This is real, very hard to get around. I was there in my old neighborhood meeting cohort for bfst, it WAS jail like. Blocks of the black fencing & chain link around construction between 14th & 11th, horrible. "The Avenue" was looking good, welcoming, habitable, and now, what an ugly formidable mess.

Electric rate increase is based on billions of unnecessary transmission lines built & permitted. "Tanking renewable energy sources, AI, and isolationist policies," though awful, have not yet landed to affect rates. Watch MISO Tranche 2, $21.4 BILLION, in MN 345 & now 765kV transmission lines!

5) 5) And a lighter note, last Sunday our Friday protest group was in our Red Wing River City Days parade, marching to James Brown's Living in America, Pointer Sisters Yes We Can Can, Woody Guthrie's Tear the Fascists Down, Dead's U.S. Blues, etc. Yes, we're here at 90 db! Invigorating! Motivating!

4) It's difficult now to keep the cards OK to print & mail, knowing there's a special file in a WH computer with my name on it. Meanwhile the administration's gross incompetence and malice, wars, economic disaster, and genocidal gutting of our social contract is hard to believe. It's real. RESIST!

3) They used children, women and more to gain kompromat on anything on anyone, and particularly those with even a shred of power, and built a large reign of influence and monetary fortune, particularly linked with Putin, that most cannot and will not stand up against them.

1) I set out to write a postcard a day to Trump/White House, in addition to all else (beyond a part-time job - at Friday's protest a guy hollered out the window, "How much are you paid?" Right...), and I wondered if there'd be enough content.

Ready for today? Ready for today! Lake City, MN

Remember this? Minnesota is high up on the list:

Why are Federal Register posts of Executive Orders now not numbering the EOs?? This is new. I'm tracking them since January 20 on Legalectric, and WTF?

"Our" Representative Finstad, Minnesota CD1, Missing in Inaction:

LTE from Alan Muller: Domestic policy hast turned into a horror show:

The U.S (not us!) abandoning Ukraine, meeting behind closed doors, it's obscene. Adding "Sec. of State" to the call list. There's a number to call for "Emergencies Abroad" 888-407-4747, and a contact form: register.state.gov/contactus/

YES! OMB;s M-25-13 is RESCINDED!

On a more mundane note, we're batting about .500 in Maisey's housetraining. The NTU old dog is learning, and she is refraining from herding the cats. Really lucked out with this grrrrrrrrrrl!

Factors: Militarism, Ongoing Conflict, and Safety & Security:

ONWARD!

Dumped the Twit, here now, though starting anew is way too much to do. Soon...