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Faith Krogstad

@feche.bsky.social
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St. Paul serial hobbyist, Dumb Cluck of the Midway

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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sibling Rivalry Champion Announcement📣 Returning for Team Saint Paul: crowd-favorite Aron Woldeslassie! A stand-up comedian based in Saint Paul, Aron has performed in various comedy festivals, was named a comic-to-watch by @racketmn.com, and is a frequent essayist for @tptalmanac.bsky.social.
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ryman @rymancurtis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
look if i was making a right wing astroturfy group called wake up saint paul targeting homeowners in saint paul, i would at least bother to make the banner image on my website an image of a home in saint paul instead of minneapolis
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Saint Paul is considering expanding its Traditional Neighborhood (T) Districts. What does that mean for housing, neighborhood development, and the future of our city? Co-chair @lukehanson.bsky.social breaks down the zoning study, what’s at stake, and why you should be paying attention. 👀🏘️
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Why You Should Pay Attention to Saint Paul’s “Traditional Neighborhood District” Zoning Study — Sustain Saint Paul
By Luke Hanson Last summer, I published three articles showing how St. Paul’s zoning rules have prohibited neighborhood-scale commercial spaces since 1975, and how this has negatively impacted o...
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you live on or around Selby Ave? Do you support walkable, vibrant neighborhoods? We need your help! This Wednesday (9/23) at 6pm at MLK Jr Rec Center the city is hosting a public engagement meeting about the expansion of mixed-use "T-Districts" along Selby. 🧵(1/3)
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Becca Esche @beccasaintpaul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's been almost a year since SPPD assaulted community members monitoring ICE actions on Rose Ave in St Paul. We still don't have answers or resolutions.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They are not lost—they are found.
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.
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How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community
Records reveal a coordinated system of drones, city cameras, command-post intelligence, body-worn and helmet cameras, person and vehicle checks, and evidence preservation around the memorial site as p...
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Before the Avandale Apartments were built on Selby, that parcel generated $871,157 in tax value per acre. After: $26.1 million. A thirty-fold jump on a single lot. Luke Hanson on why Saint Paul cannot budget-cut its way out of a $26M deficit, and what has to change.
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To Solve Saint Paul’s Fiscal Problems, We Need More Density — Sustain Saint Paul
By Luke Hanson It’s budget season in Saint Paul — and as is so often the case, the City is facing a major budget gap. This year, the Mayor and the Council are reckoning with how best to close a $26 ...
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This coming Thursday (9/17) is packed! We encourage all Sustainers to make it to one of the following events: - The 2050 Comp Plan Kickoff, 4-6pm🏙️ - The Minnehaha Reconstruction Open House, 5-7pm🚲 - Legislative Look-Ahead with @streets.mn, 6:30-8:30pm.🗳️ 🧵(1/4)
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This administration sent a lawfully present immigrant, who has broken absolutely zero laws, to GUANTANAMO BAY because he's Black. There's literally no other reason. I'm out of words. This entire administration is lawless and corrupt. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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St. Paul man arrested in ICE surge sent to Guantanamo Bay
Adam Abdullah has no criminal record, but the government is holding him at a military prison set up for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Agreed - @kellybarnhill.bsky.social, this is the perfect time for self-promotion. It’s well-deserved! We loved The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
Cover of The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Political parties should flush their principles down the toilet and stand with people knee-deep in prejudice and bigotry.” Yeah no thanks
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Kaela Reinardy @kaela-r.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When I made this crop art piece I was thinking a lot about the fawn response to trauma, and how often women find ourselves doing this “it’s okay, I’m not mad!” thing when faced with abusive men in unsafe situations. I wish we knew more about Renee Good than just her last words to her murderer.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, but with the John Ireland bridge out, the route could go through the magic portal (MN History Center parking lot) into downtown.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Malvina Reynolds in 1962: “Houses made of ticky-tacky” My kid, 2026: “Copy-paste houses”
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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Minnesota mentioned!
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 16/08/2026
Very good thread! 🧵
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wednesday August 26th at 1pm we invite you to join us and @unidosmn.bsky.social St Paul to tour District Energy. Come see the facility that provides heating and cooling to most of downtown and the adjacent West Side neighborhood!🔥❄️⚡️ RSVP below - LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!🧵
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 14/08/2026
A Stillwater woman archived the art that emerged during the federal immigration enforcement surge. Months later, she has created a 250-page-coffee table book with 300 local, national and international artists. Over 1,225 physical copies and 59 e-books have been preordered.
