Justice Sotomayor highlighting the real implications (and the real goal, tbh) of the 303 Creative case:
"Another example might help to illustrate the point. A professional photographer is generally free to choose her subjects. She can make a living taking photos of flowers or celebrities. The State does not regulate that choice. If the photographer opens a portrait photography business to the public, however, the business may not deny to any person, because of race, sex, national origin, or other protected characteristic,

Today, the Minnesota Senate takes up the Tax Bill! What's in it? Let me tell you...

Child Tax Credit: this will cut child poverty by 1/3!

$1.52 billion to 256,000 Minnesotans -- $1,750 per child age 0-17, refundable, indexed to inflation.

#mnleg One-time rebates ($1.14 billion going to 2.58 million Minnesotans)

Up to $1300 per household: $260/adult + $260/child (up to three kids)

A few weeks ago I found myself in a situation I never could've imagined: delivering a convention speech in active labor. Laboring in public was incredibly vulnerable. Ultimately, I made the best decision for my health & the health of my baby and withdrew to go to the hospital 1/8 Since then, I've received an INCREDIBLE amount of support from our district and across the nation. It is because of my convention experience and the support from my community that I am proud to announce our campaign for State Senate will continue to the August primary 2/8

We can’t talk about what’s happening in Minneapolis tonight without talking about what’s happened to Black Minnesotans in the last 4 months. 4 years. 400 years. HALF of Black Minnesotans are unemployed. Record numbers of ppl are experiencing homelessness, food insecurity and all during a global pandemic. At the start of the summer, another Black man was murdered by police in MN: the state with the highest racial disparities in the nation. That sparked a national reckoning on racism. Now we’re at the end of summer and another Black man was shot by police.

How is this not the biggest story in MN right now?? Roger Chamberlain, the *Chair of the Tax Committee* is OPENLY trafficking in white nationalism. He's promoting a book that says "the proper rulers of the world are white men". minnesotareformer.com/2020/08/24/a-f… On August 16th, Sen Chamberlain liked a tweet that said we need to build a worldwide transportation system of "mainly trains" to transport the world to a central "processing facility". This is absolutely horrifying. Sen. Chamberlain need to have his gavel taken away IMMEDIATELY.

NO ONE is saying school is not essential for children. That’s why teachers & students & parents rally at the Capitol every year to *beg* you to fully fund schools. What people ARE asking is w/o coordinated federal response, or even a mask mandate, how can school be safe?

https://twitter.com/paulgazelka/status/1284818196143509505

This kind of willful ignorance is deeply harmful to the very complicated discussions that have to happen around in-person learning. Parents and students and teachers who are concerned have every right to be! Maligning them as people “who think school is not essential” is craven.

I'm a policy wonk. And while the law is an imperfect tool--policy is often steeped in white supremacy--Black Minnesotans HAVE BEEN proposing policy solutions to address the impacts of systemic racism and dismantle white supremacy. A sampling: United Black Legislative Agenda 2016 minnpost.com/community-sket…

As we move forward, I'm looking at 5 things to help me decide if I should do a thing or not:
1. Time
2. Activity
3. Location
4. Population
5. Necessity
So, sitting/standing (singing!) for an hr--indoors--with a lot of senior citizens makes church a no for me for now. 1. Time: the CDC is using 15 minutes of close exposure as a benchmark. So I'm avoiding activities that put me closer than 6 feet to someone outside of my household for longer than 15 minutes.