#state-fair — Public Fediverse posts
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The Healing Garden: Bringing the Minnesota State Fair Back to its Roots https://www.allforgardening.com/1931924/the-healing-garden-bringing-the-minnesota-state-fair-back-to-its-roots/ #community #GardeningMinnesota #LandscapingAndGardening #minnesota #news #SamantaKistnan #StateFair #ThingsToDo
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The Healing Garden: Bringing the Minnesota State Fair Back to its Roots https://www.allforgardening.com/1931924/the-healing-garden-bringing-the-minnesota-state-fair-back-to-its-roots/ #community #GardeningMinnesota #LandscapingAndGardening #minnesota #news #SamantaKistnan #StateFair #ThingsToDo
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Cicada Season
Hello Friends!
whirligig zinnias with bumblebeeHaving reached Lughnasadh and Lammas, halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox, we are moving into late summer and fair and sweet corn season. I’m not much of a fair goer, I like the concept, but the crowds are too much for me. If I go to the State Fair in St Paul—The Great Minnesota Get Together—I have to really pump myself up for it. And I somehow inevitably end up going on what turns out to be the hottest day of the fair. As a result, I have not been in years and years. I kind of want to go, and maybe I will—next year. That way I will have time to prepare myself.
We do have a little Lammas celebration at my house though since the local sweet corn shows up here around August first. James has not had time to cook the sweet corn we bought Saturday, but he did make cornbread-blueberry waffles for breakfast this morning. Soon we will have some proper corn dish. I have a recipe for corn fritters I want him to try out this year. I really wish I could grow my own corn (I have tried many times!) but the forking squirrels make it impossible.
It is also cicada season here. We don’t get those big hatchings like they do in other parts of the United States, we just have the run-of-the-mill annual cicadas buzzing in the trees and bushes. I love their noise even if seeing them alive freaks me out every time because they are so huge and I don’t immediately recognize what the big bug is because they don’t make it habit to leave the shrubbery. Once I realize who the critter is, I relax and greet them joyfully. Maybe one of these days my initial eek! reflex will go away because it must be quite a blow to the insect’s self-esteem to have me eeking at them before apologizing and saying hello.
I heard the first cicada a little over a week ago, and then everything went silent during our last brutal heat dome (Last Sunday it was 99F/37C and then Monday it was 100F/38C. The dew point that morning was 81F/27C, which tied for second highest dew point on record. Thankfully the dew point had dropped several degrees before the temperature shot up.) from cicadas to crickets to birds and people, silently enduring. Even the raccoons left us alone (The little effers have since returned and now I have to bring my culinary ginger I am growing in a pot on the deck indoors at night so they don’t dig it up again).
The poor chickens, who don’t have sweat glands, dug themselves deep wallows in the dirt beneath the elderberry and splooted in their holes, panting and moving as little as possible.
Nanny and Baba, cooler chickens now and 4 months old!The garden suffered greatly. Everything drooped. We were so hot and dry (Friday it rained 1.5 inches/3.8 cm!) and I couldn’t water everyone enough. We tried and most everyone managed to pull through except the skunk, scarlet runner and Hidasta pole beans. They died before barely producing any beans. And the butternut this year is puny and sad and at this point is not likely to produce a single squash. The volunteer pumpkin managed to pull through and the long pie pumpkin, which has a small pumpkin the size of a softball, is not quite dead. The green striped cushaw however, reveled in the heat; a surprise because the dinner plate-sized leaves drooped alarmingly. There are three vines and between them four or five squashes. One of them is as large as a child’s head!
This is the first year I have grown green striped cushaw. They are a winter squash that can reach up to 20 pounds/9 kg. They are resistant to squash vine borer and powdery mildew and, unlike most other squashes, appreciate warmer weather. Their origins seem to be disputed. Monticello says they are from the West Indies while Wikipedia says they originated in southern Mexico. I have also seen some say they originated with Native Americans in the southeast United States. Maybe it is all true because the squash has been grown for around 8,000 years and plants and people move around and change. Cushaws are a versatile squash and can substitute for pumpkin. If we end up liking their flavor, I’m thinking I might give up growing pumpkin and go all in on cushaws.
