Leave our breweries alone.

How’s everyone feeling today? #electionday

Happy Election Day!! Shakopee polls are open today at West Middle School from 7 am to 8 pm for the schools referendum.

Making progress on #Harvest2025.

I go past Keystone every day and see the line outside their University Avenue office. If you want to give money to a St. Paul food shelf, this might be a good choice. keystoneservices.org

"When justice is under attack, it matters who stands in the gap."Emilia w Unidos just said that and I'm gonna think about that for awhile.

My life is weird. From hauling corn and beans in in Iowa one day to riding transit to a Solar Seminar in Minneapolis the next.

No Kings has the highest axolotl-to-journalist ratio of any march I’ve ever covered.

Finally, a use case for The Commons

I needed a bit of hope today and nothing says hope more than >1,000 people protesting in Sioux City, Iowa!! We are so much more than what divides us. Trump, elected Republicans, and the billionaires propping them up want nothing more than us to be divided. We are Americans and we have no king.

Final weekend of my Minnesota Gardening Member Drive! 🚨Get a free copy of Dr. Doug Tallamy’s Nature’s Best Hope today only with a Seasonal Membership ($77/quarter - saves over $130!!)🚨 Click here to join -> minnesotagardening.com/spaces/67171...

Learn how to grow healthy landscapes. Join our community to reduce cancer risk, help wildlife, and mitigate climate change at your home. ☠️ Eliminate Chemicals 🐝 Feed Pollinators 💧 Save Water 🌳 Store Carbon Join Minnesota Gardening -> minnesotagardening.com/spaces/67171...

Beautiful Fall morning in Shakopee except for that last pic. We shouldn’t have to trade health care and basic gov’t services for tax cuts for billionaires who are screwing us over every day. Modern GOP majorities cannot even govern…OR release the Epstein files, for that matter.

Saw a clip of the blues clues guy saying “I know what pundits certain senators dislike but I don’t know who my city councilor is. And I realized I’m not actually politically engaged.” And yeah bud. That’s right. You’re just watching tv. That’s not politics.

My hort teaching business if you want to learn about switching to healthy landscapes. ☠️ Eliminate Chemicals 🐝 Feed Pollinators 💧 Save Water 🌳 Store Carbon -> MinnesotaGardening.com

Democrats are working to make food cheaper, healthier, and more accessible grown here in Minnesota. 🫚🍅🥬 Learn more about Deep Winter Greenhouses -> extension.umn.edu/growing-syst...

Headed to the @governorwalz.mn.gov kickoff with (new interim Met Council Chair) @deb-barber.bsky.social on the Orange Line.

End gun violence now. Our neighborhoods, our communities, and ALL our policy makers must work together to end gun violence. We must.

We are mourning over here on the Northside. We continue to bear the brunt of gun violence in #Minneapolis. Lives are literally slipping away, human potential, loved ones. Something has to change! The suspect in this Northside shooting is still at large. www.startribune.com/two-killed-i...

Care about healthy landscapes, monarchs, and native bees? Starting a five day challenge tomorrow morning for installing a pollinator garden in five days. It’s $37. Join at -> minnesotagardening.com/sign_up?auto...

Gun violence is gun violence. It is tragic and preventable no matter who the victim. Our deepest sympathies to the family of Charlie Kirk and others injured and killed by gun violence today. I join the urgent call for an #MNLeg Special Session to pass gun safety legislation.

Huge thank you to teachers, paras, custodians, lunch workers, and all education professionals that take care of our kids. Have a great first week of school!!

Deepest condolences to the victims of today’s gun violence at Annunciation and all victims of gun violence. Thank you Protect MN, @momsdemand.bsky.social, and countless others for tending to our broken hearts tonight through prayer and calls to action. Gun violence must end.

Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.

She can and must do more. Call and email -> www.house.mn.gov/members/prof...

