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Briar

@briarish.bsky.social
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Minnesota enthusiast. Time management skills of a carrot.

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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 07/10/2026
First donation in! An anonymous supporter just gave $50 toward BIA's nonprofit status. $3,449 to go. Will you match it? #BasicIncome #UBI basicincomeaction.org/campaigns/6a...
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Make Basic Income Action a Nonprofit • Basic Income Action
Help us raise $3499 to file for nonprofit status.
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Chris Meyer @chrisjohnmeyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Donation advice for the close Minnesota State Senate races. You don’t need to donate to the ones who already hit their spending cap! The ones below are the ones that could really use your help. If you’re going to, do it soon so they can put the money to use!
Facebook post giving donation adviceSecond Facebook post giving donation advice
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
chip in, or help spread the word? It all adds up!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jed York paid for sex and got fined a half million bucks, Deshaun Watson sexually assaulted 28 women and the men who call NFL games are trying to burnish his reputation and pretend it never happened
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tony Gonzales: "I'm so proud and happy for him." MY GOD.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We Keep Failing Women... brilliant, timely and infuriating open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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We Keep Failing Women
It is the badge of a degraded democracy that certain men will not be held to account.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1. I hope he heals quickly 2. NHL players should be required to wear full cage helmets. (I know Faber got hit, at least partially, in the helmet, and a cage probably wouldn't have prevented this specific injury. But they clearly would be safer with mandated full cage.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Merrill Markoe is *always* worth the read. Laugh so you don't cry! Or maybe also cry.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well this can't be accurate with regard to X. Elon is a free speech absolutist!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Socialist Roger Marshall demands more government welfare for his voters after Trump and the Republican Party wrecked their businesses.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
remember when we didn’t all know the word “cyclosporiasis”? anyway before the official end is declared here is this www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Recalled-Food Show With RFK Jr.
If you share my attitude toward adventure, you’ll love these recipes!
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great thread for seed art lovers, especially if you're not able or willing to brave the line yourself!
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you have the time and the spoons, you may want to consider lending a hand to this important effort
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Aside from everything else, this is a monumentally Minneapolis news photo.
Multiple skyways full of people over a street full of people during an anti-ICE protest march, in a photo from late January 2026 published with a news article online by the New York Times on Aug. 13, 2026. Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No paywall on this very good analysis.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say murderers .. the next president must prosecute all of these and govs should not wait for feds to act www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
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Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
HIPAA *does* allow a hospital to disclose a patient's presence there to anyone who calls (or asks at the desk) for that patient by name, UNLESS the patient has requested that type of disclosure not be made, in which case the hospital can't disclose it. I'm *sure* McConnell is nondisclosure status.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The fuckers called Eisenhower a commie and the interstate highway system a commie plot to make America commie, just so you know how long this commie bullshit has been going on.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
just a horrifying excuse for a human being. i hope to be front row at his eventual trial.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have watched this approximately 28 times this morning and have enjoyed it a bit more each time. Kudos to all the women in this video!
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/07/2026
Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fuck ICE, Abolish ICE. So angry on behalf of my neighbors here in Minnesota who are being treated so poorly (and to everyone everywhere in the U.S. who is) and so grateful to people who are doing what they can to fight and to help. It's hard and heartbreaking work, but so important.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 13/07/2026
The Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.
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Twin Cities singles trade dating apps for buckthorn removal
The Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Brain death = death. If this is true, that he has been declared brain dead and they're keeping him on machines to kero his heart and lungs going, that is medically unethical (barring some unusual circumstance).
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
They absolutely hate when you follow them but if you don’t physically obstruct they can legally do nothing whatsoever about it. Don’t let the secret police be secret. Make their lives and jobs miserable by ensuring everyone knows they’re there.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 01/07/2026
Hennepin County has cancelled the monthly outdoor warning siren test today due to the potential for severe weather. If you hear sirens today, assume it is a real alert and seek shelter immediately.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Fundraising time: A Minneapolis-area Liberian mother, who has been in the US since she was a child in the ‘90s, was taken by ICE 4 weeks ago and is still detained Her family, including 4 kids ages 8-17, need $2000 to cover the legal fees to bring her home I’ll match 1st $500 Venmo @wrigleyfield
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
AP got a photo through the tarp. There goes the D!
A workman holding a large D through a gap in a tarp.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 11/06/2026
Baba’s rocks.
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Every Bowl at Baba’s Hummus House, Ranked - Racket
Bowling for zhug.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Are you a Twin Cities area adult who doesn't know how to swim? This summer there are drop-in lessons for adults, on Fridays, 6-7 p.m. at the Highland Park Aquatic Center. $10/week, no registration required. www.stpaul.gov/departments/...
Highland Park Aquatic Center
DROP-IN Adult Swim Clinics

Introduction to fundamental skills for safe swimming for adults. Swimmers will learn the following: front crawl, back crawl, floating, elementary back stroke, and water safety. No prior swimming skills are needed.

July 10 - August 28, 2026
Fridays: 6-7 pm
Drop-in - no pre-registration required!

10 weeks
No pressure to commit - join us for all 10 weeks or just one lesson! We will adapt the day's lesson to our participants.

$10 per lesson

Highland Park Aquatic Center
1840 Edgcumbe Rd.
Saint Paul, MN 55116
Ph: 651-642-0650
www.stpaul.gov/HPAC
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.
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13 Investigates: You pay sales tax. Some Indiana data centers didn’t. Here’s what we found
New records show some Indiana data centers have reported hundreds of millions in state sales and use tax exemptions.
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Dashingclaire @dashingclaire.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#Birds #animal #video
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Hot Minneapolis take: the next police chief must be someone who actually lives in the city of Minneapolis.
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I learned something new today.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/05/2026
I'd say erased but anyway a reminder that Memorial Day started because African American Charlestonians took it upon themselves to give a proper burial to the union soldiers
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Merrill Markoe @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I have decided to explain the American path to complete holiday celebration merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/heyits-mem...
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HEY~It's MEMORIAL Day: A Special Day of Barbecue and Mattresses.
An Explanation of American Holidays
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/05/2026
www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order
While 127 Democrats cosponsored an earlier version of the bill, most of them bailed after Republicans altered it ahead of the floor vote.

New language added in the House Administration Committee last month dedicated the museum to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States” and prohibited the institution from seeking to “identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.”

Other new provisions called for “an equal representation of the diversity of the political viewpoints and authentic experiences held by women in the United States” and gave President Donald Trump the unilateral power to relocate the museum from sites already identified on the National Mall.

The Democratic Women’s Caucus announced earlier this week it would oppose the altered bill after working on it with Republicans for years.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Shit loses to poop in a landmark AI trial
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Briar @briarish.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
He's so fucking stupid.
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