And if summers continue to be like this one, I might need to find a butternut substitute as well. I am saddened by that thought because I love butternut squash. However, if you know of a good butternut substitute I could try that is heat tolerant, please let me know!
There is not much to do in the garden this time of year besides keep things weeded and watered and harvest the fruits of my labor from earlier in the season. I am almost done pruning out the raspberry canes that fruited this year so the canes that will fruit next year have plenty of room to grow. And I did plant kale, turnips, Swiss chard, winter radish, cabbage and kohlrabi for fall harvesting. I’ve not had much success in the past with fall harvests, but I keep trying and maybe will get it figured out through trial and error. With fall lasting well into the end of October these days late season vegetables have more of a chance to make it to maturity.
But really, it’s the part of the growing season where I’m kind of tired and find motivating myself to do any large garden projects a challenge. The days are noticeably shorter and the energy of spring and early summer is waning. There will be plenty to do in the weeks to come—the aronia is starting to purple and the elderberries will soon follow, the Kentucky wonder beans are covered in flowers, the tomatoes are tomatoing, the lemon cucumbers are almost ready to start picking, and the lima beans and black-eyed peas are both lush and covered in flowers. But for now, it is good to be able to sit back and take a few breaths, relax for a week or two, and gather my energy before the mad rush to the end of the growing season begins.
#butternutSquash #cicadas #greenStripedCushaw #heatDome #LammasLughnasad #plantingForFall #poleBeans #pumpkins #sploot #StateFair #sweetCorn -
Cicada Season
Hello Friends!
whirligig zinnias with bumblebeeHaving reached Lughnasadh and Lammas, halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox, we are moving into late summer and fair and sweet corn season. I’m not much of a fair goer, I like the concept, but the crowds are too much for me. If I go to the State Fair in St Paul—The Great Minnesota Get Together—I have to really pump myself up for it. And I somehow inevitably end up going on what turns out to be the hottest day of the fair. As a result, I have not been in years and years. I kind of want to go, and maybe I will—next year. That way I will have time to prepare myself.
We do have a little Lammas celebration at my house though since the local sweet corn shows up here around August first. James has not had time to cook the sweet corn we bought Saturday, but he did make cornbread-blueberry waffles for breakfast this morning. Soon we will have some proper corn dish. I have a recipe for corn fritters I want him to try out this year. I really wish I could grow my own corn (I have tried many times!) but the forking squirrels make it impossible.
It is also cicada season here. We don’t get those big hatchings like they do in other parts of the United States, we just have the run-of-the-mill annual cicadas buzzing in the trees and bushes. I love their noise even if seeing them alive freaks me out every time because they are so huge and I don’t immediately recognize what the big bug is because they don’t make it habit to leave the shrubbery. Once I realize who the critter is, I relax and greet them joyfully. Maybe one of these days my initial eek! reflex will go away because it must be quite a blow to the insect’s self-esteem to have me eeking at them before apologizing and saying hello.
I heard the first cicada a little over a week ago, and then everything went silent during our last brutal heat dome (Last Sunday it was 99F/37C and then Monday it was 100F/38C. The dew point that morning was 81F/27C, which tied for second highest dew point on record. Thankfully the dew point had dropped several degrees before the temperature shot up.) from cicadas to crickets to birds and people, silently enduring. Even the raccoons left us alone (The little effers have since returned and now I have to bring my culinary ginger I am growing in a pot on the deck indoors at night so they don’t dig it up again).
The poor chickens, who don’t have sweat glands, dug themselves deep wallows in the dirt beneath the elderberry and splooted in their holes, panting and moving as little as possible.
Nanny and Baba, cooler chickens now and 4 months old!The garden suffered greatly. Everything drooped. We were so hot and dry (Friday it rained 1.5 inches/3.8 cm!) and I couldn’t water everyone enough. We tried and most everyone managed to pull through except the skunk, scarlet runner and Hidasta pole beans. They died before barely producing any beans. And the butternut this year is puny and sad and at this point is not likely to produce a single squash. The volunteer pumpkin managed to pull through and the long pie pumpkin, which has a small pumpkin the size of a softball, is not quite dead. The green striped cushaw however, reveled in the heat; a surprise because the dinner plate-sized leaves drooped alarmingly. There are three vines and between them four or five squashes. One of them is as large as a child’s head!
