The phrase of the day is WE CAN!

Kristin Bahner on the #MNKidsCode :

“We can build better, safer products by design. We can balance the interests of business and innovation with that of children, parents, and grandparents.”

As a 30year IT professional, I am confident we can build better, safer, online products for kids that work for kids, parents and business.

As an IT professional for almost 30 years, Kristin Bahner knows how online platforms can protect kids from the onset of design and default settings to prevent harm.

Watch her explain how the #MNKidsCode would make this happen:

Minnesota's debt system is broken.

Loving couples are divorcing to avoid transferring medical debt.

Creditors are draining every cent from families' bank accounts, leaving nothing for food or housing.

Lives are being ruined. This session, we're doing something about it. #mnleg

Discharge Petition No. 6, Bill Number: H.J.Res. 25, 118th Congress clerk.house.gov/dischargepetit…

This session my bill on FASD passed to expand education and services for families in MN. FASD is 100% preventable and healthy babies are 100% possible.

Right now more than 130,000 Minnesota homes and small businesses don’t have access to broadband. We’re fixing that — a game-changing $652 million in federal investments is going to connect every corner of our state, no matter what your zip code is.

$760 billion in PPP loans were forgiven.

That’s $360 billion more than this Administration’s student debt relief program.

And, several Republican members of Congress who opposed student debt relief benefited from those PPP loans.

New Minnesota laws take effect July 1 — learn more: buff.ly/3Pz0mOH

And visit our annual New Laws page to learn more about all new laws passed during the 2023 #mnleg session ➡️ buff.ly/44nUYSs

The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%.

Refusing to provide services for same-sex weddings is pure bigotry, cloaked in a flimsy First Amendment disguise. - Christian Nunes

#LGBT #LGBT QIA #trans #bans #queer #SCOTUS #trans gender #rights

Unions built the middle class. Plain and simple.

I’ll always fight to protect and expand every American’s fundamental right to collectively bargain for better wages, better working conditions, and better benefits.

americanprogress.org/article/unions…

🚨Important Update🚨

Democrats stood up to big Pharma and Insurance. Starting tomorrow, July 1, insulin will be capped at $35 per month for Medicare users. Every Republican voted NO.

Note:

next up is banning the abortion pill via another Leo-aligned group, Students for Life of America.

SFLA has been claiming medication abortions violate U.S. wastewater regulations.

politico.com/news/2022/11/2…

On affirmative action:
Students for Fair Admissions, the lead plaintiff, received $250,000 in 2020.

On Dobbs: Here's a great piece on Leo's relationship to the primary actors and how he is increasingly using donor-advised funds to maintain anonymity:
msmagazine.com/2023/06/23/dar…

RAGA has received at least $9.5 million since 2020 from another Leo-aligned group, the Concord Fund:
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…

are part of Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been funded by Donors Trust, also funded by a linchpin of Leo's dark money network.

On student loan forgiveness, GOP Attorneys General filing briefs siding with Nebraska are members of the Republican Attorney Generals Assoc.

Taking today's ruling, Leo aligned groups are connected to a number of groups filing briefs. For instance, the Concerned Women for America received $440,000. Leo sits on the board of The Becket Fund, which has also received hundreds of thousands. Lawyers from 303 Creative ...

Leonard Leo is the longtime friend of Justice Thomas.
Leo helped advise and/or assist in placing Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.

He runs a major nonprofit spending network &, after Scalia died, facilitated spending of millions of dollars on blocking Garland.

It's a small world, a very small world -- of religious conservatives winning hugely consequential cases before the SCOTUS Updates.

Because I believe most Americans probably don't realize how small, I'll try to write about it more in this space.

Bite size for now.

1/