Reposted by Colleen CarpenterMolly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 23hThe President is a racist xenophobe who's weaponizing the government that belongs to us—we, the people—against public servants. It's an attack on Ilhan; an attack on our democracy; and another attack on the version of our country that Minnesotans have shown we will always fight for. 010429
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterJene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 19hThis is really cool, but the data they used for Minneapolis is from 2021, so if you are looking around your neighborhood and see something that's wrong, that's why. I contacted them about the wrong trees in my neighborhood to see how they wanted to handle that. 372
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterCartilage Pizza @cartilagepizza.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is the way forward 173
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterJason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026To our Somali neighbors, we love you. You welcome us into your restaurants and stores, care for our elders, teach our kids, and show up for Minneapolis every day. You belong here and we stand with you. 2/ 18018
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fuck this shit. 1154349
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize.” — Pope Leo XIV 113841
Reposted by Colleen Carpenterjane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#ForestFriday 1449
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterJoey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 08/10/2026They should make a statue of her standing next to the Apollo code and put a copy at every NASA site. 25113
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterBoston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I need this. I spend way too much time rebooting the past. It does not change. 4433
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Absolute same goals here. We can do it! Esp the garbage, ugh 000
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That was my FAVORITE Saturday morning show! We always shrieked in terror at the end of the opening credits/intro when the T Rex turned and roared directly at the camera 020
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! 160
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. 112025
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
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Exactly, check out Naomi’s blog at naomikritzer.comnaomikritzer.comWill Tell Stories For FoodNaomi Kritzer's blog 000
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Math is red, science is brown, Reading is blue, English is gray and social studies is green. 010
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026That sweet little dog is having the time of his (her?) life!!! The smells! That beagle-y nose is going crazy. Love to see it! 020
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
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Do you have the name of the artist? I’d love to know 000
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026@effendancie.blacksky.app Look, it IS a boulevard, it is!!! 141
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
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It **IS** a boulevard! Really freaked me out that it wasn’t one of the options. Very glad to see your post as now I’m sure that I wasn’t crazy/mis-remembering. 010
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. 795166633669
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 😭 013717
Reposted by Colleen CarpenterIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/08/2026THE SUN REFLECTED IN THE WATER IN THREAD 425330
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. 051
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
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Thank you! Looks like a lot of fun—I love teaching writing, and who wouldn’t love the opportunity to develop an honors seminar on Something Cool and Interesting In Your Field??!! Of course this means they will be inundated with applications . . . (which is good for the students! which is the point) 020
Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The link didn’t work for me, but I went to the UMN job site and used the search term “honors” and it came up right away. Looks like a great job (I probably shouldn’t have told others how to find it and apply!!). 110
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 10998273
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