When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community.
Education and nutrition depend on each other.
In the past six months, [Minnesota Democrats] reinforced the constitutional right to abortion in the state; legalized recreational marijuana; created a paid family and medical leave program; expanded gun control regulations—including broadening background checks and enacting a red flag law—restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated felons; made school breakfast and lunch free for all students in kindergarten through 12th grade; set a 100% carbon-free standard to be met by utility companies by 2040; protected the rights of unionized workers; increased taxes on corporations and high investment earners; and protected transgender individuals and gender-affirming care. It’s been a tour de force for progressive legislation, particularly in the face of growing conservative extremism in Republican-led states.
With a six-seat majority in the House and just a one-seat majority in the Senate, Minnesota Democrats not only have a slim margin of error to get things passed—but also know they could lose their standing as soon as the next cycle. “We don’t know how long we have. We’ve got the majority right now. We know this is a delicate set of circumstances in Minnesota. We’ve only had one other Democratic trifecta in the last 20 years,” [Minnesota House Speaker Melissa] Hortman said.
All my Minnesota homies, pay attention! I know you love what your government is doing here. The economy is strong. The roads are getting fixed. Weed is legal! So get off your ass and vote for Democrats! Don’t let Republicans come in and fuck this up!
Punk Robin and Metal Eddie both try their darnedest to get Steve on their side of music subculture but he ends up getting into Woodie Guthrie and folk song protest music
‘Do not ask your children to strive’ by William Martin
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
i love this wolf so much i had to draw him…..
Sasha the Christmas Tiger has a new friend
WELP. I got tagged by @tulipfromtheinternet for the 3 random facts meme but in a stunning display of "how are you so bad at using this website? You've been here for years" managed to accidentally delete the reply post half way through answering 😐
I'm gonna do it anyway tho. Here goes:
- At one time I had 5 piercings. I currently have zero because I went so long without wearing jewelry that all of them closed up. Let this be a lesson, kiddos. Piercings are use-em or lose-em.
- I wear my hair very short. This is, in ascending order of importance, because I like how I look with short hair, it's easier to take care of and style on a day to day basis, and because I hate the feeling of my hair touching me (it's ok and even pleasant when I touch my hair though. Sensory issues are fun like that).
- I have been growing some fruits and veggies in a container garden this spring, and have very recently harvested my first few strawberries!
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mrs-prism
This is both entertaining and really important.
accidentallypatriotic
Yo if you’ll reblog the boob campaign, you can damn well reblog Deadpool discussing bollocks.
Deadpool is canonically riddled with cancer this is actually such an appropriate campaign
Always reblog
It does make far too much sense this is Deadpool.
There's been a lot of talk about bad or inaccurate fanon wrt Steve lately, but honestly the funniest bad fanon was me reading a fic where Eddie claimed that Steve carted the kids around "without complaint".
Like i firmly believe he likes hanging out with the kids and being the babysitter, though less so during life or death situations, but like one CONSISTENT trait of Steve's is that he complains literally all the time. He is the type to complain his way through something and when the other person is like "ugh fine I'll do it" he's like "NO NO NO ITS MY JOB I WILL DO IT i am just going to complain the whole time"
“Haha, isn’t that cute. Now, photo time is over; we need you to reach into the machinery with your little child hands, boy, something’s clogging the gears.”
I really dislike the "let Eddie be actually stupid/not actually smart" take bc I really think that downplays the very real intersection of his socioeconomic status and how he's treated by literally everyone, especially probably his teachers....
Also like.... There is enough CANON EVIDENCE that Eddie is actually extremely smart, like bookish smart.
Idk I just don't like when there's a character being literally held back by a system and ppl seem to want to side w the system failing them
character: [heavily coded as neurodivergent, specifically ADHD]
character: [is being held back in school not once, not twice, but THRICE]
character: [has hobbies and interests that involve a lot of reading and researching and planning, references interests that require having a very high reading ability and reading comprehension]
people: wow this character is being failed by the system they're in they're clearly capable and actually rly smart
some of the people on this hellsite: let the little rat man be stupid! let the little creature be dumb!!! not every character needs to be Secretly Gifted And A Genius!!! especially this little weasel who was raised by his uncle in a trailer park!!!
@inairbinad your tags said what i said but SO MUCH NICER so i'm just putting these here alskdjflkdajsf
askdjfsd aww thanks!! you're so right about it being about making him the dumb trailer park boy though and it makes me rant. clearly it's projecting on my blorbos o'clock again
#i am much more fond of the 'not every character has to be a secret genuis' argument for STEVE#steve's a character we actually DO see struggle academically and intellectually#he has his strengths too - he's good at practical strategies and making sound decisions under pressure#but he very clearly struggles with anything abstract#but he and Eddie make very interesting foils for each other in this regard#Steve as the kid who was shuffled along through the system regardless of how much he was actually able to learn#because he had an easy time conforming to the system even if he struggled with the material#and Eddie as the kid who struggled to conform and was punished for it#who wasn't able to succeed academically because he couldn't and then wouldn't play the game#even though he was intellectually more than capable of understanding the material#we also see the other characters putting Steve down a lot for his lack of intelligence - and Steve putting himself down#whereas Eddie's intelligence is never really questioned by the party because they appreciate the areas where he has depth of knowledge#(specifically dnd)#so from a character development standpoint and a narrative standpoint#it makes way more sense to say 'you know what? Yeah. Steve's never gonna be able to go toe-to-toe with Dustin on book smarts...#...but that doesn't mean his presence isn't valuable or that he has nothing to contribute'#which is all to say - yeah#there is value to telling stories where characters are allowed to have varying intellects#and crafting narratives where a lower intelligence character is still valued#within the context of this particular canon that narrative is better suited to Steve#a kid who has by all canon evidence lived a fairly privileged life#and is simply not as smart as the baby geniuses who have somehow become his primary social circle#than by a character like Eddie who has been shown by the narrative to have faced a lot of adversity#economically disadvantaged. incarcerated parent. ostracized for not having a conventional appearance or conventional interests.#it is a much richer reading of the text to interpret his senior year three-peat#as evidence of Eddie's social critiques - failing highschool as a metaphor for failing to conform to societal expectations#than to presume that eddie simply isn't smart - particularly when there is canon evidence to the contrary#i love both of them very much. but because of the differences in their narrative circumstances#the same headcanon can have radically different implications applied to one versus the other#and it is important to notice and respect those differences so that our interpretations don't reinforce harmful societal stereotypes
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In refrence to this post, I come to you today with a potentially divisive question:
#i am not a coffee drinker#but I have always understood 'black coffee'#to mean 'nothing added'#'poured straight from the pot with no effort to make it more palatable'#i associate it with a sort of machismo driven snobbery like#a sort of 'enjoying things makes you weak unless you enjoy it in its harshest and purest form'
My controversial take is that Steve and Hopper have a Frodo and Legolas relationship. Die hard allies. Do not know each other’s first names.
awwcutefuzzyanimals
Thinking about something
