When firefighters in Oakland, California, saw a pigeon struggling to breathe near the site of a fire they had fought, the crew stopped to help.

"What Trump did NOT do was even purport to show a single ineligible voter voted in the 2020 election, or that any voting machines were actually compromised, voting machines or voter registration databases breached, or election results inaccurately reported."

“The ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told the AP.”

A statement from WIRED leadership.

RFK Jr takes questions from reporters -- but an aide specifies he won't take any on topics other than hospital food

He reportedly called his ex-wife to ask her to "lie for him" and to "cover for his character."

This is the first Post-Ipsos poll where significantly more than half of Trump approvers support him only “somewhat,” rather than strongly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ABC NEWS: ".. Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on that speech and more than a dozen others .." abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

Due to the very unhealthy air quality, the Minneapolis Park Board has canceled all outdoor programs, activities and events today (June 16), including outdoor pools, wading pools, nature camps, recreation programs, athletic activities, golf courses, events and other scheduled outdoor programming.

Air quality in Minneapolis has been rated ‘very unhealthy’ for all residents due to wildfire smoke. Please limit time outdoors as much as possible. https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stories/air-quality-alert-issued-due-to-wildfire-smoke-for-wednesday-july-15-through-friday-july-17-for-east-0

New records for wildfire smoke concentration were set Wednesday in the Twin Cities, the Duluth area and in Grand Portage, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Air quality alerts covering almost the entire state are in place until 11 a.m. Friday. www.startribune.com/wildfire-smo...

A CNN investigation found that President Donald Trump has promoted more than 20 companies on his Truth Social account days after buying stock in those firms – at times announcing government actions that could benefit the companies he just invested in. https://cnn.it/44tiGit

Dozens of people held at Camp East Montana, the ICE detention facility in East El Paso, say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten, according to a new report issued Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and the ACLU. elpasomatters.org/2026/07/15/r...

Aaaand once again, Maria Bartiromo has emerged as a key figure in getting the Fox News network sued for defamation. This time it’s for helping Kevin O’Leary spread lies about Utahns opposed to a huge, energy-gobbling data center. Probably won’t cost Fox $787 million this time. But it’s bad.

I always wondered what it would be like to live inside my smoker

Air Quality Alert across central Minnesota until 11 am Friday

JD Vance acting like a random right-wing podcaster instead of, you know, a high-ranking government official who could actually find this stuff out.

Gotta be honest I don’t have the cognitive bandwidth for this Warehouse District nonsense

Radiohead was named after a story Stephen Tobolowsky told David Byrne about having psychic powers while in college. That became the song “Radio Head” from True Stories. Then when EMI asked newly signed band On A Friday to change their terrible name, they went with Radiohead, after the song.

News story: Liberian national team says it was denied U.S. visas for its trip to play Minnesota United this month, and the #MNUFC friendly match in St. Paul has been terminated. www.twincities.com/2026/07/15/l...

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

We'll finally know once and for all which nation is the greatest on Earth: Spain or Argentina

New meme just dropped

Mick Jaded

Minnesota YMCA campers rescued from Canada as Y evacuates camps near Ely www.startribune.com/boundary-wat...

Love these photos of kids jumping off a bridge into Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis yesterday, captured by Alex Kormann More on Insta >> www.instagram.com/p/DawLyiyDJWh/

I'm in

Not great! www.startribune.com/boundary-wat...

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

Trump just endorsed Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor. Last month’s Minnesota Poll found Lindell was the weakest of the top three GOP candidates in head-to-head matchups with Amy Klobuchar. www.startribune.com/minnesota-po...

BREAKING: President Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new order to suspend them.

Latest short term computer models show near-surface smoke (bad, smoky air) holding off in Twin Cities until late afternoon/early evening now, thankfully. Enjoy these smoke-free hours as then there's an air quality advisory until Friday morning. #mnwx FYI, @jesselorenz.bsky.social

Tomorrow we get the rare smoke + heat combination, as our beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness burns. It's a nightmare - but I wanted to talk air quality. Winds Wed. will be light, thankfully from the west/northwest at first, so smoke/low AQI would build in later in day. #MNWX

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Hegseth strikes 7 from promotion list: Rear Adm. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to command one of the Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, was pulled off the list. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Working on my debut novel, Love in the Time of Explosive Diarrhea

NEW: The Trump admin had a UChicago undergrad/DOGE operative use a chatbot to work on housing policy. The details are a bit of a mystery, because HUD withheld docs in response to a @democracyforward.org FOIA, among other things citing nonexistent AI privilege. @telliotter.bsky.social reports:

OMG there are so many bears on #bearcam rn explore.org/livecams/bro...

Protesters in Biddeford, Maine, were seen outside of Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) office following an ICE-involved shooting that left one person dead, just days after a federal agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant during a traffic stop in Houston. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4yjzBkX

Fed. judge holds that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported "settlement" which created the Trump slush fund and IRS liability waivers were a fraud on the court. Trump's lawyers sanctioned and referred. Acting AG Blanche catches an ethics complaint for his role. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social

Whoa www.startribune.com/renee-good-a...

"Pseudofolliculitis barbae, commonly known as razor bumps, is a condition that can cause a person to experience painful inflammation after shaving. The condition disproportionately affects Black men, some 60% of whom may experience it, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology."

With dangerous heat and several wildfires burning, the U.S. Forest Service is closing the Boundary Waters starting Tuesday.

Find a cooling center near you: https://www.hennepincounty.gov/services/assistance/safety/places-to-cool-off-in-extreme-heat

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here