LuAnn

Nurse Practitioner in Mpls, Women’s Health advocate, 🐶&🐔 lover, early retirement to Tanzania 🇹🇿planting gardens in paradise while smashing the patriarchy!

[𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 @antifaoperative]

Montana police officer, Matthew Timm, has been arrested for the sexual abuse of children.

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

@birgitomo For those who don't know.
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[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

Amazing thread
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[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

A must read 👇🏿
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[𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 @antifaoperative]

A Louisiana grand jury has indicted former catholic priest, Lawrence Hecker, with the 1975 rape of a child.

[Center for Reproductive Rights @ReproRights]

🔥🔥🔥 BRAVO, Supreme Court of Mexico! We couldn’t have said it better.
Learn more about how the world is moving forward on abortion rights—and how the U.S. is falling behind: https://t.co/UzsjeVUsrj

[𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 @antifaoperative]

South Carolina baptist youth pastor, Maxwell Bohn, has been arrested for sending nude images of himself to a child in his youth group.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In honor of Keanu Reeves' birthday today:

“This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at the age of 3 and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter passed away at birth. His wife passed away in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, passed away of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia.

No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and is often seen riding a subway in NYC.

When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account.

In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals, including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.

In 2010, on his birthday, Sept 2nd, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.

In 1997, some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.

In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others.

This man could buy everything, and instead, every day he gets up and chooses one thing that can not be bought:

To be a caring person.
Simple Acts of Kindness

Share this — who knows, maybe Keanu will see it for his birthday!”

Tara Bull

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

One of the most horrifying realities of these masked Nazi terrorists is tomorrow they'll remove their mask, hide their swastika, & go to work alongside Black & brown & Jewish people & pretend like they're not out to commit genocide...& we have no way of knowing who they are.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

Blocking people from using highways due to suspicion of seeking abortion care.

If you think they won’t use this and extend it to profile people of color and LGBTQ+ people, you’re wrong.

This isn’t even close to the end of their assaults. Pay attention. Get involved locally.

[dara faye @darafaye]

A “famous” parenting YouTuber has been arrested for child abuse.

She allegedly used rope&duct tape to tie up 2 of her daughters (10&12yrs), starved & abused them, leaving them emaciated. The older one escaped through a window & went to a neighbor for help.

Meet Ruby Franke.

[Best Of Minnesota @BestPixMN]

Many don't know our beloved music venue First Avenue was originally a Greyhound Bus station. Photo from the '60s.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

I’ll repeat again:

Anita Hill Warned everyone about Clarence Thomas.

Hillary Clinton warned everyone about orange scumbag.

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford warned everyone about pervert Kavanaugh.

They were all ignored and insulted.

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

The urethra is a hormone sensitive organ.
The bladder is a hormone sensitive organ.
Menopause, peri-menopause, and hormone modifying conditions and medications DIRECTLY affect bladder function.
This is not a speculation.
This is a fact.

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

You absolutely do not need to do a pelvic exam to prescribe vaginal estrogen. Just prescribe it.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

3 yrs ago, Dijon Kizzee was shot and killed by police. Dijon was shot 15 or more times in the back for an alleged “vehicle code violation” while riding his bike. No one was charged in his death. We’ll never forget Dijon’s story and we’re thinking of him today! Rest In Power 🙏🏾