This is good abt deepfakes despite the headline being dumb. || Amy Klobuchar: What I Didn’t Say About Sydney Sweeney www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Congrats on a huge turnout - including a support video from John and Yvette Hoffman - for my friend Kaohly Vang Her running for Saint Paul Mayor!! KaohlyforSTP.com

Katy’s peach pie from our tree loading for tonight’s auction!! Fundraiser ticket prices go up at 2 pm today -> secure.actblue.com/donate/sweet...

Pies have started for tomorrow’s auction!! Grab your tickets for details and location -> secure.actblue.com/donate/sweet...

Join us Monday @ 5:30 for our 4th Annual 🌽, BLTs, and 🥧 auction! Tickets $25 for all you can eat + kids eat free!! Purchase at -> TabkeforMN.com

If you have a moment today, check out Colin and Sophie Hortman’s tribute to their parents on @thecurrent. It’s moving, powerful, and full of great music!

Watched Children of Men again on my flight home from Boston yesterday. It came out in 2006. Did Alfonso Cuarón teleport twenty years ahead and just use that for his inspiration?

It was an absolute honor to work with the advocates for this legislation, as well as with colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to pass this important bill into law as of this month! Bipartisanship and teamwork FTW! #mnleg

Great news Minnesota: today, we have more rights than we did yesterday. Today, July 31, the Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) goes into effect to safeguard your personal data and your right to privacy. To learn more and get started, visit privacymn.com.

One of Melissa Hortman’s major goals was to lead in planting trees throughout MN. That work continues today and a few of us gathered to remember Melissa as new trees were planted on the Mall. Hopefully these new Melissa Trees will help remind us all of her incredible legacy and our shared future.

Headline is straight out of the early 1860s www.minnpost.com/national/was...

“They want us to feel overwhelmed and exhausted…to be full of despair and doubt there’s a way to overcome this hostile regime…This is the playbook to hasten their takeover by silencing dissent and convincing us their victory is inevitable.” Don’t believe it. www.americaamerica.news/p/hope-is-a-...

Tickets -> secure.actblue.com/donate/sweet...

Save the date, my friend, for our Fourth Annual Brad’s BLTs, Sweet Corn, and Pie Auction Fundraiser 🥓 Monday, August 18, 2025 🌽 5:30 pm to 7 pm 🥧 For security reasons, the location in Shakopee will be sent before the event. Looking forward to seeing you and please share!

Need help finding your representative? Use the zipcode lookup tool here: www.house.gov/representati...

Anyone know what is actually going on with this? Residential wastewater and stormwater are two different systems.

IT IS FREE WATER DAY!💧💧 My bill requiring free water at ticketed events of 100 people or more becomes law TODAY. The essentials of life need to be accessible for everyone. In Minnesota, people matter—our safety & our savings. We will continue to legislate for people and not for corporate profits.

July’s theme at Minnesota Gardening is clean water. Join me tonight at 8 pm CDT to for First Monday Masterclass: Gardening for Clean Water 💦 RSVP here -> minnesotagardening.com/events/july-... At 8 pm, head to MinnesotaGardening.com and click to join the free live stream.

Wrote a long post encouraging you and teaching you how to Plant a Tree for my friends Melissa and Mark Hortman. minnesotagardening.com/posts/plant-...

These threats are all too commonplace for elected officials especially for LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and women. After the terrible events of this past weekend, we need to be taking them seriously and condemning calls to violence.

Noise cancelling AirPods have been a godsend through all this trauma.

Taking a pause, feeling grief for the Hortman’s, gratitude that the Hoffman’s are recovering, and admiring flowers on a beautiful summer day in Melissa’s honor.

More trees for Melissa Hortman!! This made me happy to talk about today. 🌳💚 www.kare11.com/article/news...

Please help if you can. 💔 gofund.me/211aabe5

I’m so relieved for everyone on this motherfucker’s shitty little list who can get some relief now but this grief is going to take a long time, everyone hold onto each other now