Julie Blaha
@julieblaha.bsky.social
Personal account of the Minnesota State Auditor and award winning MN State Fair crop artist.
Thanks to all our veterans who stepped up for their values despite the risks.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Thanks to all our veterans who stepped up for their values despite the risks.
The anniversary honors people who died on the job, and the artists who make sure we remember.
Check out the the best video on the #WreckoftheEdmundFitzgerald I’ve ever seen.
Check out the the best video on the #WreckoftheEdmundFitzgerald I’ve ever seen.
Music Making History: Gordon Lightfoot & The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Minnesota Historical Society
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November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The anniversary honors people who died on the job, and the artists who make sure we remember.
Check out the the best video on the #WreckoftheEdmundFitzgerald I’ve ever seen.
Check out the the best video on the #WreckoftheEdmundFitzgerald I’ve ever seen.
Local government matters - make sure it matters to your state auditor candidate. www.startribune.com/candidate-ca...
Opinion | Candidates should stay in their lanes
Every level of government, from city councils to school boards, has a defined scope. That clarity is foundational to good governance, Shannon Watson writes.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Local government matters - make sure it matters to your state auditor candidate. www.startribune.com/candidate-ca...
Get up to speed on all the rapture talk among the youths. Get ready to tell the kids that they still need to do tonight’s homework regardless of their fate tomorrow.
Welcome to the 2025 Rapture meme, a cultural moment where fear, faith, and clowning around collides in glorious, chaotic fashion.
The 2025 Rapture Meme: Faith, Fear, and TikTok Virality | Black Girl Nerds
Welcome to the 2025 Rapture meme, a cultural moment where fear, faith, and clowning around collided in glorious, chaotic fashion.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Get up to speed on all the rapture talk among the youths. Get ready to tell the kids that they still need to do tonight’s homework regardless of their fate tomorrow.
If tame jokes about Trump answering “How are you doing after Kirk’s death?” by rambling about his new ballroom get threats from the @fcc, free speech is under attack. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
If tame jokes about Trump answering “How are you doing after Kirk’s death?” by rambling about his new ballroom get threats from the @fcc, free speech is under attack. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
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this is what gave the big tuff alpha dudes the vapors
“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
this is what gave the big tuff alpha dudes the vapors
I was literally in the middle of writing a post condemning the shooting of Charlie Kirk when the news of students shot at Evergreen High School came in. This has to stop.
September 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I was literally in the middle of writing a post condemning the shooting of Charlie Kirk when the news of students shot at Evergreen High School came in. This has to stop.
Election 2026 announcement: The OSA is in a strong position and can handle a transition, so I won’t be seeking re-election. Thank you all for the opportunity of a lifetime. Let’s use the next 16 months to take the work we do close to home even further.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Election 2026 announcement: The OSA is in a strong position and can handle a transition, so I won’t be seeking re-election. Thank you all for the opportunity of a lifetime. Let’s use the next 16 months to take the work we do close to home even further.
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“The thing that’s going to stick with me,” said Shea McAdaragh, a parent who witnessed the shooting, “was when I said you guys can get up, and I knew some kids weren’t going to get up.”
Inside Annunciation Church, terror and heroism as an attack unfolded
“The thing that’s going to stick with me,” said Shea McAdaragh, a parent who witnessed the shooting, “was when I said you guys can get up, and I knew some kids weren’t going to get up.”
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August 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“The thing that’s going to stick with me,” said Shea McAdaragh, a parent who witnessed the shooting, “was when I said you guys can get up, and I knew some kids weren’t going to get up.”
Wondering what to say to your kids when they come home from school today? Here are ideas from the American School Counselors Association: www.schoolcounselor.org/Publications... .
Care for yourself too - if you feel really rough, call or text 988 for emergency support. 988lifeline.org
Care for yourself too - if you feel really rough, call or text 988 for emergency support. 988lifeline.org
After a School Shooting Resources - American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
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August 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wondering what to say to your kids when they come home from school today? Here are ideas from the American School Counselors Association: www.schoolcounselor.org/Publications... .
