Dashboard updated 2x/week tracking how federal de-funding is impacting the state. mn.gov/mmb/budget/f...

Twin Cities outdoor theater in the summer. Do we have it? Could we get it?

'Plenary Power Doctrine!' say it once say it twice Handcuffing judges Benefits ICE Debbie Nathan on immigration history, the judiciary, and the 4th branch of government (aka the streets) @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

www.zibbyowens.com/p/my-fall-20... calling out Hester Kaplan's TWICE BORN in the "Non-Fiction About Writers and Creators" category @catapultbooks.bsky.social

can't get this opening line out of my head "we swim in oceans of quackery" -- a sentence that could take you almost anywhere -- in this case, it's to a book review that also includes the phrase "jibber-jabber" and heralds a book I'd like to read www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Re: re-re-re-re-redistricting www.newsweek.com/map-shows-st...

We need to talk about our sentences. auraist.substack.com

Meanwhile, in ‘Octlantis’…. www.bbcearth.com/news/underwa...

Cuts and Consequences (good title, bad news) www.splcenter.org/cuts-consequ...

Congrats to all the 2025 Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Award honorees! We especially love seeing @becalzada.bsky.social, Immediate Past President of @aaslala.bsky.social and co-founder of the #FReadomFighters, recognized among this year’s champions of the freedom to read. ervk.org/banned-books/

“We really respect what they’re doing for their family because their job as parents of a trans child is to keep their child safe. They’re doing that... We believe that our job as trans adults is to work to make South Dakota safe for the next generation of trans.” www.keloland.com/news/local-n...

Any day that downtown St Paul looks "promising" is a day to repost. Let the hype become the truth!

Name tag from last nights pro-democracy letter-writing event. I hope he wins, and serves NYC with strength, compassion, and capability. The reality would be hugely challenging. But whatever the future holds, may it bring us more generational change, because that is the salvation we really need.

"into the maw of Tundra" www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/d...

NYC and MPLS may be apples and oranges, but the narrative element in all this matters: Seeing Mamdani crush it feels like that moment in a movie where they’re like “wait a second… the zombies are allergic to SALT!” And then you see a montage of people all over the world grabbing salt shakers.

A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

oops www.thebookseller.com/news/tiktok-...

striking image of masculine vulnerability (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Time to get working on your Porter Square Books Writer in Residence applications. Form is open now. Deadline is August 31! www.portersquarebooks.com/porter-squar...

read me a happy story: mspmag.com/shop-and-sty...

“That’s Minneapolis, baby, we pull up,” - Kya Concepcion and what a striking photo near the end of this article (protester up against an FBI agent chest to chest) by Aaron Nesheim that also speaks volumes

Thursday, June 5th -- 7pm Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis calling all prairie-lovers! #prairie #ecology #nonfiction

Happy Publication Week to SEA OF GRASS by Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty #prairie #ecology #nonfiction

New list has arrived aalbc.com/blackbestsel...

1st radio interview on SEA OF GRASS, publishing next week by Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty in which they nail both the science and the poetry of the prairie www.mprnews.org/episode/2025... #nonfiction #prairie

Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

15 year old won't go for student council because "it's not just bureaucracy, Mom, it's bureaucracy with hormones."

a post of air for a hyperlocal Saint Paul story www.twincities.com/2025/05/15/b...

Why would I want to listen to a book read by something that doesn’t understand what it’s reading

petrichor, petrichor j'adore open window, mineral and floral welp, back to the email now

It's very scammy out there in book world. PRH set up this site: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/?f...

"our investigation was guided by the following research question: Would parrots freely engage in making video calls to other parrots?"

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities

still thinking about the librarian I met recently who said she would like to see more intriguing covers that less overtly signal category/genre

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.