Reposted by Colleen CarpenterEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Be brave enough to stand up for the vulnerable even if you believe it won't work. Be brave enough to be that person. For the love of God and the lives & futures of actual human people, be brave. 25813
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterMatt Serwe @serwewx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why was I having a martini before noon yesterday? It was grandma’s drink. 47912
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rosemary pull-apart buns for our neighborhood supper tonight! 150
Reposted by Colleen Carpenterfloating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Let’s go Lynx!! 161
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterPeggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’ll always be proud to stand with Minnesota’s working families. 111925
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterBridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hey Twin Cities, if you're thinking "Hmm, early voting starts tomorrow. I guess I need to... research?" may I direct you to the most excellent @naomikritzer.bsky.social who has written a great number of words relevant to your interests: naomikritzer.com/category/ele...naomikritzer.comElection 2026 – Will Tell Stories For FoodPosts about Election 2026 written by naomikritzer 081
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterAndrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 07/09/2026If you’ve ever worked a 40-hour week, earned overtime or collected Social Security, you should know Frances Perkins. As FDR’s Labor Secretary, she helped build protections workers still rely on today and was the first woman to serve in a U.S. Cabinet. Remember her name. 🇺🇸 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance 321076485
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterCarol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Fine Arts building: this painting was like standing before a shrine. Everyone silently taking it in. Only art conveys what words cannot. 3448
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterJean Kelsey @immachocoholic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#SkySunday #StunDay Good morning friends and happy Sunday! It’s cloudy and cool this morning but hopefully the sun will shine later. Here’s an archive of a storm rolling into our area recently. Have a great day and get some fresh air if you can. #landscape #photography #reflections 1411012
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166583672
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/08/2026The lines in front of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are Morse code of their last words 😭 013616
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/08/2026THE SUN REFLECTED IN THE WATER IN THREAD 425530
Reposted by Colleen Carpenterquick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Cottonwood Trees are my favourite along with Weeping Willows. We do NOT plant nearly enough in #Minneapolis. We need them along West Mississippi River Boulevard. I'd LOVE a guerilla campaign, just start planting them. Where else are the Eagles going to live? 132
Reposted by Colleen Carpenterconrad 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026While today is not the feast of Saint Monica in the Episcopal Church, it is in the Roman Catholic Church! And since she is my patron, I celebrate both days because I can! Saint Monica, who prayed with tears and without ceasing for your son, pray for us! 061
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterMatt Healy @matthealy.com · 25/08/2026Huge congrats to Kehinde Wiley, every art school student dreams of the day when the U.S. State Department calls their work “aesthetically terrifying” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/a...nytimes.comTrump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde WileyThe State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait. 041
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterAndy McGlashen @amcglashen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Fibonacci-ass flower 1183
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterDerek Caron @dcaron28.bsky.social · 21/08/2026static.klipy.comKool-Aid Man: Ohhh Yeahh!Alt: Kool-Aid Man: Ohhh Yeahh! 021
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterDr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Red fox zoomies! These two kits were having a blast outside their den on the tundra the other day. 🦊🌿 331353
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterSahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Curators hope to inspire visitors with the story gardens, which include plants cultivated in Nigeria, along the Missouri River floodplain and in the Great Lakes region. Written by Sara Husseinsahanjournal.comArboretum’s Igbo, Ojibwe and Hidatsa gardens tell story through plantsThe University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum has three story gardens this summer telling the stories of Igbo, Ojibwe and Hidatsa cultures through plants. 0187
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026New show that’s just a detective showing up at the scene of a dead tree and then we learn tree facts about that specific type of tree and an in-depth region history of all the stuff the tree lived through. 1010118
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026people will look back on this era and recognize the destruction of USAID among the most profound stains on America's conscience, and the architects of its destruction as white supremacist perpetrators of mass infant death 10998274
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterNoCoup4U @olibabba.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Reading this to find more super cool orgs to donate to. 054
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’ve been watching these lectures as he posts them and HOLY COW Timothy Snyder is brilliant, and fascinating, and I am learning SO MUCH.snyder.substack.comWhat is Ukraine?The fifth lecture in my new class, "Hitler and Stalin Today" 030
