Lindy Sowmick

omg @DrAliceMann is everything 🔥 Some administrators have asked the legislature to exclude educators from statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave. Just, like, how dare you. #mnleg

For the amount of money the Pentagon is requesting for this insane war we could eliminate hunger in America for a decade. The problem in our country is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of moral clarity.

Jennifer Welch: “Every single time a Republican person tells you, ‘I vote my pocketbook and I’m fiscally conservative’ they are a dipshit and a liar who willfully lies to themselves and they are incapable of looking at the historical body of evidence that every single Republican administration has produced”

“We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” - Kurt Vonnegut

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

Minnesota State Rep. @emmagreenman (@MinnesotaDFL-Minneapolis) discusses House File 76, a bill to prohibit Minnesota’s utility companies from raising rates or using the money they make from energy bills to pay for their executives' salaries. "As utility bills rise for folks across the state, this bill protects Minnesota ratepayers from being nickel-and-dimed by private investor-owned monopolies to pay for lavish compensation for their CEOs."

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

Here’s a (not-so) radical idea: your energy bills should not be paying for higher CEO salaries. We’re fighting for legislation to prohibit Minnesota’s utility companies from raising rates or using the money they make from energy bills to pay for C-suite salaries.

Colin Hortman, son of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman, pushes for #mnleg changes after insurance headaches following their killing last summer. cbsnews.com/minnesota/news…

Minnesota State Sen. Steve Drazkowski (R) falsely called the state's housing crisis "fake" even as state officials released a report this week saying there is one. According to an official impact assessment, 76,000 people are in need, and federal agents left $203 million in damages from Operation Metro Surge. Drazkowski also called neighborhood ICE observers part of a “paramilitary organization.” @wcpt820's Patti Vasquez reacts.

An emotional Minnesota State Rep. Ginny Klevorn (DFL-Plymouth) introduces legislation to rename the State Office Building in St. Paul to the "Melissa Hortman State Office Building" to honor the late House speaker. "Melissa Hortman was my friend, but today is not about Melissa Hortman as my friend. Today is about Melissa Hortman as a leader in our state and as someone who personified diplomacy and statesmanship."

amendment to the amendment to the amendment to the amendment....? #mnleg

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

🚨GOP Rep. Greg Davids: "I like price increases. I want my insurance companies making lots of money."🚨 Wow. With insurance rates at all-time highs, we’ve got Republican legislators more interested in protecting corporate bottom lines than lowering costs for working people.

My God.....I cannot handle the Transportation Committee. I swear the GOP doesn't read, comprehend, or care about any legislation that has come from our side. There is no effort to actually address problems they just want to stop us from enacting good public policy. #mnleg

ICE is disappearing journalists without a warrant

🚨BREAKING: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged. A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it. 3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking. Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better. Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement. But that's not the bad part. ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes. When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed. Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later. A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material. You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality. The interest rate is permanent.

This screams “GOP doesn’t care about small businesses.”

The President says we should worry about terrorist attacks against America in retaliation for the war he started. “People die.” That’s all we get.

In case anybody's wondering: No, we don't want Kristi Noem back. #KristiNoem