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Fred Beukema
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In Minneapolis. Structural engineer, mostly lapsed improvisor, 3 day Jeopardy! champ. Happily married to a public school teacher. Two kids, a cat, and a dog.
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Sent to me, ICE truck currently downtown Minneapolis 3rd & Hennepin near Gay 90s. I've called Monarca, but putting here as well. Maybe folks that spread news of St. Paul raid today can repost @naomikritzer.bsky.social @mauratwit.bsky.social @unicornriot.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It's not on the level of "we're mad at a protest so we're going to physically destroy the White House," but "we're going to court martial an astronaut so an alcoholic TV personality can yell at him about how important it is for every American to follow his orders" is a comical error even in this era
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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well the news is public now, southside pride is done at the end of this year and december will be the last issue. i like their work, especially the weird photoshops, and this is a loss for the city to lose one of our community newspapers
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Woke Ellington, composer of such hits as:
•Mood Indigo Hair
•Sophisticated Enby
•East St Louis Land Acknowledgement
•I Got It Bad (and That's Problematic)
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.

"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.

Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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i assume this blind item is paula chesley and scott graham

can this crowd ever shut the fuck up about this rich people power-consolidating idea? becka thompson posted it in their private moderate facebook group in january 2024 too, fresh off graham losing in 7 and luther ranheim losing in ward 12
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Fun to walk around lake of the Isles and hear one failed ward candidate loudly plotting with another extremely failed ward 7 candidate about having 4 wards and 9 at large council seats.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
4x4x12, with additional loose individuals in drawers throughout the house.
Bluesky, how big is your box of old cables? If you know you know.
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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O-o-o-o-oh yeah-ah, can you see them?
Out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don' waaaave
I-I see them 'round the front way-ay-ay-yeah
And I know an' I know, I don't wanna stay

Make me cry.
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
O-o-o-o-oh yeah-ah, can you see them?
Out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don' waaaave
I-I see them 'round the front way-ay-ay-yeah
And I know an' I know, I don't wanna stay

Make me cry.
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Anne Frank on pickling your brain in the 24-hour news cycle:
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Oh dang. Undersung hero of Rhythm Nation.
We are shocked and saddened to hear of Jellybean Johnson's sudden passing. To know that this amazing personality will no longer randomly show up (like here on @recordstoreday.bsky.social 2023) to light up the store and talk music and life and Minneapolis Sound Museum with us is heartbreaking.💔
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
With absolutely no input from me to suggest this would be something I'm into, eBay's facebook ads seem to have decided I want to see offerings for creepy 1/6 scale models of torture furniture, for use with mid-century-GI-Joe-scale dolls.

I browse & buy Criterion movies, X-files seasons & NPS shit.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM