Sarah Mullins
@smullins.bsky.social
Inorganic chemist. Taught my mom to love d electrons. Please use scissors with the parafilm roll.
There is so much to learn from the effective advocacy against data centers and Flock cameras: 1. Zero surveys have ever shown either of these are "top issue." "Top issue" from forced menu can't tell you what can make thing catch notice & garner ACTION. /1
No matter how you portray yourself (and TBC Ossoff doing brilliantly), MAGA will always smear you as a [blank.] So, run against your opposition not the [blank] that opposition accuses your party of being. Especially not when [blank] is *gasp* making billionaires pay & helping the rest of us.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoRep. Mike Collins claims that Ossoff is "auditioning" to be the next head of the DSA 😆
🚨 BREAKING: We won! A deal has been reached to save North Memorial Robbinsdale. The agreement includes a 10-year commitment to core services at Robbinsdale, honoring union contracts, & significant investments in Robbinsdale and Maple Grove hospitals. Organizing works! ✊🏾
I also want to share this Artemis II piece from the painted seeds category. I love her interpretation and that she chose one of the photos of Earthset!
Mini donuts Corn roast Dairy building milk shake
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoLisa Demuth's streak of being unable to answer basic questions like a normal person continues
Absolutely love the photo of the cat investigating the crop art. 10/10 composition. Future Meme perfection
Fossilized Tree Sap@amberrl.bsky.social · 2d agocrop art dump. too overwhelmed for proper alt text, sorry
If you're in line for crop art at the Fair, don't hold everyone up by trying to take the perfect photo. Trust me, there will be photos online.
I’m looking forward to all of the photos of the MN State Fair with alt text pleeeease! even just a sentence. you don’t need to explain every detail. “early morning photo of people standing in line at a fried state fair food stand” it is easy and helps more people than you realize.
Alt text: A black Lincoln stretch limousine with MN plates, very dusty in its nether parts, is parked on front of a house with a large canoe strapped to its roof
Velour Shirt@object.works · 3d agoNortheast Minneapolis excellence
Please push back against the proposed changes at NSF. (Writing mine now!)
Nigel Goldenfeld@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 6d agoLink to proposed changes and supporting information (the important bit). www.regulations.gov/docket/NSF-2... Link to make comments. www.regulations.gov/commenton/NS... Deadline: Monday 24 Aug 11.59pm Eastern. NSF: 2k comments so far. OMB: had ~ hundreds of thousands
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
Noam Ross@noamross.net · last wk.Three more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪
"History isn’t an endlessly repeating loop, Naomi Klein explained in our conversation this week — it’s more like a spiral, a drill bit that goes deeper & gets more dangerous with every rotation..." www.weekendreading.net/p/naomi-klei...
Naomi Klein on What Comes Next
Preparing for the next AI shock, building movements instead of just flash mobs, and more on “Meeting the Moment”
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what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.
Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · last wk.Academic BlueSky is becoming an echo chamber about AI. Like a monastery chuckling about how the printing press can’t embellish a letter with gold leaf.
Packed house at the VFW in Appleton, MN for a round table with elected officials about the new immigrant detention center opening up in the former Prairie Correctional Facility.
❤️🩹 On our hardest days, our community hospitals are there. As Sanford Health moves to acquire North Memorial, we’re fighting to keep Robbinsdale open and care affordable. Our care is not for sale. 🏥 Learn more: SaveMNHealthcare.com
Buddy, I feel you! One time a bird landed on my head, while I was walking back from lunch. It was probably that same size, but I froze up like it was an eagle.
ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · last wk.Umm what do I do now? 😳
Another whistleblower has come forward raising questions on HHS leadership, this time asserting that HHS leadership violated law and procedure during the Title VI investigations into Columbia, Brown and Harvard. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Title VI Whistleblower Disclosure for Congress
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Justice for Johan. #AbolishICE (🎥: @nytimes.com)
On Morning Edition, I heard someone referring to the Florida primary as “ending” today, which is a really smart way to frame it. Voting early is just voting. The primary in many states is now just a multi-week affair. Same with the general.
This story, from the Minnesota Reformer, was the first time we were joined by the press when observing a flight. McVan was the first reporter to ask if I was willing to speak on the record. I’m glad they showed up and asked.
Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 9mo agoMarco Azogue worked nights cleaning commercial buildings in Minneapolis. He was arrested after a court hearing in his asylum case — and when he was loaded onto a plane at MSP, he didn't know where it would take him.
Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:
Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it
Join @ucs.org for our next Science Rising national call: I'll be joined by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @sekahn.bsky.social and Elizabeth Villano to learn more about their stories, and how we can all be more courageous in this moment. secure.ucs.org/a/2026-9-2-s...