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterTeam Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It’s Election Day, which means @ilhanmn.bsky.social is a busy woman. 🚪 0164
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterJoey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 07/08/2026Band name: The Highest Jumping Golden Retriever in Ontario 053
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterJessica M. Dandona @marquisedusud.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's good to live in Minnesota.mnstatefair.orgNew Foods for 2026 021
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:theguardian.comWe launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca SolnitSummer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys 16994387
Reposted by Colleen Carpenteralix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys 1515347737
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 03/08/2026"Defying 4,200 years of conventional horse-breaking wisdom based on...violent methods of forcing an animal..., Mr. Roberts believed that a horse trained without fear would ultimately be a superior worker and equine companion. Respect and cooperation would inevitably trump forced servitude." 💗nytimes.comMonty Roberts, Horse Trainer Who Preached Kindness, Dies at 91His approach was in contrast to centuries of conventional wisdom and won the enthusiastic approval of Queen Elizabeth II, with whom he became friends. 014335
Reposted by Colleen Carpenterjasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Last year the Trump administration revoked nearly $500k from San Francisco Asian Women's Shelter. That was just the start. The politicization of federal funding is hurting domestic violence organizations across the country — and maybe soon, everyone else. 19thnews.org/2026/07/san-...19thnews.orgThis domestic violence shelter was told it no longer aligns with the Trump administration’s prioritiesTrump’s war on ‘gender ideology’ and diversity is hurting San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter's ability to help victims — many of whom can’t get help anywhere else. It’s already cost them nearly $500,... 02121
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterChristy Klancher @stpauligrrrl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026AI is a trap. It will sometimes give you great accurate info so your brain thinks it can rely on it and when you’re in a rush, you just skip some of the checks. But it’s just a pattern guessing tool and people need to stop believing AI KNOWS anything. Disappointing that Hank Green fell for it. 171
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“A model of roads trained on only grid cities won’t properly predict the street plans of Rome or Boston. Having the available data biased toward a well-organized structure is a problem. But it isn’t the big one.” James C Scott <<high fives>> ⬇️ this chemist 2336
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026They’re going after a religious studies professor at Macalester. For being part of a Signal chat, and attending anti-ICE meetings. The article is terrifying. And why is it in The Guardian and not the Star Tribune? 24527
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Ok, this is pretty scary. Turned out fine this time, but . . . water is not a great thing to be so vulnerable about. 010
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...salon.comTrump and Musk both want to control America's historyThe frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI 5250104
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This is absolutely enraging. It’s a long article, and I got more angry the more I read and the more I learned. The greed and stupidity of DOGE and the Trump administration are endless, endless, endless. And we’re all paying for it. 041
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterNational Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 23/07/2026What if we mapped the U.S. without state boundaries? An article co-authored by #NASmember and archaeologist Torben Rick explores how nature’s maps—from ancient seas & migration routes to watersheds & biomes—reveal the connections shaping our landscapes. theconversation.com/where-nature...theconversation.comWhere nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundariesState lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape. 1199
Reposted by Colleen Carpentertrash panda extraordinaire @gnomecasserole.bsky.social · 20/07/2026If you live anywhere downstream of the proposed nickel mine along the Mississippi Watershed, you should definitely participate in public comment between now and Sept 14. www.dnr.state.mn.us/input/enviro... 010692
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Link to public comment form:dnr.state.mn.usTamarack Mining Project Environmental Impact Statement 010
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterCharlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A little journey through some colours I love and ways I use them - Cobalt Blue #Colour #Painting #CobaltBlue 34710
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15/07/2026This is Ender. He pressed the belly rub button and assumed the position. Now it's time for your end of the deal. 12/10 (TT: enderthehavanes) 13177741099
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterLake Erie Girl 🌊 - Grace 🍁 @longpointbeach.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"In the crane's dance, there is a story of balance—between the earth and the sky, between the past and the future.” Traditional Native American Proverb Sandhill Cranes #Photography #Photo #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Birds #Nature #Wildlife 114521
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterPaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I approve this message 0162
Reposted by Colleen Carpenterashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/07/2026we are watching our treasures burn down and still having to convince people that now is the time to take climate action 9296101