Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.

Carl Berglund (1927) Source: Hennepin County Library Berglund is a student at Edison High School

As we continue to learn more about the incident, we ask that you are on alert, keep the community safe, and alert neighbors about immigration enforcement you witness. No human beings should ever be treated like this. Children, especially, should never have to experience this. 2/

This evening, a resident was kidnapped by agents with face coverings. They disguised themselves in masks and as Uber drivers. They even left kids abandoned inside a car in the freezing cold. 1/

MEPS seems to be gone as of now. This is very bad. These are critical pieces of data about health care and they belong to the American public.

🔥Let's check in and see how much December temperatures have changed (trend) over the last 75 years. 🔥

For sixty years we've tried figuring out new ways to encourage the market to figure out the 'correct' amount of healthcare. It doesn't seem to work — though somehow large healthcare corporations and insurers have never been more profitable.

Plus a bunch of restaurants are back in action this month after closing for various reasons: El Sazón, Camden Social, Herbivorous Butcher.

What did I miss in my list? www.thebulwark.com/p/jackie-cha...

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

If you live in Minneapolis and your street sign is blue, you live on a snow emergency route and you should not park on it tonight

yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible

Waiting to clear the roads makes them messier later, so there are solid reasons to clear the roads quickly. But those reasons also apply to sidewalks. Minneapolis approach to sidewalk clearance is something that was appropriate to the technology of the 19th century when shovels were the quickest way

It’s very odd that we entrust the clearing of public sidewalks (which are part of our transportation network) to private property owners & businesses. We get results like this business that cleared only their walkways & left the rest of the sidewalk covered in snow. #PlowMPLSsidewalks 1/4

Given how many hundreds of billions of dollars we’re spending on these enterprises, maybe we could just use that money to create a social safety net that incentivizes human flourishing rather than crimes of desperation and armies of prison guards and masked vigilantes? Just spitballing here.

Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.

“I would say we both worked equally hard during those years and had common goals, but Roger ended up with an engineering degree and I ended up with a husband who had an engineering degree.” from the narrative my mom’s divorce lawyer asked her to write, which I’d never seen until this weekend

It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him

A little bit of creativity, and some strategic thinking, could give the Northstar Line — the 16-year-old commuter rail service run by Metro Transit but set to end in January — a whole new lease on life, Jack Barbier writes.

You think it won't, couldn't possibly, happen this time, in the face of all *this*, but I promise you: it will. Unless there is an enormous, sustained, absolutely dogged push from below -- starting now, honestly -- that is what will happen. That's how the machine works, that's how it's built.

I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found: • Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data; • Oura *can* access its users' data; • Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

i’m only one ep in but the new ken burns does an unusually good job depicting how the worst and best of american identity and character were present at the creation. it’s a shift from the civil war where imo he presents the american soul in more binary/dichotomous terms.

Holiday reminder! Do not shame/scold your young relatives Thursday if they do not show you affection. You do not have the right to hugs or kisses. Teach consent early by showing them you value theirs. I like to say “Good to see you! Do you want to gimme a hug? or a high 5?” If they say no, cool.

SPPD doing this, looks like

Wishing best for MPR journalist Kerem Yücel, injured at an anti-ICE protest today, and robust state charges against the masked thugs who hurt him today.

Minnesotans deserve answers

NEW: An MPR News journalist was among those hit by less-lethal munitions and taken from the scene by ambulance. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

this is it, this is the wrongest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.

Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family. Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!

Monarca Update! Federal agents have shifted their operation to 608 Maryland Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117 11/25/25 11:00am Upstander Legal Observers needed

Here now

🚨 Monarca Alert! Federal activity at 609 Rose Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117–seems like ICE surrounding a house for a warrant on 1 but 8 others inside who are vulnerable 11/25/25 9:30am Upstander Legal Observers needed—if you can go, GO

A rising tide should lift all boats (not just the yachts). → When the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards. Since the late 70s, policy choices have led to the bigger boats getting lifted while the rest of us feel like we're sinking. 🛟 read more below: www.epi.org/productivity...

Can absolutely confirm, during lulls in bodega mayhem, the topic of conversation frequently turns to how epically Target has shat the bed. We alternate between complete disbelief and just laughing and laughing and laughing at how blockheaded their c-suite chucklenuts must be.

I'd also like to see mandatory re-testing every five years when drivers renew their license. There were no bike lanes or green pedestrian crossings or multimodal roads when I got my license.

"Many well-studied changes show that thoughtful street design is key to reversing course. Narrower lanes that slow traffic, adding curb extensions to increase pedestrian access & visibility, & physically separating bike lanes from car traffic are a few examples." www.startribune.com/mn-car-accid...

“We estimate that from the mid-2000s to 2022, exposure to the opioid epidemic continuously increased the Republican vote share in House, presidential, and gubernatorial elections.”

Here's the Twin Cities map. Orono, Sunfish Lake, and Wayzata come as no surprise. Our fiscal disparities program alleviates some of this...

This *strongly* accords with my impressions of the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area (both cities and also the suburbs with which I'm familiar), fwiw

Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth. By @megomatz.bsky.social

The lights are fixed!!! The Midtown Greenway is now lit up from the river all the way to Uptown!

Dmitri Mitropoulos (1941) Source: Hennepin County Library Mitropoulos shown conducting without a baton, as is his habit

A very weird list of the best Twin Cities movie theaters (AMC?!?) was just featured on a local podcast, so I figured I’d give you the ACTUAL definitive list. From me. Because I’m right.

recognize that I'm mostly preaching to the choir here, but: if you care about music at all, it's almost impossible to find a better thing to support, for extremely reasonable rates

Don Lundeen Finishes First in Bell Hop Relay Race (1938) 8th St. and Nicollet Ave. Source: Hennepin County Library Lundeen is the anchor for the Nicollet hotel team.

Veterans Watch Dog Show at VA Hospital (1940s) Source: Hennepin County Library

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Among maaaaany other things, do these vehicles know how to drive on snow and ice? Because there are some major nuances in understanding the different types of wintery ground coverings and how to navigate them. You're processing a million tiny details at once.