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Phyllis Brashler

@phyllisb.bsky.social
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Information junkie and small time diplomat. Believer in people and public service. Evangelist for St. Paul, MN; sociology; cats; and the Oxford Comma.

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Stabby Spice @stabbyspice.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh, for the love of... www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Thousands of blueberries recalled as FDA issues highest risk warning
An E. coli outbreak linked to recalled frozen blueberries has sickened 12 people, including four who were hospitalized.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“.. US imposes 50% aluminum tariff. Canadian aluminum imports collapse. US aluminium prices increase (by ~50%). If only we could tease out a connection!” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I'd also be remiss if I didn't share the presentation that came right before, from our Climate Equity Plan staff in the Health Department: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA... I was struck by this chart, showing our progress in reducing our carbon emissions. There's progress, but much more to do.
A chart showing Minneapolis' progress towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Most of the progress is driven by decreased carbon emissions for power generation. Much more work needs to be done to decarbonize transportation and fossil gas use, the two other large sources of carbon emissions.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 04/08/2026
You don't have to choose between a double digit tax increase, firing 2% of the city workforce, and eliminating the health department. You can have it all. www.startribune.com/mayor-jacob-...
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Minneapolis may lay off 100 city employees in budget cuts. Taxpayers could still face double-digit hike.
Mayor Jacob Frey will unveil a budget proposal next week that could include layoffs and closing or consolidating some departments to plug a $33 million budget gap.
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Kyle @kylehebert.net · 05/08/2026
Comedy gold right here.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Damn.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case? Well, I’d pick Patience and her team or Professor T, but neither are GIF options, sadly. If I had to pick a GIF option…
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Caskett & Kate Beckett: Intimate Moment
Alt: Castle & Kate Beckett from the procedural cop show, Castle—named after the odd but charming character.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
These will be among the iconic images of the global warming era. Such sadness and awe
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
earworm
Flowchart version of the lyrics to Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Enough with the f*cking fireworks already, St. Paul.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
All the places where I've lived, including Northern California, Hong Kong, NYC, Miami, Honolulu, Paris, and London, have warmed substantially. But this is the coolest that those places will be in our lifetimes. Today is #ShowYourStripes day. Get yours here: www.ShowYourStripes.info
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It’s Show Your Stripes Day. I know we’ve been feeling this in MSP. Interesting/disheartening to see we’ve been noticeably warming since the 1940s. showyourstripes.info/l/northameri...
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 20 June 2026
Small bullfrog sitting akimbo-legged on a small stick, in a wall to wall duckweed covered pond corner
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Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer @ashafferwx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Our first customer in the Twin Cities is producing (likely) small hail + heavy rain, moving east/southeast around 25mph. Should skirt through the northern suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Watching another one just north of Elk River. #MNWX
Storm approaching Brooklyn park on radar and one just north of Elk River.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I half wonder whether Ukraine is testing whether they can make RU's air defense misfire, like an auto-immune disease.
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cursedthing @cursedthing.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Quick, someone make an animated apple tv show about this.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I can hear some thunder in 55104 but no rain yet. Just looking ominous…
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Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer @ashafferwx.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Expect some version of this line of storms seen here on radar stretching across the Dakotas to make its way to the Twin Cities overnight. Strong wind would be the most likely threat, with heavy rain a possibility as well. #mnwx
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
You know what's crazy? This guy sells almost everywhere in the US EXCEPT MINNESOTA. Minnesota's public health dept is famous in the food safety world for being #1 at tracking down the source of outbreaks- way faster than any other state. What an interesting coincidence!
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Halloween Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 04/06/2026
The last couple mornings I've been hearing they have been working VERY QUICKLY so that a crowd doesn't have the chance to scare them off. They've been smashing car windows again, too. If you're outside, remember your whistle.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Awoooooooo!
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Rotating Tornado Siren
Alt: Rotating Tornado Siren
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here we gooooooo!
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Elmo Reacts to Thunder
Alt: Elmo Reacts to Thunder
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Come on, rain…..
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Imperador Paulo na Neblina
Alt: A person in what appears to be a rain jacket with a hood, sitting in a chair outside during a rainstorm.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is beautiful
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Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Make sure you’re tapping back into your local chats so you’re able to activate when needed. More than anything, spend your time outside on cultural corridors. Be a visible presence out there and you’ll be helping protect your neighbors while also enriching your life spending summer outside.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Am I going to have to mute her name (and nicknames) on here for the next several months, at least? Yep. Yep, I am.
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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This line, from @lollardfish.bsky.social just made me snort-laugh. And then cry a little.
In every way except getting paid enough to make a living, this is a golden age of opportunity for people who want to do public-facing work.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Awooo, friends. Cheers.
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🍂 Shel-leaf 🍁 Ca-pumpkin 🎃🚫🧊 [Seasonal Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
They're creeping all over South Minneapolis too. Keep those whistles handy, neighbors.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when the new flag was officially adopted, i had a job working with MN cities, mostly small and non-metro. explaining there was no law forcing them to fly the state flag and therefore no penalty if they didn't was entirely unsatisfactory to them because they are furious the new flag exists at all.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
So is the MSP feed really no more? Sadness, oh sadness. I miss it.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Aaaaaa-WOOOOooooooooo!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This was one of my most treasured possessions circa 1981. And I wasn't alone, the Merlin handheld electronic game was the top-selling Parker Brothers' toy 1978-1982 (supplanted by "Frogger"). In total, 5 million units were sold.
A red device the size of an old wired phone handset.  It has light-up round buttons with red lights inside, a speaker angled forward on the top with a logo "MERLIN" and four button console at the bottom with control functions written on silver membranes.
"Merlin hand-held electronic game produced by Parker Brothers circa 1978."
CREDIT:  Junkyardsparkle, Wikimedia
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Splashdown Bsky is just as good as Awooo Bsky.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/04/2026
"Why don't Americans–" Motherfucker, I live in Minneapolis
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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Willy Lee (they/them) @advicepig.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Why did it take me until this second to realize that the ICE/DHS hiring was also to keep the violent chuds from feeling the effects of this economy and turning against the fascists?
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A-WoooOooooOooo!
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a close up of a wolf with the word netflix on the bottom right
Alt: a close up of a wolf lifting its head to howl
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 27/03/2026
One of our greatest Canadians, “the father of Medicare,” saw this coming 🇨🇦
"Once more, let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."

