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Mara

@mauratwit.bsky.social

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Umbraphile. Vaccine enthusiast. Minneapolis. Interested in police abolition, immigration rights, MPS and mutual aid. She/her. Trans rights are human rights. Xer Mom to 2 teens. Free Palestine. Bluesky joiner #442,075 Posting my way through it.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 2d

Hey twin cities friends!

There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca.

It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings.

A great resource. Please share widely!

monarcamn.org

Monarca

monarcamn.org

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 31m

I just called the Arboretum! She’s going to look into it and call me back. Surely there’s still staff out there that know.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 42m

💜🥰

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 43m

Isn’t there some oral history behind this? Didn’t Herb Ritts say Prince specifically wanted the Arboretum?
(Paging @anildash.com )
Or this?

www.thecurrent.org/feature/2020...

Prince in fall leaves: The story behind the iconic Herb Ritts and Steve Parke photos

The air is crisp, the weather calls for sweaters, and pumpkin spice abounds. It is undeniably fall in Minnesota. As the leaves turn and warm hues are everywhere, you may stumble upon two very particul...

www.thecurrent.org

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 47m

The game is afoot! I hope you can find it!

a man wearing a hat and a coat stands in a hallway

Alt: Sherlock (played by Benedict cumbersome) puts on his signature hat and a coat stands in a hallway

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like it’s here?

Surveillance photo of Arboretum, area near the Iris collection is circled

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 3h

I know someone else that used to live in Chanhassen that loved this time of year

Prince in full fall foliage at the Arboretum in Chanhassen MN. Photo by Herb Ritts

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 4h

Omfg

@darthbluesky.bsky.social

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 4h

I visited the Jefferson Davis museum (Biloxi) in the 90s and I remain haunted that a tour guide leading a school group said, in the deepest southern drawl:
The South Will Rise Again, children.

I laughed in the moment but my gawd. I can still hear it.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t follow sportsball but I am very excited for Canada’s team!

Also the Dodgers have been coordinating with ICE all summer so go BIRDS.

Fuck ICE.

Free Palestine.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

The Toronto Blue Jays are back in the World Series for the first time since 1993.

Blue Jays in World Series for first time since before Ohtani was born, while Dodgers seek to repeat

The Toronto Blue Jays are back in the World Series for the first time since 1993. They host the Los Angeles Dodgers in Friday night's opener.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 4h

Have a science fiction script? With a weird character that doesn’t blink? Have we got an actor for you!

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

I will never understand how Jared Leto has remained a working movie star for 30 years despite never starring in a good or successful film

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ is set to have a loss of $132.7M.

(via t.co/Odawcc3Zfr)

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 15h

I’m just guessing. I’m assuming you have a similar family to what’s over here near Audubon. It’s likely a mama w nearly grown babies from this year.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 18h

The babies are fully grown!

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 18h

Wtaf bob iger killed it.

Goddamnit

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 20h

I should! Why do we northerners have this stupid thing about the first time you turn on the heat?!

I’m also perimenopausal so the cool sleeping nights have been HEAVEN.

Alas, I will turn it on now. 🏳️