Jodi Rogstad
@jodirogstad.bsky.social
Loves: Community journalism (proud @wtenews alumni), making the second violin section the envy of the string section (I play w/the Golden Valley Orchestra), Shakopee, (my adopted hometown) and Meeko the brave rescue dog
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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”
April 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”
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Prohibition started in Colorado in 1916. The Coors family pivoted to ceramics, using the rich clay deposits around Golden. That kept the family business afloat until the end of Prohibition in 1933. Coors Porcelain Company became CoorsTEK, which is still in Golden today.
April 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Prohibition started in Colorado in 1916. The Coors family pivoted to ceramics, using the rich clay deposits around Golden. That kept the family business afloat until the end of Prohibition in 1933. Coors Porcelain Company became CoorsTEK, which is still in Golden today.
Anyone know about the Minnesota's new price caps on life saving medications? Trying to fill an EpiPen Rx and it STILL costs $$$ even with a coupon.
I suspect the cap applies only to generics. Seeking confirmation from someone in the know!
I suspect the cap applies only to generics. Seeking confirmation from someone in the know!
March 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Anyone know about the Minnesota's new price caps on life saving medications? Trying to fill an EpiPen Rx and it STILL costs $$$ even with a coupon.
I suspect the cap applies only to generics. Seeking confirmation from someone in the know!
I suspect the cap applies only to generics. Seeking confirmation from someone in the know!
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The return address on the email is;
HR@OPM.gov
Would be a real shame if people flooded this email with nonsensical stuff.
HR@OPM.gov
Would be a real shame if people flooded this email with nonsensical stuff.
February 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The return address on the email is;
HR@OPM.gov
Would be a real shame if people flooded this email with nonsensical stuff.
HR@OPM.gov
Would be a real shame if people flooded this email with nonsensical stuff.
Yup!
Mountain West leftists (and liberals) know exactly what they’re doing. They’re diamonds forged in an intense pressure cooker of conservative insanity. They know they won’t win elections, but they fight anyway.
We (and our congressional buffoons) could learn a lot from them.
(Source: me.)
We (and our congressional buffoons) could learn a lot from them.
(Source: me.)
February 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Yup!
I need to read this every day
In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
February 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I need to read this every day
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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
February 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
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People are pissed, and I get it. Trump and Republicans are flooding the zone to shake us up.
Elon Musk and his interns are meant to make us feel powerless when we’re not.
Keep calling. Call Republicans. Be specific about how these actions impact your lives.
Elon Musk and his interns are meant to make us feel powerless when we’re not.
Keep calling. Call Republicans. Be specific about how these actions impact your lives.
February 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
People are pissed, and I get it. Trump and Republicans are flooding the zone to shake us up.
Elon Musk and his interns are meant to make us feel powerless when we’re not.
Keep calling. Call Republicans. Be specific about how these actions impact your lives.
Elon Musk and his interns are meant to make us feel powerless when we’re not.
Keep calling. Call Republicans. Be specific about how these actions impact your lives.
Great stuff. Now tell the MN GOP to knock it off with the power grab and SEAT BRAD TABKE
The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school.
Trump should stop him.
Trump should stop him.
February 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Great stuff. Now tell the MN GOP to knock it off with the power grab and SEAT BRAD TABKE
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
I propose human hamster wheels at local parks!!
Heck, get one for the basement. Gotta be cheaper and longer lasting than a treadmill
Heck, get one for the basement. Gotta be cheaper and longer lasting than a treadmill
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I propose human hamster wheels at local parks!!
Heck, get one for the basement. Gotta be cheaper and longer lasting than a treadmill
Heck, get one for the basement. Gotta be cheaper and longer lasting than a treadmill
SEAT BRAD TABKE
The House GOP lost in the Supreme Court. Everything they were doing the last two weeks was unconstitutional. We all want to get back in working at the Capitol and need to agree on two things:
1) Don’t kick me out.
2) Share power if we’re tied.
Let’s work together!!
1) Don’t kick me out.
2) Share power if we’re tied.
Let’s work together!!
January 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
SEAT BRAD TABKE
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lmao, this is such an own goal, you could have become THE brand for the Wine Mom Resistance Lib crowd (complimentary).
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat cnb.cx/3POyGEd
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat
Target joins Walmart, Meta, McDonald's and a wave of other major companies pulling back on DEI programs.
cnb.cx
January 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
lmao, this is such an own goal, you could have become THE brand for the Wine Mom Resistance Lib crowd (complimentary).
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I choose to get the vapors over the GOP undoing an election in Shakopee that’s been recounted & adjudicated. That’s backsliding a democracy.
