This is why you need to care about Minnesota 33B

This is Denise Bader, who is running against a very extreme Tea Party candidate:

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My larger institution's (so not my place of work, but our parent org's) libraries had a fabulous get together Friday with a session on data curation.
I've long thought that the Constitution Party - which postures as being libertarian-minded - was quite badly named. They're really a far right - and I mean far right - social conservative party with a very disturbing vision of what the constitution means. And here's more proof of that.
If you read the news, you know that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer. I am not privy to the details of her illness, but it was apparently amenable to surgery, which gives her a fighting chance, and today, she returned to the Bench.
Why am I not surprised to learn this? From an AP article: