Exciting day in Greater MN as CDFIs gather to start their coalition work!

Health department medical detectives find 84% of U.S. maternal deaths are preventable mprnews.org/story/2022/10/… via @mprnews

Such an exciting moment! So proud of this work.

The political director of Texas Right to Life, the state’s largest and oldest anti-abortion organization, has been been arrested for solicitation of a minor. Cool. Cool. Cool. jessica.substack.com/p/anti-choice-…

Arts friends: I want to comission a cartoon/caricature -- anyone you suggest??? Thanks!! #mnartists

🧵for anyone who runs anything:

If you’re a reporter interviewing a lawmaker supporting total abortion bans without exceptions, there’s a whole host of non-abortion follow up questions that should be asked. A few examples:

These are all the images so far from the James Webb Space Telescope - the furthest into the universe that humanity has ever seen

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse : nasa.gov/webbfirstimage…

We Cannot Learn to Live With This, by Jessica Valenti jessica.substack.com/p/we-cannot-le…

I JUST SCHEDULED MY 3YO'S COVID VACCINE AND I AM FEELING LIKE MAYBE ONE LESS THING IN MY WORLD IS BURNING.

Cool job alert! You’d get to work with @kabo_yang @doinggoodmn Sarah Bauer Jackson Koa Mirai 🌿 Kate Barr @GlynNorthington to name a few…..

Today marks the 53rd anniversary of Stonewall, an action led by two trans women of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. As we see our constitutional rights stripped away, we need to carry on their fight for our collective future.

So stinking excited to have A.J. Hilton back in town for more than just a Minnesota Football game/Homecoming weekend!!

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe v. Wade. We’re Going Somewhere Worse | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

It’s crucial to understand the repeal of Roe in the larger context - it’s not about abortion, it’s about control of our privacy, our bodies, our relationships, as necessary to implement theocracy and dominionism. This is a bigger longer game that is not in any way about “life.”

The Minnesota Constitution protects our right to have an abortion and the decision to have one. And 75 percent of Minnesotans agree that when a person has decided to have an abortion, it should be safe, legal, and free from punishment or judgment unrestrictmn.org

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Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.

'With sorrow -- for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection -- we dissent,” wrote Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan in a joint dissenting opinion.