Nina Thorsen

Thanks for this wonderful reporting and writing. As a teenager I spent many hours in Shakopee visiting my grandparents, bored out of my mind - I would never have expected to voluntarily want to return, but now I do to support these good people.

Even when the fly balls end up getting stuck in the last pile of filthy snow that refuses to melt!

I hadn't remembered until seeing your post, but my dad was also a South alum - although much farther back in time - so it was a good motivator to join in.

Good story, although from this quote it seems USA Today is unfamiliar with "hella":
“Most important part of our story is human connection,’’ she said. “Really that's all I want in my life is human connection and damn now connect with a hell of ton of people.’’

I'm just glad that I could bring Oakland to a lot of people.’’ 💚💛🥁

Former Giants exec aims to spread the Oakland Ballers experience to entire Bay Area (Gift Article) Yeshayah Goldfarb joins the Ballers as the team's first president after 24 years as a key member of the Giants' baseball operations group.

In two plus years, the @oaklandballers.bsky.social have made an indelible mark on Oakland. After a record-breaking season, they are ready to take the next step as a franchise & they’ve hired the person they believe will lead them there. On new team president Yeshayah Goldfarb’s vision for the team:

Lost Mitten Rediscovery Relay

The show being "I'd Rather Be Right" and the movie being "Yankee Doodle Dandy", in which James Cagney as a tap-dancing FDR sings "When I was courting Eleanor I told her Uncle Teddy, I wouldn't run for president unless the work was steady"?

I enjoyed this thread so much, thank you! In late 2015 I was at the next table to Warren Spannaus and another old DFLer I couldn't identify having breakfast at the Normandy Kitchen. After summing up the prospects for 2016, the other guy said "of course it SHOULD have been Paul" and Spannaus agreed.

I was interested to learn recently that the reason the soldiers whistle the tune in "Bridge Over The River Kwai" is because the more accurate version where they would be singing "Hitler - has only got one ball" wouldn't have made it past the censors

Frey had only been in office for about a month, and a lot of the other volunteers were from the suburbs, but still I thought it was funny people didn't recognize him (and had to ask someone from Oakland for the information).

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, in a flannel shirt and casual jacket, stands in front of a small group of seated people wearing parkas and sweatshirts that say "Crew 52"; they are volunteers at the 2018 Super Bowl.

Eight years ago today I was volunteering at Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis. We were told there was a special guest, and the guest jumped up and thanked us all for representing the city. A couple of other volunteers asked me afterward if I knew who that nice young fellow was. "It's the mayor", I said.

It's @rfwill149.bsky.social 's fault

We're in a poem @jorgeleon17.bsky.social @ross-coe.bsky.social @cassmoni.bsky.social @denny149.bsky.social @rfwill149.bsky.social

All righty then, hon!

Looking up a street at the Minnesota State Fair - thousands of people over several blocks. In the foreground, a girl holds some kind of food on a stick

Exactly!

This is a great example of the value of having local photojournalists - who could realize the value of the Grain Belt sign in the background and know where to be to line up the shot. And it's the kind of detail that's so meaningful to those of us from MN, but doesn't take away from the overall image

Locally Richmond: Guillermina Asian Art and Antiques Guillermina Emy LaFever is the owner of Guillermina Asian Art and Antiques, an antique shop specializing in Japanese items, but with a growing collection of pieces from all over the world. She began t...

Guillermina! richmondconfidential.org/2015/10/02/l...

"Insanity is at the wheel and it must be resisted. Minneapolis cops need to protect the people of Minneapolis. Taking over Greenland is insanity. The people who put the president in office need to extract him. Our country cannot survive this."

I Wish That I'd Been Born In Borneo (Crumit 1920) YouTube video by Glen's Centennial Oldies

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Buv...

It's winter

I was unusually lucky in having a father who was a Heyer fan!

This happened to my grandfather once when he was young, and as a result I and most of my relatives usually leave half an hour early for any appointment "because there might be a train, ya know"

'How to Talk Minnesotan' author Howard Mohr dies at 83 Mohr’s tongue-in-cheek guide to the state’s quirky culture included segments on “The Power of the Negative” and the “Minnesota Long Goodbye.” It’s considered a classic of Minnesota humor.

This is the late, great Howard Mohr BTW.

James Vukelich also has a lovely series of Ojibwe vocabulary videos on Facebook (and probably elsewhere, that's where I started following him)

Oh jeez, I hadn't even thought that far ahead, I was still trying to figure out if the Winter Carnival treasure hunt can go ahead as usual

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

The Minnesota Star Tribune has identified the shooter (gift link). www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

it's the holy lamb of God, not the holy beef

This is awesome, Patrick!