In Detroit and considering dinner in Windsor, ON. Apple Maps pointed me to a 23-hour multi-modal trip all the way around Lake Erie to get to the restaurant that is 2.6 miles from my hotel. I believe I will be too hungry by then.

This flatiron-style building in Detroit. Originally the Henry Clay Hotel, now the Ashley Apartments.

Significant hail in 55410. #mnwx

Someone lost their candy at the bus stop at 5th & Hennepin.

Toured NEON Collective Kitchens in N Mpls today. Now open. A very inspiring project on W Broadway.

Looked up and saw one of my sons on the same @metrotransitmn.bsky.social E Line bus. Got off the bus and the other son was walking to the E Line. We’re an E Line family.

Wonderful news for this unique complex of 3 buildings. The Grain Exchange is from the golden era when Minneapolis was milling capital of the planet. And I'm also long overdue in making a longer history🧵, so here goes:

Bridges

B Line working hard today.

I’m rockin’ the suburbs! I got 14 out of 20 on the Minnesota Star Tribune’s suburban slogans quiz. Think you can do better? www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

Inspired by a conversation with @chrissteller.bsky.social cc: @snackeru.bsky.social

Finally made it to artpricestudio.com to get the rebel loon printed on a tshirt. I think it turned out great! Truly an amazing operation they've got going on. Open from 2-7 today if you are interested. They will put one of 15 designs on any article of clothing you bring in.

Let em know I sent ya! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

Today from 10-2. Bakers for Neighbors. 3104 16th Ave S in Minneapolis.

Bay Area vintage signs. First two in SF and third in Oakland.

A few newer residential & mixed-use buildings in Berkeley.

New Alysa Liu mural in her hometown of Oakland.

Moved to an earlier flight. My family was like “it’s taking everyone three hours to get through security!” But just went through the shortest and fastest TSA security line I’ve ever seen as MSP. 🤷‍♂️

paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980

Here's all the details! Twins season opener 4 weeks from today. Moving it across the street from the shop to the American Legion. More TV's, more room, same D&J Glove Repair hospitality. Make your plans now to attend!

A quick visit to the Capitol but I had to pay my respects to the shrine

Travel sketch, Minneapolis 1935 Joseph Binder (1898-1972), Austrian graphic designer (1/4) Image: Online collection, The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; sammlung.mak.at/de/collect/m...

merchants national bank (designed by purcell & elmslie), entrance detail 1, third & lafayette, winona, minnesota, 1988

Pay $10 (or more) for a good cause and good tunes.

Things are *really* fucked up.

Then and now.

It’s okay to take some joy in this morning’s announcement. Hopefully it was 100% clear to everyone that the administration was always going to claim victory. Regardless of outcomes, it’s what they do. Always.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

From the Suicide Commandos. Proving they’re still punk as fuck.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Inspiring to spend the afternoon with a bunch of people with warm clothes and a functioning moral compass.

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

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

"Fast Company reached out multiple times this week to General Mills, Target, Best Buy, Cargill, UnitedHealth Group, 3M, and Land O’Lakes for comment. None of them responded." www.fastcompany.com/91476021/min...

Tell me how these are not the words of a wannabe Gestapo. Truth: the United States is a country of laws and no one has full immunity from accountability.

If you dislike ICE and also enjoy singing and swearing then oh boy I've got the gig for you. I wrote a ditty but it needs an especially foul-mouthed choir. The deadline is Thursday at midnight. docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ege...

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Five years ago.

Congestion pricing after one year.

And that's a wrap. At 3:47PM the last passenger train leaves Minneapolis for good. These particular tracks were first laid in 1867, becoming the transcontinental mainline of JJ Hill's Great Northern Railway empire and the nation's gateway to the Pacific Northwest.

varsity theater, detail, 1308 s. 4th street, dinkeytown [i.e. dinkytown], minneapolis, minnesota, 1981

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ultrabomb’s “Artificial Stars” (DC-Jam). “Sitting in our bunkers, we only have artificial stars to look at. We’re all scarred, but we keep reaching for those stars.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/30/m...

Unboxing video for the new The Minnesota* Star Tribune

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Important correction! The last edition printed in Minneapolis will be the Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025 edition, printed beginning on Saturday night, Dec. 27, 2025. bsky.app/profile/nyan...

Unless plans have changed, the presses at the Heritage Plant at the end of North First Street are now printing the last daily newspaper to be printed in Minneapolis, ending the city's 158-year ... heritage.

HBD Theo!

Did you know: The Washington Ave. pedestrian bridge at the U was designed by Ralph Rapson in 1960. He originally planned to put shops and a bookstore inside the walkway.

Another frozen Grain Belt morning