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Julia Becker
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“We all do better when we all do better.”
-Paul Wellstone
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This is a big mushroom.
Foreground is a large dryad’s saddle mushroom on a large maple tree on the St. Croix River. Background is blue skies, small white clouds, bright green vegetation, and the river.
May 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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“Never ask permission for something that already belongs to you". What a celebration of Black excellence. The night was beautiful, fun, and big. Beyoncé delivered in Chicago.
Lots of people in cowboys hats walk next to the pillars of Soldier Field with American flags in the background. Me and my sister in cowboy hats in our seats at Soldier Field. It is still daylight out, the stage screen is a giant American flag, and the billboard above it has two horses.
May 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Llama day at school?! Yes please!
A student hugging a llama. A student walking a llama. An up close pic of a llamas face. A selfie with a llama, two other llamas and a school in the background.
May 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Have you ever been to a concert for an artist you totally love, and the concert makes you love them even more? This totally just happened. 💜 #allisonrussell
Four women on stage, Allison is holding her banjo, and two women are holding acoustic guitars. Allison Russell and her three bandmates take a bow.
May 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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May 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Smokey the bear with a large fist in the air. A larger than life Benjamin Franklin puppet with two signs: “Resist” and “Well Dr. Franklin, have we got a republic or a monarch? A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT.” 4 large black bunny puppets carrying a black casket. A large, colorful praying mantis puppet on stilts.
May 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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May Day is my favorite.
A little kid petting a large turtle worn by a woman on roller skates in a parade. A large lifelike heart, surrounded by monarchs, flowers, and a bear holding a shield ‘defend conscience’ and drums. An aerial silk artist dangling from an iron pole with a person on top on a hard hat in the parade. A cute little dog sticks its head out of a multicolored float window underneath a sculpture of a tree with a shiny ball head, and lots of people walking around it.
May 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A honeybee, with pollen on its legs, rests on a straw hat.
May 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Today in South Minneapolis…
“Let laughter be your shield against the darkness.” stapled to a utility pole alongside lots of colorful origami butterflies. “The wound is the place where light enters you.” -Rumi stapled to a utility pole alongside lots of colorful origami butterflies.
May 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Happy May Day!
Bundles of tulips and hyacinths in colorful paper bags.
May 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Lots of Ultimate Frisbee these days!
My kid B catching a frisbee. My kid C catching a frisbee. My kid C throwing a frisbee. My kid B throwing a frisbee.
April 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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@jeremymessersmith.bsky.social at the #turfclub tonight was just what the doctor ordered.
Jeremy Messersmith and his band (guitar, drums, and bass, but can’t see the keyboard guy in this pic) on stage at the Turf Club.
April 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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World Pilots’ Day?! I’ll celebrate! I got together with these amazing women last weekend and we reminisced about our SCSU Aero Club days. That was a long time ago, but some cherished memories.
4 friends (the fifth left early before we thought to take a pic), smile for the camera. The SCSU Aero Club’s logo: a Cessna flying around a C with ST in the middle (for the STC airport).
April 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Pic 1) The day after Prince died all the purple rhododendrons in South Minneapolis bloomed. Pic 2) my kiddo with our flowers as we paid our respect at Paisley Park.
Rhododendrons in full bloom 4/22/2016. My son holding a bouquet of flowers alongside a crowd with balloons and flowers at the fence at Paisley Park.
April 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Prince’s star at First Avenue surrounded by flowers and purple balloons. Flowers and notes, one reads ‘Thank You Prince’ on the fence at Paisley Park.
April 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Spring 🌱
A green plant just crests the ground, surrounded by brown dead foliage.
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I found my favorite Bob Dylan album in the used bin at the Electric Fetus today! Happy Record Store Day to those who celebrate!
Picture of the record New Morning by Bob Dylan.
April 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This week in Minneapolis… 1) a long line to get into the local caucus. 2) alley art. 3) Squall Ultimate Frisbee. 4) a deer in a cemetery.
A long line outside, wrapping around a city block, for the Minneapolis caucus at South High School. Alley art, a large green t-Rex hovers over a hot wheels red station wagon. 4 kids on a sideline watching an ultimate frisbee game. A deer looking at the camera in Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery.
April 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Emily
Orange calico cat on an orange couch sleeping in a ray of sunshine.
April 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Beautiful day to spend with thousands of friends in St. Paul today. ✊🏻
April 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Protestors at the Capitol and signs that read “Elect a clown, expect a circus” and “Trump poops his pants”. Me with two friends in front of me of a large crowd at the MN Capitol building with protest signs that read “HANDS OFF our education, our social security, our money, our bodies, our constitution, our science, our land, our libraries, OUR RIGHTS AND COUNTRY” and “F-ELON”. Two protestors with signs that read “CUT OF ELON’S TESLACLES” and “CIVIL SOCIETY OR CIVIL UNREST”.
April 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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It’s so good to know we are not alone. Hands off! Resist.
Sr. Paul Capital with protestors. Signs read “WE THE PEOPLE ARE BIGLY PISSED, HANDS OFF”, “We the people resist! NO KINGS”, and a picture of Trump with a clown nose. A picture of the large protest group at the MN State Capitol. Two people dressed like penguins on a bike with paper mache fish on a pole. A person in the crowd dressed like a clown with cabinet members in a clown wagon they pull behind.
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Amy
Picture of Amy, a black calico cat, on a blue serape.
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Caturday chill with my Calico Girls. #amyandemily
A close up of one cat sleeping on me and another cat in the background on the arm of the couch, looking cute.
April 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM