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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

For some of the best coverage out of Minneapolis and Minnesota follow the @minnesotareformer.com team, including @maxnesterak.bsky.social @michellemgriff.bsky.social @madisonmcvan.bsky.social @alyssachen.bsky.social

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026

definitely not sobbing as i sit here and watch this

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Mason Roberts @masonroberts.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Last day to speak up for a better Boulder! More voices are needed in the Comp Plan update. Even if you went to the open house, you can still fill it out - takes a minute! Link: a-boulder-future-boulder.hub.arcgis.com (Scroll to the green box!) #Boulder #HousingForAll #ClimateAction #SafeStreets

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A Boulder Future

The City of Boulder and Boulder County invites you to help shape the future of the Boulder Valley. We are updating the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), which guides how our community will loo...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be our key metrics of success.

two kids biking on their street one is standing on the handlebars.

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Bryan Bowen @brybo3.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Boulder and many other towns are considering eliminating parking minimums as a relic of our suburban past. Join Better Boulder for guest speaker @tonyjordan.bsky.social and follow up conversation at Wild Sage Cohousing.

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Join Better Boulder for a Parking Symposium!

Monday, April 14 | 6–7 PM ✨ Mark your calendars now! Ready for a parking revolution? Across the country, cities are rethinking parking to build more vibrant, sustainable communities. Come join Bette...

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Good morning to the IRS workers who processed my tax refund in a timely manner during a constitutional crisis, and fuck Chuck Schumer.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Support our Boulder minimum wage workers! 5:30 today at the Bandshell, and bring a friend!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

We were living in Vienna when Russia invaded Ukraine, and you, my US friends and neighbors, sent thousands of dollars to fund direct aid for displaced people. That's who we can and should be in the world.

Vienna's Heldenplatz at night. A crowd of thousands stands in the plaza waving flags and signs, surrounded by neoclassical buildings. The blue and yellow stripes of the Ukrainian flag are projected on to the historic Burgtor (monumental gate).

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I tagged along on a 4th grade conservation and agriculture field trip today, and it's just plain stupid how much we're going to lose by dismantling public science.

A table with paper plates containing different types of soil. Children around the table are rubbing the soils between their fingers as an educator demonstrates.

An incubator and light box on a table in a dimly-lit room. Children are gathered around the table as an educator holds a duck egg over the light box to show the embryo inside.

An educator with brown skin speaks with a group of elementary school students in front of a tunnel-shaped display about soil properties and soil chemistry.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Filing tax returns feels like such an absurd act at this moment.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I‘ve been part of one of these w Boulder‘s co-op houses for years, and it feels like a lifeboat in these times. New members welcome, DM for details!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’m taking the whole fam to their February concert…give them a follow to get your free tickets, and throw them a little donation for this delightful promo!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There’s been a lot of yelling about unplowed streets in Boulder of late, but this is why sidewalks should be the bigger story.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.” “A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”

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Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being

"Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

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Boulder Progressives @boulderprogressives.org · 13/01/2025

City councils often pay poverty wages, making public service difficult or impossible for many residents. Boulder Progressives was the primary organization supporting fair council pay in Boulder, which passed an increase for the first time since 1989.

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Yes on 2C: The case for higher council pay - Boulder Weekly

Boulder County's independent voice

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Another weary parent for 15-minute cities 🙋‍♀️

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Feeling like I need a Bustang field trip...

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My Planning Board colleagues nudged Boulder one step closer to eliminating family-based residential occupancy limits tonight, including recommending striking all references to cooperative housing from our municipal code. Co-ops have their own chapter there!

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The EV transition at Wild Sage. 6 years ago we leveraged our reserves to fund community solar and shared charging, and the family keeps growing. (h/t my neighbor) #cohousinglife

A row of three dark grey Nissan Leaf EVs in a small parking lot.

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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 15/11/2024

Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/

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1933 - ZEFYS

ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal für den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.

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SarahDawn @sarahdawn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I don’t know who did this, but I probably know who did this. A+ work.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Local meeting threads are one of the things I've missed the most since leaving the bird site, and this one is making up for lost time.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When your everyday is exotic enough to be news: www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Boulder might allow duplexes within 1 block of transit corridors, but 2 blocks might break things. 🫠

Portion of city code defining a 350-ft zone around transit corridors where duplexes can be constructed.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Vienna U3 for easy connections, great neighborhoods, and even access to hiking! 😍

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"People new to engagement now have had practice at losing and getting back up again." 💯

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My job this election season required me to provide neutral service to all voters, and I did. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t listening with my full heart. And now that the work is finished, I can still hear their voices…

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hiya, Bluesky. I run local progressive campaigns and am a new-ish member of the Planning Board in Boulder, CO. I'm here to learn from your takes on housing, land use, climate, and parenting, and maybe to re-learn how to share my own. It's been awhile!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Self-portrait of an election worker 11/7/24. Answering phones for the last month has felt like doing therapy for voters, and the stories I've heard - from so many fundamentally decent people - are a comfort as we move into a time of radical reliance on each other. Stay close and stay human, friends.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Boulderites lining up in the rain for #ArborDay tree saplings from the PLAY Boulder Foundation. I got a Suckerpunch Chokecherry, whose name and habit both speak to me.

A line of people standing in line in the rain in a parking lot.

The side door of a van is open, showing trays of sapling trees inside. Two people are looking at the trees while another stands by waiting to help.

A sapling tree in a small empty green shopping cart.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Four things that made me happy in #Boulder today: Parking lot displacement, affordable apartment construction, city-sponsored wheelchair mobility demo, and biking through it all in the sun!

A surface parking lot with freshly torn-up concrete.

A 3-story apartment building under construction. The building has no setback from the street and sidewalk.

Three people on a street corner surrounded by empty wheelchairs. One of the people is seated in a wheelchair. An adult and two kids approach on bikes on the sidewalk.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Elon killed my live-tweets so I had to *join* the Boulder Planning Board.

Screenshot of the OP on a zoom meeting, right-hand raised, taking an oath.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Good morning to everyone trying to blind-bake pie crusts and make caramel at the same time.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Morning walk at Sawhill Ponds. Fascinating post-industrial wetlands, shame about the airport noise.

A still pond reflecting blue sky, classic morning clouds, and a distant mountain skyline.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

I am loving this program from the Austrian railways. When traveling with up to 4 kids your adult ticket is half price, and the kids' tickets are *free*

Still life with reading glasses, a welcome letter, and an Austrian railways 'family' advantage card valid for one year.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Here's a snake ingesting a legless lizard, in case anyone needs a metaphor today.

A snake coiled around and ingesting a thinner snake-like reptile.

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