Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

are they not monsters?

Not now exploding trees, we’re busy

They really expect the World Cup to go forward in the US this year, huh?

lol wow theonion.com/nation-yearn...

they gotta be trolling me

Robert did so much research, writing, and rewriting for this piece. It's so thoughtfully curated as it takes you on a journey through these films as well as the history they represent. Give it a read and then check these films out.

Pro-tip: if you reduce your circle to only people who have ever asked a sincere question of you that expresses any curiosity about you at all, you will have fewer friends but also better sleep.

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

May Minnesota's business leaders someday find the courage of our high school journalists: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

“Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.” — David Lynch One year on and we continue to miss your darkness and your light.

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Flash sale: I have 5 hardcover & 5 paperback copies left to sell. Not sure if I’m getting anymore or not. If you want to purchase an autographed copy directly from me, send me a DM! Whatever I sell I will ship out Friday.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Journalists covering transgender participation in sports should include facts and context in their coverage, seek transgender voices, challenge rhetoric and those spreading it for facts, and include opponents' history of targeting LGBTQ people: glaad.org/fact-sheet-f...

This is just what you like to see on here

Who’s gonna tell him?

Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up

One of my goals in the remaining years of my career as a columnist is to be around when soulless sacks like this beg forgiveness and cry crocodile tears seeking redemption. I want to be there to tell them: No. Sit in your space on the wrong side of history and live with the cruel choices you made.

No more, no more.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

National media who are coming to Minneapolis, please treat people respectfully. Don't burn sources. Don't make people distrust journalists because you want a quick story. Consider instead hiring some of the good local journalists who have been here doing the work and will be here after you leave.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

…it should break your heart to kill.

Hang in there, y’all.

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” — Donald Trump, 2016

In honor of #NicCage's birthday, Listen to this episode of the Podcast with @courtenaycal.bsky.social thesociologistsdojo.libsyn.com/episode-20-t...

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Came just to comfort you

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

Whether we are participating in local discussions making decisions for our communities or writing for broad audiences we share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language that embeds tech companies’ marketing pitches, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

“There’s a project to essentially starve the public system and then reallocate the signals”: Project 2025 aims not only to stop funding public media, but also to replace it with outlets politically favorable to Trump -- Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social @rodneybenson.bsky.social @pbs.org

This guy is one of a kind. If you don't have him on your radar you should fix that. Instead of gazing with wonder at the denialism five years later, he's warning the polity. Possibly the most valuable news anchor in the country. Kyle Klark at 9News Denver.

Did a little personal internal inventory to see how I'm going to generate the energy and motivation to do the work I need to do this year, and yup, it's going to have to be spite. Let's go spite.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Videos of the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021 youtu.be/5rGmsXweEV0

A timeline of the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol youtu.be/G8UKDr1b49c

An estimated 440 deaths are attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires that set the area ablaze in January 2025—a much higher toll than the 31 deaths reported in Los Angeles County records, according to the first-ever study estimating excess mortality during that period. (from Aug)

This is the boast of a Risk-addicted poli sci major, talking shit in the dorm common room over a bottle of liquor someone else bought, the night before he bombs the foreign service written exam

Five years ago.

ICE agents continue to operate in Southern California. Izzy Ramirez recaps confirmed ICE sightings from over the weekend. If you want to help, become a member!

NPR's Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

We had a good run