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DarkSkyChaser
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Minnesota enthusiast, Twin Cities-based aurora chaser, progressive politics, she/her
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darkskychaser.bsky.social
The forecasted aurora didn't live up to the hype but we did manage to catch a couple short-lived sub-storms from Lake Minnetonka
Green northern lights in the sky over a boat dock Looking out at northern lights and a calm lake
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
An amazing night to remember with vivid reds and aurora overhead! Photos taken near Zimmerman, MN.
A burst of red and green aurora behind a tall bush A burst of overhead red and green aurora Wavy green aurora beneath a burst of red Shades of red, orange and green aurora above the tree line
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
Northern lights in Minnesota (Ottertail County) 12:00 AM
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?
gizmodo.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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petersterne.com
More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
September 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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davelee.me
Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
This is exactly correct. It's not a coincidence this is happening within (yet another) merger deal. The merger will be approved or denied based on how they comply, not based on whether or not it is in the "public interest."
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 18
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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taylordahlin.com
new press release from hamoudi sabri, who is unable to attend today's TRO hearing. he addresses mayor frey's claim that people "want" encampments, and shares a heartbreaking story from yesterday's eviction - the ashes of a woman's daughter were disposed of in the sweep
Ashes Thrown Out in Sweep Yesterday — Sabri Calls for Real Care, Not Cruelty Minneapolis, MN — Due to circumstances beyond my control, I cannot attend today’s hearing related to the TRO. My attorney will be there on my behalf. But I do need to address one additional thing — in fact, I have to. The Mayor keeps repeating this line that people “want” encampments. That is not just wrong, it is offensive. Nobody wants to live in an encampment. Nobody wants to sleep in the cold, without water, surrounded by danger. And nobody wants to see their neighbors forced into that misery either. No One Wants Encampments — They Exist Because There Are No Options The only reason people live in encampments is because there is no available, safe, stable, low-barrier shelter. No Navigation Centers. No emergency hotel beds. No plan. Nothing. What Displacement Really Means And let me be clear about what displacement really means. Just yesterday, under the Mayor’s direction, MPD and Public Works cleared an encampment and threw away everything people had left in this world. Not just tents. Not just tarps. Personal belongings, keepsakes — including the ashes of a woman’s daughter. That’s not public safety. That’s not compassion. That is cruelty, plain and simple. It is a macabre Groundhog Day of destruction and demoralization that makes people even more vulnerable to the very violence this city claims to oppose. Community Must Fill the Void of Leadership I refuse to participate in that failure. Until there are real options rooted in care and dignity, displacement is not an answer. In the meantime, it falls to community to replace the void of leadership — to step up where the City will not, and to care for each other.
September 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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owenwntr.bsky.social
This is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
In happier news, we have another shot at northern lights tonight (Sunday) in MN with the coronal hole facing us. Current HPI numbers are looking decent for around 9 pm
September 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
Yikes. Fox & Friends host claims that homelessness has gotten so bad that the only solution might be to "just kill them." The other hosts nod in agreement. I had to double check this was real. It is.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
Last night's much-hyped solar storm was a bust for Aurora chasers. After bouncing around in the early evening, the Bz stayed mostly positive so it never got a chance to really ramp up. Hopefully we get another shot soon.
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
Finally some potential for northern lights tonight! Will need to find clear skies first though. Good luck to everyone out tonight! Share your photos if you catch anything. :)
September 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
August 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
www.mprnews.org
August 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
darkskychaser.bsky.social
Jumped on the paddle board bandwagon. Best purchase of the year. #minneapolis
The front of a paddle board on a calm lake
August 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Analysis | Tulsi Gabbard's willingness to make up charges against Barack Obama could delay by weeks, if not months, her eventual hiring as a network news contributor.
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...
Mr. Abrego's Account of Torture at CECOT in El Salvador
Mr. Abrego has filed an amended complaint asking the court to declare the government's actions unlawful and to order his release. He describes his torture in El Salvador in the complaint.
www.muellershewrote.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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brynstar7.xyz
Twin Cities bsky right now.

Awoooo!
It’s Three Wolf Moon, but the moon has been replaced by a tornado siren.
June 5, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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theonion.com
Tesla Employees Scramble To Make Office Look Like They’ve Been Sleeping There
theonion.com/tesla-e...
Tesla Employees Scramble To Make Office Look Like They’ve Been Sleeping There
May 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM