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The bots and major media are undermining the candidacy of Peggy Flanagan for Senate. Encourage your Minnesota friends to hold blue! So much at stake.

sTrump: Wyoming, at +14, Idaho, at +9, and West Virginia, at +6. Strong Republican states; the rest, even North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma(!) negative on sTrump, not to mention Texas. We won't storm the D.C. capital but votes will. Work to do.

ICE Tried to Silence Them – These Quaker Women Fought Back. Featured in the video are TCFM members Annika Fjelstad, Betsy Raasch Gilman, and Julie Doherty. See the 11-minute video here: tinyurl.com/QuakerSpeak-.... Produced by Friends Publishing Corporation.

Is it time for a renewed age of enlightenment anticipating cultural, intellectual, and technological renaissance, as well as resistance to the oligarchs and those who hold power thanks to campaigns of misinformation?

Platner tried to escape his past, but it didn't let him go. Progressives embraced a perception, a viral working-class answer that countered a decrepit misogynist and an ancient who fed at her trough of public largesse. The assassination of an innocent immigrant, JSGuerrero, will focus this election.

In 2025 I published “Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota, Glacial Age Forward” First place, Historical Non-Fiction category: Next Generation Indie Book Awards. josfland.com for more info! 2 editions nearly sold out.

Following NO KINGS rallies at the Minnesota State Capital, on Palm Sunday thousands processed to its capital, one of six in the state organized by Isaiah. With palms, they demonstrated their faith and voiced their concerns for Trump's betrayal of biblical values of compassion, mercy and justice.

From Minnesota. Despite Repubs dysfunction The forsythia are in bloom.

MN Senator Paul Wellstone tragically died 2002. I carry his poster in his memory, and Gene McCarthy opposing war in Vietnam, and the fascist assassination of Melissa and Mark Hortman. In my heart I carry Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis executed by the US government. NO KINGS

I’m working at the “lost and found” kiosk 1 - 4 p.m. at the Minnesota State Capital at NO KINGS rally Saturday. An honor to serve.

No Kings, Minnesota State Capital will feature a great lineup (Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, Kaohly Her, Liz Shuler et al). Three marches will converge on big screens for us old duffers, hearing aids in place, canes supporting replaced knees, with the kindness and support of younger neighborlings. NO ICE!

Recommended: today's Thomas Friedman's NY Times Opinion "This was Minnesota standing up" on "neighboring" in Minnesota in the face of fascist activities in his home state. It's long and I read the whole thing. Well done.

If Iran is 60% Persian and 40% minority, similar to Iraq and Azerbaijan, and if the minorities enter the conflict the whole region is in danger. Add to that, the Shia are more populace in the Gulf States and a significant minority in Saudi Arabia. The whole region could explode.

My heart is with the Iranian people. They must deal with an oppressive regime and fascistic American one.

Here is the video of yesterday’s (1/29/2026 Minnesota Public Radio’s Town Hall on what is going on in our state in the voice of its citizens. While I am early on, I think the others convey it better. I was appreciative of the speaker from Isaiah. www.youtube.com/live/DPJ_5xJ...

The "Middle" at 8 pm central tonight features a discussion by citizens of the Twin Cities on what was going on. MPR News www.mprnews.org/schedule

Tonight at 7pm, join all Minnesotans of conscience and goodwill in block-by-block vigils. Go outside; be together with your neighbors. Bring candles. Honor Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Say his name. Shine a light for him, and for all of us across Minnesota. We must be the lighthouse. Faith in Minnesota

So, are there ICE (white) (South African) mercenaries with accents interrogating American citizens of color with accents? Are they particularly valued for ICE with their culture of apartheid by a racist president?

Finished W Moberg’s “The Emigrants”—first of 4. The brig Charlotta lost 8 of 78 from poverty on its way to America from Sweden, who lived in a hold through storms and sea-sicknesses. And what of my ancestors, and today's immigrants?

A paraphrase of DHS spokesperson Tricia McLoughlin: "Americans should be able to live without fear of violent (ICE and DHS) illegals harming them, their families or their neighbors." Interesting that Tricia isn't a spokesman: Was she a DEI-deleted hire?

Trump's vindictive approach to immigration here in Minnesota has now reached new lows: targeting Somalis because an Afghan is accused of the murder in Washington D.C. He makes no sense and is supported by a fascist faction in D.C.

“Origin Story” project: Give the gift of history: Proceeds benefit local non-profits. RSVP via www.josfland.com 3 talks and one course are scheduled in 2026!

Worse for Nebraska's farmers: Hansen-Mueller Co $500M Grain Company Collapse, Tyson closing its beef processing plant in Lexington. importing Argentinan cattle, China not buying soybeans, tariffs costing jobs. Omaha can elect a Dem for congress and if Lynn Walz runs as Dem for Governor: Who knows?

@zinnedproject.bsky.social Kiosk Guides for Learning studygns.net replaced my free educational service: 1997-2012, 54,767,483 visitors accessed 118,365,575 Webpages in 38 languages 2013-2017 2,316,237 Webpages were accessed under new management. 2023 revived: 35,990 visitors accessed 75,045 pages.

@timeshighered.bsky.social Kiosk Guides for Learning studygns.net replaced my free educational service: 1997-2012, 54,767,483 visitors accessed 118,365,575 Webpages in 38 languages 2013-2017 2,316,237 Webpages were accessed under new management. 2023 revived: 35,990 visitors accessed 75,045 pages.

Minnesota's Origin Story Book talk Sunday, Nov 2, 4 pm SubText Bookstore, Downtown St Paul 25th Twin Cities Book Festival Saturday, Nov 8 SP Union Depot, 10 am-5 pm Proceeds: Neighborhood council See josfland.com for booktalks, reference collections, media, Contents, Buy #skystorians 🗃️

Minnesota's Origin Story Book talk Sunday, Nov 2, 4 pm SubText Bookstore, Downtown St Paul 25th Twin Cities Book Festival Saturday, Nov 8 SP Union Depot, 10 am-5 pm Proceeds: Neighborhood council See josfland.com for booktalks, reference collections, media, Contents, Buy #skystorians 🗃️

Ol' guys in Saint Paul with Wellstone for moral support. NO KINGS

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Watching, listening, donating to FarmAid in memory of all my Minnesota farming grandparents and their progeny, my aunts and uncles.

I dreamt teaching ESL. A student voice sang a line. A 2nd followed, a 3rd til the end when the class of immigrants rose and sang the end. When you walk through a storm Keep your chin up high And don't be afraid of the dark At the end of a storm is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Tho' your dreams Be tossed and blown Walk on Walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone You'll never walk alone They then walked out to face ICE

#bookhistory 2nd printing 2025 “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward” 1,083 images (85% vintage & commissioned, 420 pages, 263 endnotes. Free talks, serialized. Josfland.com

#history 2nd printing 2025 “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward” 1,083 images (85% vintage & commissioned, 420 pages, 263 endnotes. Free talks, serialized. Josfland.com

#booksky 2nd printing 2025 “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward” 1,083 images (85% vintage & commissioned, 420 pages, 263 endnotes. Free talks, serialized. josfland.com

#ScholarSunday 2nd printing 2025: “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward”: 1,083 images 85% vintage & commissioned, 420 pages, 263 endnotes. Free talks, serialized. josfland.com

#history 🗃️ 2nd Printing 2025: “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward”: 1,083 images (85% vintage & commissioned), 420 pages; 263 endnotes. Self-financed, -published. Dozens free talks. josfland.com

2nd Printing, 2025! “The Origin Story of Fort Road/West Seventh Street, the Township/City of Saint Paul, the Territory/State of Minnesota: Glacial Age Forward”. Weighs three plus pounds, 1,083 images (85% vintage and some commissioned), 420 pages, 263 endnotes. Local educational/historical project.

Had a great presentation today on the "Origin Story" of my neighborhood, city and state today for OLLI at the CSPS Hall in Saint Paul, MN. wwwjosfland.com

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#skystorians A history project "Origin Story of Fort Road/West 7th Street, Township/City of St. Paul, State of MN: Glacial Age Forward" continues with a series of free lectures and participation in a PBS documentary. The book sold out in two months, hard and soft cover. FYI: josfland.com

A history project "Origin Story of Fort Road/West 7th Street, Township/City of St. Paul, State of MN: Glacial Age Forward" continues with a series of free lectures and participation in a PBS documentary. The book sold out in two months, hard and soft cover. FYI: josfland.com

On my educational Website of study guides, that is translated into 39 languages, I added my post on the victims in Gaza of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Tragically the Gazan families and first responders. studygns.net/hebrew/

While I appreciate years of Google's support for my Websites (studygs.net 1996-2012), I can no longer collaborate given their accession to Trump policies and have deleted Google ads on my three current Websites (studygns.net, aginggardens.com, josfland.com) as well as all functionalities.