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I can have a treat. I biked miles to the park. It’s a lovely day. How could they mess up ice cream? *ahem* “Contains bioengineered ingredients” The list of ingredients is impossibly long. It’s a chocolate coated vanilla bar. $3.50 for a 3 fl. Oz. Bar (less than half a cup). That’s $18/pint.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you, City of St. Paul, for the protected bikeways leading to Como Park. Sitting in front of the conservatory, the running water and autumn colorful leaves are rejuvenating! Did the water always run this late, or is that a climate change thing? And they’re watering the plants in the heatwave.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 22h

The friend would’ve waved to the camera if they saw it earlier. It’s better to smile for the oligarchs, lest they accuse you of not being polite. Because, to the oligarchs, politeness and convenience is more important than equity or sustainability. #aninconvenienttruth

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 22h

Is he an agent of the local oligarchy when he idles his diesel utility truck on the beautiful separated bikeway, and takes an iPhone photo of the cyclist he’s partially blocking? Asking for a friend

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(Don't worry if you don't know F*ck All about the Australien government: you'll get it all in the end)

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Laugh hysterically as the world descends into oligarch-driven apocalypse: don't miss the latest "Honest Government Ad", featuring their patented F*ck All® Calculator, literal "Checks Notes" gag, and the Climate Chrises: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IW1...

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Honest Government Ad | Bulls*it™

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes, we need to act on climate change. Agreed. But change your “no atheists in foxholes” messaging. That old trope is nonsense. And from someone who has “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” in his profile?

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Was the cap on tight? Water (and air) expand as they get warmer. But I'm not sure that'd be enough to crack the glass (when the expanding water has nowhere to go).

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

... to say nothing of an organic, local farmer-supplied diet, which is more expensive still. Have you been to a farmers market lately?

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Poverty porn portrays the poor as "others", but electeds need to address "normal"/"everyday" people & families in your neighborhood/city/suburb that literally can't afford a government-recommended healthy diet. Reductions in SNAP eligibility are making this worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRu...

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YouTube video by It's Complicated

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Since so many bikes fit in the space of 1 car, you'd think there'd be a law that every day the State Fair needs to take away one more car space & expand the bike parking until there's 10% extra bike parking available. More people will bike when it's more convenient, cheaper, & better than driving.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We've had it wrong this whole time. Those who can, do. Those who can do well, teach.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s ridiculous that every “BRT” doesn’t have bus lanes* *at a minimum. BRT should have dedicated right of way, like the gold line. Keeping it non-separated is just car infrastructure. (Not criticizing you)

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He served this nation and now he's living in deep poverty. Many Americans throughout the country are going through a silent affordability crisis. Status Coup's Jordan Chariton sat down with this struggling family in West Virginia. Footage via Jon Farina Video by Phillip Hawkins

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s nice finally living in a city with a city council you can be proud of.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you’ve ever wondered why Driscoll’s strawberries taste more like straw than berries, take a gander at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social ’s investigation. TLDW: They don’t even grow them themselves, & shirk responsibility for pesticides & labor by subcontracting www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG-...

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I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Verizon just seems to be extending the expected resolution every 12 hours. My phone drops into SOS mode every so often.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anyone aware of a Verizon outage/slowdown in NE Mpls?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I really don’t think we’re all taking this nearly seriously enough — Meta is legally admitting that it harms young people and is paying BILLIONS (but not nearly enough billions considering how much they knowingly and intentionally profit off that harm) to avoid proper accountability.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

2024 still holds the record for highest daily global surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures. If those records are going to fall, will likely happen within next few weeks given seasonal tendencies. pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🌿🧀 And heirloom tomatoes

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wasn't the only one? It was pretty out of date by the time I was old enough to read it. The articles on space exploration, which predated the US's landing on the moon by half a decade, were especiallly fun to read.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That's just a random example (though indeed interesting with the cost of chocolate nowadays: consumers & farmers are screwed, but the middlemen oligarchs, well they're doing just fine, thanks to a captured political system). But the contrast to American news couldn't be bigger.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you want to know some of what's really going on in the world, watch the France 24 English channel. No filtering by US media conglomerates that push the oligarchal agenda. And they're mostly 2-4 minute news reports from other countries, not 30- or 60-minute shows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RtK...

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Ghana's cocoa farmers at risk of 20-year prison sentence under new legislation • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But "transit is dangerous"!!!

