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Kat Rohn
@rohnkat.bsky.social
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It is not a coincidence that Emmer and our state’s Republican delegation are lifting up this letter with a post on Trans Day of Remembrance.

It is an intentional act of disrespect, and bait to community who are mourning.

Please don’t center it today.
A post by MN’s Congressional Republicans sharing a letter calling on Tim Walz to discriminate against trans athletes.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Get outside, Minnesota (and beyond)!

(This is from inside the metro!!)
Pink and green hues from the northern lights with bare trees in the foreground
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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It’s noteworthy how quickly and clearly Minnesotan Dems are coming out in strong opposition to this deal.
A screenshot of a post from Tim Walz reading: “After the longest shutdown in history, we are no closer to relief for the millions of Americans facing hikes to their health care bills that they can’t afford. This is a deeply disappointing result. Democrats cannot let the Trump Administration steamroll Congress into cutting taxes for billionaires at the expense of working people.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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💜
Jeff Tweedy and band performing at First Avenue in Minneapolis
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Took a little time off today to get in a final round of doorknocking in this beautiful fall weather; talked to one couple as they hopped into the car to go to the polls!

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered and stepped up to help campaign at every level this cycle. Democracy takes all of us. 🗳️
A person carrying election literature
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Go vote! 🗳️
A red “I voted” sticker affixed to a sweater
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Trip over to the Walker to see the new Dyani White Hawk exhibit.

Pictures don’t really do justice to the scale and intricacy of these beautiful works. Go see it!

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A person in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden on a cloudy fall day. An artwork by Dyani White Hawk, large geometric shapes are laid out in intricate beadwork. A view of the Walker from the sculpture garden, sculptural rocks with colored facets are in the foreground. An artwork by Dyani White Hawk with large geometric diamonds intricately patterned with a teal background.
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Happy Halloween, ready for the trick-or-treaters! 🎃
A bowl full of assorted candy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The IDS tower fading into low hanging morning fog.
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Get outside, Minnesota!
A wooded area bathed in golden hues from the changing leaves
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The skyline of St Paul shrouded in fog at sunrise.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Glad to see so many people out and supporting Fletcher’s this evening. 🍦🌈
Ice cream in a cup.
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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My copy of the new @mskellymhayes.bsky.social collection arrived!
A copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis on a table with a cup of coffee and highlighter.
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It’s a beautiful world.
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Good morning 🌅
The Mississippi River at sunrise, the bluff is covered in multi colored trees.
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A view across the Mississippi River towards Bdote under a blue sky. There are silver maple leaves turning yellow in the foreground.
October 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Great to have the opportunity to stop through the opening reception for Queering Indigeneity at the @mnmuseum.bsky.social - what a beautiful collection!

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A wall with words interspersed with baskets reading: A Community without Two Spirits If you ask nice, Nokomis (Grandma) will tell you when the Two Spirits were here. When their braids were long, and they fought what they fear. When they sweat where their spirit led them and they brought special medicine to their people. If you sit real still, Auntie will whisper about when the Two Spirits were here. When they fought to stay alive, and some had to hide. When they kept loving where their ode (heart) took them, Even when the nuns took them. And if you beg your brother, he will tell you that he remembers when the Two Spirits stopped coming to ceremony, because no one included their stories. They were misgendered, and rendered a burden. "Too sensitive!" When they were told there are no roles for them amongst the cisgender women and men. When will we fade away? Will it be tomorrow? Or today? Brother said, "That's when their medicine left forever. Solutions became less clever. Inclusion was close to never. And with them went soldiers for language, warriors for peace." The genders we brought to the table were no longer there for feast. I hope these are just the nightmares we must wake up from on the bad days we have had to face. But sometimes, it feels all too close. A community without Two Spirits is a community I fear most. A pink wall with a hanging bag and photographs overlaid with beadwork. Writing reads: Every room I walk into Becomes a Queer space Becomes an Indigenous space Becomes a Two Spirit space
October 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Couldn’t get any great pictures because I only had my phone with me, but always a joy to see them.
A blurry picture of two distant bald eagles in the sky.
October 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A cluster of yellow and orange oak leaves illuminated by the sun.
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Distinctly autumnal (finally).
A wetland under a gray sky covered in duckweed, trees and reeds are beginning to turn from greens to yellow and brown
October 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Bare tree branches sillhoutted against a sunset colored sky.
October 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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"78% of the public [including] most Republicans (59%) favor extending the enhanced tax credits, which otherwise would expire at the end of the year and require Marketplace customers to pay much more in premiums to retain coverage."

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A chart showing strong support for extending enhanced tax credits across party identity.
October 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Clouds colored in hues of pink and orange at sunset
October 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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The historical record is very clear: using military forces in civilian settings is fraught for all involved - and particularly when it is used to advance political aims, stands in direct contradiction to our founding principles.

Be safe, look out for one another, keep speaking up for democracy.
"The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment...Engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere Jr." from the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/365208
September 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Amateur data hour:

I threw together a quick chart of coffee prices vs. minimum wage vs. the consumer price index.

Interesting to note how divergent 2025 has been for coffee (while minimum wage has not kept pace with prices for about a decade).
A chart of coffee prices per pound, federal minimum wage rates, and an adjusted consumer price index normalized to the same figures from the mid-1980's through present day. All start around $3, by 2025 CPI is nearly $10 with coffee climbing towards it, wages remain flat at $7.25. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Labor.
September 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM