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Raelin
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🌲 Everything outside 🌲
Local, State, and Natl Parks fan
Minnesota!!
I’m listening to twenty one pilots for maybe the first time since I was 17. Someone lock me up clearly this is not good
April 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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A lot of people who voted for the face eating leopards are angry that they ate their faces, and jobs, and retirement savings, and the money they need to buy groceries and basic essentials, because they thought the color of their face and the red hat on top would keep them safe.
April 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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April 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Wishing all my trans friends a life filled with the love, respect, acknowledgment, and support you deserve ❤️
March 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s scientific research arm and lay off more than 1,000 chemists, biologists, and other scientists.
March 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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As expected, DFL candidate David Gottfried ran away with a victory in Tuesday’s special election for District 40B, securing shared power for his party in the Minnesota House.
AP: DFL wins special election, locking Minnesota House in 67-67 tie with Republicans
As expected, DFL candidate David Gottfried ran away with a victory in Tuesday’s special election.
www.startribune.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The poor video quality here really keeps me from posting. I do spend time putting videos together, but the last thing I want to do is post it in a place that compresses it beyond recognition tbh
March 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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As I head into work today, my reflections will be on last nights speech to Congress.

1) Lavish fish monitoring: I appreciate the image several of you have posted about bedazzled fish. We wish! Our fisheries program is so understaffed, our biologist’s idea of lavish is a lunch break.
Assessment and Monitoring | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Freshwater ecosystems are home to more species than either marine or terrestrial environments making them some of the most important ecosystems on the planet.
www.fws.gov
March 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I think Trump has lied for literally 100% of the statements he’s making during his address to Congress tonight
March 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Please read—this is becoming serious!
March 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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That press conference was choreographed for an audience of one and he sits in Moscow.

Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.
February 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy.

Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
On the shores of Lake Superior at Tettegouche State Park 🌲
February 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Palisade Head sunset from a hidden beach campsite! #lakesuperior
February 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The GOP was never pro-life.
Never. It was always pro-lie:
It ginned up the whopper that
human identity and rights
begin at conception—and used
abortion as a bloody rag
to enrage and engorge its base.
The GOP is pro-death, pro-war, pro-death penalty, pro-misery, pro-ignorance, pro-bigotry.
February 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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alt headline: enemy of constitutional government installed in white house www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead White House budget office
The fiscal conservative returns to the post he held in President Donald Trump’s first administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Seeing a border patrol SUV drive by in Lakeside in Duluth, MN is definitely a weird sight to see.
February 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference.

They are DEIA hires.

Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
January 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Checked this off my list today! Finally got to experience dog sledding! #dogsledding #minnesota #wisconsin
January 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Inside Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley National Park
January 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM