Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder." Now I post about my cats on BlueSky. I used to be someone’s big sister. 📍wentrogue.bsky.social
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2 Aug 2021
My brother on July 5, 2021, a week and a half away from his final birthday — a faithful and true portrait by my uncle.
ALT 49 year old white guy who looks older than he is, holding a beer, wearing a baseball cap and a Black Lives Matter T-shirt in the style of Black Sabbath, standing in a suburban backyard
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8 Nov 2024
Every time I come here to check in, which isn’t often, I have about 42 notifications and most of them are pornbots “liking” one of my grief posts I wrote after my brother died.
Anyway, it’s good to see so many people migrating to BlueSky. I’m over there with the same handle.
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25 Oct 2024
MPD has sat on a warrant for this white man’s arrest since JULY, they refused to execute the warrant citing the most absurd reasoning, and this Black man was shot as a result of this negligence, completely failed by this system. youtube.com/watch?v=g-RPTusb…
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Stacey Burns retweeted
25 Oct 2024
(9/X) How hard would it be for the Atlantic to decide "We are living under the threat of fascism, maybe we'll dial the percentage of articles we do about campus wokism down to 20% of all articles"?
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29 Sep 2024
A lot is on the line this November, including our Senate DFL Majority, which has allowed us to protect reproductive freedom, advance policies to make it easier to get a roof over your head, expand voting rights, and so much more. We must elect @AnnJSMN to continue our work (🧵)
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Stacey Burns retweeted
26 Sep 2024
If you’re in line to vote for Jacob Frey to be the next indicted mayor, stay in line!
26 Sep 2024
Which corrupt mayor will be indicted next?
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23 Sep 2024
startribune.com/speeding-mot… "Park Avenue was converted from a two-way street to a one-way mini-freeway in the late 1940s to accommodate suburban commuters before Interstate 35W opened a decade later."
Let's discuss what I35 did to Southside's Black community for a moment:
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21 Sep 2024
Neighbors say Big Al is losing business not only because of his sign but bc he’s an asshole.
I'm back on Twitter to beg @johnnyasheville to come out of retirement and fill in some gaps: what bridges did this guy burn? And how much did he get in PPP funds? startribune.com/tolkkinen-in…
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9 Sep 2024
"A whole lot of pro-abortion people need to go die or leave the state," says Steve Pape, a candidate for the Minnesota state legislature #mnleg minnesotareformer.com/2024/0…
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Stacey Burns retweeted
7 Sep 2024
A man WOULD tweet this before googling
6 Sep 2024
I may open the countries 1st WNBA bar.
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Stacey Burns retweeted
7 Sep 2024
Go to the WNBA page on ESPN.com. Their headline: "Clark drops 25 in Fever loss.'' Not, "Collier drops 26 in Lynx victory."
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7 Sep 2024
Why do we still tolerate this kind of anesthetizing euphemism? This is a site for rapists, aspiring rapists, and rape fetishist, plotting their violence, entering into misogynist conspiracies against women, and seeking victims. theguardian.com/world/articl…
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6 Sep 2024
The abundance of *native bees* grew twentyfold in just five years on solar farms at test sites in Ramsey, Minnesota | no paywall, reposted due to my initial transcription error (native BEES, not “native honeybees,” which don’t exist in the U.S.) nytimes.com/2024/09/05/clima…
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4 Sep 2024
Daughter: The first day at school is like the Met Gala but for teenagers.
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4 Sep 2024
Here's the thing about revoking a license for DWI/DUI: Research shows that abt 50%- 75% of those drives continue to drive. What's more, 25% to 35% of ppl convicted of DUI/DWI will reoffend within five years. What we're doing--or what we want lawmakers to do--*isn't working.*
3 Sep 2024
Steve Bailey, 56, is charged with 2 counts of criminal vehicular homicide for the Park Tavern crash. BAC of .325 according to the @HennepinAtty.
My digging today found *FIVE* prior DWI convictions. He did however have a valid license.
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28 Aug 2024
the best part about living in the Midwest is that I don’t know a single person who goes to Burning Man
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29 Aug 2024
If we want to bring about *real* change, what we have to do is look for, support, and elect more leaders like Minnesota state senator @ZaynabMMohamed #mnleg (no paywall)
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27 Aug 2024
Today’s story focuses on a young couple who lead summer camp sessions teaching Bible-thumping teens how to hector people out of abortion
The Strib agreed not to print their full names because they “worried public association w/the movement could affect their future employment”
ALT Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune with a story titled “Making Abortion ‘Unthinkable’”
20 Nov 2022
Star Tribune “Take Sportswriter Reid Forgrave Off The Abortion Beat” Challenge
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27 Aug 2024
I’d include a link but it apparently does not yet exist. It’s still gestating.
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