@kim-mn.bsky.social
reader, fan of all things printed, literacy advocate, wine lover esp those with creative packaging 📰🍷📖
Fabulous, nostalgic thread for Thanksgiving, esp if you are prepping a relish tray.
I am going to use this lovely post as an excuse to ask a question that has plagued my adulthood: is the idea of a “relish tray” a regional thing or is it just that my family didn’t do it? If someone asked me to bring one to a gathering i would have genuinely no idea what they meant
let's talk about relish trays! thanksgiving mvp, refreshing, balancing, and only occasionally turkeypomorphic. what's on yours?
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Fabulous, nostalgic thread for Thanksgiving, esp if you are prepping a relish tray.
Paying taxes this year is soul-crushing. I hate that my money is being spent to torture my neighbors and kill fishermen. Could this be a viable constraint?
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social
medium.com/@carmitage/e...
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social
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Experts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s Precedent
If we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?
medium.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Paying taxes this year is soul-crushing. I hate that my money is being spent to torture my neighbors and kill fishermen. Could this be a viable constraint?
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social
medium.com/@carmitage/e...
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social
medium.com/@carmitage/e...
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Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."
After the sliver of hope with Tuesday night's election results, I'm looking for other good news. Here's some: minitex.umn.edu/news/2025-10...
5 pieces of good news (yes, really) in libraries
Check out this month’s roundup of inspiring stories that remind us how libraries continue to connect, create, and empower communities across the country.
minitex.umn.edu
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
After the sliver of hope with Tuesday night's election results, I'm looking for other good news. Here's some: minitex.umn.edu/news/2025-10...
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If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.
WHERE IS STEVE K0RNACKI?? The world, tipping on its axis, awaits an explanation. @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHERE IS STEVE K0RNACKI?? The world, tipping on its axis, awaits an explanation. @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com
All this seems perfectly reasonable. Let’s get it done.
gregolear.substack.com/p/the-liz48-...
gregolear.substack.com/p/the-liz48-...
The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently
The way to get rid of Trump—and his entire corrupt, inept Administration—is to cut the line of presidential succession. Here's the entire ten-step process.
gregolear.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
All this seems perfectly reasonable. Let’s get it done.
gregolear.substack.com/p/the-liz48-...
gregolear.substack.com/p/the-liz48-...
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ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...
Artist Amy Sherald: The 60 Minutes Interview
Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.
www.cbsnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...
What just happened #mnvikings? after the missed 4th down, I turned away for a second.....
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What just happened #mnvikings? after the missed 4th down, I turned away for a second.....
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
People with no shame, example #1256: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Judge denies ex-judge’s bid to change name to ‘Judge’
A Ramsey County judge denied former Anoka County Judge John Dehen’s request to legally change his first name to “Judge,” calling the move misleading and made in bad faith.
www.mprnews.org
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
People with no shame, example #1256: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Lots of theories. But the fact is we need to teach our children better than we are.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
www.theatlantic.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Lots of theories. But the fact is we need to teach our children better than we are.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co.
So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.
So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.
It's October 2025 and the federal government is shut down.
So what's currently going on at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)? Well, a lot of money seems to be "missing," among other things.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
So what's currently going on at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)? Well, a lot of money seems to be "missing," among other things.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)
Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.
buttondown.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co.
So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.
So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings day St Louis Park MN” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/84...
No Kings day St Louis Park MN · AFT
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
October 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings day St Louis Park MN” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/84...
100% endorse newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
100% endorse newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
Excellent local reporting: bsky.app/profile/kim-... ( @stevegrove.bsky.social
Gift link for anyone who needs it: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...
Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
www.startribune.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Excellent local reporting: bsky.app/profile/kim-... ( @stevegrove.bsky.social
what are we doing? how can this stand?
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
what are we doing? how can this stand?
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A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
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"That was the whole point of the event. It had nothing to do with improving our national security and military readiness. It was a role-play session for undeserving straight, white guys who could never hack it and resent those who could."
For the Smallest Men in the World
And a celebration of them.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"That was the whole point of the event. It had nothing to do with improving our national security and military readiness. It was a role-play session for undeserving straight, white guys who could never hack it and resent those who could."
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A picture is worth a thousand words. As Donald Trump delivered a rambling, hyper-political speech, America's top military leaders sat in disciplined, stone-faced silence. Their professionalism stood in stark contrast to the partisan rally they were forced to attend. And their faces say it all.
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A picture is worth a thousand words. As Donald Trump delivered a rambling, hyper-political speech, America's top military leaders sat in disciplined, stone-faced silence. Their professionalism stood in stark contrast to the partisan rally they were forced to attend. And their faces say it all.
Our courts will be/should be overrun with these lawsuits. I hope he prevails.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
LA car wash owner sues for $50m after being slammed and detained in Ice raid
Rafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, a US citizen, was held for 12 hours after sustaining broken ribs and a traumatic brain injury
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Our courts will be/should be overrun with these lawsuits. I hope he prevails.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Was lucky enough to learn about Elizabeth Catlett recently at Chicago Ins of Art: www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...
September 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Was lucky enough to learn about Elizabeth Catlett recently at Chicago Ins of Art: www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...
Please watch this shadow hearing. Until Democratic majority and common sense returns to Congress, we need more of this, and we need the media to cover it! Thank you to @jayapal.house.gov. @maddow.msnbc.com @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...
www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...
Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Assault Destroys U.S. Families and Communities
YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Please watch this shadow hearing. Until Democratic majority and common sense returns to Congress, we need more of this, and we need the media to cover it! Thank you to @jayapal.house.gov. @maddow.msnbc.com @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...
www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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Dr. Houry calls on RFK Jr. to resign:
"After seeing his Senate Finance testimony and the number of misstatements, seeing what he has asked our scientists to do and to compromise our integrity, and the children that have died under his watch, I think he should resign."
"After seeing his Senate Finance testimony and the number of misstatements, seeing what he has asked our scientists to do and to compromise our integrity, and the children that have died under his watch, I think he should resign."
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Dr. Houry calls on RFK Jr. to resign:
"After seeing his Senate Finance testimony and the number of misstatements, seeing what he has asked our scientists to do and to compromise our integrity, and the children that have died under his watch, I think he should resign."
"After seeing his Senate Finance testimony and the number of misstatements, seeing what he has asked our scientists to do and to compromise our integrity, and the children that have died under his watch, I think he should resign."