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Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Put another way: the City could cover the full funding gap with nine days worth of MPD overtime pay.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/09/2026

Stacey Pelika, one of the main conference organizers, in dialogue with Fridley Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Brenda Lewis. None of what DHS did on our school property involved proper warrants and coordination. It wasn't enforcement activity. It aimed to create terror among our families.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/09/2026

Registration is open, free, limited, & required. Great set of research presentations lined up on education, health, economy, mutual aid & more. Learn about the frontier evidence and connect with those working to generate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

NIH funding curves posted at grant-witness. It looks like grant making is slowing down noticeably and we are in the now in the last month of the fiscal year. It seems like "NIH" may be challenged to get all of the appropriated funds out the door (even if that is their intention).

NIH funding curves showing the NIH grant making is slowing down with only one month to go in the fiscal year.

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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.

Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece. In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance. The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom. The piece is edged in a wavy border. You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet. Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.

Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets. The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face. She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green. Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos.

"Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game. The screen has a black background. The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left. the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails. Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds. The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat: red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category.

"Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground. He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer. The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky is above. The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry. Most of these were painted.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“For patients and families, the key message is that myocarditis was rare after both exposures, but recorded myocarditis, pericarditis, and all-cause mortality were consistently more frequent after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after BNT162b2 vaccination,” they added.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026

"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fat Marmot Week is here Fun new wildlife contest that also aims to boost donations for long term ecological research funding that was recently cut by the regrettable US government 🧪 So if you missed fat bear week, get fat over here: sites.google.com/view/fatmarm...

The largest of the true hibernators, marmots bulk up all summer to survive the winter. Fat Marmot Week is an opportunity to get folks excited about yellow-bellied marmots, one of our favorite alpine residents, and to share the science behind their weight gain.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already”

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/06/2026

DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying: - 4,600 jobs, - 3.8 million work hours, - $71 million in wages. New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 26/05/2026

Summer in Minneapolis:

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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm trying out some small CO2 monitors for an upcoming experiment. Aranet4 $190, Inkbird Plus $43, Vitalight $40, Airspot $163 (received free) agree, but I need to try at higher levels. NDIR sensors are good to within 50 ppm. Tradeoffs: price, size, battery life, connectivity.

6 CO2 monitors reading 518, 498, 509, 504, 513, 528 ppm

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

Screen grab of an NIH grants checklist showing the first question is: "1. Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?"

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

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ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals

Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New York Times article about the slow pace on NIH grant making as well as enforcement of political constraints. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... 1/4

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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year

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Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMaP) @scienceimpacts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The White House’s April 3 budget proposal would reduce NSF & NIH funding significantly. Our analysis shows that the U.S. stands to lose $35 billion in economic activity and 150,000 jobs nationwide. See impacts on your local community: scienceimpacts.org #SCIMaP #NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy

Image of map of the United States highlighting the impact of proposed federal cuts to NSF and NIH with California, Washington, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Massachusetts being the top impacted states.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

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Bryan Hansel @bryanhansel.com · 15/04/2026

This is the Boundary Waters. It's a million acres of wilderness with 1,000s of lakes with water so clean you can drink it. Today, the Republicans in the Senate are trying to sell it out to a foreign mining company. Call your senators today at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote no on HJR 140.

A canoe sitting on a pristine lake at sunrise

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Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Absolutely stunned that the Society for Epidemiologic Research chose John Ioannidis to deliver the conference keynote in the Year of Our Lord 2026.

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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Keep going. Save yourself.

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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Have you served on an NIH study section (or thought about serving)? Did you know that that the small perk of being able to submit your own applications after the deadline has largely been revoked? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-26-064: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission NOT-OD-26-064. NIH

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I know this, but it still tickles me to see it demonstrated in such a simple, graphic way.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 30/03/2026

FOLKS we had so many great humans fulfilling 300 or so t-shirt orders for mutual aid fundraiser. This community comes together so brilliantly, I was overwhelmed with generosity. And if you ordered a shirt it should be there this week!

7 People at a salon filling mutual aid t-shirt orders

5 people at a salon filling mutual aid orders

Two people picking t-shirts to fulfill mutual aid orders

A row of folks with lots of t-shirt filled envelopes fulfilling mutual aid orders.

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Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

La Tortilla brought the truck to our neighborhood weekly starting early in the pandemic. We’ve visited them most weeks since. Our 2 y.o. calls our local brewery “the taco truck” because they’re one and the same to him. We know their family, they know ours. Please support this community institution.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Lovely night in Minneapolis astride the Great River. At right is the original United States as defined by the 1783 Treaty of Paris, at left is the 1804 Louisiana Purchase. All of this was once Dakota land.

Evening photo at dusk, with pinks and blues in the sky. The Mississippi river runs through the center with a mirror-like surface. Interstate 94 bridge and city skyline in the distance.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/03/2026

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My NIH update Let me start by saying again how glad I am that NIH is now posting these curves on the Reporter front page. It is satisfying that leading by example from outside has led to this change and (I hope) reflects a commitment for NIH_leadership™ to hold itself accountable for this. 1/6

A graph from the from page of the NIH Reporter website showing the number of extramural awards award by month for fiscal years 2022-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 lies below the other curves.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another great take from Liz Ginexi on why NIH’s move to choke off NOFOs is bad for science. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

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The NOFO Graveyard

A Response to NIH's Defense of Its Vanishing Funding Opportunities

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/03/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

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Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center

Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs ictnews.org/news/iditaro...

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IDITAROD 2026: A musher on a mission - ICT

Jody Potts-Joseph wants to encourage young Alaska Natives to travel the way of the ancestors

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 13/03/2026

AFTERNOON SHIFT UPDATE: The morning and mid-day crew got us to 80% of our initial goal in about 8 hours! If you haven’t ordered, the WE KEEP US SAFE shirts & stickers are very much still available & thanks to everyone who’s purchased/promoted. we-save-us.cheddarup.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026

ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

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As I was leaving my home, I hear cars honking near the top the of bridge. People screaming and whistling, I got in my uber and drove out. My uber driver mentioned that they were standing on top of the bridge and doing a check point and stopping people.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/02/2026

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

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daviss @daviss.org · 04/02/2026

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

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