Jennifer Brooks
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Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
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Erica
3 days ago
Someone in Howe made a bracket to name an albino squirrel and this delights me very much
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See you, Midway CVS!
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I moseyed up to the Midway CVS to see if it was a pile of bricks yet and it wasn’t. But I did get to see a backhoe move very slightly, then stop moving.
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Vision boarding tomorrow’s alleged demolition of the Midway CVS. Pew pew pew!
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Abby Sliva
10 days ago
Bug Ballet 🩰🕷️🐜 (interview of Orren w
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Ian Gaida
11 days ago
Spotted at Central Library
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Anders
12 days ago
Reminder for the first annual
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Alex Baumhardt
28 days ago
A reminder that Minnesota as a whole sends more revenue to the federal government than it gets back, and on a per capita basis Minnesotans contribute more revenue to the federal government than residents of almost every other state in the nation.
www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-u-...
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Without realizing it, I've been training for the Olympics for years.
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I think I liked it better when my hometown’s best-known export was that 2011 tiger massacre.
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‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/technology/trump-statue-don-colossus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.0Sji.rFOX6qiMjIZ8&smid=url-share
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If you think Minnesotans sat around and waited for some politician to tell them to protect their neighbors, oh honey. You don't know Minnesotans at all.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
about 1 month ago
Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez said the “resiliency, strength, and dedication” of neighbors and immigrant residents have led to the announcement that Operation Metro Surge will soon end. Chavez’s uncle was deported during the federal surge in Minnesota
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Live: Border czar says ICE surge in Minnesota will soon end
“Minneapolis is safer because of the cooperation we got,” Homan said, noting that the drawdown will happen over the next week.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
This ice “fish-fluencer” wants ICE to get out of Minnesota. Nate Pischke has turned his indignation and outrage about the largest deployment of masked and armed ICE agents in US history into a call for hunters and fishermen to speak out. "Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city."
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Elizabeth Shockman
about 1 month ago
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist
@samstroozas.bsky.social
@mprnews.org
. She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
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FactPost
about 1 month ago
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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One Other Thing Recipe Sharing Bureau Chief
about 2 months ago
Well,
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and
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and other Minnesotans? MILAN HEARD YOU.
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Matt DeLong
about 2 months ago
“Children’s Minnesota is suspending gender-affirming care in response to threats by the Trump administration to cut off millions of dollars in federal funding that keep its pediatric clinics and hospitals running.”
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Children’s suspends gender-affirming care amid Trump funding threats
Trump administration move would cut Medicaid, Medicare funding to health care systems that continue to provide surgeries, medications that support gender transitions.
https://www.startribune.com/childrens-suspends-gender-affirming-care-amid-trump-funding-threats/601576227
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Jon Collins
about 2 months ago
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/04/pursued-by-federal-agents-suburban-ice-observers-remain-resolved
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I am so mad at a groundhog right now.
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Jon Collins
about 2 months ago
Must read: "Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied."
www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
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‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”
https://www.startribune.com/no-humanity-detainees-describe-conditions-inside-whipple-federal-building/601566788?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview
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My cousins sent me a gas mask 🥹
about 2 months ago
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Kyle Tran Myhre
about 2 months ago
"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies." - Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
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Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-if-they-take-me-and-leave-the-children/
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Bruce Springsteen
about 2 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p
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Isi Baehr-Breen
about 2 months ago
I talked a little in this piece I wrote about ilhan last month that she’s a big fan of combat sports, and the way that influences her treatment of politics. Last night you saw her first response to a physical threat was to square up and cock a fist. Case in point.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Why Ilhan Omar Makes the Right Lose Its Mind
Trump and his MAGA allies want people like Omar to vanish from this country—and they hate her for refusing to do so.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ilhan-omar-trump-attacks/
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Ilhan Omar
about 2 months ago
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Jonathan C Slaght
about 2 months ago
"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport
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Jeet Heer
about 2 months ago
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
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Aidan
about 2 months ago
The thing about Minnesota Lutherans is that while the U.S. military can deploy a functioning Burger King anywhere in the world in 48 hours, your local Mainline Protestant church's women's committee can do it in under 36.
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Michele Guindani
about 2 months ago
Italian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.
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taylr
about 2 months ago
signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
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Jason Linkins
about 2 months ago
pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Dave Byrnes
about 2 months ago
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
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Joseph Kapper
2 months ago
There should be more murals of 70 year old guy grabbing a bottle of water and walking into the gas than there are of Bob Dylan in this town.
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amityf
about 2 months ago
Woke Hoth got me laughing out loud. WOKE HOTH.
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David M. Perry
2 months ago
Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
about 2 months ago
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Elise Schuenke
about 2 months ago
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
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Mike The Canstralian 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
3 months ago
A reminder.
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Naomi Kritzer
2 months ago
Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.
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There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview?utm_source=copy
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Minnesota Star Tribune
2 months ago
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
2 months ago
Minneapolis says no to ICE.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
2 months ago
Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage:
bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
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As god is my witness, I was just trying to report a weather story.
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2 months ago
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They can hide all the National Park signs they want. Minnesota has the receipts.
www.startribune.com/brooks-minne...
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Gaius (from Tribunate)
2 months ago
Same people who whinge endlessly about how the removal of confederate monuments “erases history” have no problem erasing actual history
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Matt DeLong
2 months ago
Love this story about all the ways community members are pitching in to take care of each other in the Twin Cities
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People find ways to help as ICE surge continues in Twin Cities
From food shelves to community days and comedy shows, Minnesotans organize care during chaos.
https://www.startribune.com/people-find-ways-to-help-as-ice-surge-continues-in-twin-cities/601564938
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Becky Zosia Dernbach
2 months ago
5-year-old Liam and his dad were arrested by ICE yesterday on the way back from school. He's the fourth Columbia Heights Public Schools student detained by ICE this month. His stuffed turtle and W worksheet wait for him at school.
sahanjournal.com/education/ic...
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Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids
ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.
https://sahanjournal.com/education/ice-minnesota-columbia-heights-students-detained/
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