An absolute powerhouse of a @propublica.org team has done what U.S. officials refuse to do: identify the men and women swept up in that midnight raid in Chicago. Life in the building was not perfect, but reporters found little evidence to back up government claims: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

These emails are horrifying.

The Dyani White Hawk exhibit at Walker Art Center is warm and welcoming--a good activity for a November day. I am looking forward to going back several times while it is up at the museum. (More information about the exhibit in the thread with this post.)

Hey MSP, head over to the Walker Art Center to see the beautiful, welcoming exhibition of work by Dyani White Hawk! Admission to the museum is free on Thursday evenings. walkerart.org/calendar/202...

Kaohly Her will be the first Hmong mayor of St. Paul. We asked her how she wants people to pronounce her name.

This.

I see folks commenting that they want to know more about St. Paul's mayor-elect, Kaohly Her. Here's a gift link to a profile of State Rep Her that the Star Tribune ran before the election.

I beg everyone to not start making jokes about how dem establishment will fumble this. Not tonight. We can win.That’s the story. Let it in. We can fight for us and each other and we can win.

What Matt said. Let's get out and vote, St. Paul! Mayor Melvin Carter. YES on both ballot questions.

Runners from the Minnesota Distance Elite training group were stars in today's New York City Marathon. Joel Reichow was the top USA finisher in the men's race, and Annie Frisbie was the second USA finisher in the women's race (5th overall) and Elena Hayday was 12th overall.

We are losing a true publishing genius, someone who could stay focused on the thinking and writing that is our purpose, while innovating in forms and the university press break-even form of business.

Technically, this is a book of spells.

Inspiring plans: "The Children’s Booker Prize...aims to be several things at once: an award that will champion future classics written for children; a social intervention designed to inspire more young people to read; and a seed from which we hope future generations of lifelong readers will grow."

For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation. Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children

"The right to culture is fundamental, and its revocation has grave consequences for the texture of daily life." You should definitely read this, by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @isanchezprado.bsky.social

🧵It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4

Social media break. (Not pictured: book manuscript, grandchildren, volunteer projects, hiking shoes.)

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …” The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

This prime day, why not make a zine from bits of paper around the house and bits of thought around the head

Speaking of reading, I'm looking forward to Charles Dickens's *Bleak House* with APS Together, beginning a week from today. Yiyun Li returns as host for this project organized by A Public Space. Slow reading--a chapter or two each day. apublicspace.org/aps-together apublicspace.org/aps-together...

Well, today @deldeib.bsky.social has a very helpful explainer. Here's what an external review is, how it works, and how you can use it to help to get coverage of your own medical care: "Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal... That’s all you have." www.propublica.org/article/heal...

This Best of the Net nomination from the wonderful *Psaltery and Lyre* makes me so happy! My short essay, "Time Keeping," is here.

Looking back at the first times Greta Thunberg appeared in *The Guardian,* I found this from seven years ago.

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

You know this means we can't just *remember* her fondly, and be in awe of her tenacity about conservation. It means we have to DO THINGS. To speak up. To engage. To teach and hope and drive forward with the knowledge that we all have a role to play to protect the only planet we'd have. We must.

A new JWST image, showing the star-forming region Sagittarius B2. Open up the image and lose yourself in the stars...

There is simply an incredible amount of good, inspiring work happening in Saint Paul and it makes me so excited.

Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.

I'm over the moon that Arthur Sze has been named our 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. Arthur was on the show for his new & collected The Glass Constellation and we looked back across his life as a poet in honor of it. ICYMI: 📻 tinhouse.com/podcast/arth... @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Looking forward to @katnuernberger.bsky.social's November book. (And I like pre-orders because when publication time comes, it's like getting a present!)

Truly the coolest person I know. www.startribune.com/how-she-spen...

Kelly is being modest here but her book is called THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS and it was nominated for the National Book Award! An excellent read on this long weekend!

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you wish, practice gently stopping the argument you're having inside yr head w/someone who's not present, or who it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with. Do this as many times as you need--you'll get better at it each time

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

The cars :: cigarettes parallel has legs.

You guys, there’s nothing better than Minnesota sweet corn! Every year, The Corn Roast sells 24 acres worth of corn from a farm near Waverly. They use 4,000 POUNDS of butter every year. Thanks for letting me show you a taste of Minnesota, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social.

“Ruefle, who is based in VT, has been making erasures, which she illustrates with collages, almost daily since 1998. Usually working on two pages a day, she has completed more than one hundred and twenty-five erasures to date, a selection of which are now on view through September 6 at Poets House”

there are going to be so many tears at the crop art exhibition this year I hope the fair has stocked up on tissues

A page of garden things to break in a new sketchbook.

Long live the Midtown Greenway! Thanks to George Puzak, Tim Springer, and everyone else who made it happen. (And thanks, Bill, for the article.)

What a celebration! Our No Boundaries program brought 150+ students to the Boundary Waters this summer. Honored incredible Buoy Award winners & gathered families for canoeing, portaging & s'mores. Here's to more boundary-breaking adventures ahead! 🛶✨

kentucky long stem apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1925

Thank you, Ward Four! We did it. Whether you knocked doors, made phone calls, donated, hosted a meet and greet with your neighbors, were a supporter from day one or decided just before walking into your polling place: you built this campaign, and I’m forever grateful for your support.

Congratulations to @mollycoleman.bsky.social for running an incredible, people powered campaign in Ward 4! Her victory is a testament to running a campaign on unapologetic, progressive policy that improves people’s lives.

Plums!

The garden in front of St Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St Paul. #FlowerReport Jeana phlox, Mystic Spires Blue salvia, and a cool multicolored zinnias.

Molly Coleman for Ward 4 on the St. Paul City Council!

Congratulations to my dear friend and mentor, Carolyn Holbrook! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 No one is more deserving of this honor. ✨✨✨

Does your little one want to hear the same book over and over and over again? Thread 🧵

Indigenous Design Camp teaches Native youth what a career in architecture can look like, and how important training the next generation of Indigenous architects is for tribal sovereignty. minnesotareformer.com/2025/08/01/i...