Jennie Burroughs
@jmburroughs.bsky.social
Librarian. St. Paul-ite. Cat aficionado. Curious to a fault.
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as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
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About 700 Somalis are covered by TPS. To end that status and deny these community members the basic protection they’ve been promised is—like so much of what Trump does—just cruel. It throws people and families into chaos, and is a direct attack on our community.
www.twincities.com/2025/11/21/t...
www.twincities.com/2025/11/21/t...
Trump says he’s terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
Minnesota has the nation’s largest Somali community. Many fled the long civil war in their east African country and were drawn to the state’s welcoming social programs.
www.twincities.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
About 700 Somalis are covered by TPS. To end that status and deny these community members the basic protection they’ve been promised is—like so much of what Trump does—just cruel. It throws people and families into chaos, and is a direct attack on our community.
www.twincities.com/2025/11/21/t...
www.twincities.com/2025/11/21/t...
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“Minnesota has the nation’s largest Karen population, indigenous people who were forced from their homeland in Myanmar, with about 20,000 living mostly in Ramsey County. It was not immediately clear Monday how many have TPS.”
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
www.startribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“Minnesota has the nation’s largest Karen population, indigenous people who were forced from their homeland in Myanmar, with about 20,000 living mostly in Ramsey County. It was not immediately clear Monday how many have TPS.”
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
www.startribune.com/temporary-pr...
Aaaahhh!!! I've been watching the live cams compulsively, waiting for the next fountain event at Kilauea, and it started today.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Aaaahhh!!! I've been watching the live cams compulsively, waiting for the next fountain event at Kilauea, and it started today.
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Thanks to Donald Trump, we have corrections like “the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas.” Fucking monsters.
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Thanks to Donald Trump, we have corrections like “the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas.” Fucking monsters.
It seems like every bar or restaurant on the Big Island with TVs has at least one tuned to a USGS live feed from Kilauea, and I'm loving it
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It seems like every bar or restaurant on the Big Island with TVs has at least one tuned to a USGS live feed from Kilauea, and I'm loving it
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The Trump administration has decided to starve people for political gain www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past
The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.
www.cbpp.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Trump administration has decided to starve people for political gain www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
A friend brought a Reanimator tiki mug to the cocktail meet-up, and I may have lost my mind a little.https://middleofbeyond.com/products/re-animator-mug-corpse
Re-Animator Dr.Hill Head in Tray Ceramic Mug: Corpse Variant
Ceramic Stoneware Tiki Mug Re-Animator H.P. Lovecraft Dr. Hill Head
middleofbeyond.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A friend brought a Reanimator tiki mug to the cocktail meet-up, and I may have lost my mind a little.https://middleofbeyond.com/products/re-animator-mug-corpse
ICE is hurting people & causing fear everywhere, including Hawaii: www.civilbeat.org/2025/09/immi...
Immigration Raids Throw Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest
As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.
www.civilbeat.org
October 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
ICE is hurting people & causing fear everywhere, including Hawaii: www.civilbeat.org/2025/09/immi...
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
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October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.
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If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.
September 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.
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SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
www.thehandbasket.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
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the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to
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We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.
September 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.
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Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
September 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos.
Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.
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Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York.
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York.
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
Ugh.
wcco is reporting that JD vance is visiting annunciation church in minneapolis tomorrow
September 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Ugh.
For those needing a moment of joy & a positive recommendation: the new Devo documentary on Netflix is fantastic & fascinating.
August 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
For those needing a moment of joy & a positive recommendation: the new Devo documentary on Netflix is fantastic & fascinating.
Read this thread in its entirety.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala.
Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Read this thread in its entirety.
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This is a particularly heartbreaking consequence of the federal workforce cuts — Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is a particularly heartbreaking consequence of the federal workforce cuts — Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
www.motherjones.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.