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Maggie Koerth

@maggiek.bsky.social
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CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15. Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc. My views are not my employer's.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hot Take: I think we need to RETVRN to a time when everyone just wrote English however the fuck they wanted with no grammar or spelling rules and your own name could be spelled three different ways depending on how you felt that day.
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Kittens MLT (ASCP) @warkittens.makeitbouncy.net · 24/09/2026
Holy shit, AP, you brilliant bastards. YES to this entire thread. We love this. Internalize this. All news and media should embrace this.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If anyone was wondering how the economy was doing, I just had to explain plasma donation to my kids because we saw an ad for it on Disney+.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There will be short growl tests all month per a facebook post.
City of Minneapolis post on FB screenshot that says:

City of Minneapolis Government
 
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Minneapolis siren growl tests start in September
Titles are generated by AI from Meta
On Monday, Aug. 31, Hennepin County will begin upgrading outdoor warning sirens across Minneapolis. During the month of September, you may hear short, 10- to 15-second “growl tests” from these sirens. These tests help confirm that individual sirens are working.
Learn more about the work to upgrade the sirens: https://www.hennepincounty.gov/government/news-events/stories/preparing-for-extreme-weather 

The post reposts a Hennepin County Government post that reads: 

Hennepin County Government
 August 5 at 12;25 PM
We're upgrading the control system for nearly 300 outdoor warning sirens across the county. This work is modernizing our system, one of the largest in the country, to provide faster, more precise and reliable warnings during emergencies.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Awooo. But why?
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wow.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How I Met Your Mother hasn’t aged well and I don’t really think about it much at this point. And yet, every time Siri starts butting in without my explicit request I find myself screaming “NOBODY ASKED YOU, PATRICE!”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026
I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
the american paradox
truck that says "puritan bakery best buns in town"
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I saw a recipe for boiling sweet corn in a mixture of milk, butter, honey and jalapeños. And I will say … I am intrigued
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Okay everyone, my dad had an issue of Popular Science from the month of his birth and it’s time to take a little adventure through the history of advertising …
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Happy Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” Day to all! Celebrate by letting your roomba continue to clean while you, yourself, dissolve into dust.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, in a conversation about glass art, my boyfriend asked if I had ever been to the Chartres Cathedral … and we learned that I am an absolute child. Literally still grinning about it hours later. Also this was at dinner with my mom and I had to explain both “Chartres” and “shart” to her.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So I don’t normally commute, but my kids had a camp in Bloomington all week and if there’s one thing I learned from a week’s worth of rush hours it’s that a lot of y’all call in sick on summer Fridays.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
but then how will we know we're not mad at each other
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Racket @racketmn.com · 24/07/2026
We asked fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.
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Minnesota’s on the World’s Largest Lake—Why Don’t We Eat More Lake Superior Fish? - Racket
We posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Best part about having middle schoolers so far: their new favorite show is Last Week Tonight
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ceej @ceej.online · 23/07/2026
say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The 12 year old just found out that artificial gravity isn’t a real thing and would like to file a complaint with all the science fiction writers who failed to properly explain that part was (as of yet) fiction.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ancient Cat Update: She lives! Back for another oil change and am relieved to discover that my mechanic’s 25 year old cat is still (however implausibly) with us. Thank god. I don’t know that I could have taken her death at this time.
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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A bag of the infected Taylor farms shredded iceberg lettuce that had the pathogen cyclospora in it being held by someone in the foreground while in the background there's a tremendous amount of the summer of 2026 Canadian wildfire smoke
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's because they did it by boat....
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You guys, I just spent 10 minutes wandering through my house sniffing thinking there was a gas leak but it wasn’t coming from anywhere near the gas lines … only to realize the smell was the durian cream wafers my kid bought from the Asian grocery
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I KNEW there was gonna be bad news about her that came out eventually
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
There is an 11th birthday slumber party taking over my living room and I am realizing I do not have the space for entertaining. This is never a problem with adults.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026
Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My 11-year-old has plastered her bedroom with pictures from National Geographic like it’s Tiger Beat and this Incan mummy is Donnie Osmond.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/07/2026
I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.
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kate @katewandering.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Minneapolis: Skyline a few weeks ago Skyline today
A comparison of two Minneapolis skyline photos. The top shows a clear day with blue sky a a few puffy clouds. The bottom shows haze nearly blotting out all the buildings.
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disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I am now 45 and can’t handle all the sugar in soda, but otherwise same.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
emptying a clip into my lettuce
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 15/07/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
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Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/07/2026
Proposed midterm poll question: are you voting out of generalized anger or righteous anger?
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saffi 🎃 @saffisarasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
my body is a MACHINE that turns CHOCOLATE BANANA ICE CREAM into SORRY I CAN'T COME INTO WORK TODAY
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
epic handshake meme

david lynch and cardiologist agree that fix your heart or die
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The final scene where the robot is in hell or something is fixed in my mind forever. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/07/2026
Raising rent relief funds for a Minneapolis family in need. We’re still here helping our neighbors! Total need is $1800. Every bit helps! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us safe and housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Everything is terrible but tonight I saw fireflies for the first time this season
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In Minnesota, it’s also worth noting that CUB stores usually have some kind of bulk spices in the produce area that half the cost of anything in the spice aisle. And they have smoked garlic powder — a revelation
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/06/2026
few american cities have a better origin story than lawrence's "fuck slavery and fuck missouri" founding principles
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The spirit of Andy Rooney is alive
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
Pump-action soap dispensers are a disgrace -and I won't put up with them any longer
By Adrian Chiles, a perfect man
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today, I got my news from an entirely new source: DoorDash customer service. They called to inform me that my order had to be canceled because of a hostage situation. When I said “sorry, what?” They helpfully explained that swat team was not letting drivers through.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
7/ Human infections are rare and usually treatable when caught early. Pets can be affected too, especially in agricultural areas. Ensure pets are on flea & tick prevention from the FDA-approved list, as products containing afoxolaner (dogs) or esafoxolaner (cats) can prevent NWS infection.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵
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