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Jennifer Brooks

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Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.

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Well that's just cool!

05.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to need more info about your many-greats Minuteman grandpa, stat!

05.03.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot un-know what I now know

26.02.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

WHAT

26.02.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

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-...

25.02.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 237 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9

I have much to teach him about face-planting.

16.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahaaaahahahaha!

16.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

16.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home

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

15.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

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.

12.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Live: Border czar says ICE surge in Minnesota will soon end β€œMinneapolis is safer because of the cooperation we got,” Homan said, noting that the drawdown will happen over the next week.

Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez said the β€œresiliency, 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

12.02.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Welp. I guess I'm a fish-fluencer follower now.

12.02.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This ice β€œfish-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."

11.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 951 πŸ” 319 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 41

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.

11.02.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 4836 πŸ” 1263 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 72

It's our time to shine!

12.02.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahahahahaaa 867-530 Brine

11.02.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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."

10.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 32359 πŸ” 7760 πŸ’¬ 493 πŸ“Œ 652

Well within their expiration date!

09.02.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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.

09.02.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 2599 πŸ” 1406 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 120
Protest sign at Milan anti-ICE demonstration with a flying loon biting a head off a snake, with the words written on the corners of the sign -- "ALL EYES ON ICE"

Protest sign at Milan anti-ICE demonstration with a flying loon biting a head off a snake, with the words written on the corners of the sign -- "ALL EYES ON ICE"

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

MILAN HEARD YOU.

06.02.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolute unit. Would pat.

04.02.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

β€œChildren’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.”

04.02.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 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.

β€œIf 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 β€” this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

04.02.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 6695 πŸ” 2463 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 235

I won't believe spring is coming until the groundhog says it's not!

02.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am so mad at a groundhog right now.

02.02.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I shouldn't discourage the bakers from conveying cinnamon and sugar to the people by any means necessary.

01.02.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not crying!

OK, I'm crying.

01.02.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I once created a pie chart to explain which pie is tasty (pumpkin, pecan) and which is a personal attack on me (apple, cherry) and which is simply mid (every other pie in the universe)

01.02.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody in my family can accept my lifestyle choice.

I've gotten apple pie in lieu of birthday cake *several* years running, just because my mother could only process "firstborn something something apple pie?"

01.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some days, felt ornaments can break your heart.

01.02.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0