Care for yourself too - if you feel really rough, call or text 988 for emergency support. 988lifeline.org
Care for yourself too - if you feel really rough, call or text 988 for emergency support. 988lifeline.org
Let’s make crop art to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman. I am using my annual fundraiser to create a piece for this year’s State Fair Crop Art Competition’s new team division and raise money for the MN DFL House Caucus. facebook.com/events/s/lfc...
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Let’s make crop art to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman. I am using my annual fundraiser to create a piece for this year’s State Fair Crop Art Competition’s new team division and raise money for the MN DFL House Caucus. facebook.com/events/s/lfc...
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The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
Oh, this is going to be a good year. www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/?ut...
July 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Oh, this is going to be a good year. www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/?ut...
Whether you celebrate a fresh ledger, new laws, or meeting June audit deadlines: Happy New Fiscal Year !
Though local govs use a calendar year for finances, and the feds use Oct 1 - Sept 30, the state level’s July 1 - June 30 fiscal year drives deadlines & changes across MN.
Though local govs use a calendar year for finances, and the feds use Oct 1 - Sept 30, the state level’s July 1 - June 30 fiscal year drives deadlines & changes across MN.
a clock that has the hands on the numbers 1 and 12
Alt: Decorative spinning spiral shaped clock.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Whether you celebrate a fresh ledger, new laws, or meeting June audit deadlines: Happy New Fiscal Year !
Though local govs use a calendar year for finances, and the feds use Oct 1 - Sept 30, the state level’s July 1 - June 30 fiscal year drives deadlines & changes across MN.
Though local govs use a calendar year for finances, and the feds use Oct 1 - Sept 30, the state level’s July 1 - June 30 fiscal year drives deadlines & changes across MN.
Our pins had flowers Melissa loved, there were as many hugs as tears, and a theme of peace flowed through the eulogies and songs. The funeral was as beautiful as the Hortmans’ spirits, and powerful enough to push aside the horror of why we had to gather, even if only for a little while.
June 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Our pins had flowers Melissa loved, there were as many hugs as tears, and a theme of peace flowed through the eulogies and songs. The funeral was as beautiful as the Hortmans’ spirits, and powerful enough to push aside the horror of why we had to gather, even if only for a little while.
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The late Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will lie in state at the Capitol on Friday. Private funeral services are set to follow on Saturday. The Hortmans were killed in their home earlier this month in an alleged political assassination.
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman, husband Mark to lie in state Friday
The late Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will lie in state at the Capitol on Friday. Private funeral services are set to follow on Saturday.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The late Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will lie in state at the Capitol on Friday. Private funeral services are set to follow on Saturday. The Hortmans were killed in their home earlier this month in an alleged political assassination.
This is how I felt at the vigil on Wednesday.
Read her full commentary here: www.startribune.com/minnesota-la...
Read her full commentary here: www.startribune.com/minnesota-la...
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is how I felt at the vigil on Wednesday.
Read her full commentary here: www.startribune.com/minnesota-la...
Read her full commentary here: www.startribune.com/minnesota-la...
Starting now:
Officials to provide update on search for suspect
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June 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Starting now:
Let’s take some time today to support the abortion providers and advocates who were also targeted by Hortmans’ assassin.
June 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Let’s take some time today to support the abortion providers and advocates who were also targeted by Hortmans’ assassin.
I’ll miss clapping for Melissa.
June 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’ll miss clapping for Melissa.
I am heartbroken over the deaths of Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the critical conditions of Sen John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.
They are more than dear friends, but also some of the greatest public servants I have ever known.
Violence has no place in our democracy.
They are more than dear friends, but also some of the greatest public servants I have ever known.
Violence has no place in our democracy.
June 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am heartbroken over the deaths of Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the critical conditions of Sen John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.
They are more than dear friends, but also some of the greatest public servants I have ever known.
Violence has no place in our democracy.
They are more than dear friends, but also some of the greatest public servants I have ever known.
Violence has no place in our democracy.
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