This is the first year I have grown green striped cushaw. They are a winter squash that can reach up to 20 pounds/9 kg. They are resistant to squash vine borer and powdery mildew and, unlike most other squashes, appreciate warmer weather. Their origins seem to be disputed. Monticello says they are from the West Indies while Wikipedia says they originated in southern Mexico. I have also seen some say they originated with Native Americans in the southeast United States. Maybe it is all true because the squash has been grown for around 8,000 years and plants and people move around and change. Cushaws are a versatile squash and can substitute for pumpkin. If we end up liking their flavor, I’m thinking I might give up growing pumpkin and go all in on cushaws.
And if summers continue to be like this one, I might need to find a butternut substitute as well. I am saddened by that thought because I love butternut squash. However, if you know of a good butternut substitute I could try that is heat tolerant, please let me know!
There is not much to do in the garden this time of year besides keep things weeded and watered and harvest the fruits of my labor from earlier in the season. I am almost done pruning out the raspberry canes that fruited this year so the canes that will fruit next year have plenty of room to grow. And I did plant kale, turnips, Swiss chard, winter radish, cabbage and kohlrabi for fall harvesting. I’ve not had much success in the past with fall harvests, but I keep trying and maybe will get it figured out through trial and error. With fall lasting well into the end of October these days late season vegetables have more of a chance to make it to maturity.
But really, it’s the part of the growing season where I’m kind of tired and find motivating myself to do any large garden projects a challenge. The days are noticeably shorter and the energy of spring and early summer is waning. There will be plenty to do in the weeks to come—the aronia is starting to purple and the elderberries will soon follow, the Kentucky wonder beans are covered in flowers, the tomatoes are tomatoing, the lemon cucumbers are almost ready to start picking, and the lima beans and black-eyed peas are both lush and covered in flowers. But for now, it is good to be able to sit back and take a few breaths, relax for a week or two, and gather my energy before the mad rush to the end of the growing season begins.
#butternutSquash #cicadas #greenStripedCushaw #heatDome #LammasLughnasad #plantingForFall #poleBeans #pumpkins #sploot #StateFair #sweetCorn -
Also at the California State Fair: Zucchini car racing 🤣🤣🤣
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2026 California State Fair guide: What to know about tickets, concerts, food and rides https://www.diningandcooking.com/2718747/2026-california-state-fair-guide-what-to-know-about-tickets-concerts-food-and-rides/ #CaliforniaStateFair #StateFair #Wine
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2026 California State Fair guide: What to know about tickets, concerts, food and rides https://www.diningandcooking.com/2718747/2026-california-state-fair-guide-what-to-know-about-tickets-concerts-food-and-rides/ #CaliforniaStateFair #StateFair #Wine
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Trump Defies Weather Delays to Proceed with State Fair Events
📰 Original title: Trump vows to continue fair amid chaotic evacuation: ‘Don’t care if it’s 2 in the morning'
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/trump-defies-weather-delays-to-proceed-with-state-fair-events.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Washington DC Fourth of July parade canceled due to heatwave.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/washington-dc-fourth-of-july-parade-canceled-extreme-heatTemperatures are expected to reach as high as 102F (39C) in Washington DC today, with heat index values hitting between 110 and 115F (43-46C).
#WashingtonDC #Heatwave #NationalWeatherService #FourthOfJuly #250th #IndependenceDay #Parade #Canceled #HighTemperatures #Freedom250 #GreatAmerican #StateFair #NationaMall
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What's gone wrong with Trump's empty Great American State Fair?
#StateFair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WtRRd6vXEk -
What's gone wrong with Trump's empty Great American State Fair?
