The @nytimes.com recently published this shameful and ignorant description of Rio Rico, a community that I know well. It’s extraordinary the license some reporters feel when they write about border communities. Just a reminder: real people live full and interesting lives on the border.

Coming in Saturday's @startribune.com: The five mountains (and one notable hill) that define Lindsey Vonn's career and comeback (with mapping by @jakesteinberg.com and design work by @ellie-lin.bsky.social), plus the Opening Ceremony from Milan. So it begins.

Timeline cleanser

On Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 12:15 p.m., visual journalists Amanda Anderson, Jake Steinberg and Anna Boone discuss how the Strib analyzed video to help viewers understand what took place in the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Something fun, for a change. Not often @jakesteinberg.com gets to do mountain cartography: www.startribune.com/five-mountai...

I'm so psyched for Lindsey Vonn's downhill gold run on Sunday (with a torn ACL!!). Used her comeback as an opportunity to make a bunch of cool mountain renderings. www.startribune.com/five-mountai...

Why oh why do we still, in 2026, need a PhD in data access to download satellite data? I have already found the dataset I want via web search, I do not want to be kicked back up to the top level of a search tool in order to access the actual files. nsidc.org/data/mod10cm...

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

City Blanketed in Fog (1939) Source: Hennepin County Library The photographed shoots from high in the Foshay building.

ten years ago today no one clapped

I have the sneaking suspicion the Trump Board of Peace logo was AI-generated

I walked past no fewer than 3 national TV news standups walking down 6th St. on my way into the office this morning. They all appeared to be immediately outside the front doors of their respective hotels.

The Star Tribune conducted a frame analysis into the videos capturing Pretti's killing. We found the video evidence directly contradicts the administration's initial narrative that Pretti was a threat. I do not recommend viewing if you don't need convincing. Some key findings in the thread:

Amazing Strib story and data-via charting ICE detainee movements. www.startribune.com/how-immigrat...

Streamers with their bullet proof vests and self sticks flock to a suburban town for content. Shown here filming 1 person being arrested for not dispersing at a noise demonstration. Maple Grove, Minnesota January 26, 2026

Pity the national reporters who flew in last night and are lined up outside the pickle bar in Nisswa in -9 waiting to talk to day drinkers.

A reminder. www.startribune.com/how-ice-numb...

The Star Tribune homepage tonight

Divorce Over Pork Sausage During Meat Shortage (1943) 4608 Drexel Ave. Source: Hennepin County Library Mrs. Gladys Cole, 39-year-old wife of Roland E. Cole (not pictured), sits at her divorce trial after explaining to the judge about a family fight over pork sausage. She made sausage for her 2 ...

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Alice E. Elsholtz (1938) 3130 Garfield St. NE Source: Hennepin County Library Elsholtz, a waitress in a Washington Ave. tavern, is fined $10 for public drunkenness.

1/ The @startribune.com has put its live blog outside the paywall www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... but here’s how you can support them even if you don’t subscribe …

2/ lots of people on here decry paywalls and insist they’d pay something if only there was a lower price point. Ok, donate to their news fund. Their reporting (and @mprnews.org) is undergirding much of what you read anywhere www.startribunecompany.com/donate/

Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten: There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined. 9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

I don't think we need the few journalists we have left to retweet videos without substantiating and adding important context. Instead, I think we have a responsibility before we publish something to verify that it's real and that it's true. Every video we publish is backed up by reporting etc.

Coming in Sunday's @startribune.com:

The Star Tribune analyzed five videos taken from different locations to interpret key moments of the events surrounding the fatal shooting of Renee Good. With many narratives swirling, it's more important than ever to ground yourself in the facts of what happened that day.

I've been reflecting over the past few days on the value of Minnesota's robust and resilient local media. When an agent provocateur came to town with the goal of inciting racial hatred, it was local media that acted as a fire hydrant, providing timely reporting that has helped douse the flames.

So fun to look back on my team's coolest stories from the past year! www.startribune.com/minnesotas-2...

Ever since the 6 bus was upgraded to the E Line BRT, I've barely been able to read my book on my commute. If I'm lucky I can get through 3 pages before I'm at the office. These are the trade offs no one talks about

Loving the new "Constellation Map" view on Native Land Digital: native-land.ca/maps/constel... #NativeLand #IndigenousMapping #NativeLandDigital

LFG!!! In February this will become a curling account www.startribune.com/team-casper-...

Love!

I get that remote sensing is complicated and all, but why must every resource attempting to make sense of remote sensing do it like this???

Howard Brown (1941) 501 34th Ave. S (Brown) Source: Hennepin County Library Brown, a patient at Parkview sanatorium known as 'the man of marble', celebrates his birthday in bed at the institution. He was a Milwaukee railroad machinist until arthritis stiffened his joints. He is visited by Mrs. ...

A few graphics showing how climate change is affecting the state. More in the story! www.startribune.com/six-ways-min...

Here's a Mpls/St Paul election map that ran in Sunday's paper

Minimum of 5 years of journalism experience! Glad I've finally reached the point in my career where I could be rewriting AI-generated copy www.journalismjobs.com/1692017-ai-r...

This is so fun. Someone is collecting user-submitted locations of first kisses in the Twin Cities. I've done my part. 🫡 dionotes.substack.com/p/first-kiss...

Hex map

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.