In "Magic Girl," Emily Michaels King searches for her inner glitter, to reclaim the sparkle dimmed by childhood trauma. Vacillating between quiet intensity and bursts of bright light and sound, she defiantly captures the joys and desires of her younger self. www.startribune.com/dancer-looks...

MINNEAPOLIS! Stop on by to Inkwell Booksellers to grab some $1 from OneTiredArtist’s new Mini Art Vending Machine! I have some of mini zines at a discount featured alongside eight other wonderful artists!

I was skeptical of the viral post but here’s a story about it www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

OH at the Mpls No Kings rally: This is the most Midwest protest I’ve ever been to

i'm like the 90 millionth person to observe this but i still get mildly annoyed when i see the phrase "meteoric rise" like bro the famous thing about meteors is that they are very much not rising

Transit formed the Beatles, says McCartney

One person down, the rest of humanity to go

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

brb gonna nail a 95 point anti-ICE manifesto to the door of the Basilica and see how Shaffer reacts

Jeez

Gah. (satire obvs.)

Update— DHS Asst. Secretary Tricia McLaughlin just doxed the 13-year-old who was taken by ICE, sharing a copy of a police report on X with his full name and photo visible. She’s trying to prove the disputed claim that he had a gun. I’ve reached out to the city. I will not be sharing the post here.

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Underrated tweet. Macca didn't know that in Minnesota, MEA Weekend is a more powerful force even than Lingering Beatlemania

Bangladesh garment factory fire kills 16, toll may rise reut.rs/4ofgnal

I used to do theater in Chicago a long time ago-which is not the important part of the story. What I'm trying to say is that my old friends who live there are going through it with the ICE inundation. Watching their IG and FB posts like they are in a war zone or something.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Today was the final day of the Midtown Greenway being open with the old Nicollet Ave Bridge in place. The path is going to be removed and replaced with a new one at 1st Ave next year after the new Nicollet Ave bridge is almost complete. Demolition starts tomorrow.

Alcohol is one of those things that seems like it's helping at the time but then later you realize is just making everything worse.

Someone should open a local yorgurtary-- a place where you can get your empty jar filled up with yogurt (or else purchase yogurt in a biodegradable carton).

I'm trying to think about what to do about microplastics. For years I've washed out yogurt containers and used them for food storage. That seems like a terrible idea now, because the flimsier plastic has to be washed in hot water. Anyone know non-plastic re-useable container tips?

Twin Citians love their outdoor festivals but it takes staff and resources to run them smoothly year after year. It's a huge time and money suck for a very short payoff once a year.

Goddamn it. Now we can’t even drink coffee.

“A building under construction on United Village’s western edge will be the first office building constructed fresh from the ground up in St. Paul since 1999, McGuire said.” www.twincities.com/2025/10/10/s...

A challenging and fascinating report by Chandler Fritz on Arizona’s universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, which gives families roughly $7500/year in direct funds for educational resources, namely private (typically Christian) schooling. Lots to chew on. harpers.org/archive/2025...

40 faculty fired since the Charlie Kirk assassination. So much for free speech I guess! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every pope in my lifetime has criticized aspects of capitalism. JPII and Benedict spoke of the harms of unregulated capitalism. Seems like a pretty natural progression for Francis and Leo to look at all the suffering, climate disaster etc. produced by that capitalism & criticize it in stronger terms

Shawn Hamilton is so excellent as Bert Williams in Carlyle Brown's “Nobody, No Time," produced by Illusion Theater. Here's my review: www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...

That's a wild sentence. "About 30 people were attending “Tipsy Tuesday” at the time, said the woman, who declined to share her name but goes by Gemini Tik Tok Queen on Facebook."

How often do you forget your own phone number? For me it's more often than I'm comfortable with!

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Had a nice bike ride last night, first time biking on the protected path on Plymouth heading west from the river. What wasn’t nice is biking on the Hiawatha LRT trail with all the lights out. Seems like they’ve been out forever.

Classist-ass dog-whistling, holy shit.

Portland never stops being Portland.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Anyway bravo to the @startribune.com, and reporter Andy Mannix, a @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social and @missionlocal.org alum I believe. Support local media!

They’re so clearly lying about another drug war, it’s disgusting to see this same playbook over and over

You ever have days where it's like: I have always been on the phone. I was born on the phone. I will die on the phone. I have never not been on the phone.

Review: An improvisation-infused mash-up of electronic and classical music www.twincities.com/2025/10/03/r...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

The lack of self awareness is mind boggling.

Incredible reporting from @nicolechung.bsky.social -- well done

It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should

i can appreciate a lot of the work that jane goodall did and experienced that paved the way for primatologists today. and also, i want to point out that a lot of the work in her later years wrt overpopulation was rooted in eugenics.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

this is a fascist talking point even our government, which the president has tried to systematically dismantle, still pays 4 million federal employees and 2 million service members so many of the things people need to survive will be even more at risk—medicare, medicaid, social security

People act like getting kids places without a car is Herculean. I biked three (one not mine) to the Kingfield Farmers Market, 95% on bikeways. No car seats, no stress, just laughs. The challenge isn’t moving kids, it’s redesigning cities to work for people instead of cars. #StreetsForPeople

Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

Ada Limón's “Startlement: New and Selected Poems,” is released today. I wrote about the new work here. www.minnpost.com/artscape/202...