making calls! Whatever your capacity and talents may be, you have something to offer. 💙
I’ve had great discussions recently with people who are fed up, energized, and ready to help make a difference.
One will be doing text-based outreach for me from her home.
Another is a speech professor who volunteered to help progressive candidates refine their public speaking skills.
Stg some of our state legislators are so unserious, it’s embarrassing
The people who scream about using their tax dollars to expanding free and reduced lunches for poor school aged kids are the same ones who were fine with spending tax dollars on a government tracking system for embryos created by IVF.
I applaud the representatives who voted against this bill, but am deeply disturbed that the person we are paying to represents us thinks this is a good use of time and money.
Not healthcare access. Not education funding. Not support for families.
Control.
We need change.
Notice the language:
• “Disposed embryos”
• “Deliberately destroyed embryos”
• Tracking embryos transferred out of state
This framing treats embryos less as biological material and more as entities whose “fate” the state has an interest in monitoring.
HB 1182, sponsored by Rep. Soye, was absolutely chilling not just for what it says, but what it lays the groundwork for.
When government begins tracking IVF this closely, it moves embryos out of the realm of private medical decisions and into the realm of state interest and state control.
NOTE: this bill has been defeated. But since the district 9 representative was a sponsor of it, I think it’s worth talking about.
This is chilling.
Because this is how change actually happens.
Not all at once. Not because of one person. But because of many people, each doing the bit that they can.
People who haven’t given up.
People who still believe their voice matters.
People who believe South Dakota is worth showing up for.
Thank you, new friend, for supporting my campaign. Thank you to each and every one of you who interact with my social media and uplift my message. Thank you to those who have said, “I don’t have money, but I can write postcards, or knock doors, or man a table at a festival.”
This campaign isn’t powered by big donors. It is and will continue to be fueled by everyday people who choose to believe change is possible.
Who know that giving up isn’t an option.
Who want people like them in office.
I know that $5 isn’t just a couple bucks.
It’s TRUST.
It’s a vote of confidence.
It’s saying, “I may not have much to give, but I’m with you.”
I started my career as a teacher in a state with one of the lowest rates of pay in the nation (ND).
Then I went to seminary full time.
Then I worked for a nonprofit.
I know what it’s like for $5 to be an extravagance.
I recently had someone sign up to give a recurring donation to my campaign.
$5 a month.
It brought tears to my eyes.
Trump made $4B in his first year of his second term. Trump is suing the IRS for $10B. Trump just announced the US will contribute $10B to his Board of Peace. A $10 billion contribution to a Board that he chairs without congressional appropriation or authorization.
WAKE THE F*CK UP AMERICA.
A photograph of an official notice posted in San Francisco following the passage of Executive Order 9066. A partial excerpt: "Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration Presidio of San Francisco, California May 23, 1942 Instructions to All Persons of JAPANESE Ancestry Living in the Following Areas ... Pursuant to the provisions of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 96, this Headquarters, date May 23, 1942, all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, will be evacuated from the above area by 12 o'clock noon, P.W.T, Saturday May 30, 1942. No Japanese person will be permitted to move into, or out of, the above area after 12 o'clock noon, P.W.T., Saturday May 23, 1942, without obtaining special permission from the representative of the Commanding General, Northern California Sector, at the Civil Control Station located at ... The Following Instructions Must Be Observed ...."
A black and white archival photograph showing Japanese Americans lined up next to a train car while opposite a long row of military police standing shoulder to shoulder stand guard.
An iconic black and white photograph by Dorothea Lange taken on March 30, 1942, showing a street-level view of the Wanto Co. grocery store located at 8th and Franklin Street in Oakland, California. On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the owner, Tatsuro Masuda, hired a painter to make and install a large sign over the front windows reading "I AM AN AMERICAN." At top, above the name of the store, another large sign reads, "SOLD by White and Pollard." (The Masudas always rented the property, so that sign is probably not referencing their store.) Parked in front of the store is light-colored Buick coupe.
A rare Kodachrome color photograph showing a young Japanese American boy, Billy Manbo, standing on a barbed wire fence surrounding the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming. To his right and stretching far into the distance behind him are a long row of wood and tar paper barracks.
Today in 1942 was another date which should live in infamy—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the forced eviction, property forfeiture, and internment of some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, about 70,000 of whom were US citizens.
The playbook is so tired it would be laughable — except it works.
1. Sow the belief that we have a problem with voter fraud in the U.S. (we don’t).
2. Use those fears to take away voting rights.
3. When your opponent wins: boom, it was fraud.
I am officially on the ballot for District 9 in South Dakota! Big thanks to my colleague for dropping off my petitions for me.
This is for all the blue dots.
All the single moms.
All the women who have been doubted while doing twice as much as their male counterparts.
Let’s do this. 👊
