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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬

@colewritesalot.bsky.social
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JFK Profile in Courage Award winner, 2026 Dad, dietitian and local man. Socialism is good for you. Ask me about horses or food. Find all my writing at forksandfigures.org (opinions and otherwise)

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Mike Reynolds @piiskoor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“I’m going to vote for this because I do want some version of this to be the law, and I think we’re a lot more likely to get some version of this in the end if we pass it than if we don’t.” As always, Naomi Kritzer is a fantastic resource on our elections.
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Isaac In Minneapolis @isaacinmpls.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@colewritesalot.bsky.social Rally to support Evie Community Carshare This Tuesday @ 6pm. Hope to see you there:
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026
Arguments have begun in Safe Homes St. Paul v. City of St. Paul, the procedural battle over whether the St. Paul City Council broke the law when it refused to place the Right to Repair ordinance on the ballot on grounds that the law itself was allegedly invalid.
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cursedthing @cursedthing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Andrew Macias Cries During Courtney Friel Interview
Alt: Andrew Macias Cries During Courtney Friel Interview
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Someone's got a different idea! New group springing up to save the program. savecarsharemn.org
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Keep carshare in our neighborhoods
Call and write your officials, then join the rally for carshare.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/10/2026
Differences in housing policy post-Surge couldn't be more stark. Both councils passed a temporary 60-day notice requirement for nonpayment evictions. Minneapolis: the mayor vetoed and council centrists refused to override. On pace for record evictions. St. Paul passed it veto-proof. Down 15% YOY
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Driving to work, hearing your buddy @danielsuitor.com on the radio. Finding out he’s talking about some fucked up new illegal thing ICE is doing.
Lebowski in car excited memeSad Lebowski
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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
See generally notion of the "American Century of Humiliation" -- in the original Chinese conception it is associated with notions of dynastic ascendency, decline, and now modern revival; now it's also applied to a context of pickup trucks and hamburgers.
I Am Fleeing The American Century Of Humiliation Hat
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What a shocking surprise I can't believe that big landlords and businesses would align themselves against renters, blaming them for property tax increases! A shock, I say — a scandal! Oh don't worry, their online survey *also* asks if you're cool with a data center in downtown Saint Paul 🫠
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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 02/10/2026
Well, Wes, this sent me down a bizarre astroturf rabbit hole. Let's see who the super creeps behind this are! WakeUpSaintPaul.org is a generic site with some bogus survey likely designed to collect names. It says its a "project of the Domestic Policy Caucus".
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From your front door to the lakes! Thank you @metrotransitmn.bsky.social !!
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Improvements here, heartbreak there — surprising changes along the river trail after a week off from back to school sickness. I thought we were over this whole wire theft thing. Not looking forward to another dark winter on the trails.
Presley paved pedestrian path. Next to a road and tree carLamppost opened to reveal cut and stolen wiring
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow who could have expected this one whoa wow whoaa fox8.com/news/massive...
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Massive meat recall on beef, pork and more: USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of f…
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just another day at the Ikari household, courtesy of my daughter (who does not know nor care about what Neon Genesis Evangelion is). And yet... She basically got the dynamics right 😂
Lego minifigs of Neon Genesis Evangelion characters playing in a Lego Animal Crossing house.Lego minifigs of Neon Genesis Evangelion characters playing in a Lego Animal Crossing house.Lego minifigs of Neon Genesis Evangelion characters playing on a homemade miniature trampoline
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
See you at the doors 😂
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Brady Rings
Alt: Brady Rings
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Big achievement in my hypermobility Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) journey — getting PIP braces! My fingers have always bent back like crazy, but now thanks to my occupational therapist they don't! I can already feel my hands being more stable and less inflamed. 🙌 Silver rings, here I come.
Cole's hands with DIP braces on them.Cole's fingers without bracing. Very stretchy backwards.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really wish the art was repainted but, gotta admit, I find the traffic at night over the bridge a little hypnotic. Probably used to the noise and sound, having crossed it countless times, but it's still got a charm to it. Still want the freeway gone, though.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Losing the people who make our city-wide paper work is a tragedy - and entirely preventable.
