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@jennabelinda.bsky.social
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On the shores of Lake Superior, public school music teacher, empty nesting with my boo, musician, raising fierce adult daughters and one hellhound.

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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Crime and Punishment was my favorite book as a high school girl who mostly worried about Prom and having hair that was too curly. And a full grown man can’t read a book about human relationships? What?
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yay! I get the flu shot every year so I always have some immunity even when it’s not a good match but this would be amazing. I’m a teacher and my WI school district gives us free flu and Covid shots every fall
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
But I do think we have to accept and help centrist places locally elect the kind of Democrat that they want. Elect any kind of democrat in rural areas and drag the party left when we’re in power. Can’t do anything if we never regain working class and rural voters.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
That’s the best part! The universal kindergarten font! He gets it! 😂
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I was Mrs Summey and I got to sing a song 🎵 and I’m sure I was insufferable about it
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Zork and King’s Quest. The one with the trident and the mermaid!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Gasp!! Zork! The jeweled egg! I remember drawing a map with my dad to remember which way to go. This is amazing.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
From a Minnesotan: so yes, a white lady orchestrated fraud during a pandemic when the world had ceased to function as it always had & used some corrupt Somali businesses & MN successfully prosecuted them for stealing 800m. And this is 0.85% of this and the way they maligned MN???
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The Olympic gold medalist in figure skating. American, immigrant father, came out of retirement with demands to be treated better and be allowed to eat and have control over costumes/routine. I know it’s hard to keep track when each of the last few months was like 400 days long.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
But LOOK. Mamdani is the right guy for NYC Dems. Across the country, there are other kinds of Dems. Leftists refuse to believe that the left is a diverse coalition and when a candidate doesn’t pass a particular purity test for a particular issue they bail. That’s why we lose.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Um I can’t even wear my Apple Watch during 8th grade state testing
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Esp when the $3 beer is $8
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hi, as a Minnesotan, trump 2 is terrifying in a way it never was under any former president of either party. Trump 1 was also chaotic, racist, and disruptive—does no one remember the Muslim ban?? Comparing Obama & Biden or any modern president to the illegal immoral activity of trump is ridiculous
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Annnnnnd since many states like MN have gotten rid of the caucus which REALLY disenfranchises anyone who works or has kids we can all play a bigger part
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hi friend! As a Minnesotan, as nicely as I can, fuck right off! Oop, just gonna squeeze right by ya there while you fuck the whole way off! Watch for deer now!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
His gun was holstered. He had a legal permit to carry and no criminal record. And they had him ON THE GROUND
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is a uniquely Bluesky conundrum
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thanks, Gemini, for this accurate information!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As a Minnesotan: lots of dem reps were there. But, importantly, they were not the focus nor were they leading anything. This is honest to god grassroots, citizen led action. I don’t think the organizers wanted anything looking like campaigning.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
And Walz was doing some service thing elsewhere…lots of local businesses were closed but doing community outreach and he was at one of those.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
She was there! What are you talking about?
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Klobuchar was there!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Klobuchar was there! In my town, a sitting state rep spoke and a state rep candidate as well. Our US rep is a gop bootlicker.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Too bad it’s mostly dismantled now… can’t believe we’re in this hellscape
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
That exactly. Clinton is kinda right for me but at least a democrat and people like Bernie and Warren and AOC could have pushed our whole country’s discourse to the left of her. Instead…
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
School starts at 7:45…it’s dark when we get to school during standard time Nov-Feb anyway. We just have to go home in the dark too. It’s so depressing.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Standard time makes everyone sad. Dark when you go to work at 7:30, dark when you leave at 4:30. I just started seeing the sun after work last week since late November. I don’t care if it’s dark in the am if I can have light after work.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Agree, and being against Walz and linking him to fraud is the only message the GOP candidates have and it would have been ugly and calculated. We’ve got a deep DFL bench and just sucked the air out of all GOP talking points.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I just want a chronological feed from somewhere omg I’m so tired of algorithms
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I would LOVE to know. I almost didn’t watch bc I hate dystopian nightmare stuff but CAROL. There’s hope because she’s real and messy an I love it
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Teachers call. We don’t want kids being distracted or sending information that could impede a rescue.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Thank you! We’re on year 4 phone free in Superior and it has changed our schools for the better in every single way!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
From a teacher: we do not want kids distracted by their phones during an emergency. We don’t want the sounds, the lights or them to send information that makes it harder for law enforcement. We want them to focus on us. Phones are a huge problem. Banning them helps us during emergencies & in class
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Just fine actually…we don’t want noise, light, kids being distracted, or misinformation from kids on phones when there is an emergency. Signed, a teacher
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I was one of the first to be in Group 7 and it was a wild ride 👑
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Yes!! So good!!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hey reminder that the best thing about Bluesky is the block option! We don’t have to have GOP apologists, liars, bigots, or Nazi sympathizers on our feeds ✌️
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
That’s what they want. Don’t obey in advance. Go anyway.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Can we not walk and chew gum? Yes gun control, yes preserve democracy but yes, also a governor should help implement and celebrate infrastructural projects that make local lives so much better.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
And don’t forget how bad air quality and traffic was for the Hillside pre-freeway. Some of the worst air pollution in the country.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
That won’t happen. But I’d like to see more caps in this area and pedestrian/cycle overpasses like what we have near Lake Ave and the Rose Garden. I’d actually love to see it further east as well, near 21st and 16th east.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thank you!! As a Lakeside Duluth to Superior WI daily commuter, this is long overdue! Thanks for working for us in northern MN!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
And unless transit is extraordinarily frequent, cheap, and super connective, it’s impossible with young children who need to be dropped off/picked up on the way to/from work.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Urban yes, agree, and we’ve traveled to large American cities and to Europe and generally don’t rent a car. But currently driving across northern MN to spend time w my college daughter. Even if we could get there, her small town doesn’t have transit and the 5 hr drive certainly doesn’t either
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The actual day is so intense, and after is when you do your 6 preps, so not taking home essays but literally I have never ever sat down during class. Can’t answer an email, look at your computer bc kids don’t have work time. It’s all you, all day, every second and I love it so much!
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Fear of getting cut…oh and you have to assess those 600. I was lucky because I was only at 1 building. That job is now .8 bc now she “only” has 10 classes per day.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Yeah I don’t know. The actual teaching day is bananas. I teach 6-8 orchestra now but for many years I had 600 kids per week, 11 classes daily back to back with 1 30 min prep and 1 30 min lunch. Going from K to 5 to 3 to 5 to 2, resetting the room, maintaining all the equipment, concerts
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ugh I hate double space haha and I’m 50. Forever ago, an elderly professor told us double spaces in a word processor look terrible and outdated. I changed and so should we all! It really does look bad and it drives anyone who understands typesetting crazy of any and all generations.
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
My small town daughters go to Minneapolis/St Paul for concerts and shows on the regular. So do my husband and I. Great cities, clean, lots of culture, tons of green space, the river, great food…it’s not scary lol
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JB @jennabelinda.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I actually only listen to or read the news, NPR (which plays BBC), Reuters, AP, my local paper online. We’ve been cord cutters since 2009 and don’t use our many subscriptions to watch the news, even though we could. Once in awhile I’ll watch local news or read their print versions. Much better.
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