Rebecca M-O
@reduplicater.bsky.social
She/her. Opinions are my own, but facts are for everyone!
Seconded. @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov would be the best for the open Senate seat of @smith.senate.gov, willing to question and fight the establishment and corporate interests.
These are fighters. They are what we need.
Minnesotans, I think we know only one of our candidates to replace Sen. Tina Smith would be part of this club, and that’s @peggyflanagan.bsky.social, and that’s why I’m supporting her.
Minnesotans, I think we know only one of our candidates to replace Sen. Tina Smith would be part of this club, and that’s @peggyflanagan.bsky.social, and that’s why I’m supporting her.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Seconded. @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov would be the best for the open Senate seat of @smith.senate.gov, willing to question and fight the establishment and corporate interests.
Northern lights visible from inside twin cities metro.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Northern lights visible from inside twin cities metro.
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At the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, we give orphaned elephants a second chance at life. From their first wobbly steps in our Nursery to the day they are ready to return to the wild, every rescued animal is given the care, love, and guidance they need to thrive: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/a...
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
At the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, we give orphaned elephants a second chance at life. From their first wobbly steps in our Nursery to the day they are ready to return to the wild, every rescued animal is given the care, love, and guidance they need to thrive: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/a...
Post a film you have seen more than 7 times with a GIF
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Post a film you have seen more than 7 times with a GIF
I miss living in precedented times.
October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I miss living in precedented times.
If I had a cockerdoodle (dog), I would name it Rooster. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have thought of this, but it would make me laugh anyway.
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If I had a cockerdoodle (dog), I would name it Rooster. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have thought of this, but it would make me laugh anyway.
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Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different
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Rare opportunity to get paid to write about why urban highways are bad! streets.mn/2025/09/23/c...
Call for Pitches, Paid Opportunities to Discuss Equity in Highway Design
Streets.mn is excited to announce that we are seeking writers, storytellers, photographers to research and write articles for a recently-awarded MNHS grant.
streets.mn
September 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Rare opportunity to get paid to write about why urban highways are bad! streets.mn/2025/09/23/c...
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Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center.
The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them.
The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.
www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...
The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them.
The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.
www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...
Indianapolis killed this Google data center. It would have used 1 million gallons of water per day.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center.
The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them.
The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.
www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...
The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them.
The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.
www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...
Long thread with useful info about workers' rights (and sometimes lack thereof) regarding disciplinary action.
All right, let's do this.
I have no inside info on @karenattiah.bsky.social's case. But I know Post employees are part of @postguild.bsky.social, and their contract allows the union to challenge "disciplinary action on the basis that is was taken without just cause."
So what's just cause?
1/
I have no inside info on @karenattiah.bsky.social's case. But I know Post employees are part of @postguild.bsky.social, and their contract allows the union to challenge "disciplinary action on the basis that is was taken without just cause."
So what's just cause?
1/
Any interest in an educational thread on "just cause" protections in union contracts?
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Long thread with useful info about workers' rights (and sometimes lack thereof) regarding disciplinary action.
Not unexpected, but grumbling anyway.
The Trump administration has canceled grants for street safety, pedestrian trails, and bike lanes in communities around the country. One official wrote that a project was canceled because it created "a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
www.bloomberg.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Not unexpected, but grumbling anyway.
I like the word reify because it's a prefix and a suffix with no actual base word.*
*Technically that's not true. It's from the Latin res (thing), so it means to make a thing. But it seems like it's true. It's got truthiness.
*Technically that's not true. It's from the Latin res (thing), so it means to make a thing. But it seems like it's true. It's got truthiness.
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I like the word reify because it's a prefix and a suffix with no actual base word.*
*Technically that's not true. It's from the Latin res (thing), so it means to make a thing. But it seems like it's true. It's got truthiness.
*Technically that's not true. It's from the Latin res (thing), so it means to make a thing. But it seems like it's true. It's got truthiness.
Apropos of nothing, I'm remembering Paul Wellstone's memorial service and Democrats facing a huge backlash because some speakers at the service, his friends and supporters, were accused of politicizing the event.