Ongoing Democratic backsliding in MN: A DFL lawmaker promoted a protest at the Capitol yesterday. The protestors subsequently went inside, disrupted proceedings, and shouted obscenities at GOP lawmakers.
January 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I choose to get the vapors over the GOP undoing an election in Shakopee that’s been recounted & adjudicated. That’s backsliding a democracy.
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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
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In this day and age, living in a place that
- you like,
- you can afford,
- you can find a job,
- you have family/friends,
- you feel safe, and
- you *are* safe from natural disasters/bad laws/worse
is luxury and privilege. Almost no one gets to check all the boxes.
So maybe don’t be an asshole.
- you like,
- you can afford,
- you can find a job,
- you have family/friends,
- you feel safe, and
- you *are* safe from natural disasters/bad laws/worse
is luxury and privilege. Almost no one gets to check all the boxes.
So maybe don’t be an asshole.
January 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
In this day and age, living in a place that
- you like,
- you can afford,
- you can find a job,
- you have family/friends,
- you feel safe, and
- you *are* safe from natural disasters/bad laws/worse
is luxury and privilege. Almost no one gets to check all the boxes.
So maybe don’t be an asshole.
- you like,
- you can afford,
- you can find a job,
- you have family/friends,
- you feel safe, and
- you *are* safe from natural disasters/bad laws/worse
is luxury and privilege. Almost no one gets to check all the boxes.
So maybe don’t be an asshole.
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If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
I don't know who needs to know this. But Fresh Thyme has leg of lamb for $2.99 a pound. AND they're only place around that I know of that sells dry ice!
January 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I don't know who needs to know this. But Fresh Thyme has leg of lamb for $2.99 a pound. AND they're only place around that I know of that sells dry ice!
My grandparents's Stillwater Victorian was similarly destroyed in a flip. They painted all the paneling and woodwork white and made the first floor "open concept." $1.1M. No buyers. May as well skip the astronomical heating bills and get something new
It's a flip and they destroyed all the character in the house.
December 24, 2024 at 11:31 AM
My grandparents's Stillwater Victorian was similarly destroyed in a flip. They painted all the paneling and woodwork white and made the first floor "open concept." $1.1M. No buyers. May as well skip the astronomical heating bills and get something new
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state capitol, cheyenne, wyoming, 2004
December 21, 2024 at 11:36 PM
state capitol, cheyenne, wyoming, 2004
Funny story: My community orchestra accidentally scheduled the Winter Concert for Super Bowl Sunday.
Obviously, we're scrambling for a different date 🤣
Obviously, we're scrambling for a different date 🤣
December 18, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Funny story: My community orchestra accidentally scheduled the Winter Concert for Super Bowl Sunday.
Obviously, we're scrambling for a different date 🤣
Obviously, we're scrambling for a different date 🤣
First news story I remember as a child:
John Lennon's assassination
The freeing of the hostages in Iran
President Reagan being shot
A house fire in Minneapolis that killed three (?) school age brothers
Thanksgiving fire of 1982 (?) that took out the Donaldson's Department store downtown Mpls
John Lennon's assassination
The freeing of the hostages in Iran
President Reagan being shot
A house fire in Minneapolis that killed three (?) school age brothers
Thanksgiving fire of 1982 (?) that took out the Donaldson's Department store downtown Mpls
Not so much a news story but I remember the 1980 Moscow Olympics on TV. I was 6. And I remember Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and (closer to home) Bob Hawke’s election as PM in 1983. I remember AIDS, and the early 80s recession, and the Cold War - Brezhnev’s death in 82.
What's the first major news story you remember as a child?
Challenger for sure. After that the next one I remember vividly was the Berlin Wall. Then the invasion of Kuwait. Obviously other things happened between those but I'm talking off the top of my head.
Really curious about Ukrainian answers.
Challenger for sure. After that the next one I remember vividly was the Berlin Wall. Then the invasion of Kuwait. Obviously other things happened between those but I'm talking off the top of my head.
Really curious about Ukrainian answers.
December 18, 2024 at 1:45 AM
First news story I remember as a child:
John Lennon's assassination
The freeing of the hostages in Iran
President Reagan being shot
A house fire in Minneapolis that killed three (?) school age brothers
Thanksgiving fire of 1982 (?) that took out the Donaldson's Department store downtown Mpls
John Lennon's assassination
The freeing of the hostages in Iran
President Reagan being shot
A house fire in Minneapolis that killed three (?) school age brothers
Thanksgiving fire of 1982 (?) that took out the Donaldson's Department store downtown Mpls