Faith Krogstad

@feche.bsky.social

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St. Paul serial hobbyist, Dumb Cluck of the Midway

A Simpsons character with a bullet wound in the emergency department telling the staff, “Yo, um, I must’ve like, fallen on a bullet….”
Axe lying on a lap with a sharpening stone in hand
PJ Media Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
PJ Media Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
PJ Media article Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
PJ News article Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
Protestors lined up along Highway 52 in Preston, Minnesota
Four screen printed fabrics: Minnesota Strong butterfly, Rebel Loon, No Kings, and Love Thy Neighbors
Ski stickers that say ICE OUT, The wrong ice is melting, you’re skiing on native land, skiers love snow not ice, I ski for justice, I ski for democracy, I ski for human rights
I SKI FOR GOOD sticker with a Nordic skier on a race bib
Wheel of scapegoats with the pointer aiming at Muslims. Other options include trans people, BIPOC, Jews, Antifa, immigrants, Biden/Harris, and drag queens.
The FBI said it declines to comment on potential or pending litigation. An FBI spokesperson initially said no restraints or rubber bullets were used on children but later amended that statement, replacing "children" with "young children," according to The Associated Press.
According to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner Katrina Kessler, if the state implements only the current local and federal policies, Minnesota will cut emissions by 28% by 2030 and 39% by 2050. That falls short of the goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, Kessler said. "We need to do more. We need to move faster," she said.
Sherk and Kuhlman said they brought the mother's immigration paperwork with them and asked to be allowed to take her and her children back to the family's home since they had the documentation to prove the family's lawful presence in the U.S. They said they learned a judge had also issued an order requiring the mother and her children not be deported.
“I haven’t seen that” next to woman looking disgusted, above “I refuse to look at that ever” next to a woman looking interested.
Yes/no meme with a man refusing the statement, “I haven’t seen that yet” above a photo of the same man looking pleased with the statement, “I refuse to look at that ever, in case it challenges my beliefs.”
Rebel alliance logo with loon and North Star, with “a new ope” underneath
As a teacher, I would encourage my students to put this into thier own words to check for understanding: Big Business is taking credit for MN being awesome. Bad things are happeinging. Big Business wants you to think they care. Big Business talked to some powerful people. There are 'things' 'we' can do in the name of 'progress'. Yesterday something bad happened. Someone needs to calm down. Someone needs ot fix something. Our ancestors made Minnesota strong and vibrant. MN Business Leaders will do the same. Big Business calls for cooperation among all leaders so that we can all go back to work selling things and making money. Do I understand that correctly?
A street scene in Minneapolis at dusk. High rises illuminated in the background and a utility box in foreground says “Fuck ICE”
Window with condensation and a layer of ice along the bottom
Close up of a contented ginger cat’s face
St Paul Police officer in a face mask aims a teargas canister directly at the camera
Then-Mayor Chris Coleman, a white man, sits in front of a wall of plaques featuring photos of all the former mayors of St Paul. All the images of former mayors are white men. - Photo from Pioneer Press, 2017
Person on a motorized wheelchair heading into the street on Franklin Ave under Hiawatha due to a fenced-off sidewalk.
Black cat in a black cat basket looking out a window onto the street below, which is strewn with orange leaves.
Her was not as "progressive and impractical," Winkler said, as some expected her to be as a woman of color who represents an urban district, in part because of her upbringing in small-town Wisconsin.
During recent debates, Her has said she wants to learn more about the proposed Summit Avenue Regional Bike Trail, and thinks the debate over the plan has unnecessarily pitted cyclists against Summit Avenue homeowners.
New reflective sheeting will be applied to existing signs denoting the crosswalk on Mitchell Road at Chestnut Drive to improve visibility, said Eden Prairie Public Works Director Robert Ellis. The fluorescent yellow material also will be applied to sign posts to help them stand out. Plans also call for a new sign to warn northbound drivers on Mitchell of the upcoming crosswalk at Chestnut, to be installed in the near future. The crosswalk connects a neighborhood with Pheasant Woods Park. "We can do this now and come back with options for long-term considerations," Ellis told the City Council last week. "We are hearing visibility may be lacking,"
Google Street view of Mitchell Road and Chestnut in Eden Prairie showing a striped crosswalk and fluorescent pedestrian road signs. A flexible post on the double yellow line reads “stop for pedestrians.”
Google Street view of Mitchell Road in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a wide suburban road with shoulders on both sides and a 30 mph speed limit sign.
Dozens of people painting the street
People painting yellow, blue, white, and orange paint in a spiral on the street
A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
Protest march heading to the Minnesota State Capitol
Minnesota State Capitol with protestors in foreground
Since passing the $253 million income tax cut on March 4, some JFAC members and legislators have begun zeroing out some federal grants and scaling back on Little's initiatives. For example, on March 7 in JFAC, Sen. Cindy Carlson, R-Riggins, led the effort to zero out a $2.5 million request for Digital Access for All Idahoans grants that would have paid for laptop and desktop computers in more than a dozen rural and remote Idaho libraries. The program was intended to help provide internet access to Idahoans who face barriers. But Carlson said the grant program contains elements of diversity, equity and inclusion and could have benefited people who don't speak English.
The Biden administration required coal-and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies' brains and cause heart disease in adults. Now, the Trump administration is offering companies an extraordinary out: Send an email, and they might be given permission by President Trump to bypass the new restrictions, as well as other major clean-air rules.
Small boys: the formation of binary thinking The tech bro giants who are so admired by Trump and so integral to his administration best exemplify Trumpworld's psychological core. This core is a cluster of attitudes that carve the world into tightly interconnected groups of binary opposites: superior vs inferior, dominant vs subordinate, powerful vs weak, black vs white, normal vs abnormal, male vs female, self vs other, etc. Musk is a particularly extreme but also illustrative case.
A postcard with a handwritten message reading, “Dear billionaire-funded “think tank,” I ❤️ my union! Union dues are an investment in fair treatment. Union busting is anti-worker and anti-democracy. Maybe get a new (union) job? P.S. You’re anti-gov spending yet received CARES Act $$? Hypocritical.”