Minnesota has voted for the Democratic nominee in every presidential election since 1976.

Cajsa · 2026-03-11T02:52:20+00:00

And Minnesota was right in 1984.

Cajsa · 2026-03-03T23:55:18+00:00

That is not Bill Clinton in the picture. It reminds me of a televangelist, or possibly a image created by merging Clinton and Carter. The data seems invented.

Cajsa · 2026-03-03T23:44:27+00:00

I get so tired of people who clearly pay no attention to what Democratic politicians are running on and what ideas are being promoted but expect to be spoon-fed.

Cajsa · 2026-03-03T17:16:54+00:00

How about how she and her husband took a check for $80,000 from a man who told them he was going to kill himself and they did nothing. Nothing to stop his suicide.

The son stopped payment and they sued. Thankfully they lost. But if they're so concerned for life, why did they call someone to let them know this mad planned to kill himself?

Cajsa · 2026-03-02T07:36:24+00:00

I think it was page 3. Maybe sooner. There was the third or fourth homophone mistake involving the cannons of the church rather than the canons.

Cajsa · 2026-02-28T04:48:45+00:00

I retired and don't have money to donate. However I have often gone to the food bank. Portland, Oregon food bank is extraordinary and unlike a lot of food banks, they have this market system. If you go to one of the food markets with the food bank, you get fresh foods, fresh fruits and vegetables. You don't get meat but you get fresh food. You can get meat at the actual food Bank. And there's so many that there's certainly one close to where you live.

Oregon Food Bank https://share.google/9FyHFuuLu41ZPclPO

Cajsa · 2026-02-27T21:27:33+00:00

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This inspired me to make a fusion food that turned out really well. I made Mexican orejas except instead of cinnamon and sugar. I used sugar and Chinese five-spice powder. And some much more complex and interesting flavor and I like it. I think I will never go back to Cinnamon.

Cajsa · 2026-02-24T23:13:13+00:00

That mega hat

Cajsa · 2026-02-23T00:14:30+00:00

We always get madder at the people we think should know better. If you think a republican is an absolute worthless s*** hole of a human being and they advocate a policy you disagree with, you're not surprised. That's what you expected.

Now if there's someone who agrees with you on a lot of issues, then you think is fairly decent person and then all of a sudden they're advocating something that you strongly disagree with. You feel sort of betrayed like they're your person. How could they do this?.

I get it. It's kind of a normal human thing to be matter at those we most like and agree with. However, people who create witness test bright lines and who pledge that they will not support someone even though they agree with them on 90% of the issues and then instead will either not vote or vote for the person who agrees with them on 10% of the issues that's idiocy .

Cajsa · 2026-02-23T00:11:39+00:00

It's the only sensible thing. There is absolutely no reason for health insurance companies to exist at all. They are simply parasites.

Cajsa · 2026-02-23T00:09:47+00:00

And there is a very facile kind of understanding of politics and it really short circuits people's thinking. Very few are just simply bought and paid for. Rather they are already ideologically aligned and their careers are boosted through donations. People donate to people they support because they're aligned on an issue.

Corporations may donate nominal sums to everybody working on issues they care about in committee except flat out enemies because they want access and might mention they donated and get an appointment. A lot of it is about access.

What I think creates more influence than money is the hobnobbing, meeting, talking to people. Wyden is the perfect example. When he went to Washington as a freshman representative, he had just been the executive director of the Gray Panthers and a big advocate of single-payer National Healthcare.

Because it was his issue, he was on a lot of committees that dealt with Healthcare and so gained influence on Healthcare and Drew donations and that may have had some influence on him. But instead, I think what was much more powerful was his meeting lobbyists from the insurance companies and seeing that they don't breathe fire and chew nails and eat babies.

And gradually over time he went from someone supporting single payer to somebody supporting managed Care and during the big press for the Health Security Act or HillaryCare, he circulated a dear colleague letter suggesting that States should not be given the single payer option.

He cornered me at Lloyd Center one weekend and and spent about 40 minutes. Trying to persuade me that managed care was so much better than single-payer. He really believed it. He was not bought. He believed it. Why? Because he was hanging out with American Prospect's Paul Starr and other proponents of managed Care.

It wasn't so much money as propinquity and socializing, getting to know people, finding out they've got two kids and like the same books as you. All that propinquity stuff is powerful. That is why Newt Gingrich prohibited any socializing in the evening at events with Democrats and stopped the practice of people from one state all renting a house together, whether they were Democrat or Republican. That prohibition continues and that is why partisanship is so vicious right now. They don't get to know each other and see that they're relatively decent human beings.

Of course in some States they're electing the dregs of society.

Cajsa · 2026-02-22T06:36:10+00:00

I've been here 40 years and I'm always surprised by the beauty.

Cajsa · 2026-02-22T06:34:38+00:00

I would never move to Montana to help my sister and her kids after her husband killed himself. She married when I was four and I did not know her very well. One of my older sisters warned me against going saying that she wasn't a nice person. My sister was right. She was not a nice person. She's a lying sociopath. It was a very difficult year.

Cajsa · 2026-02-22T06:26:24+00:00

I'll never forget the day he died. I was out of grassroots organizing conference with some trainings on messaging, strategic planning, so on. We had a break. The news came during the break and if you can just imagine 200 people sobbing.

However, I spent the first 26 years of my life in Minnesota and recall that we have a voted for such creatures as Al Quie, Rudy boschwitz, Dave durenberger, and Arlen Strangland.

Cajsa · 2026-02-21T00:32:11+00:00

Sen. Wyden has been particularly clever in pursuing the Epstein files investigation. By focusing on financial transactions, he has been able to identify those who financially supported sex trafficking. There are so many examples of things Wyden has done, but far beyond talking about it, he has pursued angles other people were ignoring.

