Nora
@njean99.bsky.social
Midwesterner, researcher, enthused about birds
These votes have real consequences, it's not just a political dance.
In February, @amyklobuchar.com voted with the GOP to confirm Rollins. This month, Rollins attacked Minnesotans' access to SNAP.
Did voting for Rollins benefit Klobuchar? Because it sure didn't benefit Minnesotans.
In February, @amyklobuchar.com voted with the GOP to confirm Rollins. This month, Rollins attacked Minnesotans' access to SNAP.
Did voting for Rollins benefit Klobuchar? Because it sure didn't benefit Minnesotans.
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
These votes have real consequences, it's not just a political dance.
In February, @amyklobuchar.com voted with the GOP to confirm Rollins. This month, Rollins attacked Minnesotans' access to SNAP.
Did voting for Rollins benefit Klobuchar? Because it sure didn't benefit Minnesotans.
In February, @amyklobuchar.com voted with the GOP to confirm Rollins. This month, Rollins attacked Minnesotans' access to SNAP.
Did voting for Rollins benefit Klobuchar? Because it sure didn't benefit Minnesotans.
So @amyklobuchar.com voted with Trump **73** times this year...
You truly can just let people show you who they are.
You truly can just let people show you who they are.
The Senate seems to be officially done with recorded votes for 2025.
Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems:
Fetterman: 141
Hassan: 124
Shaheen: 124
King: 123
Rosen: 101
Warner: 100
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems:
Fetterman: 141
Hassan: 124
Shaheen: 124
King: 123
Rosen: 101
Warner: 100
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
So @amyklobuchar.com voted with Trump **73** times this year...
You truly can just let people show you who they are.
You truly can just let people show you who they are.
Anyway, my little gremlin:
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Anyway, my little gremlin:
(Hate that my dissertation on labor market discrimination is timely...)
Amid all the discourse, we could focus on the evidence that White applicants are consistently favored in hiring - even when background experience and education are equal.
So, if we want to talk about who gets a "leg up"...
Amid all the discourse, we could focus on the evidence that White applicants are consistently favored in hiring - even when background experience and education are equal.
So, if we want to talk about who gets a "leg up"...
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
(Hate that my dissertation on labor market discrimination is timely...)
Amid all the discourse, we could focus on the evidence that White applicants are consistently favored in hiring - even when background experience and education are equal.
So, if we want to talk about who gets a "leg up"...
Amid all the discourse, we could focus on the evidence that White applicants are consistently favored in hiring - even when background experience and education are equal.
So, if we want to talk about who gets a "leg up"...
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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Dear neighbor,
We’re seeing increased immigration enforcement impacting Latino families in our neighborhoods, South Minneapolis, Phillips and Lake Street. Unfortunately, ICE extra busy today. 1/
We’re seeing increased immigration enforcement impacting Latino families in our neighborhoods, South Minneapolis, Phillips and Lake Street. Unfortunately, ICE extra busy today. 1/
December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dear neighbor,
We’re seeing increased immigration enforcement impacting Latino families in our neighborhoods, South Minneapolis, Phillips and Lake Street. Unfortunately, ICE extra busy today. 1/
We’re seeing increased immigration enforcement impacting Latino families in our neighborhoods, South Minneapolis, Phillips and Lake Street. Unfortunately, ICE extra busy today. 1/
I know this is an extremely minor addition to the hellscape we're living in, but the McElroys just posting through it instead of offering any words about last week is really bumming me out. (If I have missed something, please let me know.)
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I know this is an extremely minor addition to the hellscape we're living in, but the McElroys just posting through it instead of offering any words about last week is really bumming me out. (If I have missed something, please let me know.)
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PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
Hey Minneapolis, these temps are brutal.
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
SanctuarySupplyDepot - Open Collective
The Sanctuary Supply Depot is a central hub that fascilitates the collection and distribution of basic survival supplies for our unhoused neighbors.
opencollective.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
I love how she reaches out when she doesn't have my complete and undivided attention.
December 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I love how she reaches out when she doesn't have my complete and undivided attention.
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One way to support the community at this uncertain time is to continue to support the businesses and nonprofits that are integral to the fabric of our community and neighborhoods.
Show up to support the 100+ Somali and East African-owned small businesses!
