Turophile

Turophile

@turophile.bsky.social

Known as St_Paul_Girl on that other site. I love cheese and bikes. lawyer lobbyist who works with cities. St. Paul, MN

1,993 Followers 793 Following 83 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 weeks ago
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

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3 weeks ago

Representation matters

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3 weeks ago

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding.

There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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1 month ago

Glad this story is getting told. Metro Surge is an economic blockade against the entire metro and state.

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1 month ago
postcard that reads "You are doing a great freaking job."

my sis in SD sent me this, and she wrote: "You are really doing good work! I'm proud of you for standing up & fighting for the rights and freedom everyone should have! Thanks to you there is a hope for our future. I love you." and really, this card is for all of you, Minnesota.

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3 months ago
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Candidate Forum: Special Election, MN House District 64A 09 Dec 2025 YouTube video by MySPNN

House District 64A forum. You’re late… m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKzF...

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3 months ago

Truly the best Sergeant at Arms

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4 months ago
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Wes Burdine: Why this St. Paul business owner is voting ‘yes’ to amend the city charter On my three-block walk to work, on one of the busiest streets in the city, I pass by three empty lots and I stare at a wall of empty storefronts. Just a few more blocks away is the derelict CVS tha…

Good morning, i wrote about the St. Paul election issue of administrative citations, an extremely basic tool we need for growing the city of St. Paul. Vote yes.

www.twincities.com/2025/10/19/w...

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5 months ago
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Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

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5 months ago

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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5 months ago
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St. Paul solved more crimes, had drastically fewer homicides in 2025 A remarkable shift is under way in St. Paul. The city is on track for a 70 percent drop in homicides by the end of 2025. And they’re solving more than 70 percent of crimes.

huge st. paul w www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

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5 months ago

Bill Bramhall is the cartoonist of the moment.

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6 months ago

Now that Ward 4 voting has closed, I can finally start taking about my new local election hobbyhorse:

In Saint Paul in November, we are all going to vote Yes on the Referendum question on Administrative Citations so that we can finally be normal like every other city in Minnesota

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5 months ago
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5 months ago

Seriously though can a person explode from rage? Asking for myself and many of us. (Just read the actual quote from RFK Jr.)

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5 months ago

At the end of the day, if the “concern” you have about your country or neighbourhood is that there are too many Black or Brown people living there, then that is racism. Yearning to make the place you live more white is, in fact, white supremacy. Just saying.

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5 months ago

It's hard to overestimate how much unnecessary pain and death in children is going to be caused by the Trump administration telling everyone Tylenol causes autism. Kids are going to suffer. There's not even a joke here.

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5 months ago
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

Who voted for this

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

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5 months ago

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

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5 months ago
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Who killed Charlie Kirk?

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6 months ago
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Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica.

By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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6 months ago
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11-year-old girl struck, killed while bicycling in her Carlton County hometown An off-duty police officer worked to save her, but she died after being airlifted to a hospital. The driver was unimpaired and cooperative, police said.

Two bicyclists (ages 78 and 11) killed by drivers in Greater Minnesota in the last two days. www.startribune.com/wrenshall-mi...

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6 months ago

Same

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6 months ago
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The Sooknanan Monologue The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

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6 months ago

Where are we on this, @governorwalz.mn.gov ????

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6 months ago
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Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

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6 months ago
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Release the Epstein files.

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JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”

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6 months ago

Hitler famously ended vaccine mandates and gassed autistic people. There’s a straight line between here and there.

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