September 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Apropos of nothing, I'm remembering Paul Wellstone's memorial service and Democrats facing a huge backlash because some speakers at the service, his friends and supporters, were accused of politicizing the event.
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Some are calling it the deal of the century—it's certainly the deal of the month. Now through the end of September (er, Sept-member), sign up for Racket for a single dollar!
Racket's Sept-Member Fall Membership Drive: Get Your First Month for $1! - Racket
Heckuva deal for new members.
racketmn.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Some are calling it the deal of the century—it's certainly the deal of the month. Now through the end of September (er, Sept-member), sign up for Racket for a single dollar!
Just the dumbest timeline.
Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility
Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just the dumbest timeline.
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Thank you to everyone who's signed our letter to the DFL so far! The response has blown me away! If you live in MN, are aligned with DFL principles, and would like to condemn transphobia within the party, please sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thank you to everyone who's signed our letter to the DFL so far! The response has blown me away! If you live in MN, are aligned with DFL principles, and would like to condemn transphobia within the party, please sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
While we can only afford elephants, giraffes, and rhinos, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rescues and raises many species of Kenyan wildlife until they're old enough to be reintegrated into the wild.
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
September 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
While we can only afford elephants, giraffes, and rhinos, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rescues and raises many species of Kenyan wildlife until they're old enough to be reintegrated into the wild.
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
11.5 minutes and worth the time. Cathartic after the weird mass delusion going around about Charlie Kirk as a moderate, open-minded free speech warrior.
Yesterday, Adam from South Dakota called my SiriusXM show to say Charlie Kirk was unalived b/c people on the left use words like racism or facism to describe folks like Charlie.
That call did not end the way he thought it would.
#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4
That call did not end the way he thought it would.
#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4
#TrollSlay: Words Hold Power
YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
11.5 minutes and worth the time. Cathartic after the weird mass delusion going around about Charlie Kirk as a moderate, open-minded free speech warrior.
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🚨 US citizens: There's a bill that's going to be marked up by the House Foreign Affairs Committee giving the Secretary of State the right to refuse to issue or renew a passport to a US citizen implicated in terrorism offenses.
Not worried? Here's why you should be. (1)
Not worried? Here's why you should be. (1)
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
🚨 US citizens: There's a bill that's going to be marked up by the House Foreign Affairs Committee giving the Secretary of State the right to refuse to issue or renew a passport to a US citizen implicated in terrorism offenses.
Not worried? Here's why you should be. (1)
Not worried? Here's why you should be. (1)
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the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
I think the term "political violence" is mostly unneeded, but if you're going to use it, don't limit it to assassinations. The thread below is a start.
Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.
September 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I think the term "political violence" is mostly unneeded, but if you're going to use it, don't limit it to assassinations. The thread below is a start.
Hooray again for the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust! Support their work by adopting an elephant, giraffe, or rhino.
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hooray again for the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust! Support their work by adopting an elephant, giraffe, or rhino.
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
I think I'll scroll through the BloomScrolling feed for a while.
Timeline cleanse. A happy hidden place where you can sit, lean your back against a stalk and read a book.
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I think I'll scroll through the BloomScrolling feed for a while.
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you cannot control what other people post. you can only control what you post.
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
you cannot control what other people post. you can only control what you post.
Much of this story is horrific. Our medical system, with its reliance on private insurers with incentives to deny claims and to make both patients and providers jump through fiery hoops, is completely broken.
NEW: Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield had refused to pay for a North Carolina man to get four weeks of treatment at a psychiatric hospital.
Despite his two suicide attempts, doctors working for Highmark determined the care was not “medically necessary.”
By @deldeib.bsky.social
Despite his two suicide attempts, doctors working for Highmark determined the care was not “medically necessary.”
By @deldeib.bsky.social
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
www.propublica.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Much of this story is horrific. Our medical system, with its reliance on private insurers with incentives to deny claims and to make both patients and providers jump through fiery hoops, is completely broken.