AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸

@annefrommtka

From Twitter, same handle. Historian. Photo archivist. BA. MS. JD. Loves DC history, architecture. Pets ❤️🐾 🌈 Minnesota, USA #MN03 🇺🇸 politics 🐈 occasional cat photos 📚 📝 vintage ephemera

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AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jul 8

His Girl Friday

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jul 8

Design for Living

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 22

Whoa! Sorry about negativity. Sending positive energy + a cat.

A grey kitty with bright green eyes saying a big “HI” with her big open mouth.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 19

I mean… if they’re gonna make our first Pres into a stupid starfish shape, I rather have…

The 1996 cover of the first George magazine with super model Cindy Crawford dressed up in a blue and gold Continental Army costume except with a bare midriff

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 14

Heh heh heh

A Weather app screenshot for Washington DC showing a 60% chance of rain/lightning kicking in around 9pm tonight

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 4

Why??? Oh… #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Denial “Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Scientists have used data from the system to understand how the ocean is absorbing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, how changes in ocean temperature such as marine heat waves might affect fisheries or signal bigger shifts in the climate, and coastal flooding along the East Coast.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 3

🚨🧵 This gobsmacks. I mean - in addition to US deaths in Iran, fisherman killed off Venezuela, USAID deaths, Renee Hood, Alex Pretti, US citizens detained/deported, science decimated, climate & health research ended … how do we recover, when does the sacking of the US end?? 😩

Ric Grenell -- to oversee, in his words, getting rid of the artworks in the Kennedy Center ahead of the renovations. This was a directive that he gave me in his office shortly after Donald Trump made his TRUTH Social post about the closure.

I was told that we, the Kennedy Center, wanted new art to replace the outgoing art for the reopening. And so what I was tasked with was contacting donors in, and, in some cases, that's foreign nations that made donations to the American people by way of the Kennedy Center, and asked them to remove their work or in some cases paid to remove it if it was a statue that was installed outside that had to be dug up.

Without my knowledge, the African Room, which is again one of these lounges, that was something like 30, 32 African nations came together at the time the Kennedy Center opened to gift this lounge. And inside that room were beautiful handmade tapestries from different tribes throughout the continent of Africa.

There was a sculpture from Ghana that represented the collective Africans' grief at the assassination of…

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 3

Unbelievable scrunchy toes on my little grey tortie this morning. Okasional kat kontent #BlueSkyCats #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

A little grey tortoiseshell cat is rolled over and stretching on her back on the bed in the morning sunshine while her hind paws and toes are scrunching up in a big, energetic toe curl, so cute!

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jun 3

Nothing good can come of that…

Screen shot from All The President’s Men with Redford, Jack Warden, and Hoffman in the office with Robards (Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee)

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· May 25

Some of my own bouquets at family graves in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis on #MemorialDay

A bouquet of colorful flowers including red and yellow roses, daisies, yellow buttons, sunflowers, lilies, crimson zinnias, and baby’s breath at a gravesite on Memorial Day at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

A bouquet of colorful flowers including red roses, white daisies, sunflowers, lilies, and baby’s breath at a gravesite on Memorial Day at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· May 25

Remember them - and the great flour mills along the Mississippi (think Mill City) - when you eat your delicious Crescent Rolls 🥐

Two extremely tall granite obelisks, including the back of the Pillsbury family monument, with an angel figure at the top, on an emerald green and shadowed lawn and a blue sky background on Memorial Day at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

Extremely tall obelisk monument for the Pillsbury Family soaring into the oak trees with an angel at the top, her head brushing the leaves, on Memorial Day at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· May 25

Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis is so dang beautiful. #MemorialDay

Tall granite obelisk monuments against an emerald green lawn and blue sky on Memorial Day at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

Imposing, cool, granite monuments against an emerald green and shadowed lawn and a blue sky background on Memorial Day at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· May 22

Also, The Martian Chronicles (1979) was definitely a design aesthetic I aspired to, and I wanted to live there, in the chill and placid Martian landscape.

Stills from the Ray Bradbury movie The Martian Chronicles (1979) showing Rock Hudson as an astronaut/colonizer, in a beige leisure suit (no oxygen mask), walking around the placid, desert-like Martian landscape populated with soaring minimalist pyramids and crystal-like structures of the Martians already living there. He chats with a native Martian he meets there, a cool, bald, minimalist-looking guy in a draped, white toga.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Apr 26

Where is my cat?!!! I cannot find my cat!!?? 😟😳🙁 Occasional cat content #CatsOfBlueSky #BlueSkyCats #cats

There are no cats in this picture (sarcasm). I cannot see my cat. All I can see is a sofa with a brown quilted sofa cover, some flowered pillows, and a strange curling black piece of fur (a tail) and a little black furry mitten (a paw) peeping out from under the brown sofa cover (the cat is mostly hidden under the sofa cover)!

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Apr 25

Bonus photos - Harold Stassen in the pages of the 1928 Univ of Minn Gopher yearbook. (BA ‘27, LL.B ‘29) My aunt went to school w/him, not so much “with” him as enrolled at the same time (she was “lit-rah-chure”), hence why I have the ‘28 yrbk.

P. 220 of the 1928 Univ of Minn Gopher yearbook showing the Forensics (debate) team including a photo of future Minn Governor Harold Stassen, who was enrolled for his LL.B from the U Minn Law School at the time. The group photo of the forensics team shows 13 men in 1920s-era suits and ties posing in 2 rows with a young Harold Stassen in the back row, far left.

P. 224 of the 1928 Univ of Minn Gopher yearbook showing the Toronto and Washington Forensics (Debate) Teams in which “Gopher” (Univ of Minn) debaters traveled to Canada and St. Louis. The top photo shows headshots of the 3 men, including future Minn Governor Harold Stassen, who participated in the Toronto debate with the question “Resolved: that it is in the public interest that the war debts of the Allied powers to each other should be canceled”. (Stassen was enrolled for his LL.B from the U Minn Law School at the time.) The American team, arguing the negative, won the debate by an audience vote.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Apr 25

…and bonus button, one of those zig-zaggy shifts-depending-on-the-angle types. The 1960 Nixon/Lodge presidential campaign against Kennedy/Johnson.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Apr 25

Looked familiar, thought I had the same Nixon button. Black (or dark-blue) with red/white. I’m guessing ‘68 bc that was the first election I remember and we had mock debates in civics class (yes, when they taught it). Didn’t vote for him 🥴 (Too young + didn’t really know what pol parties were 🤷‍♀️)

A ca. 1968 NIXON political lapel button with a dark black field with NIXON printed in red in the center and a white border. About 1” in diam.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Apr 12

I’m from MN and walked the walk for Peggy at our SD49 convention yesterday

The huge crowd seated in the high school lunchroom for the SD49 convention. 419 delegates. Much bigger than 2 yrs ago.

US Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan, currently MN’s lieutenant governor, standing at the podium, speaking at the SD49 convention on Saturday.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Apr 3

🎁 Oh no 😖 This is how conservatives play the long game - build up & normalize their repressive goals with a single focus over decades until they can bring them to pass (see: 50 yrs of continuous groundwork from Roe to Dobbs - it was never “settled”). www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

“But the court treated what had until recently been viewed as a frivolous fringe theory as worthy of respectful consideration. And there were reasons to think the justices would deal his efforts just a setback rather than a death blow.

In so doing, legal experts said, the court seemed to acknowledge the power of motivated reasoning and intellectual entrepreneurship, in which politicians, interest groups and scholars join forces to elevate ideas that once had scant support.”

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Mar 29

We showed up for #NoKingsMinnesota in Minnetonka! ❤️ 🇺🇸 Part 2 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social

A couple, one holding a huge, flying banner with a US Flag painted on it with the message “No Kings in America”, the other holding a sign saying, “We want a president, not a predator”

A woman who has come out to protest with her rolling chair/walker holding a sign with a colorful painting of a young boy holding a younger baby saying “Keep families together”

A family group, with one couple holding two signs:
“In November, I will remember, vote November 3”
And “I need to be able to tell my grandchildren I did not stay silent”
And another couple with a little child holding a flag, and the mom is holding a sign saying:
“MN Nice”

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Mar 29

We showed up for #NoKingsMinnesota in Minnetonka! ❤️ 🇺🇸 Part 1 @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social

Peaceful protester dressed as Donald Trump in an orange felon suit with ratty blonde hair, orange makeup, and a YUGE dollar bill with his signature

