Rob Levine
@roblevine82
Photographer, drone pilot, writer, editor, web developer, media critic (not necessarily in that order). Proprietor at edhivemn.com, roblevinephotography.com, intheairphotography.com, threatenedwaters.com. Minneapolis
Hey St Paul drone pilots - don't forget there's a TFR over the Yacht Club festival in DT St Paul that lasts until tomorrow
Once again Angie Craig voting with Trumpublicans to fund genocide - House Democrats who voted against Thomas Massie's amendment to cut off US aid to Israel...
Picture from today's art created by Christopher D Lutter-gardella 's Big Animal Productions in Commons Park in downtown Minneapolis. Hundreds of people outlined Lady Liberty and lit her torch.
Minnesota has already spent 100s of millions of dollars on the hoax in the past three years - and in that time fourth grade reading scores statewide have GONE DOWN!
Klobuchar is actually becoming a very dangerous candidate, pushing the debunked hoax "Science of Reading" - she's gonna be a menace to children
Look at how good Dems have been at protecting Minnesota's waters - here is the MPCA's accounting of the state's impaired waters experience.arcgis.com/experience/4...
Here's an interesting graphic from my website edhivemn.com that analyzes the right wing network in the orbit of the Center of the American Experiment. It includes the current endorsed Republican candidate for governor's nonprofit, Take Charge Minnesota and Alpha News
Attention Garfield fans! Look who showed up this morning! He's in his house now :)
Minnesota has diverted hundreds of millions of dollars on the Science of Reading hoax since 2023. Since then statewide reading scores for fourth graders has FALLEN!
Morris Day in the news for dissing Trump (my picture of him from the 1980s) www.rawstory.com/trump-musici...
This is a great op-ed by a small dairy farmer in Minnesota talking about the proposed expansion of Riverview Dairy in Morris Minnesota, with my drone picture (not in Strib story) www.startribune.com/family-farms...
Here's another shot from the Rise & Remember event at George Floyd Square Monday night. This is from a little lower angle so you can see the stage
This is good reporting at @startribune.com but reveals how awful the editors there are. How does this make it into print? www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
Attn drone pilots: Five day TFR north of Two Harbors for firefighting starting right now tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...
MN Gov Tim Walz has been working for eight years to permanently despoil nearly all the water in NE Minnesota; media and other pols refuse to call him to account threatenedwaters.com/polymet_deno...
4th grade reading scores went up in Mississipi - but not because of the so-called "Science of Reading." They went up - along with 4th grade math scores - because MS started retaining more k-3 graders than any state in the nation. & after 10 years of SoR EIGHTH grade reading in MS hasn't budged!
So I'm back in the air - this is a dairy in western Minnesota that wants to expand from 8k cows to 19k!
Chris Lutter Gardella's Beating Heart of Love did a reprise yesterday in the Mayday Parade in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis
The Southside Battletrain has been a fixture of the Mayday Parade in Powderhorn Park for as long as I can remember
Giant whistles made their way down Bloomington Avenue in the Mayday parade today in Powderhorn Park
The flotilla carrying the sun made its way across Powderhorn Lake this afternoon
I don't say this enough - but the reason I'm back in the air is because of the great lawyering of the @rcfp.org Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - and esp lead lawyer @graysonclary.bsky.social . They're a nonprofit that could always use a little $
It was inevitable after states took literacy advice from @mprnews.org & their liar in chief Emily Hanford that they would soon try & implement extreme retention - because THAT is what goosed reading scores in MS paulthomas701128.substack.com/p/reading-cr...