The new Minnesota State Fair foods have arrived and there are pickles where pickles should not be. (gift link) www.startribune.com/buckle-up-he...

Not bad, Minneapolis. Not bad.

Good news, Bluesky users: There will be a make-up weather siren test next week on Wednesday, July 8 at 1 p.m.

The lawsuit asks a federal court to force the MN Department of Children, Youth, and Families to turn over 5 years’ worth of data tied to SNAP benefits after Minnesota and other states have refused to share participants’ personal data with the federal government.

Electrofishing to study Minnesota’s native rough fish! Video by @noorwrites.bsky.social @startribune.com accompanying @lollardfish.bsky.social’s story on @garlab.bsky.social conservation research! Story Link: www.startribune.com/fishing-angl...

I love this so much I could explode. Lin-Manuel Miranda was in Minnesota to see the Twine Ball.

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Today’s layoffs hit the journalists who do the most and get the least credit. The editors, the copy desk, the page designers, the librarian and archivist, the news assistants. My editor led our immigration coverage during Operation Metro Surge and they just…let her go.

It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage

Star Tribune Guild members wore our union merch to work today after management's announcement of 15% layoffs across the company, including within the newsroom.

The Kickoff to Summer has kicked off at the state fairgrounds. At this point, you may be asking yourself: How’s the Pronto Pup line?

The Star Tribune is working on a story and photo essay centered on subjects from photos and videos during Operation Metro Surge. We have several photos in which the subject is unidentified. If you are pictured in these photos and would like to participate, please contact us. bit.ly/4uVkzPQ

On our way to start shooting the new episodes of MST3K this morning. Very exciting! (He’s gonna drive)

GAVIN!!!

The Minnesota Star Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church last summer.

Unfazable Minneapolis

This is Minneapolis:

The flotilla of ducks at the annual Minnehaha Creek Duck Race in Minneapolis!

Look, I know the world is burning but I'm going to need everyone to stop and read Laura Yuen's update on Lloyd the lovelorn turkey. www.startribune.com/yuen-48000-f...

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

Tell the Star Tribune why you stopped shopping at Target.

Glad to see that @stribrooks.bsky.social piece on the state flag included a portion of the Mary Eastman poem about the old state seal, which was the centerpiece of the old flag. www.startribune.com/one-minnesot... The whole disgusting thing should be read at every hearing to reject the new flag.

So underwhelming that we've had trouble keeping MN flags in stock! They sell faster than we can order them. 🙄 Rest assured tho, we just got in a huge reorder from @flagsforgood.com!

Judgment. This is why I could never cover courts.

Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning; www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

BERMAN: Do you think Congress should have a vote if the United States is going to make a whole civilization die? MIKE LAWLER: John, you are parsing here BERMAN: I was quoting

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

This is literally just people celebrating Eid al Adha

The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Aaaaaarrrgh someone catalytic converternapped my catalytic converter.

St. Paul, MN @reuters.com #NoKings

Someone in Howe made a bracket to name an albino squirrel and this delights me very much

See you, Midway CVS!

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.

Vision boarding tomorrow’s alleged demolition of the Midway CVS. Pew pew pew!

Bug Ballet 🩰🕷️🐜 (interview of Orren w @stribrooks.bsky.social filmed by me + clips of the performance from Pine Holtz!)

Spotted at Central Library

Reminder for the first annual #LoonDay

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-...

Without realizing it, I've been training for the Olympics for years.

I think I liked it better when my hometown’s best-known export was that 2011 tiger massacre.

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.

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

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."