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But modern zoning laws don't allow adding a store to the front of your house, no matter how busy or commercial the street already is. And long-running businesses passed down to children often had the children move to the suburbs when cars became the de facto mode of transportation.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Many times, especially for businesses around for decades, the original shop *was* owned by a family that lived in the neighborhood (back when people took the streetcar or walked) or even upstairs in an apartment (or behind the storefront, back when it was legal to add a business to your house)

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Spike Lee's movie is a movie, not a documentary, of course. Based on the life of Malcolm X, but things are tweaked to keep the viewers' interest, shorten the story, combine characters, include dialog, etc. It's not a Ken Burns film, lol.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You'd be surprised how many urban, local, small businesses are owned by people living in the suburbs & exurbs. Never assume a "local" business is owned by someone living in your city or neighborhood.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On a lighter note, here's a photo of a sandwich I made with local ham from @eastsidefoodcoop.bsky.social & local heirloom tomatoes & lettuce from @millcityfarmersmkt.bsky.social Did you know that slices like this of local, actual whole ham meat are cheaper than "deli meat"?

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

*typo: Edina First Responders Fund

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Celebrate the Arts! Celebrate Aquatennial! It's all good fun! 🙄

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Apparently that's bad optics, because the Edina Crime Prevention Fund is rebranding to the Edina First Responsders Fund, and is a beneficiary of Edina's annual Fall Into the Arts festival at Centennial Lakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYN3...

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Agenda: Edina - Edina Crime Prevention Fund Changes - Late September 2025

YouTube video by Edina TV

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Tying this back locally: the dastardly police are championed & funded by your friendly local oligarchy. You do know the tainted history of Aquatennial & Citizens Alliance, right? How it exists to hide the story of union advocates *killed* by Mpls police? www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/...

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Was the Minneapolis Aquatennial established to distract from labor strikes?

Yes. Beginning in 1940, a group of Minneapolis businessmen created the Aquatennial, a civic festival and parade, to “improve Minneapolis’s reputation nationally” following labor strikes in the 1930s, ...

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What?! Damn, we're in the apocalypse.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I mean, Malcolm X had reason to be angry, but was clearly too trusting & hooked up with a bad organization. Actual muslims wouldn't want any connection with Nation of Islam, from what I understand. X woke up & converted to actual Islam shortly before being murdered by [who?]. Go watch the movie.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Is Trump's FBI spying on local Minneapolis immigration & equity advocates? How about local police? Coincidentally, have you ever seen Spike Lee's excellent Malcolm X documentary? (For physical media lovers, there's a Criterion Collection Ultra-HD version.)

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Not to worry: police misdeeds aren't just a Minneapolis or Minnesota or United States thing. In NI (Northern Ireland, UK), the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) apparently spied on journalists, & arrested filmmakers documenting police collusion with — guess what? — Nazi-adjacent fascists.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"... the Twin Cities hit 100 degrees on July 27. Of course, that rapid and extreme heat earlier in the month helped set the stage for fires to blow up in Ontario and northern Minnesota, which helped us set a record for the worst air quality ever measured in the state from July 15 to July 17."

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've been in Minnesota for over 30 years (I missed the Halloween blizzard but was coincidentally present for the MoA grand opening). It's crazy how warm & wet & humid it's gotten—summer & winter alike—in just 30 years. 30. Years. That's crazy talk on a planet timescale.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I know the Twin Cities Goodtime Softball league used to do this sort of thing, having softball league members "volunteer" at Twins games to get money for their teams. Seems like a good thing until you understand the labor ramifications.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Whenever you hear about an encampment ‘sweep,’ first ask: Where will the people go?" @blindeke.bsky.social knocks it out of the park, as usual, at @minnpost.bsky.social Stop thinking short term & hyperlocal about this problem: it needs to be solved at the state. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

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Whenever you hear about an encampment 'sweep,' first ask: Where will the people go?

Cities are struggling to confront public safety issues related to homeless encampments. State government solutions and funding are needed.

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Are you predicting we're going to get someone other than Janet Mills?

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Lou Miranda @newlou.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You mean the way the Democratic Party gave voters "time" to weigh in on a replacement when they told us Joe Biden could be President, but shoved the Vice President down our throats because there was no "time" to vet anyone else? You don't see this pattern-cum-strategy?

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