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Faith Krogstad
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St. Paul serial hobbyist, Dumb Cluck of the Midway
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Periodic reminder:

If you use less gas for transportation, you help drop the value of a barrel of oil, which makes the people looking to profit off of stealing from Venezuelans, lose money.
🇻🇪♥️

Take the bus/train/bike/scooter, buy an EV, don't use gas.
Which makes invading Venezuela a much less profitable endeavor.

Venezuela either has "The most oil in the world!" Or "Not that much oil really," depending on what the price of oil is.
🙂🙃

Oil is currently near a 4 year low.

More!
mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])
@Chasteen True. It's complicated. "How much oil does Venezuela have? And is it high or low quality?" are questions whose answer changes greatly depending on what the global price of oil is. 🤷🏿‍♂️ ...
hachyderm.io
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Snow, welcome to The War on ICE.
ICE vs ice at 44th and Hiawatha earlier today.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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To all friends, supporters, and both people shown this randomly by the algorithm: Merry Christmas! Here’s to ongoing adventures on two (or any other number of) wheels. From all at Diagram HQ (me).
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Not being a St. Paulianian, I didn’t really have Melvin pegged as a skyway tear-down guy, though it’s all academic now. But I suppose I should’ve guessed from his perfect articulation of why cities need multimodal (aside from the environment, car lanes don’t have the throughput for a growing city).
December 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’ve been to two separate 🎄Christmas🎄theater performances in Minnesota in the last two days, and both of them incorporated anti-ICE messages. In Minnesota, we know that de-icing can take many forms.
Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE.

“ICE Out of Minnesota!”
"MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!"
"Immigrants are not the problem"
December 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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There is no room for bigotry on our turf.
December 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In short:
NEW: The most symbolic thing ever just happened in Guaíba, Brazil.
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Jon Collins is really providing top-notch coverage lately. My favorite detail: the ICE dude who got pepper sprayed by the other ICE dude.
Hennepin County dispatch got a panicked call from a Department of Homeland Security supervisor in Minneapolis requesting assistance because “we only have a few officers but we have 60-70 agitators fighting them.” Hennepin deputies didn’t witness any attacks on agents.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents call for backup during Minneapolis traffic stop, bystanders hurl insults and snowballs
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for help from an agent who said 60 to 70 “agitators” were “fighting them.”
www.mprnews.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In the process, he was shot twice by another gunman, and was himself at risk of being mistaken by police as a shooter. #Hero
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.

Praying for his full & speedy recovery.

And so deeply inspired by his example.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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14 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Armed troops outside TX Texas capitol's building women's rooms now checking ID under new bathroom ban (the ban has no ID requirement). 6W Project tested & found 2 trans women with female ID still allowed in, & no consistent enforcement mechanism.
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My optician asked me my last name and birthday. After I answered, he exclaimed, “That’s my wife’s birthday!” And I felt immediately more at ease alone in a room with him. Maybe he says this to every woman who comes in? If so, it’s genius.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Abolish ICE. This is vile, racist, and disgusting.
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I saw an ICE raid today in Cedar-Riverside. The man they took said repeatedly he was a U.S. Citizen and had ID. They put him in a car they sped off at an unsafe speed. Not that I expected much, but I called 911 and reported their behavior. The dispatcher asked "what I wanted them to do about it."
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I love everything about this
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s ice-forms-on-the-inside-of-the-windows degrees outside. 🥶
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on.

PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Summit Ave Regional Trail plan would shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians and sharpen the turning radius for vehicles, slowing drivers down. These safety improvements would save lives. This plan can’t be implemented fast enough.
A devastating and avoidable tragedy. If implemented well, the Summit Ave Regional Trail plan will go a long way towards preventing this from ever happening again.

www.startribune.com/st-paul-woma...
St. Paul woman dies one week after vehicle struck her
Authorities believe the 75-year-old was crossing Summit Avenue when she was hit.
www.startribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Stole this from the Cedar Cultural Center’s page since they aren’t here. ♥️♥️♥️
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM