Kate Ayers

wellstone was the first politician i ever got to volunteer for. people love to quote “we all do better when we all do better” but i try to live by this one: “If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

If an amendment to your constitution results in children routinely being shot in school then it's time to amend it again.

October sunsets on Lake Street in Minneapolis are pretty good!

One thing that never, ever gets old: shuffling your feet through the crunchy, autumn leaves when you're walking down the sidewalk.

To my neighbors, and the place we call home.

for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'

you guys broke watergate

This show is easily among the happiest (& zaniest) experiences I've ever had doing voiceover. Great scripts. Great cast. Great FUN! Now: Let's... Get... DANGEROUS!!! #DarkwingDuck #DisneyPlus

One job should be enough 🗣️ BE A VOTER this fall for candidates that will invest state money into raising the pay of all teachers and set a minimum wage of $25/hour for school support staff: https://edmn.me/guide #mnleg #edmnvotes

Out of love and gratitude for Summit Brewing and in hopes they make it through any financial problems we are making Summit EPA $5 (that’s like 4 plus tax homies) for the rest of the month.

We are just coming off of COVID, the murder of George Floyd, a complete school district redesign, and now operation metro surge. MPS needs stability and increased investment, not school closures.

One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.

For Strib Varsity: How Two Rivers knocked off defending Class 5A champion Spring Lake Park The Warriors took the lead in the fourth quarter on an 81-yard play with only a few minutes left. varsity.startribune.com/two-rivers-h...

Taco Tour on Lake Street 🌮 Join us, Saturday September 19th, for a day full of music, food, fun, & tacos 🌮🌮🌮 🕛12pm - 4pm at Mercado central, 1515 E Lake St 🕓4pm - 8pm at El Nuevo Campo, 2709 E Lake St www.lakestreettacotour.com #TacoTouronLakeStreet2026 #TacoTour2026 #VisitLakeStreet

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

Here’s what the evidence found on the flu, COVID-19 and RSV immunizations. ⬇️ There were no new safety concerns in comparative studies when examining currently recommended immunizations. Review the full reports, published in @jama.com: bit.ly/4x0nIhW

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Our food supply is just MadLibs now. "_____ has been recalled due to possible contamination with _____."

Doonesbury has still got it www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

One way to look at the 2016 election is as a contest between one person who wanted to be President, and one who wanted to play the President on TV. And since so many people think of the President as a TV character, they voted for the one better at that.

Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

Happy 75th birthday to Tom Kelly, responsible for me never giving up hope for my teams, and also the greatest baseball picture ever taken. #MNTwins

This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

how it started / how it's going

This book is wild: Rocky won’t convert from Catholicism to the Church of England and even though they’re friends, Chase has him executed 😳

Most Minnesota counties use electronic poll books to track voter information on a roster securely. But one city is fighting to use paper rosters — a method championed by election skeptics. Now, it's up to the state Supreme Court to decide for the midterms. https://demdock.com/4fWvX8m

This is cool: The cast of "The Pitt" will do a live table reading of the first broadcast episode of "Star Trek" to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary and benefit the Writers' Guild Foundation.

At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.

Study suggests no link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism. The findings reinforce existing evidence of the safety of MMR vaccination, the authors say. Read more: https://bit.ly/3TEwYKQ

Apparently is is much harder than I thought for people to just be decent and not be jerks. So many people seem to have trouble clearing that basic bar. Just don’t be a jerk.

Like snow... but way better

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

the problem with conspiracies is they require a LOT of people to stay quiet about incredibly juicy things. always a tough sell. and in the attention economy? impossible.

In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you