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Blinky Watts

@blinkywatts.bsky.social
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Radical bureaucrat.

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Ross Raihala (Alpha Male) 🌈 @rossraihala.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote a column about The Jacket. “There are a lot of people wearing it who have been through a thing, you know? Even if they weren’t doing it together, we went through it together.” (gift link)
twincities.com
Ross Raihala: Here’s the story of the St. Paul Saints jacket that went viral
The Saints sold 37 of the jackets, designed to look like a thrift store find. Then came the Stump Party.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Turn 50 today. Took the day off. About to start Dread Zeppelin: A Song of Hope @cbbworld.bsky.social @scottaukerman.bsky.social @pftompkins.bsky.social
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also knee deep in responding to a cyber attack, discovered in late July.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
1% on the tax levy is about $2.5M. So Chen would need to figure out to cover $26M in inflation AND cut another few mill on top of that to accomplish a tax cut. Easy peasy.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is the correct take. IYKYK.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This article is trash. Every supposed accomplishment was either already in progress under Carter (Aldi’s, downtown improvement district purchases), or useless (state money for Wilkins that requires a local match from unidentified funds). Josie’s disdain for Carter and love for Her is undefeated.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The incidents unfolded in front of his friends and family, and appeared to be her way of sliding into group conversations he was in. “‘Oh, did he tell you about the time I grabbed (this guy’s) butt?’,” he recalled her saying to the group. “I never felt unsafe about it, but it was bizarre.”
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.twincities.com/2026/07/30/s... A former City Hall staffer recalled how, on numerous occasions, Her — who was then a City Hall employee — would approach him at public events, grab him by the glutes and simultaneously announce to others around him that she had once grabbed him by the glutes.
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St. Paul Mayor Her can be rollicking, personable, inappropriate, according to accounts
On April 1, an attorney for St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry informed the city that Her had sent “inappropriate and … unlawful text messages” to a city employee, and that litigation is “reasonably for...
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Ross Raihala (Alpha Male) 🌈 @rossraihala.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Finn Wolfhard talked to Billboard about his Replacements biopic. The Stranger Things star said, to him, the Mats are "the best rock band of all time." Here's my story (gift link):
twincities.com
‘Stranger Things’ star Finn Wolfhard talks about his impending Replacements biopic
Wolfhard admits the band is a tricky sell for a feature film.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Tom Waits. “I come in on a night train with an arm full of boxcars on the wings of a magpie cross a hooligan night and I busted up a chifferobe way out by the kokomo cooked up a mess of mulligan and got into a fight”
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
MATCHDAY 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just unliked this post because it changed the total number of likes from 123 to 124 🤢
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I only use odds for the alarm clock and microwave. I also prefer primes, but 49 gets a pass. Never thought about volume before today… Thanks! 😂
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
One more for Sam Goody - where my 30% employee discount made cds the same price that I could get with no discount at Newbury Comics down the street.
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ESPN FC @espnfc-m.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
CUCHO HERNANDEZ WITH AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE INDIVIDUAL EFFORT TO SEAL IT FOR COLOMBIA 😱 He just wouldn’t give up before providing the assist 👏
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It is funny to be in the middle of an energy and medicine revolution while the part of the tech industry that draws attention to itself is entirely devoted to scams and exploding rockets.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Can we just keep a Spacemen 3 thread going to get through this Wednesday afternoon?
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q12...
m.youtube.com
May The Circle Be Unbroken
YouTube video by Spacemen 3 - Topic
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Supporters of the renovation project have noted downtown St. Paul needs those numbers of visitors given its other challenges.” Supporters of the project have also noted that the state needs those visitors too, since Saint Paul sends $330M per year in sales tax revenue to the state.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m hearing that the cuts to Taxes and Local Aids are just federal tax conformity changes that will result in revenue losses. Not cuts to LGA.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Hell yes. Sounds amazing.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thanks Mayor Carter!! Remember some people wanted him to invest in the now thoroughly discredited ShotSpotter instead?!
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/04/2026
Sen. Tina Smith plans marathon speech to oppose reopening mining near the Boundary Waters: “I am going to hold the Senate floor for hours to give them every opportunity to change their minds and do the right thing," Smith said.
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Live: Smith plans hours-long Senate speech against measure to open mining near the Boundary Waters
If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
For taxes due in 2027, residences are gaining 1% value; industrial sector about 5.5%. If anything could help lower your tax bill, it’s industrial land. St. Paul needs to maintain what it has of it, if not add more…at least, so sayeth the St. Paul Port Authority. www.twincities.com/2026/04/09/s...
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St. Paul Port Authority report tallies value of city’s industrial land
A 17-page analysis finds that every $1 in tax revenue spent on services to industrially-zoned land yields $1.80 in tax revenue for the city.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
media.tenor.com
two men are dancing in front of a painting that says pop out
Alt: Turbo and Ozone are dancing in front of a painting that says popin’ from the movie Breakin’
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Two basic follow up questions the reporter should have asked Her’s office: 1. Why are you leaking this to me now when you’ve known for months? 2. Where are you in the process of reappointing holdovers from Carter’s administration? (Hint: those two questions are related).
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Such a bad look that the current mayor promoted a trumped up story to distract from a lackluster first 100 days? 90% of the payments are contractually obligated vacation and severance payouts. This is just petty.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Also has their version of No More Kings. Appropriate for today.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So… Saint Patrick’s day?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/03/2026
One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons? Wait. He didn't.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ancient. Parked my first car at the top of a hill every night so I could pop the clutch to start every morning.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 11/02/2026
They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Great point. Could also run the entire City of Saint Paul with that many people. 3,000 employees.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Makes sense to send the guy who stole $50,000 of FBI money to head up an operation that’s ostensibly about fraud.
Tom Homan scratching his head and looking puzzled as if he’s pondering “what happened to those $50 Gs?”
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
General counsel for the MN Gun Owners Law Center
An X post from the general counsel of the MN Gun Owners Law Center saying “Clearer look. I never see the man touch his firearm, and it looks like he's disarmed before being shot.” And a clip from a video showing the victim is disarmed before being murdered.
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sydder @sydder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I mean look at this hellscape.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The city of Cambridge, MA started closing their river parkway on Sundays in 1985. And then wouldn’t you know it, they quickly creeped to Saturdays (in 2020 during a global pandemic). www.cambridgema.gov/streetsandtr...
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Memorial Drive: Weekend Closures from Gerry's Landing Road to Western Avenue
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) closes a portion of Memorial Drive to motor vehicle traffic each Sunday from the end of April to mid-November to allow pedestrians, cyclists, and ot...
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 20/01/2026
Pretty clear to me that if Vance is coming to prance in front of the ICE church, savvy folks should organize a news conference of all the faith leaders whose houses of worship have been surveilled & parishioners too scared to attend. At least the ICE church folks could worship where they wanted.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
God damn you guys rule.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Excellent job. 🫡
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Wanda Sykes and Chris Rock at the Comedy Connection in Boston in 1999. Mitch Hedberg and Lewis Black at the State Theater in Minneapolis in 2002.
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''
Alt: Captain America is sitting in a room and saying “I understood that reference.”
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Blinky Watts @blinkywatts.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Another major success of the Carter Administration that was underreported. I hope the next administration keeps up this smart, humane approach.
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