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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8h

Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 11h

There is nothing in this supposedly damning poster that is evidence about Smith being in Atlanta. It's all images supplied by Schmitt or images of texts that have no specific words even about the Hawks. "down here"... means nothing. Down where?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h

Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 13h

A few more weeks of free herbs on Tuesday mornings outside the book return door at the St Anthony Park Library!

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Steven with a V and an N. @minneapple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

80 factory workers will lose their job when the Pearson candy factory closes in St. Paul today, that's about 40 more than a data center would employ.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anyone had a vision for golf courses in the US as in Falcon Heights Minnesota.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Private Equity portfolios contain 64% fossil fuels just in case you were wondering how evil they are.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyone else think all the AI apocalypse stuff is this year's pre-election border invasion?

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, Lisa Demuth, private equity will definitely solve the problems of nursing homes. Just like it has solved the problems of JoAnne Fabric, ToysRUs, and so many others.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Translation: Lisa Demuth wants people to suffer & die faster so Private Equity can make more money

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Carson Hartzog @carzharts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wrote a thing about a really neat business in St. Paul — Present Company — and the rise of analog hobbies. Gift link: www.startribune.com/dumb-tech-an...

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In the age of AI, analog is having a renaissance

People are turning to simpler phones, physical media and tactile hobbies as technology becomes more powerful and pervasive.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Attorney General's office in Minnesota is the most important race this election season. For those of you who have people to convince, there must be a way to counteract this #propaganda. Esme Murphy & WCCO is doing all they can to get rid of Keith Ellison KSTP too. This would kill Minnesota.

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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 27/09/2026

Enbridge estimates an August gas leak on its Line 5 pipeline in northern Wisconsin will cost at least $15.1 million, according to a newly filed federal accident report. Read more from WPR: wisconsinwatch.org?p=1320957

Aerial view of an emergency response site with a foam‑covered containment area, trucks and heavy equipment beside forest and farm fields, accompanied by a headline reporting Enbridge estimates the northern Wisconsin Line 5 gas leak will cost $15M.

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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why is the DFL not running ads saying “republicans sent ICE to terrorize minnesota, to kidnap and kill your neighbors, don’t vote for Republicans at any level unless you want to see more Minnesotans dead”

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a confession to make. The townhomes I & others spent most of a decade trying to legalize are popping up all over Oregon & elsewhere...and I love that...but they're a problem in one big way. (get ready for a twisty thread about the housing report @sightline.org just published)

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good question! State appropriations have dropped from 39% of the University budget since 1990 down to 16% in 2025 and I have also not heard a peep about this from state leaders. www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/ZF...

Chart showing state share of U revenue dropping from 39% in 1990 to 16% in 2025

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ipomoea quomclit, cypress vine.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) Thursday morning bridge brigade over I-94.

People standing inside a cage-like pedestrian bridge over a highway. Long banner reads Vote Early to Upset Piggy. Smaller signs say No ICE No War No King!, Stop the Madness, Keep Hope Alive, Silence Is Not Golden, Peace, Be GOOD. One person holds a Canadian flag, another is dressed in an inflatable frog suit.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bummer that no one at the Star Tribune has access to the Internet and couldn’t find all the examples of Tafoya talking about how much she hates Minnesota!

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a love/not love relationship with New England asters. On a sunny day in late September, they’re among the best. But as plants they’re annoying to deal with! #FlowerReport

Bright purple daisy flowers with many narrow petals and a gold-orange center.

A bright purple daisy flower with many narrow petals and a gold-orange center, visited by a metallic green sweat bee.

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Andy Singer @andy-singer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Keith Ellison is in a super close race. If he loses his election, I’m concerned that we’ll never get justice for Renee Good or Alex Pretti, that no one will fight to restore Minnesota Medicaid funds cut off by Trump, and that state elections could be f-ed with. Should this race get more attention?

