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Andy Birkey

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Queer. He/him. Once an award-winning journalist. Part time field biologist: focus Coccinellidae/Lepidoptera. Nature-inspired artist/graphic designer. Aurora CO-based. Roots in Minnesota. Married to @worstmillennial.bsky.social‬

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Will it be billions of dollars to put toward directly supporting the various communities they hung out to dry?

06.03.2026 14:50 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Aurora Is Now Home to the Largest Hispanic Food Hall in the Country Take a peek inside...

Awesome!

04.03.2026 20:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

According to the governor’s spokesperson, no action has been taken re: Peters. His office adds that Polis is not considering a pardon, but commutation remains on the table.

04.03.2026 04:18 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 4

Jena Griswold coming out with a message directly aimed at Gov. Polis' flirtation with giving clemency to a traitor to the state of Colorado and the United States of America: Tina Peters.

04.03.2026 19:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TABOR is a fiscal beast terrorizing Colorado’s townspeople — just ask Lakewood (Opinion)

TABOR is a fiscal beast terrorizing Colorado’s townspeople — just ask Lakewood (Opinion)

04.03.2026 13:04 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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COOMBS: GEO Group has been harming Aurora for decades. Your state rep helped run it - Sentinel Colorado Rep. Jamie Jackson was a GEO Group manager in Denver from 2014 through 2021

COOMBS: GEO Group has been harming Aurora for decades. Your state rep helped run it

'Rep. Jamie Jackson was a GEO Group manager in Denver from 2014 through 2021'

sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/coom...

#AuroraCO #COleg #COvote2026 #COprimary

04.03.2026 13:10 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Trump is lying.

I serve on the Intel & Armed Services Committees.

There’s no intelligence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. or the American people.

03.03.2026 22:51 👍 2558 🔁 926 💬 89 📌 35

Heterosexuals are weird. lol.

03.03.2026 20:13 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Literally had a guy flip me off for going just above the speed limit the other day. He really wanted to get around me on a residential street but I wasn't in any hurry to break the law for him. Dangerous loser behavior on his part. Glad I slowed him down.

03.03.2026 15:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

These people. Colorado is going to a one-party state for a long time

03.03.2026 00:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org

The video you see here is confirmatory proof:
Wolves. Love. Blueberries.

As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

02.03.2026 13:58 👍 1642 🔁 604 💬 19 📌 79
6 bad doodles with text under each one.
horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab.
shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style.
crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes.
shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away.
crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped.
horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

19.02.2026 07:20 👍 1517 🔁 508 💬 22 📌 17
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Crow: "Friday night, Trump filmed this tough video where he talked about the cost of war & how hard it's gonna be & how we're gonna lose troops, then he literally went behind the curtain & hosted a million dollar a plate dinner & dance party at Mar-a-Lago. That tells you everything you need to know"

02.03.2026 15:17 👍 7497 🔁 2654 💬 181 📌 125

Minnesota would like a word.

02.03.2026 13:18 👍 6698 🔁 1736 💬 136 📌 42

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

28.02.2026 18:41 👍 2665 🔁 2659 💬 40 📌 49
Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), a former paratrooper and Army Ranger who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Armed Services Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration's “major military operations” and calls for regime change in Iran:

“Trump is plunging us into another war in the Middle East. He’s learned nothing from decades of failed conflicts. It’s a war of choice with no clear end game, no authorization from Congress, and little support from Americans.

“I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism. Americans want us out of the regime change business.

“Endless war has cost us thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, Americans are struggling to pay for health care, groceries, and housing.

“This Administration owes Congress and Americans answers. Congress should return to Washington immediately to vote on the War Powers Resolution and ensure the safety of our servicemembers.”

Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), a former paratrooper and Army Ranger who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Armed Services Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration's “major military operations” and calls for regime change in Iran: “Trump is plunging us into another war in the Middle East. He’s learned nothing from decades of failed conflicts. It’s a war of choice with no clear end game, no authorization from Congress, and little support from Americans. “I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism. Americans want us out of the regime change business. “Endless war has cost us thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, Americans are struggling to pay for health care, groceries, and housing. “This Administration owes Congress and Americans answers. Congress should return to Washington immediately to vote on the War Powers Resolution and ensure the safety of our servicemembers.”

And Dem Rep Jason Crow says Congress & American people deserve answers and says Congress should immediately. #copolitics

28.02.2026 15:10 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Thank you Field Museum for preserving this important resource!

28.02.2026 14:06 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

27.02.2026 19:23 👍 6287 🔁 1564 💬 72 📌 139

ICE has not left Minneapolis. Our neighbors are still being taken by masked secret police.

27.02.2026 19:12 👍 62 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 2
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Contact Us

Outfront MN has a moving to Minnesota program. They’ve been slammed and currently have a waitlist for financial assistance, but have advocates available to talk with folks about connecting to resources, accessing medical care, etc

www.outfront.org/contact-us

27.02.2026 16:38 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A flat, colorful poster that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be" (Originally from 2021!)

A flat, colorful poster that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be" (Originally from 2021!)

25.02.2026 16:48 👍 3118 🔁 1203 💬 8 📌 13
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Supreme Court rules against GEO GROUP in $1 a day labor immigration detainee lawsuit in Aurora - Sentinel Colorado "Right now, corporations are incentivized and make billions of dollars to put people behind bars. It’s a broken and inhumane system.

"The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and paid only $1 a day in Colorado."

26.02.2026 18:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I think the phrase you were looking for is "lied about" methane emissions.

26.02.2026 15:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

26.02.2026 13:15 👍 9812 🔁 3491 💬 51 📌 89
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see you tonight from DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on @ms.now. cannot wait to introduce you to these Minnesotans.

24.02.2026 23:51 👍 267 🔁 49 💬 11 📌 14
Trans Continental Pipeline Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

26.02.2026 02:12 👍 3668 🔁 3599 💬 30 📌 160
A screenshot of a description of an article that says birdwatching may buffet against aging and a photo of eight people birdwatching with binoculars in a field.

A screenshot of a description of an article that says birdwatching may buffet against aging and a photo of eight people birdwatching with binoculars in a field.

This seems like good news!! 🪶 😁

(Post forwarded to me)

26.02.2026 00:49 👍 100 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 3

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

25.02.2026 23:04 👍 2910 🔁 1022 💬 49 📌 36

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us.

It sucks.

We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this.

I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

25.02.2026 22:16 👍 4104 🔁 884 💬 113 📌 35

so fun fact: recently during the fraud investigations being redone by this season’s feds, MN’s rate of medicaid/medicare fraud was well below the national average

nationally, it’s ≈ 6% each year; in minnesota it’s like ≈ 2.5%

we know this is vindictive at this point

25.02.2026 23:25 👍 2203 🔁 684 💬 6 📌 26