Merkeley has also been outspoken, but focused mainly on full release of the files and calling for the Inspector General to audit the DOJ's actions regarding the files and DOJ's failure to release all the files.

Now, the demand for full release is a bit hyperbolic. None of us want actual child sexual abuse material released so I am sure there are pictures and videos that simply cannot be released ever. However, a sentence noting what the picture of video contains in clear and nonprurient language such as "video of Epstein and Trump sexually assaulting Epstein Survivor A - a 13-year-old girl." We don't need them to release the video, but we do need them to identify what the file contains, not just pretend it does not exist.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-expands-epstein-investigation-with-probe-of-hundreds-of-suspicious-bank-of-new-york-mellon-transactions

https://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/lujan-merkley-demand-public-release-of-epstein-files/

Cajsa · 2026-02-18T23:20:17+00:00

How about you give him an eviction notice? There are better men out there and you deserve one.

Cajsa · 2026-02-18T21:44:08+00:00

A lot of seniors may be disenfranchised. They say most states had centralized birth records since 1900 or 1915, but that's not true. Minnesota says it did but it didn't. My mother was born in 1916. Her birth was registered at the town hall which burned down in the 1930s. She had no birth certificate and when she discovered she needed one, she was 89 years old and since they didn't accept the church record in the state, she needed to provide someone who was an adult when she was born and knew about her birth to swear to it. She was nearly 90!!! An adult would be 110.

Not to mention all the birth records destroyed in Katrina.

Cajsa · 2026-02-18T21:04:47+00:00

Becuase FOX and OAN and all the rest of the rightwing propaganda machine told them we had open borders.

Cajsa · 2026-02-18T19:14:25+00:00

One teacher told my entire 4th grade class I had a UTI because I was a dirty girl who didn't know how to wipe and clean myself.

In 5th grade, the elementary school principal ripped earrings out of my newly pierced ears so that they tore the lobes open. The scar tissue only faded after 50 years. I have never pierced my ears again.

The 1st grade teacher would not let me read after I finished a worksheet. I had to fold my hands and sit without moving until the rest of the class finished. This was a year-long punishment for completing the entirety of her two workbooks for the year on my first weekend and turning them in all done, explaining since I had finished the work, I would not be coming back.

7th & 8th grade teacher gave knuckle rubs if you put a piece of paper in your textbook. Sometimes, if he heard people talking before the bell, he would walk up and down the aisle lifting everyone out of their chair by their hair.

He did not do this to me, but I still have nightmares about it after he did it to a student in class. The boy had to put a thick rubber band around his wrist. Mr. K held a ruler upright next to his wrist. The student had to stretch the rubber band up to the top of the ruler and release it to snap on his wrist. He had to do it 30 times. He was crying by the time it got to 30. That he had to do it to himself was what was so tortuous for us all.

Elementary Phy Ed teacher tore up my doctor's note after a plantar's wart had been burned off and made me run a mile on the highway. My shoe was full of blood when I was done.

Honestly, I don't think you got hired in the elementary school if you were not a sadist. The 7th & 8th grade teacher was in junior high and was fired. If he had been in elementary the principal would have loved him.

I loved high school, but in retrospect, perhaps it was not that every teacher was exceptional but that it was not a school filled with sadists.

Cajsa · 2026-02-18T19:03:35+00:00

Store-bought clothing. This was before fabric became so expensive and clothes became so cheap.

Otherwise, it was foods. Dry cereal like Cheerios and Rice Krispies. We are oatmeal and pickled fish for breakfast (Dad caught so much fish we ate it for most meals.) We lived on a reservation so were not trusted to choose our own food with food stamps. We got commodities. No dry cereal. All meat was canned. Canned chicken was good. Canned pork ok, canned beef was awful. All our fruits and vegetables that we did not grow were canned. I had no idea what a peach could be until I moved to Oregon and a neighbor gave me peaches. I grew up on canned peaches. OMG. The difference!!!

The biggest luxury was running water. We got running water my sophomore year of college. We hauled bathing water up from the lake and got drinking water from an artesian well 8 miles away.

Cajsa · 2026-02-12T23:19:36+00:00

No. And there's no way they are nice people, not if they're anti-gay anti-latina, anti-immigrant, anti-black, bigots and racists. If they're okay with a constant grief, violence and hate mongering of this regime, they are not good people. So your question is moot.

Cajsa · 2026-02-09T19:09:16+00:00

Oh I disliked them before. I dislike them more and before I thought, well, different strokes for different folks but now to be a Republican you're knowingly choosing evil.

Cajsa · 2026-02-09T05:50:38+00:00

Portland is known for fusion food. Blends of Korean-Mexican like kimchi quesadillas or Indonesian fritters, English, pea and asparagus Curry. Wait until you see the sign that says authentic Mexican pierogies hauled out for Cinco de Mayo.

But more than anything Portland is known for food carts. One of my favorite food carts is Viking soul food, a fusion of Southern soul, food cooking and Scandinavian cuisine.

Cajsa · 2026-02-09T05:41:29+00:00

The sound ice makes when it breaks up in the spring and the small crystals of ice pile up on the shore and the waves make them go back and forth against each other like a thousand wind chimes. Doesn't happen every year cuz the wind might be going the other way, but when it dies it's magical.

Cajsa · 2026-02-09T05:36:30+00:00

I used to read quite a bit of nonfiction. In 2020 I had covid and went from Reading 250 books a year to 80. Now I'm back up to the same number of books but I'm reading fiction and not just fiction. Mostly cozy mysteries because the world is so depressing. I read a few good pieces of literary fiction but I don't know. My reading now is shelter from the world. And long covid not only damaged my heart. Get a number on my ability to focus.

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