Crystal
@ccolby.bsky.social
Digital accessibility advocate, transit fan, and native plant gardener in the Twin Cities. Everyone watches women's sports.
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
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On this #TransDayofRemembrance, as we think of all those who have suffered and died needlessly because of the bigotry of a minority...
...it's a great time to think about how you can protect trans folks by speaking up and taking action in your community.
#TransRightsAREHumanRights
...it's a great time to think about how you can protect trans folks by speaking up and taking action in your community.
#TransRightsAREHumanRights
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
On this #TransDayofRemembrance, as we think of all those who have suffered and died needlessly because of the bigotry of a minority...
...it's a great time to think about how you can protect trans folks by speaking up and taking action in your community.
#TransRightsAREHumanRights
...it's a great time to think about how you can protect trans folks by speaking up and taking action in your community.
#TransRightsAREHumanRights
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Hey @metrotransitmn.bsky.social , looks like your police could use some training about not parking their SUVS on sidewalks and fully blocking the Capital City Bikeway. This was taken about 5:15pm this evening. I saw no officers in the vehicles but two standing on the LRT station across the street.
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Hey @metrotransitmn.bsky.social , looks like your police could use some training about not parking their SUVS on sidewalks and fully blocking the Capital City Bikeway. This was taken about 5:15pm this evening. I saw no officers in the vehicles but two standing on the LRT station across the street.
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St. Paul, MN. ICE abducted someone here yesterday.
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
St. Paul, MN. ICE abducted someone here yesterday.
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"ICE is grabbing people from the streets who aren't even undocumented or don't have criminal records at all" babe i don't think there is a group of people ICE should be grabbing people off the streets in the first place
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"ICE is grabbing people from the streets who aren't even undocumented or don't have criminal records at all" babe i don't think there is a group of people ICE should be grabbing people off the streets in the first place
"We are witnessing history, and we need to start telling the stories the way they are and not the way the government wants us to believe... The question now is: Are we going to give up, or are we going to keep fighting for our communities, our families, and our future? If we don’t fight, who will?"
"'Dónde está papi,' 'Where is daddy?' is the question I have heard from children in my community. Often, no one has answers as some detainees are never properly registered, and families don’t even know they have been taken."
No one should ever have to experience this. We cannot look away.
No one should ever have to experience this. We cannot look away.
Opinion: ICE arrests are tearing families apart. We can’t stay silent.
The immigration crackdown unleashed by the Trump administration is splitting up families, leaving children without parents and young people to wonder if they have a future here, Twin Cities charter sc...
sahanjournal.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"We are witnessing history, and we need to start telling the stories the way they are and not the way the government wants us to believe... The question now is: Are we going to give up, or are we going to keep fighting for our communities, our families, and our future? If we don’t fight, who will?"
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Is that a lot? Cause I’m no expert, but it feels like a lot?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4... 400 people to be released Friday because there wasn't cause to justify their detention by ICE/border patrol in Chicago
400 Arrested By ICE In Chicago To Be Released Friday, But Feds' 'Risk' List Remains Murky
A judge denied the Department of Homeland Security's bid to delay releases, saying ICE failed to justify detentions or show it would win on appeal. Questions remain around how risk is calculated by th...
blockclubchicago.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Is that a lot? Cause I’m no expert, but it feels like a lot?
Exciting to read while I'm on my way to the Gopher volleyball game! (On the bus, of course, not driving.)
🏐 Just in from @borzmn.bsky.social: Minnesota is getting a pro volleyball team.
Minnesota is already a hub for volleyball. Now, it's getting a pro team.
Many details remain to be worked out, but the yet unnamed franchise will join League One Volleyball Pro (LOVB) for the 2027 season.
www.minnpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Exciting to read while I'm on my way to the Gopher volleyball game! (On the bus, of course, not driving.)
I saw really great northern lights twice last year when I was up north, but nothing like this color! Didn't expect to see something so bright, even with the naked eye, among street lights and house lights in the Twin Cities.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I saw really great northern lights twice last year when I was up north, but nothing like this color! Didn't expect to see something so bright, even with the naked eye, among street lights and house lights in the Twin Cities.
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
If you cut down old plants this year but haven't yet taken them to the compost site, it's too late for the season: insects are hibernating. Saturday I pulled saplings off a pile and found 3 wooly bear caterpillars. Don't know why they chose thistles! (Carefully covered them back up after the photo.)
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you cut down old plants this year but haven't yet taken them to the compost site, it's too late for the season: insects are hibernating. Saturday I pulled saplings off a pile and found 3 wooly bear caterpillars. Don't know why they chose thistles! (Carefully covered them back up after the photo.)
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-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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A lot of Gen X'ers thought Magic would be gone within a year... and here we are almost 35 years later & thankfully, Magic is still with us.
November 7, 1991: Magic Johnson announces his (first) retirement from the NBA, three games into the Los Angeles Lakers' 1991-92 season.
📽️ NBA/ESPN
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A lot of Gen X'ers thought Magic would be gone within a year... and here we are almost 35 years later & thankfully, Magic is still with us.
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Week 22 in Prospect Park, Minneapolis. Over I-94.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Week 22 in Prospect Park, Minneapolis. Over I-94.
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I don't know if anybody noticed, but Ramsey County's results came through a lot earlier than they have in the past, and the RCV results got counted fast. That's thanks to implementation of new software at Ramsey County. Thanks to the staff and election volunteers that made that possible
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I don't know if anybody noticed, but Ramsey County's results came through a lot earlier than they have in the past, and the RCV results got counted fast. That's thanks to implementation of new software at Ramsey County. Thanks to the staff and election volunteers that made that possible
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No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
The new digital schedule sign is working at the U of M bus stop outside Ridder Arena as of at least yesterday, a month ahead of the opening of the E Line. (Route 6 is on the board until then.) Nice to see the integration of campus transit and Metro Transit info on one sign. #MSPTransitExperience
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The new digital schedule sign is working at the U of M bus stop outside Ridder Arena as of at least yesterday, a month ahead of the opening of the E Line. (Route 6 is on the board until then.) Nice to see the integration of campus transit and Metro Transit info on one sign. #MSPTransitExperience
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Your periodic reminder that @amyklobuchar.com voted to confirm this ghoul and 6 other Trump cronies in his cabinet.
Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Your periodic reminder that @amyklobuchar.com voted to confirm this ghoul and 6 other Trump cronies in his cabinet.
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I gotta believe this won't hold up in court, but it's so cruel all the same
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I gotta believe this won't hold up in court, but it's so cruel all the same
Feels like a long time since we've had a match at the Pav. Gophers swept Illinois but sets 1 and 3 were close.
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Feels like a long time since we've had a match at the Pav. Gophers swept Illinois but sets 1 and 3 were close.
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Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
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All I want is to live in a country where this story isn’t the 80th most alarming news story of the day
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
All I want is to live in a country where this story isn’t the 80th most alarming news story of the day
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Senator Klobuchar, could you please remind us what your confirmation vote for Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture and therefore the head of USDA, the agency in charge of these funds, was?
First the administration cut food assistance for Americans in need.
Now they’re refusing to use emergency funds for food assistance—even though their now-deleted shutdown plan said they could.
They have the funding to keep families from going hungry. There’s no excuse.
Now they’re refusing to use emergency funds for food assistance—even though their now-deleted shutdown plan said they could.
They have the funding to keep families from going hungry. There’s no excuse.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Senator Klobuchar, could you please remind us what your confirmation vote for Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture and therefore the head of USDA, the agency in charge of these funds, was?