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Friends School plant saler, co-op fan, gardener, Transition Town member, recovering grammar curmudgeon. She/her.
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Absolutely incredible that we are still getting mainstream denunciations of "trans activists" when the far-right fringe has far more odious views and sits much closer to power.

If you want some anecdotal evidence of the effects of tariffs, there isn't a single fireworks tent on route 70 between 35 in Minnesota and Siren, WI

Claude Shride martagon lily at the St Anthony Park library. #FlowerReport

Hortman was a catholic who ensured children got fed and her killer was in a psycho church that demanded violent prayer and guess which one is getting the"Christian" coverage

In the newsletter: Twin Cities Maker — a “makerspace” that offers members a building full of tools and workshop areas — is under contract to purchase the Minneapolis Seed Company building at 34th and Cheatham.

Strange how any negative framing of auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on reckless car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was just arrested at immigration court for asking to see warrants on behalf of those being detained:

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

If the federal government attempts to proceed with this, WA should pass a 1,000,000% real estate excise tax on the sale of federal lands.

Can’t be much simpler than this.

IMO local governments (cities, counties) should be funding bike share and bike libraries like @mplscargobikelibrary.com . Every mile that someone is enabled to bike vs. drive benefits ALL of us, with fewer crashes, less wear & tear on streets, less noise and air pollution, etc.

Oh, my. 🥺

Obviously illegal. But they need to hear a judge say it.

These are all the countries in Africa that would be part of Trump's travel ban. Insane.

On June 1 2025 the Minnesota Commercial Railway was purchased by Regional Rail LLC, a Philadelphia-based holding company. Since 1987, MNNR has been owned by the Gohmann family. On its last day under the old owners, #54 pulls grain cars through Dinkytown @eastbankmpls.bsky.social

Fuck this, both sides need to tone it down, bullshit! It has never been both sides!

At this point we really need an intrepid journalist to create (and prepare to keep updating) a visual timeline of the verifiable movements, decisions, public announcements around everyone involved in the assassinations. The suspect, law enforcement, suspect's family & acquaintances, etc.

If Zohran had jumped a turnstile to skip a subway fare, that would be front page news at the NY Post and probably national news. But speeding and risking the lives of schoolchildren makes Cuomo the "responsible" candidate in the eyes of the NY Times and other centrists.

So police officers had TWO opportunities to capture the assassin and he escaped them both times. 1st was in New Hope where officer didn't get a response, just drove on, before he killed the Hortmans. 2nd was at Hortmans as he killed Mark Hortman, they let him escape. Only tips lead to his capture.

His entire life was political extremism, wtf.

I wrote this earlier this year. It’s about the fault lines of family in a time of crisis and about drawing the line. I have cut ties to family for supporting this fascist regime. It hurts. But it needs doing. I don’t break bread with Nazis—or anyone who, by action or inaction, supports them.

Wait, MN has more than 20 SWAT teams!?!?

I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”

public lands must stay in public hands this is climate arson

Showy lady’s slipper time in the Twin Cities, Minnesota.

I’d like to know the mundane details of the assassins life. He’s broke but has a house in green isle and an apartment in MPLS, multiple cars, and piles of guns? Why is he living with roommates at an apartment in town when he’s got a wife out in the sticks?

"Let no one use God as a shield while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression (2014)." #PopeFrancis #WeAreFrancis #PrayForAmerica

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

As seen in Minneapolis.

Like a scene out of a movie, LAPD on horseback emerged out of a cloud of tear gas so thick it obscured the entire block and left hundreds injured. They would go on to continue assaulting protesters and press.