Taking the cats for a ride Central Park, New York City March 20, 1976 📷Barbara Alper

Her first thought isn’t even of the objectively better - and MN-owned - coffee company. Good Lord.

I went to the museum and saw art that reminded me of corporate logos

You can have the latest piece by Tom Friedman read to you if you have *checks notes* 25 minutes and 16 seconds

Doron kicks ass, spending his hours helping protect neighbors and then using his free time to take in Saint Paul’s ruin porn.

Easy-to-put-on shoes, as demonstrated by a model who doesn't seem to want to try them on.

interesting history of HCMC (fka Minneapolis General Hospital) with the tax that funded Target Field's construction about to expire, why not extend it so that this gem can keep shining

I'm so sorry but how am I not supposed to be absolutely totally fucking mega super pissed the fuck off when these numbskulls pay 15 MILLION DOLLARS TO COME UP WITH "LEAVE A FUTURE" and then slash CLA's budget by 99.999999% OHHH my god do not piss me off it is 7:37 AM.

It's somehow fitting that both Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth live in a section of Washington, DC known as Buzzard Point.

I have a Science of Reading joke, but can't comprehend it.

I've posted this before for #BookologyThursday but I'll post it again: the Dragon in a 1958 edition of 'Beowulf' illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. #dragon #folklore #folktale #medieval

Very Minneapolis on-brand to come through a wildly inspiring communitarian moment to a video of Jacob Frey running alone

Say, here's an idea for those unsightly riverfront power lines: www.designboom.com/technology/p...

You know what's a wellness center that needs funding? HCMC.

Using Newspapers dot com to look up some ancestors and pulled up the "society" section of the Rhinelander (WI) Daily News for October 22, 1953. Item #1, the McNamaras take off for a trip, #2, my grandma heads down to Amherst WI to see her mom. Item #3, uhhhh...

Quarterly meeting of the @eastbankmpls.bsky.social Neighborhoods Organization was well attended and featured our excellent electeds @doronclark.bsky.social @ward2.minneapolismn.gov @jason4parks.bsky.social and @engy5150.bsky.social

By the way, today's the "equinox" in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

When you dine at the fancy joints, they treat you right.

House on 1st Avenue South (1999) 2515 1st Ave. S Source: Hennepin County Library The house was relocated from 2309 1st Ave. S prior to renovation as part of a Whittier Alliance project.

Thank you to community members who continuously organize to keep each other safe and housed, despite the lack of compassion and policy action by some city leaders. Email your City Council Member and urge them to override Frey’s veto: buff.ly/RmNvuQG

A portrait of Speaker Hortman is in the process of being painted on an easel in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol

15 minutes of fame

7PM Sunday update: 9.8” snow (likely storm total). Sidewalks cleared. Neighborhood kids built a snow fort in the front yard. The good life.

#OnThisDay Mar 14-16 1870: A winter storm hits Iowa and SW Minnesota with up to 16" snow. The Estherville, Iowa "Northern Vindicator" newspaper first uses the boxing term "blizzard" to describe it. The word wasn't used by the US Signal Corps Weather Service until 1876.

When you attack the Twinkie, you attack America.

Just read it! We've received MCV for something like 40 years now. Its always packed with informative and entertaining pieces on Minnesota's natural world.

Via DigiKey, the amazing electronics parts dealer way up in Thief River Falls, MN - a short promotional video about a tool kit: www.digikey.com/en/products/...

"Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'Yeah, I'm gonna have a great day today updating systems to charge customers tariffs'" www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...

Absolutely gutting story on Annunciation parents pouring their souls into enlightening legislators, knowing they’d the GOP brick wall. But the piece contains one of the most horrifying paragraphs an American parent could read; it will stay with me: www.startribune.com/in-living-ro... (gift)

Minneapolis WE KEEP IS SAFE t-shirts/stickers site is NOW LIVE: we-save-us.cheddarup.com The shirts honor everyone who resisted ICE; all $ after shipping/making costs go to Lucy Laney school mutual aid in N Mpls. Buy as much as you want; you have to add shirts to cart 1 at a time (sorry). Please RT!

Lumières et ombres de Hong Kong PIC Kong Yun Sang

Now this is my kind of book

Be a tourist in your own town. Share a photo.

A couple of weeks ago I made the mistake of giving them a midday treat for no reason other than them being cute. Now I attract an entourage every time I go near the treat cabinet. #Caturday

Brochure cover, Oldsmobile General Motors Corp. Lansing, Mich. 1949 Image: Car Brochures and Adverts Facebook Group Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/1949...

Beware the Ides of March.

I wrote about the lack of “rethinking” that went into the “rethinking 94” process. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

#OnThisDay Mar 13 1935: Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Minneapolis Armory, a marquee Public Works Administration project designed to create jobs during the Great Depression. The Armory remains an important historic building in the PWA Moderne style, today reimagined as a downtown events center.

Great thread ⬇️ I've never been to First Avenue. (but was at Uncle Sam's) Never went to Mama D's (but yes to Breakfast at Mama's.) Missed the 400. And Jim's Bakery. But a long list of places I've been, now long gone: Triangle Bar, Bambi's, Five Corners, Arones, Perry's Pizza, RED BARN! & many more.

Please take this survey and tell Metro Transit to keep the bus /bike lane (and not let a Highland realtor drive the narrative). This is the precise spot where I was nearly killed by a red pickup truck driver. www.twincities.com/2026/03/06/s...

the group chat workshopping a post

Looking down Selby this morning

Mayor Frey can thank Minneapolis Public Housing Authority & affiliated nonprofit Community Housing Resources for 43 filings yesterday. Significant bump in Mpls filings the past few days. Approximate* Minneapolis eviction filings 3/1 thru 3/11: 2025: ~54 2026: ~237 A 339% increase compared to 2025.

Letraset merch. 1981 www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/l...

“Last time I checked …” Well CHECK AGAIN

Free hats too!

Can't get enough of my "Minnesota" Macaroni