Big thanks to everyone who supported us during KFAI’s fall membership drive — we are so grateful for your support of Womenfolk! 🧡 If you want to support too, it’s not too late: KFAI.org @kfai.org

Happy Anniversary to @bcfmofo.bsky.social! Been 11 years and you are still my favorite, whether exploring the world, hanging out with our kiddo or just enjoying a staycation at a nearby hotel in the suburbs. You make everything more fun! ❤️ #Bellen #11years #anniversary #livingitup #staycation

Washington's hottest new club has everything: Cabinet secretaries, a new stone patio, meals from the White House kitchen and even a playlist curated by President Donald Trump.

🪉 🎶 🎸 Tune in to #WomenfolkRadio this week as chat with singer/songwriter/harpist Nikki Lemire about her album recorded at Lakewood Cemetery…plus new releases & old favorites! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

Thousands of undocumented immigrant workers helped rebuild New York City in the wake of 9/11. 24 years later, they're at risk of deportation as they still struggle with chronic health issues. A pathway to citizenship is the least these workers deserve. documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...

Here are some nice mushrooms

Tune in this week as we talk with Heather Maloney about her Midwest tour, recording with ghosts and about learning to live & laugh with grief. We also chat with Elexa Dawson about her new album, gardening & more!🪴🎶🎸 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

It's time for Democrats to show some spine www.publicnotice.co/p/government...

The media was asked to hide the crowd’s boos of Trump at the U.S. Open men’s final. But despite that request, plenty of broadcasters still let the reactions through some louder than others. ;)

Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

People disappoint. Music is eternal.

Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.

Thou Shalt Release The Damn Epstein Files!

Srsly…just let us stop those popup trailers! 😭🙏

Minnesota is always the best state. Proof found on Reddit r/MapPorn.

Hot take: fish are weird and I’m glad they don’t live on land. They don’t have arms or legs, they do everything face first, they hug weird

today @jayboller.bsky.social went off on the Strib's dumbest columnist

🎶 Tune to #WomenfolkRadio in this week as we welcome September, previewing fall shows and playing new releases by Dar Williams, Heather Maloney, Kris Delmhorst, Kyle Carey, Kelsey Waldon and more! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

Now playing on MSP Sound: "Morning Train" by Mother Banjo

A familiar face at Day 1 of the Minnesota State Fair: @ellensmojo.bsky.social!

🎡🎶🍦🐄 Tune in to #WomenfolkRadio this week as we celebrate state fair season with songs about carnival rides, farm animals & deep-fried foods. Plus highlights of some of the artists playing this year’s MN State Fair! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions.  More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.

🪕 🎡 🎶 Just 2 days until the Minnesota State Fair opens, and I’m thrilled to be playing Thurs & Fri with my Mother Banjo Band at the West End stage! It’s my favorite place to hear music at the fair and conveniently located near the Norwegian waffles and my favorite leather goods place!

☀️ 🎶 🏖️ Tune in to #WomenfolkRadio this week for our #summersongs special with music from Ruthie Foster, Katie Dahl, Red Molly, Katy Vernon, Nanci Griffith, Eilen Jewell & more! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

We are helping @mprnews.org track MN's elections tonight! 🗳️MN House: District 34B primaries 🗳️St. Paul: City Council, ward 4 🗳️Stearns County: Commissioner 🗳️White Bear Lake: Mayor 🗳️Isanti: Mayor 🗳️Two Harbors: City Council 🗳️Duluth: City Council, School Board www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Playing free show Wed 8/13 at Landmark Center 12-1 pm!

@roxanegay.bsky.social so funny. You are a performative male icon. 😃 blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/11/m...

Fluid mechanics

This Saturday, nationwide “Fight the Trump Takeover” protests will take place with 50 rallies across 20 states to oppose Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas. “Fight the Trump Takeover” is coordinated by Texas for ALL(@texasforall.bsky.social), the day of action pushes back against

Homeowners increasingly layer rocks on their shores to prevent lake shorelines from eroding. But experts say rock riprap increases pollution and warms lakes, creating conditions that spur algae blooms. And often, it’s not necessary.

🎉 TONIGHT AT THE PARKWAY I help celebrate the release of Ben Cook-Feltz’s new album Cook-Feltz Sings Son of Schmilsson! Here are pics from a year ago when I lended my talents to the project. This show will be fun & wildly eclectic so join us! 🎟️ theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/nilsson-in-the-night

Happy Birthday to The Edge of U2. With 22 Grammy Awards, a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a legacy as one of the greatest guitarists ever, his sound has shaped generations.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

🎻🎶 Tune in this week as we spotlight the best folk, bluegrass, Celtic and country fiddlers…plus Nilsson covers and new releases by Sierra Ferrell, Rhiannon Giddens, Brennen Leigh, Jill Andrews & more! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.

August is lookin’ pretty sweet 🧡🪕☀️

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

🎻 🎶🪕 This week as we chat with Dani Flowers of Grammy-nominated bluegrass band Sister Sadie about their new album & their performances at the 45th annual MN Bluegrass August Festival! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

🌊☀️🎶 Tune in to #WomenfolkRadio this week as we play songs about swimming, sunsets and other summery things…plus new music from Dar Williams, Sister Sadie, Solas, Spencer LaJoye, The Beavers and more! 🎧 Wed 8-10 am CDT KFAI Sat 10 am-12 pm CDT Folk Music Notebook Sun 4-6 pm EDT WHCP

Now playing on MSP Sound: "Family Tree (Live)" by Doyle Turner

Thanks, Trump. www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/ju...

We previously found that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our latest analysis reveals another jarring reality: that most of the men were already moving through the U.S. immigration system.

So excited for tonight’s show with Megan Bee (Athens, OH) and Kelley Smith (Brainerd, MN)! Come down to 331 or stream the show live at 6 pm CDT: Facebook.com/womenfolkradioshow 🎧 For preview of tonight’s show listen to last week’s show on @kfaifmradio: KFAI.org/womenfolk @kfai.org

"Unlike January 2021 — when the Big Lie scheme failed — by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 230+ Venezuelan deportees the Trump administration sent to CECOT matched those on the lists. (Published May)

Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.

In the next ten months—while he’s still being broadcast—someone needs to get the Epstein list to Colbert so he can read it on the air

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

Call your reps now before they vote on this today! 📞 5calls.org/issue/npr-pb...