Good morning,

“I’ll write you a letter tomorrow. Tonight, I can’t hold a pen.”

I’ve been listening to a lot of the Replacements this week. I suppose it is a rite of passage for anyone in Minneapolis. Funnily enough, this is one of the few newsletters I’m writing the night before instead of the morning of.

I don’t know if the pen stayed sheathed because Paul Westeberg was drinking too much or if there was a more elusive evil stopping him. Maybe he just cut his finger open on a guitar string. Whatever it was, we picked up the pen for you on this occasion; all you have to do is read what we’ve sent you. I’ve been in your inbox for a year, writing you personal letters and attaching brilliant articles. Informative love letters in your inbox every morning. It would be rude not to read it. “Hurry up, hurry up. Ain’t you had enough of this stuff?”

Take it easy,

Spencer White | Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]

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Vaccine hesitancy growing nationally, politically

by Alexandra DeYoe | Published May 6, 2025

Health experts raise concerns about the rise in vaccine skepticism and hesitancy as a bill criminalizing certain vaccines circulates in the state Legislature.

A group of Minnesota House Republicans wrote a bill that would categorize certain vaccines, such as mRNA, as “weapons of mass destruction” and make possessing or using them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison, the Minnesota Reformer reported.

Some mRNA vaccines make up COVID-19 treatments and have helped prevent millions of deaths during the pandemic, according to the National Library of Medicine.

The bill mirrors language by Floridian hypnotist Joseph Sansone, who believes COVID-19 treatments are “biological and technological weapons.” He also takes credit for creating the “Ban the Jab” movement to stop the use of all COVID-19 injections and mRNA vaccines.

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