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stephaniezvan.bsky.social
Former feral child figuring out community. Unpredictably abled activist. Remarkably successful dilettante. Sometimes very silly. If the name sounds familiar but you can't place me, maybe try here: https://stephanie.zvan.net/
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Good column. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

I wrote about affordable housing subsidies in Phillips, and how it fits into the long-standing policy feud in the Twin Cities. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

I just heard from my editor at Elle that my recent story has nearly a million engaged minutes (of reading and listening) on Apple News! If you haven't read it yet, here it is! www.elle.com/life-love/op...

What's... the bad part, Will.

Clinic escorts!! Make sure you are doing what you can to protect patient license plates. We walked behind our patients' cars as they turned into the parking lot with a giant (rainbow) umbrella at our back. One church was taking down every plate they could. This is one of their gross tactics.

People out there thinking they got main character energy just cause they're an unreliable narrator

I love it when people asking about "good" or "safe" or "fun" areas to live in Minneapolis "accidentally" recreate the 1930s redlining map.

Is this not what happened, though?

Listened to a thing about death row on NPR yesterday and IDK who the interviewee was other than "Elizabeth." She sounded articulate, confident, but after listening for a while... I realized she was full of 💩. After a station break, I finally learned it was Liz Bruenig and I just shut it off.

#NoKings but King, who is just over one year old. “I am a very handsome and regal boy who is ready to find a new kingdom to rule. I promise I shall be a kind and gentle ruler.” I believe him.

good 🧵

Y'all I am begging you. Begging. I don't care if the meme is 🔥. I don't care if the vibes are nice and you feel fuzzy. If the content ISN'T TRUE, don't share it. I see people who I usually respect doing this now. And like, vibes are nice. But you're literally promoting lies.

"Waiting 3.5 years to see if Social Security Disability approves your claim"

This is shockingly accurate. Basically you can tell what kind of things these people dismiss as trivial by what they're trying to offload to LLMs. That writing and research are some of them is not a mark in their favor.

GOP Lawmakers Clarify Their Hate-Filled Rhetoric Only Meant To Stoke Fundraising. [SATIRE but what is satire anymore, even?} theonion.com/gop-lawmaker...

New shiny things thread. "Songs in the Key of Sky" earrings: tiny copper dragonflies, aquamarines, and little rough natural blue diamond www.etsy.com/listing/4321...

If you don't like protests because they can turn violent and destroy property, boy howdy have I got some news for you about the police

Carol Becker strikes (out) again.

The thing that drives me spare about Cuomo and men of his ilk always being given a redemption opportunity to get back into public office is that if their targets of harassment and harm had been men the scandal would have ended them forever. But women are disposable and hurting them is forgivable.

It's not that it's hard to write about myself. It's hard to write about myself without being funny or self-deprecating.

If going to the Congo (!) to preach about liberal American sexuality is not considered extreme politics, what is? www.startribune.com/suspect-show...

The City Council met today in Committee of the Whole at 1:30 PM. 🧵 TLDR: Directed CAO to outline the pathway for modifying the MDHR settlement agreement, waived attorney client privilege for a related memo, and filed a letter regarding the council’s commitment to police reform.

my little twisted life is complete

Newly Discovered Pictish Stone Goes on Display in Scotland www.medievalists.net/2025/06/newl...

there shouldn’t be a single blue state without same-day voter registration

Two weeks ago masked cops from an array of agencies, wearing an array of uniforms, swarmed a restaurant at Lake & Bloomington and everyone who showed up to protect our neighborhood was asked to accept these mysterious authorities on faith No paywall:

I understand the point here and the headline isn’t exactly *wrong*, but it is telling

The killer is consistently described in the press as “a devout Christian who opposed abortion” as if that’s an essential trait of devout Christians. Many, if not most, “devout” Christians support abortion access. Melissa Hortman was a Catholic who taught Sunday school.

If you haven’t been in Minnesota for the past few years (specifically when Walz was giving regular COVID updates) you may have wondered who the dynamic ASL interpreter was at last night’s news conference: it’s Nic Zapko

Our president @nickfish.me and director of grassroots organizing @samjmcguire.bsky.social are at today's meeting.

Racism is at the core but racism is also at the core of the anti-abortion movement. It's all one thing. The American anti-abortion movement was always just a special focus branch of white supremacist activism. Always.

the mayor sure is keeping a low profile these days. Maybe he’ll wait until enough people get upset and then scold everyone for getting upset.

You know you're doing work to be proud of when you spend mountains of money on a new PAC over a couple months; trash it like a disposable wrapper; start a new PAC with the same purpose, same people, same cancer causing ingredients, but with a fresh new name.

Evidence of paid, outside agitators in Los Angeles: the police.

I've seen more people in a single line at the state fair for Amish Donuts

Women’s prisons were originally—and still are, to a great extent—about policing deviation from traditional hetero femininity. (cite: @hughryan.bsky.social ) I know a woman who was *kicked from a reentry program* for refusing to wear a dress.

Based on posts from folks in DC it looks like more people were in #Minneapolis at Lake of the Isles for a Pencil Sharpening than this parade.

*sound up* This is all I could think of when I heard the squeaky tanks

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/a...