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Colleen Carpenter

@colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social
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Author, educator, public speaker. Leaving academia (prof of theology + environmental studies) for the great wide world, with my rescue dog Marigold keeping me company. St. Paul MN resident; grew up in Chicago.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 23h
The 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.
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Jene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 19h
This 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.
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Cartilage Pizza @cartilagepizza.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is the way forward
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To 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/
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fuck this shit.
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Christopher 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
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jane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#ForestFriday
A gum forest.
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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 08/10/2026
They should make a statue of her standing next to the Apollo code and put a copy at every NASA site.
Margaret Hamilton stands next to a printed stack of paper with all the code that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love us.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I need this. I spend way too much time rebooting the past. It does not change.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Absolute same goals here. We can do it! Esp the garbage, ugh
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That 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
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Be 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.
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Matt Serwe @serwewx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why was I having a martini before noon yesterday? It was grandma’s drink.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rosemary pull-apart buns for our neighborhood supper tonight!
A dozen or so dinner buns in a foil-lined plate. The buns are squarish, brown on top and white where they were pulled apart from their neighbor buns, and brushed with parsley/garlic butter, so lots of green specks
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let’s go Lynx!!
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ll always be proud to stand with Minnesota’s working families.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Try youtube
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Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey 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...
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Election 2026 – Will Tell Stories For Food
Posts about Election 2026 written by naomikritzer
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exactly, check out Naomi’s blog at naomikritzer.com
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Will Tell Stories For Food
Naomi Kritzer's blog
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Math is red, science is brown, Reading is blue, English is gray and social studies is green.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That sweet little dog is having the time of his (her?) life!!! The smells! That beagle-y nose is going crazy. Love to see it!
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Awoooo? Or for real?
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 07/09/2026
If 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
Vintage TIME magazine cover featuring Frances Perkins seated at a desk, wearing a hat and dark coat. The black-and-white portrait is framed by TIME’s classic red border. Text beneath reads “FRANCES PERKINS (1933) Architect of the New Deal.”
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fine Arts building: this painting was like standing before a shrine. Everyone silently taking it in. Only art conveys what words cannot.
A large painting depicting elements of Metro Surge in Minneapolis. Clockwise from top left: the Whipple detention center, protesters, Alex Pretti in the moments before he was murdered, Renee Good's car surrounded by caution tape, legal observers silhouetted in a mist, silent protesters in Handmaid's Tale red dress, and signage of resistance. In the center a rising loon set against a burning orange sun holding the State flag of MN and an upside down American flag in its beak. On its back is a pattern forming a flipped peace sign (no peace?) and at its feet is a disintegrating swastika.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Do you have the name of the artist? I’d love to know
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@effendancie.blacksky.app Look, it IS a boulevard, it is!!!
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Jean 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
An early afternoon view of clouds rolling in before the rain came. The water is semi calm reflecting the sky and landscape.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It **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.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Awooooooo
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “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.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/08/2026
The lines in front of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are Morse code of their last words 😭
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/08/2026
THE SUN REFLECTED IN THE WATER IN THREAD
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Mel Podiceps @podiceps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Crop art yesssss!
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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cottonwood 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?
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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
While 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!
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Matt Healy @matthealy.com · 25/08/2026
Huge 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...
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley
The 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.
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Andy McGlashen @amcglashen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fibonacci-ass flower
A datura blossom (I think) that is not unfurled and takes on a geometric spiral shape
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Derek Caron @dcaron28.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Kool-Aid Man: Ohhh Yeahh!
Alt: Kool-Aid Man: Ohhh Yeahh!
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank 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)
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The 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!!).
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Red fox zoomies! These two kits were having a blast outside their den on the tundra the other day. 🦊🌿
One female red fox is hot on the heels of her brother who is running ahead of her on the short tundra vegetation.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Curators 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 Hussein
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Arboretum’s Igbo, Ojibwe and Hidatsa gardens tell story through plants
The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum has three story gardens this summer telling the stories of Igbo, Ojibwe and Hidatsa cultures through plants.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New 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.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
people 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
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NoCoup4U @olibabba.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Reading this to find more super cool orgs to donate to.
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’ve been watching these lectures as he posts them and HOLY COW Timothy Snyder is brilliant, and fascinating, and I am learning SO MUCH.
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What is Ukraine?
The fifth lecture in my new class, "Hitler and Stalin Today"
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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s Election Day, which means @ilhanmn.bsky.social is a busy woman. 🚪
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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 07/08/2026
Band name: The Highest Jumping Golden Retriever in Ontario
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