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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 · 1d

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

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 6h

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.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 9h

The babies are fully grown!

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 9h

Wtaf bob iger killed it.

Goddamnit

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 9h

Oooo cool Ne/Se/UofMn neighbors this is pretty cool!

(Except Elliott Payne for Ward 1 Council and Amber Frederick and Tom Olsen for Parks at Large was my ballot)

Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 10h

Check out my sample ballot with other great candidates that I am excited to be supporting!

Graphic of a sample ballot for the polls.

Mayor
Rank all 3!

1st Choice: Omar Fateh

Strong track record at the Minnesota Senate, winning big for students!

2nd Choice: DeWayne Davis

3rd Choice: Jazz Hampton

Council Member Ward 2
1st Choice: Robin Wonsley

Endorsed by US Rep Ilhan Omar and Attorney General Keith Ellison!

Don’t rank anyone else—Republican donors are backing her main challenger!

Board of Estimate and Taxation
1st Choice: Eric Harris Bernstein

Don’t skip this one—it matters!

2nd Choice: Steve Brandt

Park and Recreation Commissioner At Large
1st Choice: Michael Wilson

2nd Choice: Adam Schneider

Champion for Parks workers and Equity!

Park and Recreation Commissioner District 1
(East Bank only)

1st Choice: Dan Engelhart

Champion for Parks workers and Equity!

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 11h

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. 🏳️

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. Hosted Out & About Book Library and cute little costumed kids running around with cute little Pride flags

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 12h

Omg. Would have DIED for those as a child. (Or maybe even now ? 🫰)

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 12h

🧐

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 12h

I mean. 2 kids in a little apartment? With his wife’s salary? Does he owe a bookie or something?

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 12h

I think a lot of us know who lives right next door to this building. (Unless he moved?). He should get Very Loud about this being unacceptable in our city.

fivesixzero @fivesixzero.bsky.social · 13h

Just witnessed someone trying to fireb*mb Fletcher’s Ice Cream in NE. Saw a dude acting weird next to a parked car in front of the place. I walked by, heard a smash through my earbuds, smelled gasoline/kerosine. Turned around, snapped some photos instinctively. Thankfully they suck at molot*vs.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 13h

Grateful this quick thinking neighbor got the perpetrators car.

Just yesterday Fletchers hosted a beautiful and inclusive family Halloween event. Sending so much love their way

www.instagram.com/reel/DQBAxr6...

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 13h

All You Fascists
Bound to Lose

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 14h

We've got 6 vinyl sticker designs! Get yours at our storefront on Minnehaha or at RlmArtStudio.com

Here: www.rlmartstudio.com?s=sticker&po...

Cork board with 6 stickers pinned to it. Sign at the top of this board reads "Vinyl stickers. Durable, waterproof, and union printed".Each sticker below this text is brightly colored with fairly simple designs.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 14h

No because not ONE of them acknowledged that I began my email with “Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called…”

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 14h

YES SARAH IN FACT I COULDN’T FIND MINE SO I IMPROVISED

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 14h

House temp down to 62.

I am a Dickensian figure at my desk. The oil lamp dims

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 15h

Locals:

www.canmn.org/donate

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

Link below.

No Other Land Film - Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land

supportmasaferyatta.com

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 16h

Ok but one other Seattle hills observation: I saw remarkably few e-bikes! In comparison to Mpls, where it feels like every other bike is electric… those Seattle bikers are hard core analog biking up those hills! V impressed.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 16h

Fateh getting that over the finish line and with record enrollment showing its success is what pushed him into my #1 ranking slot.

It was really close w Davis but that accomplishment is huge.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 16h

Wait. Different from the one I posted above? A different German queer soccer bar? That’s incredible!

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 17h

It’s a really fun neighborhood for sure! My god THE HILLS there. Why is no one talking about this. Way worse than sfo.

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 17h

I caught a cold that’s neither covid nor the flu nor RSV! There’s a lot going around already.

Also highly recommend these tests from Germany. It’s so nice to know what you do/don’t have.

fluorecare®
Antigen Combo test kit showing negative for
COVID-19 Flu A/B RSV
T
T
C 12min

fluorecare®
SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza A/B & RSV Antigen Combo Test Kit
(Colloidal Gold Chromatographic Immunoassay)
SARS-CoV-2- & Influenza A/B- & RSV-Antigen-Kombi-Testkit
(Chromatographischer Immunoassay mit kolloidalem Gold)
Kit de Prueba Combinada para el Antígeno del SARS-CoV-2, la gripe A/B y el VSR
(Inmunoensayo Cromatográfico con Oro Coloidal)
TEST SARS-CoV-2 & Grypa A/B & RSV ANTYGEN COMBO
(test immunochromatograficzny z zastosowaniem zlota koloidalnego)
SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza A/B & RSV Antigen Combo Test Kit

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 17h

lol. I’m just now realizing they advertise themselves as a football bar and I assumed big screens for futbol. 🤣

Their staff is super queer so I also assumed Gay Soccer Bar. Their loss and congrats on holding the best trophy!🏆

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 18h

It’s my roundabout way of saying @blackhartstp.com is a treasure and thank you for providing such a great community space! 💜

Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 18h

@wesburdine.bsky.social I was in Seattle last week and ended up at a seemingly queer soccer bar that didn’t seem to advertise itself as such. They seem to lean harder on being German? We watched usmnt beat Australia . It was fun! But they could be so much gayer!

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