Reposted by Amy ReaStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 22hKristi Noem characterized Renee Good as a “domestic terrorist” — and and Lisa Demuth thanked her 17735
Reposted by Amy ReaChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!' 732061
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hey everyone, I'm giving a talk in Park Rapids next week about the 1894 Hinckley firestorm, which was a terrifying event. Join me if you can! www.walkermn.com/news/the-189...walkermn.com‘The 1894 Hinckley Firestorm’ is HCLL program for Oct. 6PARK RAPIDS — The Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning presents Amy C. Rea, “The 1894 Hinckley Firestorm,” Oct. 6 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the American Legion Club. 042
Reposted by Amy ReaTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Dolly Parton Day! For this 9/25, the Bitter Kitten Movie Club is diving deep into "9 to 5," with a podcast talking about its queer influences and liberal polemic and a costume post outlining all of the tropes and motifs you might have missed: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...tomandlorenzo.comBitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day, 216934
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026From a friend in Bloomington: Operation Metro Surge may be “over” but ICE has not left. They have been here this whole time, taking our neighbors. This week especially, ICE is incredibly active in Bloomington. ICE agents ambush people as they are arriving at work or stopping to get gas. 020
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And here we have, in its natural habitat, the rare upright tire. 050
Reposted by Amy ReaTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ageing: the condition of becoming less serious about all you were once far too serious about and more serious about all that you once undervalued. 416436
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026@jenieats.bsky.social Loved your post today. I'm older than you but it still applies. Sigh. 100
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Watching the first episode of Ryan Murphy's Lizzie Borden series and am reminded that "subtle" is not one of Murphy's attributes. 000
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Let's all call Tom Emmer's office (202-225-2331 or 763-241-6848) to ask where he buys his groceries as we'd all like to find that ground beef he says costs $2 a pound. www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/...minnpost.comDoes ground beef cost $2 per pound?You'd have to time travel back to the early aughts to find such affordable cows. 075
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Arriving into the Duluth harbor: the Alpena, the oldest still-operating ship on the Great Lakes (from 1942). 082
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I love you, South Park. I mean South America. variety.com/2026/tv/news...variety.com‘South Park’ Changes Name to ‘South America’ as Creators Roast Apple and Google for Obeying Trump’s Lake America Name Change"South Park" is no more. Long live "South America." 060
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We've had a lot of fun in Duluth the last couple of days, including this visit to the William A Irvin Museum, a 1938 ore carrier that somehow survived its days on the Great Lakes. 050
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Good morning from the big beautiful ocean called Lake Superior 731735145
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Took the whole summer to find the summer movie I was looking for: Coyote vs. Acme. 040
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Kudos to the woman entering the fair wearing a shirt reading, "All peopled out" 080
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The crop art exhibit is always one of the best things at the Fair, but gotta say, the crop artists completely outdid themselves this year, especially when it comes to certain events earlier this year. 130
Reposted by Amy ReaLaurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 01/09/202656 pieces of crop art from this year's state fair now in "Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance" (they keep adding more as artists give permission or clamor to get in there): www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf 0373
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Watching the original My Brilliant Career, and wow, Sam Neill is so young. 020
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The last day of the 2026 #SealeyChallenge! My final book is Victoria Chang's amazing and devastating With My Back to the World, about art, grief, and depression. A stunning book to end the challenge with. 010
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Day 30 of the #SealeyChallenge: The Mother's Tongue by Heid Erdrich, a rich, sometimes funny, sometimes haunting look at myriad aspects of motherhood. Can't recommend it enough. 020
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026For day 29 of the #SealeyChallenge, Linda Gregg's The Sacraments of Desire. This book was published 35 years ago, so times/attitudes have changed, but while there's a lot of beauty here, there's also a complete lack of awareness of the poet's own privilege, especially about the poverty of others. 040
Reposted by Amy ReaBill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A Children’s Treasury Of Hate For The Honey Brisket Battered Potatoes From Australian Battered Potatoes: From @jrnorton.bsky.social: “Weirdly starchy, almost completely lacking in flavor, dotted with bits of saccharine sweet blobs of brown meat, almost unidentifiable as food.“ (con’t) 1479
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Day 28 of the @SealeyChallenge: Happiness by Deborah Keenan. Lest you think this is a smiley-happy book, it's a more serious look at happiness than that and all the complicated ways people have of finding happiness in their lives, or not. Lovely work. 000
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Jane Kenyon not only wrote beautiful poems of her own, she worked on translating poems by Anna Akhmatova. This slim volume is lovely. I have no idea if the translations are sound, but I also don't care. Day 27, #SealeyChallenge 131
Reposted by Amy ReaJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313048383
Reposted by Amy ReaMona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton turned down offers for the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice during his first term in office 181348267
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In honor of Dolly Parton, I share this poem from the beautiful Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer book, The Unfolding, for day 26 of the #SealeyChallenge. 041
Reposted by Amy ReaAmadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible. 46149534076
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You know, I didn't realize when I pulled books off my shelf for the #SealeyChallenge (day 25!) that so many of them would be centered on loss and grieving. But there it is. Today: Mary Oliver's Thirst, with this short stunner: wordsfortheyear.com/2016/12/31/t...wordsfortheyear.com“The Uses of Sorrow” by Mary Oliver (and a note from Christy)(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. “The Uses of Sorrow” by Mary Oliver, fr… 020
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Ope. School buses out practicing their routes for next week. 030
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is interesting: How the State Fair handles severe weather: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgFair warning: How the Minnesota State Fair handles severe weatherMeteorologists from the National Weather Service's Chanhassen office are stationed inside the fair's emergency operations center throughout the fair. 160
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Day 24 of the #SealeyChallenge: Dream Barker by Jean Valentine. An early poem in this book, "For a Woman Dead at 30," led me to Google Valentine and learn she was a contemporary of Sylvia Plath. Which is probably why I think the poem below is very reminiscent of Plath's Daddy. 040
Reposted by Amy ReaJohn Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026To be fair it is entirely in character for Spider-Man to need a gofundme for legal fees 32567499
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 23/08/2026For day 23 of the #SealeyChallenge, I turned to the luminous Constance by Jane Kenyon. It contains two of her possibly best-known poems: Having it Out with Melancholy (poets.org/poem/having-...) and Otherwise (poets.org/poem/otherwise). Need I say more?poets.orgHaving It out with MelancholyWhen I was born, you waited 050
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Watching My Brilliant Career and feeling like I need to incorporate the phrase "tickety boo" into my everyday language. 240
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Day 22 of the #SealeyChallenge brings me to a book I don't actually like much. But I keep it and reread it because it belonged to a close friend from college, who gave it to me when she joined the Peace Corps after college and was murdered on her assignment. I keep it to remember her. 170
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Day 21 (!!!) of the #SealeyChallenge, and today's book is the melancholy and thought-provoking meditation on aging, Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck. Absolutely beautiful. 072
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Oh, hey, Netflix is providing a pattern for the sweater Sybylla wears in My Brilliant Career: assetshare.netflixstudios.com/bd47e270-fe0...assetshare.netflixstudios.comNetflix Studios AssetShareLink based asset sharing 010
Reposted by Amy Rea🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the war?youtube.comNews Wrap: USS Abraham Lincoln heading home after 9-month deploymentYouTube video by PBS NewsHour 37211
Amy Rea @amyrea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Rereading a wonderful book by Minnesota's Poet Laureate, Gwen Nell Westerman, for day 20 of the #SealeyChallenge. Westerman is a Dakota woman whose poetry is deeply rooted in history and nature. 041