Vern Capelle

Oil prices today: $105.25 a barrel Gas prices today: $4.46 a gallon Oil prices in March 2011: $105.06 a barrel Gas prices in March 2011: $3.51 a gallon Big Oil is using the Iran War to rip off Americans at the gas pump. Let’s end the Iran War & pass a windfall profits tax-NOW.

Awards night for band and drama will be Monday, May 11 at 8pm in the auditorium. Students who will be recognized will be given invitations, and family and friends are welcome to attend.

May the Fourth be with you! ✨

A big thank you to the Morrison County Sheriff's Office for joining the Upsala preschool and kindergarten classes for our "Pancakes with Police" morning! The students had so much fun sharing breakfast and stories with you!

@GlowSurfing I did the math since no one else will- according to GasBuddy data, Minnesota's average was over $4/gal for 6.4% of the days Biden was in the White House. You're just 94 percentage points away from being right.

Votes are choices and @BradFinstad has chosen to do this to southern MN. From tariffs to war with Iran, all are votes taken by Brad against us. If you supported Brad in the past, it’s time to take a second look so we can lower gas prices.

Abhorrent and ignorant. So many hospitals are at risk because of Republican attacks. HCMC is one of the places his constituents are flown when they experience major trauma. This will hurt his constituents. @SenWestrom, do better.

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold. Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away. Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other. One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018. By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie. Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold. This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050. The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead. The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.

This is categorically false. Not merely a stretch, but a straight-up lie. Congress (not Biden alone) appropriated roughly $188 billion total for Ukraine-related support from 2022–2024. NOT $350 billion. Of that, the bulk (~$110–130B in security/military categories) stayed right here in the U.S., paying American defense contractors & replenishing our own stockpiles. Actual direct financial ("cash") support to Ukraine was roughly $31–38B. Those funds were tracked by the World Bank and were audited by firms like KPMG & Deloitte. We were not writing blank checks. It's extremely frustrating to watch this President demonize an ally while downplaying Putin as the aggressor. This administration has ended new U.S. financial/military support for Ukraine (they can buy via the EU if needed). Combined with eased sanctions on Russia and the President's moral ambiguity on the war, it is just a complete betrayal that I will never, ever understand. Polls show that the vast majority of Americans are very much clear eyed about this — we support Ukraine and we sympathize with Ukraine. Our President does not reflect that majority view.

Graham Platner: “Paying union workers a good wage to build our schools and our roads and our energy grids is the best possible way we could spend our money. Certainly better than giving tax breaks to billionaires or blowing up girls’ schools in Iran”

“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.” - John F. Kennedy

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception. The country was lied to. Here is what the study found.🧵

The shamelessness is impressive. They literally passed the package the Senate sent over 35 days ago finally when this clown figured out they weren’t ever going to win.

Al Gore didn't shift to predicting an ice age. He warned about AMOC collapse — the Atlantic circulation system that keeps Europe and North America warm. If it slows or fails, those regions get colder. Regionally. Temporarily. While the planet keeps warming. This is like saying a doctor "shifted positions" because they warned that a fever can cause chills. The physics hasn't changed. The planet is still warming. 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. 2026 is forecast to break that record. The oceans are at all-time high temperatures right now. You don't get to mock the science because you don't understand the mechanism.

Yes, @ScottJenningsKY is super thin-skinned (he won’t see this post bcuz he blocked me on Twitter), so not a surprise he lost his shit last night. But here’s the thing about him. He doesn’t believe what he’s saying. He’s an actor playing a role. He found out he’d make big, big money by playing the big MAGA tough guy. So that’s what he’s doing. And @CNN pays him big bucks to play that role. And when you don’t really believe what you’re saying, when you’re just playing a role, it’s really easy to become flustered and lose your shit. And that’s what he did. People like Scott Jennings who just play roles to incite division & viral moments are everything that’s wrong with our politics today. And people like young @adammocklerr, who genuinely believes what he says and is genuinely interested in respectful debate, are everything that’s right with our politics today.

The state of Minnesota possesses a confederate flag captured by Union soldiers from Minnesota during the Battle of Gettysburg. The state has repeatedly refused to return the flag to the state of Virginia. Former Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura said “Why? I mean, we won.”

The damage @RepPeteStauber, @BradFinstad, @GOPMajorityWhip, and @FischbachMN7 have done to Minnesota hospitals is alarming. They’ve created a healthcare disaster and they don’t care.

How's this for karma? Trump hitched his camel to the Saudis + LIV golf. He hosted their dumbass tourneys on his courses. Then Trump bombed Iran. So Iran bombed Saudi infrastructure for being a US ally. So the Saudis can't afford $6B for LIV + killed it. So much winning!

After 4 years, this one still haunt me whenever I watch this footage 🔥

The elementary memory books have arrived and the classroom teachers will be distributing books to students who have ordered one. If you missed out, we do have extra copies available - just bring $17 cash or check to the school office or Mr. Cheney.