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Kevin Beaudin

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Sculptor/Painter. Fabricator of natural wonders at Blue Rhino Studio. History fanboy. Bicycle enthusiast. He/him. Proud liberal. https://www.instagram.com/kevin_beaudin_arts/ Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 Chinga la Migra 🇲🇽

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Kevin Beaudin @kevinbeaudin.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hey #bluesky,
Reintroducing myself for all the new folks!
Personal work & kayaking = www.instagram.com/kevin_beaudi...

Day job= www.rhinocentral.com

@bsky.art #SciArt #paleoart #animalart #sculpture #painting #artistsonbluesky

Blue Rhino Studio

Blue Rhino Studio is a leading artistic exhibit fabricator and designer for museum exhibits, visitor centers, educational institutions, zoos and aquariums throughout the United States and around the w...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Does he know the story of the birth of Jesus or nah?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 3d

The same kind of people who once hunted escaped slaves now wear ICE badges. History didn’t vanish, it rebranded.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 9d

For all the media repeating that ACA COVID subsidies “cost” ~$30B, the U.S. just pledged $20B to Argentina to stabilize an autocrat’s government and protect a GOP megadonor who loaded up on Argentine debt. No one’s blinking at that. Let’s keep things in perspective.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

👀 @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it 👇🏽

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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 10d

More reporting like this please.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 18d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Kevin Beaudin @kevinbeaudin.bsky.social · 19d

“Ghost” Barn Owl with Shrew Skulls. Monochrome finish. #owl #barnowl #shrew #rodents #birds #birdart #art #artists #SciArt #artistsonbluesky #minnesota #minneapolis #mpls

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Daniel Suitor @dansuitor.bsky.social · 22d

The Trump administration is withholding funding for 78 units of permanent supportive housing in the Twin Cities metro. PSH is a road-tested, highly effective method of treating the worst cases of homelessness. Unfortunately, the economics of fighting homelessness run through the federal government

HUD cancels funding for Twin Cities supportive housing developments • Minnesota Reformer

A federal housing program for families exiting homelessness awarded $5.2 million to a nonprofit Twin Cities housing developer for two projects, but the money never came through. Instead, the U.S. Dep...

minnesotareformer.com

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Tom Warren @realtack.bsky.social · 23d

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Atari Amstradsen @amstradsen.bsky.social · 23d

So the Bilderberg group is just small time amateurs.

Fascist tech bros, those are the evil people really running things. Fact.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23d

Look who came with

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 24d

It’s been over 5 years since the murder of George Floyd and Black Minneapolis residents still cannot rely on MPD to keep them safe.

Mayor Frey has been promising police reform, but the only change residents have seen is historic raises for MPD officers.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 24d

If you're wondering, the indignant tone of the strong mayor's press release is because he's sick and tired of people holding him responsible for his multiple mayoral terms of failed encampment response. Mr Mayor, no one has the power to stop you from implementing your solutions.

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Anne Grete (GoogeliArt) 🦋💙PD @googeliart.bsky.social · 26d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · Sep 10

WHO DID THIS???!!!

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Kevin Beaudin @kevinbeaudin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Kevin Beaudin @kevinbeaudin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kevin Beaudin @kevinbeaudin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Great Blue Heron w/Bullfrog Skulls. Cold cast bronze finish. #sculpture #birds #birdart #heron #frog #animal #animalart #minnesota #mpls #artistsonbluesky #SciArt

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Johnny HELL 😈 @thejohnnyhill.com · Sep 4

👋 MPLS FOLKS — is YOUR Omar yard sign out of compliance with state law? Want something even bigger and better, to really stick it to the incumbent and their nasty politics?

Look no further: Ranked Choice Voting yard sign add-ons!

If you want one (or a PDF to print your own), DM me!

Details: 🧵

Art for a circular yard sign add-on that says "Ranked Choice Voting" and "3 Chances to Move Forward", with a list of candidates Omar, DeWayne, and Jazz ranked with the numbers 1, 2, and 3. Smaller text says, "Voting info at bio.link/mpls2025".

A mockup of the yard sign add-on affixed to an Omar Fateh yard sign

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