~ Tommy Douglas
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Colleen Carpenter @colleenmcarpenter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Incredible thread. I thought I remembered this from school but either they skipped a lot or my memory is terrible. Either way, I needed to read about Hugh Thompson. Just stunning.
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Spoooooky Pants 🧛‍♂️ @farnaby.xyz · 15/03/2026
This is a whole different nightmare. But also another place you can help.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Fan-fucking-tastic. 100% predictable.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Taking a break today from posting about concentration-camp matters for the newsletter, I wrote instead about a sociological study that might shed light on the Trump administration's reckless violence and the loyalty of his most diehard supporters.
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The most divorced men in history
The resentment of women that undergirds so much recklessness.
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Phyllis Brashler @phyllisb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
WoooooooOOOOOOOoooo!
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Paid to Agitate Willing to Annoy for Free. @larryn1966.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Communities are being forced to set up local non profits and Go Fund Me accounts to help people meet their basic needs while our country uses tax dollars to go into another stupid war.
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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
An unpopular president is about to drag the country into an unpopular war. Democratic leader should be out front in opposition, not politely asking for a briefing. My piece in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/27/d...
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War With Iran Would Be Illegal and Stupid. Democrats Should Care.
Now is the time for Democratic leaders to stand firm against the risk of a catastrophic conflict.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
St. Paul Public Schools parents group needs about $63k more to keep 174 families housed. March is soon, rent will be due. Can you chip in? Can you share?
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Support our St. Paul Public Schools Community - Cheddar Up
Support our St. Paul Public Schools Community - HIGHLAND PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT SOLIDARITY NETWORK - Cheddar Up. Collect online payments for events and fundraisers with Cheddar Up.
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Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
When I say our leaders aren’t helping us, this is what I mean. ICE is showing no signs of leaving but our senator, who is currently running for governor, doesn’t even know that. And she’s doing the administration‘s work for them.
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SCARRIE Mesrobian @carriemesrobian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
ICE is still here in Columbia Heights. People are still unable to work, feed their families, pay their rent. If you have a couple bucks to spare, please do. If not, just go please meet at least one neighbor. You will want to be ready if this ever comes to your community and that is the first step.
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Donate to Support Local Columbia Heights Families, organized by Brenna Zeimet
*Update* - To date we have given out over 300,000 in assistance for rent and foo… Brenna Zeimet needs your support for Support Local Columbia Heights Families
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