Becky Mac

@beckmac.bsky.social

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She/her, Minneapolis, from Milwaukee, biker, baker, gardener, love transit and my Mpls community ❤️

98 Garlic bulbs and stems on a brick patio, freshly harvested, with dirt on the bottom of the bulbs
Green and brown garlic stalks in a garden bed. There's a house and blue sky in the background.
A T-shirt shopping aisle at Target, with University of MN shirts, MNUFC shirts, hats, MN Vikings themed toys, Twins shirts, Timberwolves shirts and generic soccer shirts
A view of the yellow suspension bridge in Milwaukee, WI from the seat of a car. You can see the yellow beams and a few cars, but the city skyline is completely obscured by wildfire smoke.
The Minneapolis Brass Solidarity Band playing outside underneath a small white tent.
A smiling woman sitting on a city bus, next to a child with their head on her lap.
A scan of the crowd shouting, "Kobey, Kobey, Kobey!"
A large convention center holding a big crowd of people. Many people are holding up little green strobe lights. There is a red outline on part of the crowd where very few people are holding the green lights.
A vine with an orange frame that says "Raleigh" on the side. It's hitched to the back of a minivan.
A black, blue and orange kids bike helmet.
Looseleaf paper with a sketch of a yard with the words "trees, perennials, flowers" and drawings of stones and a sidewalk.
A large black and white dog with a harness on, sitting with his tongue out in front of a red rider wagon with 2 small white shelves stacked on it.
Short video showing a large black and white dog with his leash attached to a wagon handle and a red wagon pulling two small, white shelves.
A white woman with brown hair in a Minneapolis Federation of Educators union t-shirt. She has a Christin Crabtree for school board button and a DFL Delegate badge on her shirt.
A picture of a street showing a large van blocking most of the crosswalk while the pedestrian light says it's safe to cross.
Christin Crabtree with a microphone giving a speech for her campaign for MPS School Board Director. She's standing on a small stage with barrels and a disco ball behind her.
A picture of Brandi Carlisle on stage at the Target Center. The audience is in the dark and holding up phone lights, the stage is lit up red and a little smoky, with a large screen showing Brandi up close.
A sidewalk shoveled almost down to the bottom and a freshly plowed street. There is a huge berm of ice and snow chunks over a foot high and several feet wide blocking the sidewalk from the crosswalk. It is completely impassable to anyone in a wheelchair and folks who can't climb or balance.
A Metro Transit truck sitting right over the ped/bike crosswalk at an intersection on Hiawatha Ave
A tablet showing a Zoom call with Mayoral candidates Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, Jazz Hampton and MFE representatives Catina Taylor and Natasha Docktor. The tablet is on a kitchen counter, a young kid in pajamas is watching the screen with an apple slice in his hand.
Campaign literature for CM Aurin Chowdhury and Omar Fateh. They're both endorsed by SEIU, Take Action MN, Sunrise Twin Cities and a bunch of great elected officials!
A kid in front of the Powderhorn Park sign, lots of green trees and grass all around.
A playground structure with slides and monkey bars and climbing stuff. A kid laying on a hammock swing in motion. Lots of green trees behind the playground.
A street lined with canopies and people. A few big buildings in the background.
A neighborhood street with kids running and biking around. There are trees and houses on both sides of the street. There are no cars on the street. Not pictured behind the photographer are tables of food, a few dozen adults sitting and eating, and younger kids playing with bubbles.
A pile of freshly harvested garlic with the stems attached.
3 kids with their faces blocked out with smiley emojis. They're in a splash pad with a gate and park pavilion that says, "Lake Hiawatha Park" behind them. It's a sunny day and there are several green trees in the background.
An open book held open by a hand with pink, sparkly painted nails and a sapphire ring.
Woman with a white shirt, green button-up, yellow purse and sunglasses and a face mask sitting on the light rail.
A large, blue, tan and silver playground structure with sand on both sides. Behind the play structure are green trees, some with white blossoms. The sky is bright blue with a bit of the Minneapolis skyline peeking out from the trees on the left.
A gray and orange e-bike with a full paper grocery bag in the front basket and a kid and a full cloth grocery bag in the back corral. The kid has their face blurred out and a Ninja Turtles helmet. Not pictured: backpack full of library books.
A green outdoor climbing play structure with a few kids on it. Behind that you can see vendor canopies, grass and benches. There's an apartment building and a raised light rail platform in the background.
An e-bike with two large, white bags inside the monkey bars over the back tire and a basket in front with a few bags. The bike is parked on a paved trail with green trees and shrubs right behind it and the Mississippi River and a clear, blue sky just visible behind the trees.
A young kid on the back of a bike, only the seat and the monkey bars of the bike are visible. The kid has a blanket on their lap and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles helmet. There is a yellow garage and house and a backyard in the background.
A selfie of a woman with an Aurin Chowdury for Minneapolis City Council shirt in front of Sanford middle school on a sunny day.
Email that reads, "look, I might not have the right haircut, or the desired amount of melanin. Maybe I didn't tweet the party line that one day or show up for that big protest with everyone else the next. I wasn't very good at doing the popular thing in high school either."
Flyer that reads, "Southside Spring dinner Benefitting the Senate District 63 DFL. Featuring speaker Naomi Kritzer. Award winning author, Twin Cities political writer." Dinner and candidate meet & greet. Saturday April 26.
A selfie of a woman on a bus with a T-shirt that says "Open Streets Mpls 2016" with pictures of a bike, butterfly, guitar and rollerblade.
A cardboard sign says, "I love the Earth" The O is drawn to look like planet Earth. A young child sitting on a bus is holding the sign in front of their face. Out of the bus window is another bus and a parking lot, it's a sunny day.
A woman holding a sign that says "Lyndale is for people, bikes, buses. Livable Lyndale" The sign is on a big, white poster board. It also had simple pictures of a pedestrian, a person in a wheelchair, a biker and a bus. A child next to the woman has a sign that says, "Better Transit = Better Communities" There is a street directly behind them, with a crosswalk and a FedEx truck, and a small crowd of people in the median, also holding signs.
A turkey next to a city sidewalk, next to a small tree. A highway with one car and a building are in the background.
Sidewalk with fences on both sides. The sidewalk leads to a transit station. There is a light rail train, trees and power lines in the background.
A sunny, car-lined neighborhood street with a small business, called Nice Time Market. The sky is bright blue and the building is a soft green with brick near the roof.
Mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis speaking to a crowd of a few dozen people in a charming, sunny coffeeshop.
A selfie of a woman with an Aurin Chowdury for Minneapolis shirt and a black and white dog
A screenshot of Google maps, showing public transit directions from a Whittier address to a building at Fort Snelling State Park. The trip is shown to take 2 hours and 50 minutes by public transit and 18 minutes by car. The public transit details suggest taking a bus to the light rail and then walking for approximately 124 minutes to get to the destination.
Picture of a young child, from behind, showing their jacket and hood. The child is holding a small stuffed wolf and looking out the window of a light rail train. Outside the window are a few blurry cars and buildings and a bright spot reflecting the sun.
The Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis in the foreground. St. Anthony Falls, the old 3rd Avenue Bridge and St. Anthony Main area in SE Minneapolis are behind the bridge. 2014
A cyber truck painted weirdly to look like a shark/machine, with bullet holes and what looks like a towel bar
Minneapolis Council Member Aurin Chowdury and MN State Rep Samantha Sencer Mura speaking to a crowd in a small room