Show up to support the 100+ Somali and East African-owned small businesses!
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One way to support the community at this uncertain time is to continue to support the businesses and nonprofits that are integral to the fabric of our community and neighborhoods.
Show up to support the 100+ Somali and East African-owned small businesses!
Show up to support the 100+ Somali and East African-owned small businesses!
Hey Minneapolis, these temps are brutal.
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
SanctuarySupplyDepot - Open Collective
The Sanctuary Supply Depot is a central hub that fascilitates the collection and distribution of basic survival supplies for our unhoused neighbors.
opencollective.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hey Minneapolis, these temps are brutal.
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.
Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:
opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
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As temperatures continue to drop this weekend, it’s important to know where local warming centers are for our unhoused neighbors.
Here is the link to Hennepin County’s list of warming centers:
www.hennepin.us/STAYWARM
Here is the link to Hennepin County’s list of warming centers:
www.hennepin.us/STAYWARM
Severe cold warming options
Learn about places to go in a cold-weather emergency.
www.hennepin.us
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
As temperatures continue to drop this weekend, it’s important to know where local warming centers are for our unhoused neighbors.
Here is the link to Hennepin County’s list of warming centers:
www.hennepin.us/STAYWARM
Here is the link to Hennepin County’s list of warming centers:
www.hennepin.us/STAYWARM
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BREAKING: Indiana's GOP controlled Senate REJECTS Trump’s racially gerrymandered maps!
This is a win for democracy. Keep the pressure on! This is outstanding news! I wrote about Indiana's attempt to undermine voting rights just earlier this week. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/democracy-...
This is a win for democracy. Keep the pressure on! This is outstanding news! I wrote about Indiana's attempt to undermine voting rights just earlier this week. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Democracy Is Not Self-Executing — Indiana Shows Us the Crisis Is Already Here
If you want to understand how democracies erode, don’t start with the spectacular moments.
qasimrashid.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
BREAKING: Indiana's GOP controlled Senate REJECTS Trump’s racially gerrymandered maps!
This is a win for democracy. Keep the pressure on! This is outstanding news! I wrote about Indiana's attempt to undermine voting rights just earlier this week. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/democracy-...
This is a win for democracy. Keep the pressure on! This is outstanding news! I wrote about Indiana's attempt to undermine voting rights just earlier this week. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Hell yeah, needed some good news today 💚
On Tuesday night, our City Council unanimously passed the 2026 budget! The budget now heads to Mayor Frey to sign.
All 12 of my budget amendments passed successfully.
All 12 of my budget amendments passed successfully.
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hell yeah, needed some good news today 💚
This!!! Choosing to platform someone whose industry is ruining everyone's lives and global civil society was beyond crummy and felt like a real betrayal of their listeners.
The McElroys on MBMBaM this week giving advice to a defense contractor about playing disc golf after meetings was infuriating. The only acceptable advice to give there is "quit your fucking job and maybe [redacted]" like what the fuck guys
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This!!! Choosing to platform someone whose industry is ruining everyone's lives and global civil society was beyond crummy and felt like a real betrayal of their listeners.
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There's an astounding amount of data in this. I'm using it to help update my understanding of the global higher ed landscape.
Here it is, folks: The World of Higher Education - Year in Review 2025.
Everything you need to know about where the sector is going across the globe right now in one convenient package.
There will be a quiz.
Everything you need to know about where the sector is going across the globe right now in one convenient package.
There will be a quiz.
The World of Higher Education – Year in Review 2025 | HESA
Morning all. Today, HESA is releasing The World of Higher Education – Year in Review 2025, the first in our to-be-annual series chronicling how the world’s higher education systems have fared over the...
higheredstrategy.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
There's an astounding amount of data in this. I'm using it to help update my understanding of the global higher ed landscape.
Basically it's Google's core business model but 1,000 times worse.
This was always the direction AI was going to head - expedited because AI is losing money on its own.
Obvious endpoint is turning the entire knowledge market into a buyers' game.
Obvious endpoint is turning the entire knowledge market into a buyers' game.
Google is about to bring ads to its AI chatbot Gemini.
The tech giant has reportedly informed advertisers of the decision, with the ads set to begin in 2026.
www.adweek.com/media/google...
The tech giant has reportedly informed advertisers of the decision, with the ads set to begin in 2026.
www.adweek.com/media/google...
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Basically it's Google's core business model but 1,000 times worse.
This was always the direction AI was going to head - expedited because AI is losing money on its own.
Obvious endpoint is turning the entire knowledge market into a buyers' game.
Obvious endpoint is turning the entire knowledge market into a buyers' game.
Google is about to bring ads to its AI chatbot Gemini.
The tech giant has reportedly informed advertisers of the decision, with the ads set to begin in 2026.
www.adweek.com/media/google...
The tech giant has reportedly informed advertisers of the decision, with the ads set to begin in 2026.
www.adweek.com/media/google...
EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot
www.adweek.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This was always the direction AI was going to head - expedited because AI is losing money on its own.
Obvious endpoint is turning the entire knowledge market into a buyers' game.
Obvious endpoint is turning the entire knowledge market into a buyers' game.
It would appear the rabbits spend all night partying in our backyard.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It would appear the rabbits spend all night partying in our backyard.
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I’m a teacher at one of the public schools in Minneapolis. One of our janitors, Henry, is majorly behind on his rent, struggling to afford his heart medications, and can’t afford groceries.
Donate to Minneapolis for Henry OUR Custodian, organized by Amelia Marquez
Hi everyone!
My name is Amelia Marquez! I am a teacher at a public school i… Amelia Marquez needs your support for Minneapolis for Henry OUR Custodian
gofund.me
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’m a teacher at one of the public schools in Minneapolis. One of our janitors, Henry, is majorly behind on his rent, struggling to afford his heart medications, and can’t afford groceries.
Been thinking about this for months. We see iterations of this pattern over time & industry.
Here, tech billionaires dramatically oversell the benefits (& downplay harms) of AI. They deliberately devalue human labor, & sell that lie to others. Meanwhile, they hoard the "real deal" for themselves.
Here, tech billionaires dramatically oversell the benefits (& downplay harms) of AI. They deliberately devalue human labor, & sell that lie to others. Meanwhile, they hoard the "real deal" for themselves.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Been thinking about this for months. We see iterations of this pattern over time & industry.
Here, tech billionaires dramatically oversell the benefits (& downplay harms) of AI. They deliberately devalue human labor, & sell that lie to others. Meanwhile, they hoard the "real deal" for themselves.
Here, tech billionaires dramatically oversell the benefits (& downplay harms) of AI. They deliberately devalue human labor, & sell that lie to others. Meanwhile, they hoard the "real deal" for themselves.
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We Love Our Somali Neighbors 🇸🇴
We Love Our Immigrant Neighbors 🦋
We Love Our Immigrant Neighbors 🦋
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We Love Our Somali Neighbors 🇸🇴
We Love Our Immigrant Neighbors 🦋
We Love Our Immigrant Neighbors 🦋
Same energy as the classic "voted #1 office in Michigan by our dental staff" billboard.
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Same energy as the classic "voted #1 office in Michigan by our dental staff" billboard.
Minneapolis residents!
Take a minute to read @robin4mpls.bsky.social's proposed budget amendments - esp. on housing, food security, childcare, traffic calming, and gun violence. Then share the letter of support with the council!
How we budget is what we envision and commit to for our neighbors!
Take a minute to read @robin4mpls.bsky.social's proposed budget amendments - esp. on housing, food security, childcare, traffic calming, and gun violence. Then share the letter of support with the council!
How we budget is what we envision and commit to for our neighbors!
Take action today and email our City Council in support of these amendments: buff.ly/1s8Gyqd
Minneapolis is Worth Fighting For
As Trump tears apart the federal government, we need City Hall to step up and lead with competent, data driven solutions that meet the day to day needs of our communities. City Council will be…
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Minneapolis residents!
Take a minute to read @robin4mpls.bsky.social's proposed budget amendments - esp. on housing, food security, childcare, traffic calming, and gun violence. Then share the letter of support with the council!
How we budget is what we envision and commit to for our neighbors!
Take a minute to read @robin4mpls.bsky.social's proposed budget amendments - esp. on housing, food security, childcare, traffic calming, and gun violence. Then share the letter of support with the council!
How we budget is what we envision and commit to for our neighbors!