Ian Kushner
@ikushner.bsky.social
Minneapolitan. Former endurance athlete with #longCOVID. Dad joke enthusiast. Avid reader and cook. Aspiring birder. Suns, Capitals, and Twins fan.
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hey! I've got an extra copy of @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's CROSSINGS, an important book to understand the influence of roads on wildlife & what we can do about it. Interested? Like/reskeet & I'll randomly pick someone on Friday Aug 8 2025, & mail to the winner for free. US addresses only. #booksky 🌍
August 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
hey! I've got an extra copy of @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's CROSSINGS, an important book to understand the influence of roads on wildlife & what we can do about it. Interested? Like/reskeet & I'll randomly pick someone on Friday Aug 8 2025, & mail to the winner for free. US addresses only. #booksky 🌍
I strongly urge you to donate and cast your vote for Dunkel in his quest to help Katie take a bite out of special interests in Ward 7.
We won't "lie down" or "roll over" for hyper-wealthy special interests. "Speak" up for a more welcoming, livable city—and tell us who you think is the cutest canine in all of Ward 7 in the process!
Canines for Katie — Katie Cashman for Council
One dollar = one vote! Support your favorite cute little furball and Ward 7’s only pro-labor, pro-choice, pro-renter campaign.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I strongly urge you to donate and cast your vote for Dunkel in his quest to help Katie take a bite out of special interests in Ward 7.
My long term disability claim for long COVID was denied today (through private insurance, not SSDI) and I’m feeling beyond despondent. Any other long COVID/chronic illness folks have tips for appealing or reasons I should be hopeful?
July 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My long term disability claim for long COVID was denied today (through private insurance, not SSDI) and I’m feeling beyond despondent. Any other long COVID/chronic illness folks have tips for appealing or reasons I should be hopeful?
Dunkel supports people power and progressive policies in Ward 7!
@katiecashman.bsky.social
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June 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Dunkel supports people power and progressive policies in Ward 7!
@katiecashman.bsky.social
@katiecashman.bsky.social
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why would the MN GOP CD5 deputy chair be at an event for a DFL endorsed candidate?
this is mitch rossow pictured in the video shared from elizabeth shaffer’s field kickoff today
this is mitch rossow pictured in the video shared from elizabeth shaffer’s field kickoff today
June 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
why would the MN GOP CD5 deputy chair be at an event for a DFL endorsed candidate?
this is mitch rossow pictured in the video shared from elizabeth shaffer’s field kickoff today
this is mitch rossow pictured in the video shared from elizabeth shaffer’s field kickoff today
It’s so easy to think you’re invincible, until you aren’t
Disability terrifies people because it’s the only minority group that one can join. People like to stick their head in the sand about issues like their mortality and fragility. We need to get over this and accept that disability is the intersection where most social justice issues meet.
June 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It’s so easy to think you’re invincible, until you aren’t
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
Hard to choose a quote that most resonates because there are so many gems.
“Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.”
“Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.”
The importance of understanding rest
How my experience of rest as an athlete clashed with my experience of rest as a patient
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June 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hard to choose a quote that most resonates because there are so many gems.
“Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.”
“Amid all this, the emotional cost of rest is almost entirely overlooked. To rest in the context of chronic illness demands the endurance of immense grief.”
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When things were in chaos on East Lake St today, three mayoral candidates (not people who currently hold that office, people running for it) showed up to help. All three are Black men who probably have a healthy fear of militarized police.
But our strong mayor, shrouded in privilege, did not.
But our strong mayor, shrouded in privilege, did not.
June 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
When things were in chaos on East Lake St today, three mayoral candidates (not people who currently hold that office, people running for it) showed up to help. All three are Black men who probably have a healthy fear of militarized police.
But our strong mayor, shrouded in privilege, did not.
But our strong mayor, shrouded in privilege, did not.
This thought is a perfect illustration of how toxic law enforcement culture is.
I have three misc. thoughts about what happened today:
1. There seems to be absolutely no consideration within the law enforcement profession about the extent to which a militarized appearance and demeanor has disastrous consequences for public trust. For some agencies it's clearly intentional.
1. There seems to be absolutely no consideration within the law enforcement profession about the extent to which a militarized appearance and demeanor has disastrous consequences for public trust. For some agencies it's clearly intentional.
June 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This thought is a perfect illustration of how toxic law enforcement culture is.
I don’t even know where this ranks on the list of horrors we’re facing, but JFC they don’t ever seem to stop coming.
Port: North Dakota lawmaker suggests overthrow of 'Jew' Mexican president
"Isn't she Jewish?" an unapologetic state Rep. Nico Rios asked when reached by phone. "Why is it wrong that I state a fact?"
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February 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I don’t even know where this ranks on the list of horrors we’re facing, but JFC they don’t ever seem to stop coming.
