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Eliss Rainville
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Covered in bees.
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SNAP exists because politicians take campaign contributions from large corporations in exchange for letting those corporations pay a poverty wage so low that it must be subsidized with taxpayer money, paid by middle class workers barely getting by—all so 700 billionaires can have a few extra billion
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The firings and SNAP failures are just a reminder that Republicans are willing to let people starve so they can continue to deny people healthcare.
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Federal workers aren’t receiving paychecks and SNAP benefits will be paused beginning November 1st. If you are in a stable enough position to do so, please consider making a donation to your local food bank.
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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frog and chewbacca dance to brass solidarity band, the band formed by community members around george floyd square, at no kings minneapolis
October 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Was waiting for this episode all week. I don’t know how @onthemedia.bsky.social can pull these episodes together when the world is spinning so fast, but I’m so grateful that they do. @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social was an insightful pull. Thanks for all the context in this extremely unsettling time.
September 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Your enemy isn’t across. Your enemy is up.”
Truth bomb‼️

This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…

“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”

Watch
September 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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We've got Gavin Newsom et al. eulogizing a version Charlie Kirk who did not exist, Trump et al. blaming his death on leftist violence that didnt happen, and the entire media apparatus denouncing Dems for dancing on his grave, something no Dems are doing. Has The Discourse ever felt more unmoored?
September 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Big sigh. Watch this.

Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?

No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The cruelty is the point.
Congressional Republicans are considering $880 billion in cuts to federal Medicaid spending to offset trillions in tax cuts proposed by President Donald Trump. Of the 72 million people covered by Medicaid, more than half are people of color. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/28/m...
Medicaid cuts may disproportionately affect Black, Latino doctors and their patients • Minnesota Reformer
Of the 72 million people covered by Medicaid, more than half are people of color, with Black and Hispanic people disproportionately represented on the rolls.
minnesotareformer.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Remember writing a letter “to any soldier“? Reposting something doesn’t do much. I look on Google maps for different federal agencies & mail them a postcard that says “to any public servant, you are appreciated. hold the line.” #HoldTheLine. #chaoticgood
February 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the largest private sector union elections in Minnesota in decades. This is the way.
February 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.
February 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Click through & donate to help support this institution.
February 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Can't believe the amount of heat we used to get for downloading an mp3 when every tech company is downloading the sum total of human expression to sell a scromited version back to us
February 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Will you join us, Minnesota?
#50501
🚨VIOLENCE OF ANY KIND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED🚨
February 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Feeling warm about knitting my first ever sweater at the same time AOC has embarked on hers.
February 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Where you put your dollars matters. Support public media.
January 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Where you put your dollars matters. Be mindful.
January 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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A friend asked me about the potential risk of losing public broadcasting funding. If you're interested, I recommend this comprehensive report from "On The Media," which explains what's always saved CPB funding in the past, and why it might not now.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The history of public broadcasting and its adversaries; and the modern place of public radio in covering community and crises. 
www.wnycstudios.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM