A look ahead at Thursday's combined #mnleg schedule 📆 buff.ly/3OXuVLR

Climate scientist Peter Kalmus discusses the “deep emergency” of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel industry’s “legalized bribery.” “It breaks my heart to see the Biden administration continue to expand fossil fuels and take us deeper into this catastrophe.”

🧵The #LittleRockNine integrated Little Rock Central High School 66 years ago today. In 2023, many are hard at work to prevent children from learning that this vitriol and racism existed then and that it exists now.

Racial justice organizer Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II says last month's shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, by a white supremacist can't be divorced from hateful rhetoric from political leaders like Governor Ron DeSantis. "There is this history of not just who kills but what kills," says Barber.

It’s back to school – and Minnesota is making sure no kid has to learn on an empty stomach.  mprnews.org/story/2023/03/…

Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate democracynow.org/2023/9/5/rev_w…

#EndFossilFuelsNow #FossilFuels #ThereIsNoPlanetB #ClimateActionNow #DeclareClimateEmergencyNOW #ClimateCatastrophe

This version of Bach’s first cello suite was recorded live in the Great Smoky Mountains. I’ve always thought of Suite No. 1 as “Nature at Play,” so it was a dream to play it with the birds, the trees, and the rushing brook. ▶️ yoyoma.lnk.to/natureatplay

#MarchOnWashington #MarchOnWashington1963 #MLKjr

LIVE: Students and Clergy Deliver Cease-and-Desist Letter to Florida State Legislature and Governor DeSantis x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

1/2023 State Fact Sheets via #PoorPeoplesCampaign: highlights conditions facing 140 million+ poor + low-income in US via poorpeoplescampaign.org/resource/state… #Minnesota: poorpeoplescampaign.org/wp-content/upl… #EndChildPoverty #ENDpoverty #ScarcityISaLie #FightPovertyNotThePoor #PovertyIsDeath #poverty

2/2023-->#PolicyMurder: Research Shows #Poverty Is 4th Leading Cause of #Death in US! "Poverty should be considered a major risk factor for death in the U.S.," argues a new analysis. #ENDpoverty #EndChildPoverty #ScarcityISaLie #TRUTHmatters commondreams.org/news/poverty-4…

I am grief-stricken. On many levels.

BREAKING: 75K Kaiser workers across multiple states just walked out in the largest ever US healthcare strike to demand Kaiser executives bargain in good faith. #SolidaritySeason

"Medicare Advantage is just another example of the endless greed of the insurance industry poisoning American healthcare," says a new report from Physicians for a National Health Program. commondreams.org/news/medicare-…

The statewide forecast for the rest of today, Oct 4, and Thursday, Oct 5, features Green (good) air quality. More info at pca.state.mn.us/air-water-land…