#StateFair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WtRRd6vXEk -
Trump's Failed State Fair and Political Struggles Highlight Public Discontent
📰 Original title: The spectacular implosion of Trump's big bash shows America is finished with this clown
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/trump-s-failed-state-fair-and-political-struggles-highlight-public-discontent.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Extreme Heat Forces Closure of Trump's State Fair
📰 Original title: Trump’s State Fair dealt another blow as attendees asked to leave
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/extreme-heat-forces-closure-of-trump-s-state-fair.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Extreme Heat Forces Closure of Trump's State Fair
📰 Original title: Trump’s State Fair dealt another blow as attendees asked to leave
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/extreme-heat-forces-closure-of-trump-s-state-fair.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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Trump0 fixed it, sharpies don't lie! 😂🤣
#TheGreatAmericanStateFair #StateFair #250years #america250 #Trump #uspol #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #BotTraffic #WhareAreTheBots #epsteinfiles #usa #BotsDontAttendFairs #TrumpIsAPedo
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Trump0 fixed it, sharpies don't lie! 😂🤣
#TheGreatAmericanStateFair #StateFair #250years #america250 #Trump #uspol #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #BotTraffic #WhareAreTheBots #epsteinfiles #usa #BotsDontAttendFairs #TrumpIsAPedo
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Everyone's favorite potty-mouth pundit in today's newsletter...
Substack Link (supports Nazis): https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/donnys-shit-show-is-a-total-disaster
When is Congress going to admit that cheeto's regime is literally insane, and *everyone* involved is complicit in this absurdity and needs to be removed immediately before something really, really unfixable happens?
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Everyone's favorite potty-mouth pundit in today's newsletter...
Substack Link (supports Nazis): https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/donnys-shit-show-is-a-total-disaster
When is Congress going to admit that cheeto's regime is literally insane, and *everyone* involved is complicit in this absurdity and needs to be removed immediately before something really, really unfixable happens?
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Stage Collapse at Trump-Linked State Fair Raises Safety Concerns
📰 Original title: Trump risks being ‘genuinely prosecuted’ for ‘dangerous’ Freedom 250 mishap: journalist
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/stage-collapse-at-trump-linked-state-fair-raises-safety-concerns.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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😂 😭 😂 Picnic blanket? Check. Mini paper flag? Check.
Respirator and personal oxygen tank with wheelie trolley thingey? Check.
"The massive fireworks display is expected to produce so much air pollution that the National Park Service itself suggests...people 'remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.'"
https://www.wonkette.com/p/park-service-warns-public-to-avoid
#US250 #Fail #StateFair #Loser #Winning #Fireworks #Trump #July4th #America250
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😂 😭 😂 Picnic blanket? Check. Mini paper flag? Check.
Respirator and personal oxygen tank with wheelie trolley thingey? Check.
"The massive fireworks display is expected to produce so much air pollution that the National Park Service itself suggests...people 'remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.'"
https://www.wonkette.com/p/park-service-warns-public-to-avoid
#US250 #Fail #StateFair #Loser #Winning #Fireworks #Trump #July4th #America250
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@meidastouch.com host @[email protected] reports on Donald Trump going MUTE after a horrible jobs report and as his top #WhiteHouse aides were BOOED in #WashingtonDC and as no one shows up to his #StateFair except one old woman who had to seek medical attention
youtu.be/ZEQxrdgqSm0?...
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@meidastouch.com host @[email protected] reports on Donald Trump going MUTE after a horrible jobs report and as his top #WhiteHouse aides were BOOED in #WashingtonDC and as no one shows up to his #StateFair except one old woman who had to seek medical attention
youtu.be/ZEQxrdgqSm0?...
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Big Wide Open Places
cartoon by Joe Hellerhttps://www.facebook.com/share/p/18kJFjvXkt/
#StateFair #GreatAmericanStateFair #uspol #PoliticalCartoon #cartoon #JoeHeller #usa #trumpGestapo #trumpRegime #fucktrump
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Big Wide Open Places
cartoon by Joe Hellerhttps://www.facebook.com/share/p/18kJFjvXkt/
#StateFair #GreatAmericanStateFair #uspol #PoliticalCartoon #cartoon #JoeHeller #usa #trumpGestapo #trumpRegime #fucktrump
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Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-melting-state-fair-hit-with-fresh-humiliation/
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Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-melting-state-fair-hit-with-fresh-humiliation/
#trump #statefair -
Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-melting-state-fair-hit-with-fresh-humiliation/
#trump #statefair -
Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-melting-state-fair-hit-with-fresh-humiliation/
#trump #statefair -
I love this story.
"We also found snacks that should be impeachable offenses."
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I love this story.
"We also found snacks that should be impeachable offenses."