Shaffer is not polling well so far in my household
January 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Shaffer is not polling well so far in my household
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It has been 60 years since Minnesota experienced as little crime as it did in 2024. For the vast majority of people alive in Minnesota last year was the safest of their lives.
Keep this in mind when politicians in upcoming elections attempt to use fear to get you to vote for them!
Keep this in mind when politicians in upcoming elections attempt to use fear to get you to vote for them!
January 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It has been 60 years since Minnesota experienced as little crime as it did in 2024. For the vast majority of people alive in Minnesota last year was the safest of their lives.
Keep this in mind when politicians in upcoming elections attempt to use fear to get you to vote for them!
Keep this in mind when politicians in upcoming elections attempt to use fear to get you to vote for them!
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If you are not closely following the recent discoveries, it is hard to understand how neuroscientists interpret SARSCoV2 damage to the brain. The figure below summarizes it well, it is a neurological disease. And we need help from other fields to understand it fully. #NeuroCovid
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January 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you are not closely following the recent discoveries, it is hard to understand how neuroscientists interpret SARSCoV2 damage to the brain. The figure below summarizes it well, it is a neurological disease. And we need help from other fields to understand it fully. #NeuroCovid
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RFK spotted near LynLake
January 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
RFK spotted near LynLake
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The Journal: ''I miss my old life': Readers with Long Covid tell us how it has affected their lives'
'Readers told us of suffering shortness of breath, fatigue, brain fog, the inability to exercise or even do basic household tasks, cardiac issues..'
www.thejournal.ie/long-covid-e...
'Readers told us of suffering shortness of breath, fatigue, brain fog, the inability to exercise or even do basic household tasks, cardiac issues..'
www.thejournal.ie/long-covid-e...
'I miss my old life': Readers with Long Covid tell us how it has affected their lives
Readers with Long Covid said the condition has devastating effects.
www.thejournal.ie
January 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Journal: ''I miss my old life': Readers with Long Covid tell us how it has affected their lives'
'Readers told us of suffering shortness of breath, fatigue, brain fog, the inability to exercise or even do basic household tasks, cardiac issues..'
www.thejournal.ie/long-covid-e...
'Readers told us of suffering shortness of breath, fatigue, brain fog, the inability to exercise or even do basic household tasks, cardiac issues..'
www.thejournal.ie/long-covid-e...
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The clitoris has around 8000 nerve endings and it's still not as sensitive as a conservative man on the internet.
January 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The clitoris has around 8000 nerve endings and it's still not as sensitive as a conservative man on the internet.
As a socially very lonely, aspiring world traveler early in college I spent a ton of time in the Thorn Tree, the forum on the Lonely Planet website.
Okay, let's get nostalgic
What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
January 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
As a socially very lonely, aspiring world traveler early in college I spent a ton of time in the Thorn Tree, the forum on the Lonely Planet website.
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
December 31, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
“Let’s take a trip down south,” he said, “Somewhere tropical, steamy, passionate.” She was thrilled. She’d never been to Cincinnati.
A Romance Novelist Desperately Tries to Romanticize Midwestern Winter
Fate brought them together, the way his car happened to slide into hers when he lost traction in the Schnucks parking lot.
- - -He looked at her an...
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December 29, 2024 at 6:14 PM
“Let’s take a trip down south,” he said, “Somewhere tropical, steamy, passionate.” She was thrilled. She’d never been to Cincinnati.
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If i was the richest guy in the world i would just do stuff like give the decemberists 100 million dollars to write a concept album about the hardy boys
November 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
If i was the richest guy in the world i would just do stuff like give the decemberists 100 million dollars to write a concept album about the hardy boys
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Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
December 27, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
I’ve never been an anti-Zionist Jew, nor have I been an unconditional cheerleader. The last 14 months have left me feeling more disconnected than ever. The inability of many Jews/Jewish institutions in America to recognize Israeli actions for what they are is deeply shameful.
Joelle Novey:
"When so many Jews & Jewish institutions get into arguments about the words that people use to describe the carnage in Gaza, it makes me feel like I wasn’t in the same religion I thought I was... I don’t know how else to say it more gently: our once-sacred places are covered in blood."
"When so many Jews & Jewish institutions get into arguments about the words that people use to describe the carnage in Gaza, it makes me feel like I wasn’t in the same religion I thought I was... I don’t know how else to say it more gently: our once-sacred places are covered in blood."
On Finding Our Temple Covered in Blood · Jewschool
But if I'm being honest, the only place I can really find my way into Hanukkah this year is when the Maccabees come back to the sacred Temple and find it neglected, desolate, and covered in blood. The...
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December 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
I’ve never been an anti-Zionist Jew, nor have I been an unconditional cheerleader. The last 14 months have left me feeling more disconnected than ever. The inability of many Jews/Jewish institutions in America to recognize Israeli actions for what they are is deeply shameful.
I love being able to raise the next generation of library lovers
I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
December 27, 2024 at 2:01 PM
I love being able to raise the next generation of library lovers