Kyle Stokes · @kystokes
234 followers · 700 posts · Server journa.host

!! You're voting for City Council in November!! and are here to help. We've put together this 2023 ELECTION GUIDE:
💰 Who's spending $$?
⚖️ What's the current balance of power?
📖 Where can you go to learn more? buff.ly/3OW5StP

#minneapolis #minnpost #mplsvoices

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Kyle Stokes · @kystokes
235 followers · 690 posts · Server journa.host

I asked Andrea Jenkins whether she's "progressive enough" to keep her Minneapolis City Council seat.

“I don’t know,” she replied. “Is Ward 8 post-racial?

Jenkins on: governing, "sloganeering" & solving racism in my latest for :
minnpost.com/metro/2023/08/is-

#minnpost #longreads

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Scott McGerik · @slmcgerik
68 followers · 136 posts · Server social.coop
Shades · @shades
344 followers · 490 posts · Server kolektiva.social

by and in

"With a DFL trifecta and more money to spend than any Legislature ever — even adjusted for inflation — nearly every plank of the DFL platform was fulfilled. While their surprise majorities were attributed to a campaign built upon abortion rights and democracy following the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, DFL lawmakers and Walz moved forward on dozens of issues beyond those."

minnpost.com/state-government/

#petercallaghan #walkerorenstein #minnpost #minnesota #DFL #legislation #politics #uspol

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Scott McGerik · @slmcgerik
59 followers · 230 posts · Server social.coop

"[M]any see toxic pollution in the Great Lakes as a continued encroachment on how Ojibwe communities exercise those rights."

minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-m

I hope Native Americans continue to assert their treaty rights so as to protect the environment against degradation.What does it mean to have the right to fish if there are no fish to fish?

#nativeamerican #anishinaabe #ojibwe #minnesota #TreatyRights #minnpost

Last updated 2 years ago

baki · @baki
4 followers · 16 posts · Server verisimilitudino.us

Fantastic talk by Dr. Deborah Swackhamer on water use and misuse in Minnesota. Is there enough of it and is it clean enough?

youtube.com/watch?v=gWm6LmUsgL

#mn #minnesota #mnwater #water #wateruse #minnpost #drdeborahswackhamer #uofmwaterresourcescenter

Last updated 2 years ago

Scott McGerik · @slmcgerik
42 followers · 294 posts · Server social.coop

"Rates of maternal mortality among American Indian/Alaska Natives, have persisted for decades at levels two to four times that of white mothers and infants"

"Of the deaths, an estimated 93% are preventable"

"In Minnesota, Native women are eight times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women.

minnpost.com/race-health-equit

This is a tragedy!

#nativeamerican #maternalhealth #minnesota #minnpost

Last updated 2 years ago

Scott · @smcgerik
1 followers · 10 posts · Server spacelase.rs

"Rates of maternal mortality among American Indian/Alaska Natives, have persisted for decades at levels two to four times that of white mothers and infants"

"Of the deaths, an estimated 93% are preventable"

"In Minnesota, Native women are eight times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women."

minnpost.com/race-health-equit

This is a tragedy!

#nativeamerican #minnesota #maternalhealth #minnpost

Last updated 2 years ago

Zeke McKinney MD · @ZekeMD
1097 followers · 1160 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

Great article discussing outcome disparities despite some successes in vaccination efforts.

Feat.:
- Research from @wrigleyfield
- Commentary from Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP, FCCM (not sure if she made it to Mastodon yet)

- Our barbershop vaccine efforts with Teto Wilson at Wilson's Image Barbers & Stylists in

minnpost.com/race-health-equit

#minnpost #COVID #vaccinehesitancy #publichealth #communityengagement #northminneapolis #minnesota

Last updated 2 years ago