Electrofishing to study Minnesota’s native rough fish! Video by @noorwrites.bsky.social @startribune.com accompanying @lollardfish.bsky.social’s story on @garlab.bsky.social conservation research! Story Link: www.startribune.com/fishing-angl...

From the Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: As U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen brings sweeping charges against protesters, the agents involved in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have yet to face charges.

just finished “the metamorphosis” and i gotta say i don’t think they treated that bug very nicely

that's me! I even caught something.

straight up banger, couldn't pick a screenshot because each paragraph was more scorching than the previous

From U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum: My bill would ensure that not one dollar of U.S. aid to Israel could be used to detain children, demolish families’ homes or permanently annex Palestinian lands.

A Minnesota Star Tribune-KFF Health News investigation of hospital data and charity care programs shows most Minnesota hospitals provide little financial aid to patients and often make assistance difficult to get.

This is not a drill: The Senate is poised to blow up Boundary Waters mining protections, columnist Jill Burcum writes.

Minneapolis has a great wifi connection this morning

"Does the United States now have a federal immigration force that can kill Americans in front of the public yet operates beyond accountability’s reach?" columnist Jill Burcum writes.

The nice thing about working in Opinion is you can advocate for groups of people you were part of not long ago. When I was a student working three-ish part time jobs at once, I would have benefited greatly from an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit. www.startribune.com/working-clas...

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

From Opinion: Our daughter, Harper Moyski, was killed at Annunciation. But recounting our personal tragedy has done little so far to sway legislators who have already made up their minds on guns, the authors write.

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com

You're not ready for this lede.

Nothing but respect for photojournalists. They always head straight into it. Truly some of the bravest among us.

"What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government," the Editorial Board writes.

Some might say we’re extremists or agitators, Jennifer Manthey writes. I say we’re in community.

In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...

Live updates: This is not the first time federal agents have shot someone in recent months during immigration enforcement. The news outlet The Trace counted 14 shootings since late July.

"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.

It took hours and pressure from local officials before David Leussler's friend was found and released from ICE detention. "But it will take pressure from those that believe in free speech, and the rule of law, before the release of our beloved country," Leussler writes.

"For more than three decades, I put in my eight hours per day but couldn’t buy birthday presents for my kids," writes Derrick Dukes.

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

"Fox host Greg Gutfeld cast decency aside with a profane rant minimizing Melissa Hortman's assassination. But he isn’t alone," writes the Editorial Board.

Gift link: The second installment of A Season of Uncertainty, a series that follows a Minnesota farm family through historic trade and tariff upheaval. www.startribune.com/china-tariff...

I’ve known the author of this op-ed since the day she was born. It’s so awful that she had to write this, that she has to keep living through this.

as someone who danced competitively my entire childhood and teen years, boys have.... always been dancers. the outrage is so performative

"[Gerika] Mudra’s experience — and the transphobic microaggressions or even outright assaults others have been put through — represent years of hateful rhetoric reaching their natural conclusion. We must do better," writes Opinion audience editor Noor Adwan.

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