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What are crowds like at the Great American State Fair? So far, sparse. Here's more from @USAToday.
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What are crowds like at the Great American State Fair? So far, sparse. Here's more from @USAToday.
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#NorthCarolina balked at price, so *NC merchants chipped in* to get a booth at the Great American #StateFair 250th celebration at Washington D.C. #NationalMall.
One of the businesses - we don't know who - put a #ConfederateFlag on rotation for the video screens in the #booth.
>SUPPORT Mount Olive Pickle Company, who withdrew as soon as flag appeared.
>PRESS - KEEP ASKING who decided to put up the slavery symbol.
(Even #SouthCarolina took it down.)
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2026/06/26/confederate-flag-displayed-at-n-c--exhibit-at-america-s-state-fair -
#NorthCarolina balked at price, so *NC merchants chipped in* to get a booth at the Great American #StateFair 250th celebration at Washington D.C. #NationalMall.
One of the businesses - we don't know who - put a #ConfederateFlag on rotation for the video screens in the #booth.
>SUPPORT Mount Olive Pickle Company, who withdrew as soon as flag appeared.
>PRESS - KEEP ASKING who decided to put up the slavery symbol.
(Even #SouthCarolina took it down.)
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2026/06/26/confederate-flag-displayed-at-n-c--exhibit-at-america-s-state-fair -
@Adam_Mockler on YT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe7c5b-BN70
Watch Everyone Get KICKED OUT of Trump Fair
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@Adam_Mockler on YT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe7c5b-BN70
Watch Everyone Get KICKED OUT of Trump Fair
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Watch Everyone Get Kicked Out Of Trump Fair
#FyreFair #Fail #StateFair #LOL #scam #embezzlement #thieves #GOPLiesAboutEverything #Freedom250
youtube.com/watch?v=Pe7c...
Watch Everyone Get KICKED OUT ... -
Looking forward to July 4th already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISj0aSzp1A #StateFair #DC #AmericanStateFair #FreedomFair #250th #Trump #shitshow
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Looking forward to July 4th already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISj0aSzp1A #StateFair #DC #AmericanStateFair #FreedomFair #250th #Trump #shitshow
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Critics report early operational problems at Trump-linked Great American State Fair
📰 Original title: Three days in and Trump’s State Fair already ‘falling apart at the seams’: commentator
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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This video of the "Great American State Fair" in DC is going viral. Enjoy!
#Freedom250 #Trump #StateFair -
This video of the "Great American State Fair" in DC is going viral. Enjoy!
#Freedom250 #Trump #StateFair -
Fed up Trump fans walk out during speech at state fair.
Supporters abandoned President Trump's speech at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall. The crowd's energy shifted as Trump began bragging about his administration. -
#Pride is all year long. Don't forget. This year's not-June-event is Seeded Rivalry: A Seed Art Crash Course.
Get it? Seeded Rivalry? 😂
Liz and I are doing the class. I'm not the artist--she is. But I love seed art. And it's fun for us to do things together. #StateFair
Not many tickets left, but f you want to go: https://www.eventeny.com/events/seeded-rivalry-a-seed-art-crash-course-30529/
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#New #Trump #StateFair #BBB #HealthCare #Children #alt
THOM HARTMAN 6/2/26
TRUMP’S “STATE FAIR” NO BREAD BUT A CIRCUS -
Trump proposes to replace canceled state fair performers with himself
📰 Original title: Trump reveals potential replacement for artists who bailed on state fair – himself
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Don't miss the #Minnesota State Fair memorabilia surplus auction! I mean who couldn't use a horse drawn water tank from yesteryear!
#auctions #minneapolis #stpaul #statefair #coolshithttps://bid.auctionmasters.com/ui/auctions/156916?category=All
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Hype for the Future 51O: The Minnesota State Fair
For the twelve (12) days leading up to Labor Day, within the same neighborhood as Hamline University in Falcon Heights, a suburb between Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the State Fair of Minnesota is typically the busiest state fair by daily attendance in the nation, especially as the numbers at the State Fair in Texas have dwindled somewhat in recent years. In the near future, the Texas Fair may no longer receive as many people, thus resulting in the larger dominance of the Minnesota State Fair, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/hype-for-the-future-51o-the-minnesota-state-fair/
