I strongly second this. Images like this steal part of your soul. Some of us have to watch horrific things because it's part of what we do as journalists. It's part of being honest and bearing witness, looking so others don't have to do the same. If it can be avoided, avoid it at all costs.

Timeline cleanser

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

paging @cchurchili.bsky.social

We've solved it, and the argument shall never happen again, we declare. This turned out so fun; come for the answer, stay for the pink and purple map at the end.

Welp, folks. We did it. We settled the debate about Uptown's borders. www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...

Strib’s fun Uptown boundary project crunches 2,000 reader submissions and — as the definitive authority on this matter — I say they did well! You young people are getting a bit casual, but for once I’m counting on folks getting more conservative as they age! www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...

It’s true! And it’ll be hard to limit myself to 50!

This is the only Uptown boundary I recognize.

Here's a sample of some of my favorite reader explanations of their borders

Spent a month building this so that Star Tribune readers can finally settle the debate: where is Uptown? The story published a few hours ago and we already have over 700 submissions. Soon we'll compile all the Uptowns to create the definitive map of Minneapolis's most argued-over neighborhood.

I wrote a post on my #blog about the variety and history of #hachure, the distinctive strokes on 'old' #maps. Big thanks to Daniel Huffman (of course), Jake Steinberg and Alexander Fries for help with feedback. churchillgeo.com/variety-in-h...

ChatGPT will do for your ability to think what GPS and navigation software did for your ability to remember a map of your city.

Here are some nice mushrooms

"So I looked on my trailcam and said to the missus, that looks like a person. So I reported it."

With ten minutes to deadline, @startribune.com redesigned tomorrow's front page in a flash, per senior assistant managing editor Greg Mees

My favorite graphic on this. Via @pushtheneedle.bsky.social

We tracked the wildfire smoke pouring down from Canada, causing Minnesota to have the worst air quality in the nation yesterday Story: www.startribune.com/watch-wildfi...

Hoping to get out on the water now that the weather is warming up? Our guide can help!

Graco is leaving Minneapolis. Kinda wild that all this riverfront property in northeast is about it be up for grabs. www.startribune.com/graco-headqu...

We spent an entire paddling season researching and paddling across the Twin Cities to create this guide. The Star Tribune has never put out a guide this comprehensive. Get out on the water, people. It's really the best thing you can do this summer. www.startribune.com/canoe-kayak-...

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On This Day 1948: Lucky, a street dog hit by a truck and nursed back to health by a boxing promoter, achieves fame as "the world's most educated dog." Here he's photographed working the telephone switchboard at the Minneapolis Times.

This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...

buy the dip

Amazing weekend in Necadah. Saw A WHOOPING CRANE, two wolves, and climbed some very climbable rocks. Perennially underrated area.

RETVRN

Made it up north this past weekend. Lake Superior was being tempestuous.

Just a periodic reminder that Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota may at times be part of the fuzzy and elusive "heartland" but are definitely *coastal* states.

Here’s where $677 million raised last year by the new metro 1% sales tax went www.startribune.com/new-mn-metro...

Friend: do you keep a log of the mushrooms your forage Me, thinking of the log I brought home that was growing oyster mushrooms: yes

MSP cyclists - Where do you feel safer locking up your bike? For me, it always feels like there's safety in numbers.

The Gold Line has appeared on Apple Maps

Check out the "blizzard footprint" of fresh snow laid down from Nebraska through Iowa, SE Minnesota into Wisconsin. Clearly visible on GOES-16 1 km visible satellite today. What a beauty! Temps 10 to 20F cooler over the snowpack today. #mnwx

Same perspective today. The only buildings I can spot in both are the Ford building and a couple buildings downtown.

check out this work of art along Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis

Minneapolis City Hall Interior (1982) 350 5th St. S Source: Hennepin County Library Basement

"If you have to saw something in half you wouldn't use a hammer to do it" Jake Steinberg on using vs. not using maps at #NICAR

Good morning #NICAR25! Join us for a discussion about how to think about data viz while keeping it accessible. I’ll be joined by the lovely @jakesteinberg.com and @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social

one of my favorite running storylines in culture is that people treat JAMES BOND as a franchise full of classic, beloved movies that has only recently lost its way, when the reality is that literally almost every single movie in the history of the franchise sucks.

The isthmus of Northeast Minneapolis

Whew, what a week. I had this map for the Iditarod all ready to go, and then the race officials announced a new route with one day to spare before the story published. I had to rebuilt it basically from scratch. Always give yourself a buffer when downloading raster data, folks. You may need it. 1/3

That’s more like it.

Honestly, it's sad seeing what's happened to Outside Magazine, once a great source of adventure and environmental storytelling. Now, it embodies some of the worst of the modern internet.

I’ve felt this way for a while now. Glad to see someone calling it out.

Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.

the city council is just ignoring the results of (at least) two surveys conducted of residents and business owners www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

i long for precedented times

Here's why the last two winters really don't feel like Minnesota winter. www.startribune.com/minnesota-sn...