mollypeonies
@mollypeonies.bsky.social
Question asker. Comms & systems-change strategist. Policy research and advocacy. Writer. Recovering journalist. Mongoose. Neurodivergent nail biter and hair flipper. 🐶🪐🦄
Antifa List Member. She/They
Antifa List Member. She/They
I’m at a racial justice conference in STL and so far the most socially awkward thing I have said or done, judged by the awkward silence, was say that if Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris were the ‘28 candidates I would rather jump off the Arch than vote for either.
I mean, the Arch is RIGHT THERE!
I mean, the Arch is RIGHT THERE!
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I’m at a racial justice conference in STL and so far the most socially awkward thing I have said or done, judged by the awkward silence, was say that if Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris were the ‘28 candidates I would rather jump off the Arch than vote for either.
I mean, the Arch is RIGHT THERE!
I mean, the Arch is RIGHT THERE!
Has anyone up in here watched The Chair Company? Tell me what you think of it and what it is.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Has anyone up in here watched The Chair Company? Tell me what you think of it and what it is.
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Did Big Telecom write this?
This same solar storm would not have been as remarkable 10 years ago because people's phones were not as good
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Did Big Telecom write this?
Real question: Why would we still be using hemp-derived THC when marijuana is now legal? Why go through the process of using solvents to retrieve THC from hemp and not the plant directly?
Why is the hemp industry still controlling the production and process? www.startribune.com/federal-shut...
Why is the hemp industry still controlling the production and process? www.startribune.com/federal-shut...
Federal shutdown deal could kill Minnesota’s hemp-derived THC market
A spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate would essentially ban hemp-based THC products nationwide.
www.startribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Real question: Why would we still be using hemp-derived THC when marijuana is now legal? Why go through the process of using solvents to retrieve THC from hemp and not the plant directly?
Why is the hemp industry still controlling the production and process? www.startribune.com/federal-shut...
Why is the hemp industry still controlling the production and process? www.startribune.com/federal-shut...
I am in STL for Race Forward’s Cultural Week of Action, and also an opportunity to visit my mom.
Every time I come back here, 2x a year or so, more homes and buildings are boarded up.
Some have been that way for a decade. Or more!
Every time I come back here, 2x a year or so, more homes and buildings are boarded up.
Some have been that way for a decade. Or more!
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I am in STL for Race Forward’s Cultural Week of Action, and also an opportunity to visit my mom.
Every time I come back here, 2x a year or so, more homes and buildings are boarded up.
Some have been that way for a decade. Or more!
Every time I come back here, 2x a year or so, more homes and buildings are boarded up.
Some have been that way for a decade. Or more!
Is there something you really want to learn this fall/winter? A skill? A trade? A hobby? More knowledge about something—history, poetry, political/justice movements, plants, biology… whatever?
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Is there something you really want to learn this fall/winter? A skill? A trade? A hobby? More knowledge about something—history, poetry, political/justice movements, plants, biology… whatever?
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He really did it folks
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
He really did it folks
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#2: I'd bet good money that, behind the scenes, Amy Klobuchar was orchestrating & approving this cave-in. Like Chuck Schumer, she didn't vote for it, (They only needed 8 votes and had them.) but she was part of the group that had been planning this for a few weeks. Amy acts centrist; votes rightward
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#2: I'd bet good money that, behind the scenes, Amy Klobuchar was orchestrating & approving this cave-in. Like Chuck Schumer, she didn't vote for it, (They only needed 8 votes and had them.) but she was part of the group that had been planning this for a few weeks. Amy acts centrist; votes rightward
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Note to fellow Boomers in Minneapolis upset about the Senate Democrats caving yet again:
#1: This is precisely why The Youngs have embraced the DSA and why you should the same. Or at least quit demonizing young Dems who are looking for big change. The DSA caucus is the future.
# 2....
#1: This is precisely why The Youngs have embraced the DSA and why you should the same. Or at least quit demonizing young Dems who are looking for big change. The DSA caucus is the future.
