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christy marsden @christym.bsky.social · 2d

They changed my letter to the editor about Katie Cashman in order to water down the work I highlighted. They claimed it wasn’t factual and ignored the follow-up evidence I provided. They lack journalistic integrity!

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 9d

Really nice op ed in the @mndaily.bsky.social about the university encouraging LLM use
mndaily.com/295559/opini...

Op-Ed: UMN’s contract with Google Gemini is self-destructive

On July fifteenth, we received an email from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Information Technology with the subject line “Introducing Google Gemini: Your AI Partner,” announcing that the Univ...

mndaily.com

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christy marsden @christym.bsky.social · 10d

it's great - easy access to the lakes and greenway, excellent transit connectivity, a plethora of grocery stores and restaurants you can walk or bike to - truly one of the better connected neighborhoods in the city.

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Lara F-S @ldfs.bsky.social · 13d

This. naomikritzer.com/2025/09/25/e...

Election 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 7

The tl;dr is to vote for Katie Cashman, who is the hardworking moderate with a commitment to constituent service that all the conservative Minneapolis Democrats say they want. On the ballot: Katie …

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 22d

our friend jason garcia is still in the hospital recovering and needs our support with medical bills and other needs during their recovery. jason does so much for the community. this is our chance to give back to them. please share -

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ja...

Donate to Support Jason Garcia in the Hospital and After, organized by melody hoffmann

Hi, this is Melody, a dear friend of Jason Garcia. On behalf of Jason G… melody hoffmann needs your support for Support Jason Garcia in the Hospital and After

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Emily M-H @aislinglady.bsky.social · Sep 4

Posting with alt text.

@charlierosesmith3807 10 days ago
As a gen Z American, here's my two cents on the take that our generation can't handle delayed gratification: we've watched the promise of "delayed gratification" fail Gen X and Millennials repeatedly in real time because we've had access to the internet since childhood.
In elementary and middle school, I watched in real time on TV and online as Gen X had their entire life savings wiped out by the 2008-2009 depression, and as a teenager and college kid I've seen Millennials get absolutely shafted by jobs and degrees that went in promising them stable lives and then repeatedly ripped the rug out from under them, leaving millennials with no solid career progression or economic betterment to show after over a decade of consistent effort. Even outside of the internet, I've watched my grandfather, who was a computer programmer at IBM in the 60s, have his pension retroactively canceled after being a pensioner for decades, and I've watched this man in his 80s who's had two heart attacks have to go back to work 4 days of the week as an Uber driver to make ends meet, after he spent three decades of his life in a high paid office job that promised him healthcare and pension and the entire American dream.
I don't have it in me to put up with the same shit. Maybe it's bratty and short sighted, but l've watched enough people older than me have enough of their decades of life ripped from them with the false promises of later rewards, so to my mind saying "this will pay off for you in the future" means you're not actually planning on paying out, you're hoping you can take advantage of my patience and goodwill.
Pay me my rewards now, or I'll assume you'll never intend to actually reward me.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's the Letter to the Editor I was worked up enough to write about Karen Tolkkinen's inane article.

One of the most defining features of contemporary journalism is its condescension: the noble desire to explain to its reader–ignorant and unworldly–the complex viewpoints of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than In the Star Tribune’s employment of Karen Tolkkinen to help enlighten sheltered and parochial urban dwellers of the views of “Greater Minnesota.”

Tolkkinen’s most recent “Shooting sounds different in rural Minnesota than in the city,” is a perfect encapsulation of this style of writing. Tolkkinen, you see, believes that we city folk just don’t understand real America.

Never mind that many of us grew up in such places, never mind that a vast majority of us are quite familiar with rural America. I’m not Minnesotan born, but I was a Boy Scout, so I grew up shooting guns. My Uncle Earl used to sit on his porch in Shreveport, Louisiana with his pistol and shoot the heads off turtles that would poke out of the lake to eat his garden. I’ve been around guns. It sounds the same in rural Louisiana as it does in Midway, where I live.

Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis came from rural places or have spent a good portion of their lives there. We do not need Tolkkinen to enlighten us, especially since it is always just so she can reinforce a Republican talking point. She does not have any interest except in the most crass and basic of politics, dressed up in carharts and trucker hat cosplay.

In her article, she tells us how gunfire culture means something different in rural Minnesota. In “the big cities,” we’re to understand that guns mean gang-banging and danger lurking around every corner. And in Outstate Minnesota, guns mean fathers and sons bonding. It’s this sort of kitsch propaganda that doesn’t serve the reader at all, because it presents false cliches as insight.

In 2021, 80% of suicides by gun happened in Outstate Minnesota and 67% of all gun deaths that occured in Minnesota occurred from someone taking their own life (from Protect Minnesota’s 2022 report). The sound of gunfire sounds different in Outstate Minnesota because writers like Tolkkinen and the Star Tribune editors are not concerned with shining a light on issues in Minnesota, they’re concerned with partisan political fights and the endless drivel of culture wars. If you were interested in the truth, you would think about the ways in which gun shots in Outstate Minnesota carry just as much violence and threat as they do in Saint Paul or Minneapolis.

Even the political fight that Tolkkinen wants to have is the laughable (and I mean laughable) contention that to ban the types of weapons used in mass shootings would “open the door” to more violence such as driving vehicles into crowds. She even invokes the Oklahoma City Bombing to argue against gun control.

It’s guns. It has been and always will be the unfettered gun-lust of people so obsessed with violence that the rest of us have to suffer. Do better.

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Michael Wilson @michaelforparks.bsky.social · Aug 22

The landlord class couldn’t be bothered to help DFL conventions run. But once a brown person was endorsed who doesn’t align with their class interest they suddenly had all the money, energy, and lawyers in the world to “fix” the result. But this is a new era, and @omarfatehmn.com wont be stopped.

Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · Aug 21

28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement.

Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win.

Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · Aug 21

Absolutely enraging to me that instead of fighting fascism, the centrist wing of the local DFL is using its time and energy to fight left-wing Democrats.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Aug 21

I'm getting word that Lisa Goodman will soon be able to cash those checks to the DFL. It's nice to see megadonors at the $5,000 tier getting their way for a change.

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · Aug 21

28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement.

Let me be clear, we’re still in this fight. And we’re going to win.

Donate and sign up for a shift today. www.fatehformayor.com/donate

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christy marsden @christym.bsky.social · Apr 25

I wish this worked better, Ian. I have attended, talked to neighbors, tried to engage with the spirit - but because of where I live, my neighbors are automatically dismissive of anyone who isn't on the conservative side of the political spectrum and explicitly throw up roadblocks to participation.

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christy marsden @christym.bsky.social · Aug 14

to follow-up, he said he thought the position was just listening to constituents complain, did very little to change his online presence to be centered on local stuff, and (it's a little thing, but drove me crazy), claimed he "couldn't do anything about unsubscribing from his emails"

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christy marsden @christym.bsky.social · Aug 14

oh no, please tell me you're joking

he entered the race after two very progressive and fantastic candidates put their name out there, was very "eh" about the whole thing, and had shit responses when his opponents were attacked in his name

(context: I live in his district)

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