Two protest signs:
A colorful Mary Engelbretson art sign saying “No Kings, No Idiots Either”
And a sign saying “No Kings USA”

Two peaceful resisters with 2 signs:
First one: Donald Trump holding a sign saying “Pass the SAVE Act“ with a missile labeled “Midterms” heading right for him
Second one: The Statue of Liberty holding a sign saying “We have a Constitution not a King”

Three seated, peaceful (very peaceful) protestors with signs:
First: “No Kings and No Idiots Either”
Second: “We have a Constitution not a King”
Third: “This isn’t about Politics it’s about Humanity”

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Mar 14

Have to stand to work at my desk b/c of course my cat is sleeping on the chair & may not be disturbed. Yes she is wearing a baseball T-shirt b/c she has an owie where she scratched her Libre sensor off & I’m trying to keep her from licking the yummy antibiotic off oh well. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

A darling ginger striped tabby cat is curled and occupying a black office chair while wearing a baby blue baseball kitty T-shirt to protect the antibiotic on an owie on her back.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Feb 24

Article 👇 2// www.epi.org/blog/corrupt...

“One of the first agencies the Trump administration attempted to dismantle is the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While at first it was unclear why Musk and DOGE had their sights set on eliminating an agency focused on foreign aid, recent reports have shed light on Musk’s connection with USAID. In May 2024, the USAID inspector general announced it was investigating USAID’s relationship with Starlink (a subsidiary of SpaceX), which it had paid to provide internet services to Ukraine civilians. While the details of the investigation are not public, there is evidence Russia had access to Starlink, which was not supposed to be possible. However, the investigation will likely be dropped as the Trump administration moves forward with shutting down USAID.”

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jan 14

This comment nails it. Chronologically it was the false reporting of that kid poking his sick nose into day cares to “look at all the children” 🤢 that brought the alarm 🚨 of “fraud by immigrants” to the larger nat’l eye and Trumps notice. The Surge “to find fraud” came after that. Demuth’s fault.

Screenshot of a reader’s comment says, “Please, please call out Lisa Demuth for her office's role in feeding fake daycare "fraud" info to that YouTuber. He inflamed the fraud issue, which precluded the latest surge, and it can be tied directly back to our Speaker of the House.”

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Jan 6

I just realized Trump is just a bad AI. There is something incredibly wrong with these proportions. The hand sizes don’t match the head, the head is too big for the shoulder width, those arms don’t bend where the elbow should be. I wish we could all wake up from this fever dream.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Dec 27

Happy #Caturday Tabitha knows if you've been good #CatsOfBlueSky #CatSky

A soft orangey-gingery-stripey kitty is sitting in a chair, her paws crossed, backlit by sunlight, with wide, solemn eyes staring out at the viewer as if judging you

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Dec 25

Toasty biscuit and Christmas cinnamon rolls

A toasty ginger biscuit cat napping on a blanket red

The pink ears, pink nose and pink toe beans of a toasty ginger biscuit cat napping on a blanket

Toasty biscuit-colored melty frosted cinnamon rolls for Christmas

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Dec 23

Aww and here I love my little vintage motto ware cream pitcher. You’ve gone and hurt its feelings it was only trying to be helpful.

A vintage Devon motto ware cream pitcher with the incised motto of “Little duties still put off will end in never done! By–and–by is soon enough has ruined many a one.”

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Dec 18

Umm, is this the kind of white-male academic elite bubble-boy we’re talking about? Not a left–leaning Cassandra, per se, but still, talk about living in a very high tower from which he can orate and proclaim about the world without being impacted by any particular part of the world.

Screenshot of obituary for the neo-conservative commentator, Norman Podhoretz, who died at 95 and who went from the left to neocon, becoming an ivory-tower erudite. In particular, what I’ve highlighted in the screenshot is the description that he “relished being the provocateur, brandishing area, data, opinions that ran against the popular grain and became the talk of salons on the upper west side of Manhattan and beyond.“ in particular, “salons of the upper west side of Manhattan and beyond”. Ha ha, orating from a very high tower where he would need binoculars to see what’s actually happening to real people on the ground.

AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸@annefrommtka· Dec 13

What can I say. My cat likes coffee (she only licks the bits that have cream and sugar).