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'Art tells the truth': New coffee table book becomes an archive of ICE protest art
A Stillwater woman began archiving the art that emerged during the federal immigration enforcement surge. Months later, the collection has grown into something much larger.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And another thing: There is a dedicated parking spot for police right by the front door that sits empty.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Imagine how unbothered you’d have to be to *pick up and awkwardly carry* a stolen, locked-to-itself bike past a squad car in the light of day, decide it’s too much trouble, and leave it by the squad. Thieves and other ne’er-do-wells are clearly shaking in their boots. 3/end
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Happy days, it was just on the other side of the squad leaning on a post! Wheel and frame were thankfully locked together, so the thief couldn’t wheel it away. 2/x
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Fun fact: Once last fall I locked my bike to the rack* in broad daylight next to the squad car. When I came back 10 mins later, my bike was gone! 😩 I had *missed the rack* with the lock. 1/x
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A Primary Election Day volunteer in my precinct was diligently working on an intricate crop art project for the Minnesota State Fair between voters. Volunteering? For democracy? WHILE CRAFTING? 😍😍😍
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Craig: Overflowing with Talent & Admiration
Alt: Billy on the Street saying intensely, “You are overflowing with talent and I admire you.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.
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US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease
S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wasting billions of our taxpayer money in order to make our electric bills higher? Well, that's just the proven brilliance of the Businessman President™ folks.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cool cool so this means judges can automatically decide against ICE when footage is withheld, right? Since the act of withholding the footage is basically an admission of ICE’s guilt and/or the other party’s innocence? So nice of ICE to make it crystal clear, at least in the court of public opinion.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Looks amazing! You are inspiring me to paint my early-00s steel frame. I love the creative approach - well worth the masking. 😍
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Another piece of evidence that the ICE operations are about racism, not law and order. This story and others in the article are heartbreaking.
Rosa walked into the Whipple Federal Building, the headquarters of ICE in Minnesota, on Jan. 23 with her husband, their 6-year-old daughter and the paperwork they needed for a routine check-in. Friends had warned Rosa not to go to the meeting because many people never returned, but Rosa's husband reassured her: "We have paperwork," she remembers him saying.After sitting in a waiting room for eight hours, Rosa said, three agents entered. They placed handcuffs on her husband, informed the family they would be separated, and whisked her husband out the door.
Then, the agents ushered Rosa and her daughter in and out of hallways and holding cells, on and off airplanes. They spent the night on the floor of a room. Rosa had no idea where they were. Her daughter kept asking where her dad was. Neither of them could stop crying.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Well, so much for that. It seems bulldozers have arrived on site and have been seen destroying vegetation.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I see the logic, but hitting someone to teach them that hitting hurts is a bad look for anyone, even kids at the school playground. For a lawyer, I wouldn’t think this level of immaturity would be good for his career or his clients.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
…really?
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So he is doing the *exact* thing his client filed a sexual harassment complaint about? Would this not undermine the complaint? Sure seems like Chief Henry needs to fire his attorney immediately!
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social those who are ever MagBarred need you
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My friend thinks that is a male lemon cuckoo bumble bee, Bombus citrinus. 🤓 www.beesmn.org/bombuscitrinus
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Bombus citrinus | Minnesota Native Bees
Bombus citrinus (lemon cuckoo bumble bee) is one of six species of Bombus in the social parasite subgenus Psithyrus. Social parasite females take over an active Bombus nest and kill, drive out, or coe...
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yeah rather than use a no-fuel source + battery storage, we should dig fuels deep out of the earth (often on the other half of the planet), transport them over sea and land (sometimes through hostile territory), set them on fire, choke on the exhaust, and imperil ourselves and future generations. 🤠👍
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Leya is the best!
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
44,000 deaths per year from car violence, but yeah, let's put human-scaled mobility under the microscope. If you have a "problem" with bikes, it's because you're forcing them into the margins with pedestrians instead of reallocating space away from cars.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A scanned document, confiscated from a child, with a child’s all-caps handwriting saying “Ayuda por favor” (“Please help” in Spanish).
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anti-ICE advocates rallied outside the DHS office near Cincinnati after Haitians losing TPS were summoned for mandatory check-ins. Protesters report officials are fitting people with ankle monitors and issuing new court dates. Community members stand united against these aggressive tactics!
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
YES! I wasn’t aware of this newer resource. The people behind it know what they are talking about.
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Faith Krogstad @feche.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My friend says it’s a Bombus perplexus. The common name is Confusing Bumble Bee. www.beesmn.org/bombusperple...
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Bombus perplexus | Minnesota Native Bees
Bombus perplexus (perplexing or confusing bumble bee) is one of twenty-five bumble bee species that occur in Minnesota.
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