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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On Sept. 9, newsroom management gave us less then two weeks to cull the herd — 2 or 3 of us must go. What do you cut when you’re down to bone? Would St. Paul benefit from not having a City Hall beat? No more State Capitol reporter? No more schools? We must choose by Monday, or layoffs likely follow.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Big flirt vs first kiss for most troubling apple name
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Honeycrisp, sweet tango, zestar or death 😂
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you to Saint Paul Public Schools for feeding my kid (and yours) so well! Enjoy my latest with the Reformer all about school lunch, why we're doing it better, and how MAHA misunderstands how good policy actually works.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Support my large son Hank in his bid to be the cutest calendar boy with @felinerescue.bsky.social! All votes help support the amazing work they do and find these large boys (and small ones too) happy homes. gogo.photo/686576
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Vote for Hank in 2027 Kitty Photo Calendar Contest.
Show your support for Feline Rescue, Inc. by voting for Hank in 2027 Kitty Photo Calendar Contest
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/09/2026
Every time we hear "The homeless people didn't use the resources we offered," the next questions should be "What specific resources did you offer? Were they actually meant to be helpful to people you claim to want to help? Did you offer actual shelter? Did it accommodate couples? Pets? Wet or dry?"
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kaohly Her visits the hardware store to find the "nuts and bolts" for fixing the city, only to rent a skid-steer and ruin some unhoused people's lives — now on stage!
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wow I hate it. I already have to convince pts that MAHA isn't going to make them healthier now this
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wild premise
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ok but actually it sort of was.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you look at the numbers, it came down to Carter not running a real campaign while she scooped up all the opposition on RCV.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kaoly Her wasted so much time, money, and good will to get the result that every expert told her would happen, but at least she got to show everyone who is mayor while inflicting needless pain on our neediest neighbors.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Back home with the siblings, diagnosing my dad's sleeplessness while he describes his nightmarish dreams of a helicopter crashing. "I think my mattress is too soft" as he describes helicopter blades ripping into a corn field, fire spouting into the sky.
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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sad. Folks need to go on a walk, stretch their legs, expand their horizons — anything really
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hell yeah finally content for regular Minnesota gamers who sometimes wanna go out and eat food on sticks
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Had to say goodbye to my handsomest man Boris yesterday - congenital heart issues finally caught him at 11 y.o.. My younger cat is confused and my stomach hasn't settled. He did so well and my daughter was the sweetest with him to the end. Here's to you, you incredible cat man. Miss you always.
Picture of a grey tabby
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yeah yeah he doesn't work there anymore but who put him there? Come on guys get it together
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Imagine supporting a merger with leadership of this caliber? I've got my gripes about the St. Paul Chamber but we can do better than this, come on. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Former Minneapolis Chamber leader admits stealing Crime Stoppers money as part of fraud scheme
The former CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce returned to federal court Monday, where he admitted stealing more than $200,000 as part of an embezzlement scheme.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'll wear it
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's common sense - every Minnesotan knows it's easier to fix what you've got.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 29/08/2026
if this didn’t make me emotional enough, looking and seeing that it was rep. hollins (legislator from st paul) makes it even more powerful.
minneapolis martyrs crop art piece with george floyd, renee good, alex pretti
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 27/08/2026
After nearly four months of striking, Chisago County workers say they've reached a tentative agreement that addresses two main sticking points: a wage increase of 20.5 percent over three years and health insurance through the Teamsters.
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Chisago County workers' union announces deal to end lengthy strike
The union said the agreement addresses two main sticking points that led to the lengthy strike — including a wage increase of 20.5 percent over three years, and offering health insurance through the T...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I need an updated pinned post to tell everyone they can buy my newest book, OBSTETRIX, wherever fine books are sold! And yes, there is an audiobook available! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Obstetrix
From the Hugo award-winning author Naomi Kritzer comes a tense portrait of a future we desperately hope to escape.A Most Anticipated Book: Nerd Daily | Goodr...
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I want this as high res as the world can give it to me
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026
back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My pixel 9 pro still feels good but I'd be lying if I didn't feel the pressure sometimes.
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🍞 Cole Hanson 🥬 @colewritesalot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My own building has the equivalent of 2-4 units locked up as forever "for lease" retail space right on a green line stop, never occupied.
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