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.

Ice shove on Lake Bemidji

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."

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.

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."

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.

Well, @anamariecox.bsky.social and @stribrooks.bsky.social and other Minnesotans? MILAN HEARD YOU.

“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.”

“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...

I am so mad at a groundhog right now.

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-...

My cousins sent me a gas mask 🥹

"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

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

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...

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.