# 2....
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Note to fellow Boomers in Minneapolis upset about the Senate Democrats caving yet again:
#1: This is precisely why The Youngs have embraced the DSA and why you should the same. Or at least quit demonizing young Dems who are looking for big change. The DSA caucus is the future.
# 2....
#1: This is precisely why The Youngs have embraced the DSA and why you should the same. Or at least quit demonizing young Dems who are looking for big change. The DSA caucus is the future.
# 2....
I am at a Walgreens in a particularly kinda shitty part of St. Louis where I grew up (south city) and not a single thing is locked up. And it is open till 9pm.
Now I gotta know if the lockdown on all things is a Mpls thing? Like some franchise owner shit?
Now I gotta know if the lockdown on all things is a Mpls thing? Like some franchise owner shit?
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am at a Walgreens in a particularly kinda shitty part of St. Louis where I grew up (south city) and not a single thing is locked up. And it is open till 9pm.
Now I gotta know if the lockdown on all things is a Mpls thing? Like some franchise owner shit?
Now I gotta know if the lockdown on all things is a Mpls thing? Like some franchise owner shit?
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This is so wild. www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/spoo...
Spooky Lake Superior: The SS Kamloops | Great Lakes Now
Just in time for Halloween, learn about the SS Kamloops — an eerie story about a shipwreck in Lake Superior, and “Old Whitey” who seems to follow divers around the wreck.
www.greatlakesnow.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM
This is so wild. www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/spoo...
A reminder that if you’re thinking about Edmund Fitzgerald to also imagine the at least 10k fully preserved bodies floating in the giant space belly of Lady Lake Superior.
My body: Go to sleep.
My brain: Not now, honey, I have to learn about about the more than 10,000 preserved dead bodies are floating in the depths of Lake Superior like it’s outer space. www.unboundroots.com/lake-superio...
My brain: Not now, honey, I have to learn about about the more than 10,000 preserved dead bodies are floating in the depths of Lake Superior like it’s outer space. www.unboundroots.com/lake-superio...
Lake Superior: A Watery Graveyard
Lake Superior is home to hundreds of sunken ships on its cold, dark, rocky bottom. Are ships the only victims lying in this watery graveyard?
www.unboundroots.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A reminder that if you’re thinking about Edmund Fitzgerald to also imagine the at least 10k fully preserved bodies floating in the giant space belly of Lady Lake Superior.
I am retaining water, which has never been a thing for me, so I just thought my face was sort of puffy because I am tired.
Anyone have any experience with this? What caused it? How did you address it?
It’s not super obvious, but for me it is definitely noticeable?
Anyone have any experience with this? What caused it? How did you address it?
It’s not super obvious, but for me it is definitely noticeable?
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I am retaining water, which has never been a thing for me, so I just thought my face was sort of puffy because I am tired.
Anyone have any experience with this? What caused it? How did you address it?
It’s not super obvious, but for me it is definitely noticeable?
Anyone have any experience with this? What caused it? How did you address it?
It’s not super obvious, but for me it is definitely noticeable?
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Who called it an administrative stay issued by the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday night and not a SNAP judgement?
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Who called it an administrative stay issued by the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday night and not a SNAP judgement?
Post a pic of you from a different era: 2007 baby journalist reporting on the RNC and 2008 elections with a *very official* badge and a giant first name.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Post a pic of you from a different era: 2007 baby journalist reporting on the RNC and 2008 elections with a *very official* badge and a giant first name.
RACIAL JUSTICE FOLKS! Are you an educator, higher-ed human, school board member, nonprofit leader, policy geek, racial justice advocate with experience in advocacy and systems change?
We are in the process of recruiting NEW BOARD members at MnEEP! www.mneep.org
We are in the process of recruiting NEW BOARD members at MnEEP! www.mneep.org
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership
Together, we’re transforming practices, policies, and public narratives to build an education system where each student can thrive.
www.mneep.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
RACIAL JUSTICE FOLKS! Are you an educator, higher-ed human, school board member, nonprofit leader, policy geek, racial justice advocate with experience in advocacy and systems change?
We are in the process of recruiting NEW BOARD members at MnEEP! www.mneep.org
We are in the process of recruiting NEW BOARD members at MnEEP! www.mneep.org
The sound of a mouse in my house is disturbing annual event that triggers every aspect of fear and avoidance in me, making me scared to walk into my kitchen until spring.
Ughhhhh. Send help?
Ughhhhh. Send help?
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The sound of a mouse in my house is disturbing annual event that triggers every aspect of fear and avoidance in me, making me scared to walk into my kitchen until spring.
Ughhhhh. Send help?
Ughhhhh. Send help?
I will be at a three-day race equity conference next week and I am already pre-tired from the anxiety I have around engaging with humans for three days!
I am sure it will be fantastic and the human connections right now are so needed.
But as a home body my body is already tired 😴
I am sure it will be fantastic and the human connections right now are so needed.
But as a home body my body is already tired 😴
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I will be at a three-day race equity conference next week and I am already pre-tired from the anxiety I have around engaging with humans for three days!
I am sure it will be fantastic and the human connections right now are so needed.
But as a home body my body is already tired 😴
I am sure it will be fantastic and the human connections right now are so needed.
But as a home body my body is already tired 😴
Jesus Christ. Take it easy easy, heating pad.
Sure, I am a “helpless sleeping person with insensitive skin,” but the thing that will make me throw you to the moon is this list telling me what do.
Sure, I am a “helpless sleeping person with insensitive skin,” but the thing that will make me throw you to the moon is this list telling me what do.
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Jesus Christ. Take it easy easy, heating pad.
Sure, I am a “helpless sleeping person with insensitive skin,” but the thing that will make me throw you to the moon is this list telling me what do.
Sure, I am a “helpless sleeping person with insensitive skin,” but the thing that will make me throw you to the moon is this list telling me what do.
I was *just now* years old when I realized I have been saying “Well, at least St. Paul had a gay Black mayor” and not only is that *not true* but no one corrected me?
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I was *just now* years old when I realized I have been saying “Well, at least St. Paul had a gay Black mayor” and not only is that *not true* but no one corrected me?
Does anyone know if or what MPS is planning to do with the free breakfasts and lunches if MFT strikes next week?
With SNAP frozen, it’s going to be a double-hit for so many families if the free school meals disappear.
Will every MPS have the meals available? Anyone know?
With SNAP frozen, it’s going to be a double-hit for so many families if the free school meals disappear.
Will every MPS have the meals available? Anyone know?
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Does anyone know if or what MPS is planning to do with the free breakfasts and lunches if MFT strikes next week?
With SNAP frozen, it’s going to be a double-hit for so many families if the free school meals disappear.
Will every MPS have the meals available? Anyone know?
With SNAP frozen, it’s going to be a double-hit for so many families if the free school meals disappear.
Will every MPS have the meals available? Anyone know?
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wanna see the worst text i’ve ever sent?
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
wanna see the worst text i’ve ever sent?
One thing that stuck out to me this summer in the mayoral race was from a conversation I had with a handful of young-ish Somali men.
They said they preferred Frey bc he was “done so much for them,” and that Fateh “wasn’t from here.”
He isn’t “Minnesotan Somali.”
They said they preferred Frey bc he was “done so much for them,” and that Fateh “wasn’t from here.”
He isn’t “Minnesotan Somali.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One thing that stuck out to me this summer in the mayoral race was from a conversation I had with a handful of young-ish Somali men.
They said they preferred Frey bc he was “done so much for them,” and that Fateh “wasn’t from here.”
He isn’t “Minnesotan Somali.”
They said they preferred Frey bc he was “done so much for them,” and that Fateh “wasn’t from here.”
He isn’t “Minnesotan Somali.”
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
Do you think the helicopter is where Frey is celebrating his “win” with his cop buddies Downtown Council basically paid to be his only friends?
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Do you think the helicopter is where Frey is celebrating his “win” with his cop buddies Downtown Council basically paid to be his only friends?