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got the flu and Covid vaccines this morning at Cub, walk in. Since I’m old, I plan to go back soon to finally get ones for pneumonia and RSV.

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Isak Kvam @isakkvam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interesting context for this story is that MN Valley Co-op absorbed the world's first electric co-op, which formed when farmers wanted to access local hydropower. Now it is fighting a member for building local solar power instead of purchasing its out-of-state coal. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Upper Sioux Community wins solar array fight, utility says it will likely appeal

The Upper Sioux Community’s case before the Public Utilities Commission ended with a sharp rebuke of Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power Association, a referral to the attorney general and an...

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did anyone else read the story about the guy who got a 4-year sentence for killing another driver, after running a red light while high on meth, going about 70mph on Arlington at Dale in Saint Paul, 7:30pm in May (daylight)? I wonder how many of the drivers you see driving like that are on drugs.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh btw from @vox.com ▶️ “The cost of diesel quietly raises the price of many other goods and services … researchers at Brown University estimate that the extra cost paid for diesel between the start of the Iran War and the time I’m drafting this newsletter works out to roughly $374 per US household.”

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

During the Depression, we started Social Security so people could retire. Then Medicare in the mid-60s. But capitalism keeps doing what it can to cut the bottom out from under people from both ends - old and young, since we know the young can't buy homes, or find jobs with benefits either!

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it I had to cite a key moment from Trump's speech, it would be this one. it is a threat not just to the Iranian government but to the Iranian people, and in that sense it contravenes both the international laws prohibiting war and the international humanitarian law that protects civilians

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's funny how the Upper Midwest is a poor climate for growing grass*and* maintaining asphalt, and yet local governments are like "let's have more of that stuff!"

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fall! Woods Blue asters, probably Autumn Joy sedum, showy goldenrod growing through heart-leaf asters. #FlowerReport

Dusky pink flat dense panicles of small flowers with bumblebees feeding.

Yellow clusters of small flowers in the midst of many small white messy daisies.

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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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MPR News @mprnews.org · 21/09/2026

State regulators found that the Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power Association acted “unlawfully and unreasonably” when it threatened to disconnect the Upper Sioux Community over the tribes behind‑the‑meter solar array.

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Upper Sioux Community wins solar array fight, utility says it will likely appeal

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And if you don't vote on it, it counts as a No.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Star Tribune headline: “Fraud looms over state auditor race - contest largely defined by issue that does not fall within its authority.” We live very stupid times.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My invention, the Pedestrian Crossing Flail-Mace, is an improvement over flag-based systems.

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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026

NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.

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Hecate @danademaster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We recently joined the St Paul Tool Library and LET ME TELL YOU this is great. In two weekends we got a rototiller, a spade, a hoe, a wheelbarrow, a seed spreader, extension cords, and a laser level.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gas is too cheap as long as people still: - insist on flooring it and then slamming on the brakes between every intersection - drive single occupancy monster trucks in perfect weather for trips less than 2 miles - block crosswalks and bike lanes in idling vehicles

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Erin Arlinghaus @arlinghausfamily.com · 20/09/2026

I’d like to gently suggest, from Minneapolis, that forming a protective ring of protesters around the Kennedy Center would have even more symbolic power if city residents worked to sustain the ring continuously over the coming weeks. Just something to consider if it comes to that point.

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every Sunday morning for decades America has been treated to a parade of professional liars on TV and I think perhaps it’s had a negative effect on society.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wish the people actually cared about the safety of children playing sports because I don't think children can consent to playing tackle football and it should be illegal to have it in public schools.

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Creative Enterprise Zone @cezmsp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Getting ready to set up for Chroma Zone events at Raymond and Territorial! Bus tours at noon, 1 and 3 - just show up. And the Alley Jam is on next to Twin Cities Reptiles, after rain yesterday. Join us!

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shout out to sweet black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia subtomentosa). Late summer to fall bloomers whose flowers last up to a month. Great in the vase too! #FlowerReport

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