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christy marsden
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she/her. minneapolis. plants, bikes, textile crafts, urbanism, and climate with an adaptation bend
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christym.bsky.social
the mutual sky gazing is delightful, even if my shots aren’t as good as some of y’alls
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
Primaries for senators
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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alexip718.com
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 13d
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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ravensymbiont.bsky.social
mpls election: so much of my frustration comes from wanting this city to be on the leading edge of what a more just, radical politics could look like. but then i think, these electoral struggles (incl the nonstop struggle to prevent backsliding) are part of what the leading edge looks like. ONWARD
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ruby613.bsky.social
squidward window meme where squidward is minneapolis and spongebob and patrick are new york
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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violanorth.bsky.social
If he does pull this out, there's a book to be written about how he and his cronies transformed one of the most democratically engaged cities in America into a bitter, cynical place where a widely despised mayor can somehow magically win three terms.
jcollins.bsky.social Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 15d
Minneapolis mayoral results will continue to be tabulated tomorrow. Mayor Jacob Frey says "it looks damn good for us." He says "Minneapolis is on the rise."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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amityf.bsky.social
"Instead of solving challenging problems, our governments have turned to fences that cut off necessary urban connections, and it amounts to an abdication of public obligation to people on foot." Abdication of public obligation, damn right.
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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It’s a lovely day in Minneapolis for a train to go over the Lake of the Isles-Cedar Lake channel
October 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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taylordahlin.com
BUS AD! THEY RIDE THE BUS! BUS AD!
omarfatehmn.com Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · Oct 13
I’m so excited to have my Congresswoman and friend, @ilhanmn.bsky.social, on board with my candidacy for Mayor! She fights hard for the working people of Minneapolis. As Mayor, I’ll partner with leaders like her to build an affordable city that's accountable to us. secure.actblue.com/donate/fateh...
October 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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mirk47.bsky.social
Really nice op ed in the @mndaily.bsky.social about the university encouraging LLM use
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Op-Ed: UMN’s contract with Google Gemini is self-destructive
On July fifteenth, we received an email from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Information Technology with the subject line “Introducing Google Gemini: Your AI Partner,” announcing that the Univ...
mndaily.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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ldfs.bsky.social
This. naomikritzer.com/2025/09/25/e...
Election 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 7
The tl;dr is to vote for Katie Cashman, who is the hardworking moderate with a commitment to constituent service that all the conservative Minneapolis Democrats say they want. On the ballot: Katie …
naomikritzer.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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taylordahlin.com
our friend jason garcia is still in the hospital recovering and needs our support with medical bills and other needs during their recovery. jason does so much for the community. this is our chance to give back to them. please share -

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ja...
Donate to Support Jason Garcia in the Hospital and After, organized by melody hoffmann
Hi, this is Melody, a dear friend of Jason Garcia. On behalf of Jason G… melody hoffmann needs your support for Support Jason Garcia in the Hospital and After
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September 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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aislinglady.bsky.social
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@charlierosesmith3807 10 days ago As a gen Z American, here's my two cents on the take that our generation can't handle delayed gratification: we've watched the promise of "delayed gratification" fail Gen X and Millennials repeatedly in real time because we've had access to the internet since childhood. In elementary and middle school, I watched in real time on TV and online as Gen X had their entire life savings wiped out by the 2008-2009 depression, and as a teenager and college kid I've seen Millennials get absolutely shafted by jobs and degrees that went in promising them stable lives and then repeatedly ripped the rug out from under them, leaving millennials with no solid career progression or economic betterment to show after over a decade of consistent effort. Even outside of the internet, I've watched my grandfather, who was a computer programmer at IBM in the 60s, have his pension retroactively canceled after being a pensioner for decades, and I've watched this man in his 80s who's had two heart attacks have to go back to work 4 days of the week as an Uber driver to make ends meet, after he spent three decades of his life in a high paid office job that promised him healthcare and pension and the entire American dream. I don't have it in me to put up with the same shit. Maybe it's bratty and short sighted, but l've watched enough people older than me have enough of their decades of life ripped from them with the false promises of later rewards, so to my mind saying "this will pay off for you in the future" means you're not actually planning on paying out, you're hoping you can take advantage of my patience and goodwill. Pay me my rewards now, or I'll assume you'll never intend to actually reward me.
September 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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wesburdine.bsky.social
Here's the Letter to the Editor I was worked up enough to write about Karen Tolkkinen's inane article.
One of the most defining features of contemporary journalism is its condescension: the noble desire to explain to its reader–ignorant and unworldly–the complex viewpoints of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than In the Star Tribune’s employment of Karen Tolkkinen to help enlighten sheltered and parochial urban dwellers of the views of “Greater Minnesota.” Tolkkinen’s most recent “Shooting sounds different in rural Minnesota than in the city,” is a perfect encapsulation of this style of writing. Tolkkinen, you see, believes that we city folk just don’t understand real America. Never mind that many of us grew up in such places, never mind that a vast majority of us are quite familiar with rural America. I’m not Minnesotan born, but I was a Boy Scout, so I grew up shooting guns. My Uncle Earl used to sit on his porch in Shreveport, Louisiana with his pistol and shoot the heads off turtles that would poke out of the lake to eat his garden. I’ve been around guns. It sounds the same in rural Louisiana as it does in Midway, where I live. Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis came from rural places or have spent a good portion of their lives there. We do not need Tolkkinen to enlighten us, especially since it is always just so she can reinforce a Republican talking point. She does not have any interest except in the most crass and basic of politics, dressed up in carharts and trucker hat cosplay. In her article, she tells us how gunfire culture means something different in rural Minnesota. In “the big cities,” we’re to understand that guns mean gang-banging and danger lurking around every corner. And in Outstate Minnesota, guns mean fathers and sons bonding. It’s this sort of kitsch propaganda that doesn’t serve the reader at all, because it presents false cliches as insight. In 2021, 80% of suicides by gun happened in Outstate Minnesota and 67% of all gun deaths that occured in Minnesota occurred from someone taking their own life (from Protect Minnesota’s 2022 report). The sound of gunfire sounds different in Outstate Minnesota because writers like Tolkkinen and the Star Tribune editors are not concerned with shining a light on issues in Minnesota, they’re concerned with partisan political fights and the endless drivel of culture wars. If you were interested in the truth, you would think about the ways in which gun shots in Outstate Minnesota carry just as much violence and threat as they do in Saint Paul or Minneapolis. Even the political fight that Tolkkinen wants to have is the laughable (and I mean laughable) contention that to ban the types of weapons used in mass shootings would “open the door” to more violence such as driving vehicles into crowds. She even invokes the Oklahoma City Bombing to argue against gun control. It’s guns. It has been and always will be the unfettered gun-lust of people so obsessed with violence that the rest of us have to suffer. Do better.
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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michaelforparks.bsky.social
The landlord class couldn’t be bothered to help DFL conventions run. But once a brown person was endorsed who doesn’t align with their class interest they suddenly had all the money, energy, and lawyers in the world to “fix” the result. But this is a new era, and @omarfatehmn.com wont be stopped.
omarfatehmn.com Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · Aug 21
28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement.

Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win.

Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate
August 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Absolutely enraging to me that instead of fighting fascism, the centrist wing of the local DFL is using its time and energy to fight left-wing Democrats.
wedge.live Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Aug 21
I'm getting word that Lisa Goodman will soon be able to cash those checks to the DFL. It's nice to see megadonors at the $5,000 tier getting their way for a change.
August 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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omarfatehmn.com
28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement.

Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win.

Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate
August 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM