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APM Reports @apmreports.org · 18/09/2026

As an experiment in video, we got @ehanford.bsky.social back in the studio to rerecord Sold a Story's first episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ajI...

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How teaching kids to read went so wrong | Season 1, Episode 1: The Problem

YouTube video by Sold a Story

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 20/08/2026

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is suspending payments to all group home companies affiliated with a high-ranking government official in Liberia, citing “credible allegations of Medicaid fraud,” following an MPR News and APM Reports investigation this week.

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Minnesota group homes run by Liberian official shut down due to fraud allegations, safety risks

Golden Touch Health Care was one of several Minnesota group home companies linked to Sekou Dukuly, who has served as the managing director of the Liberian National Port Authority since 2024. He told s...

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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Everyone is talking about Flock but I've been reading the same article for 15 years about different technologies so I rage wrote about it for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/floc...

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Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women

The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Attorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICE

Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 13/08/2026

I can't think of a single non-creepy use case for these ugly things

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

He cooked a pizza from scratch. We've been married almost 30 years.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 24/07/2026

Six months ago neighbors and businesses on Nicollet Avenue watched as federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. A memorial still stands in Pretti’s honor. MPR News host Nina Moini talked with businesses near his memorial and a resident who spends time at the memorial every day.

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On the street where Alex Pretti was killed, the neighborhood remains united around his memory

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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APM Reports @apmreports.org · 08/07/2026

Utah officials are shutting down Provo Canyon School’s girls program — one of the state’s most notorious teen treatment programs, which has been plagued by abuse allegations.

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Utah officials order Provo Canyon School's girls program to close by August

State regulators say the facility failed to protect clients from harm, allowed neglect and used unnecessary restraints. The program can appeal.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I interviewed a former prosecutor yesterday who said this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about : “I think the most radical thing I learned from becoming a prosecutor is how much violence women face in this country and how little people care.”

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The TV journalist in a room of print reporters at IRE

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

File better FOIAs! Come to our talk in National Harbor 11 @ire.org

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm at an @ire.org panel called "mining the mountain" about document dumps, and a panelist said it might seem boring (it's not) but we're nosy people and this is "peak nosy"

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I've been in newsroom meetings with reporters needling bosses and their own CEOs. I've sometimes been one of them. This is a rite of passage they need to endure, not an excuse to fire veteran reporters. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 28/04/2026

At least 50 residents in Minnesota group homes have died since late 2022 under circumstances serious enough to trigger state maltreatment investigations. Marcus Schmit, the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of NAMI, said to combat this, there needs to be stricter punishment.

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Mental illness advocate says maltreatment in group homes needs stronger punishment

A recent MPR and APM investigation revealed a shocking number of residents have died in group homes since 2022.

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

There's a song I keep hearing and one of the lines is "Where'd you get those geese" and I refuse to look up the actual lyrics.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

A screenshot of the Artemis livestream with the Integrity module on the left and a half-illuminated Earth getting big on the screen in the center. The black of space is all around.

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Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com · 07/04/2026

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just so you know, when you say "hey do you want to know something cool?" Most people say yes.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My colleague @katereports.bsky.social & I found most of those Minnesota residents were deported to Latin American countries, including almost 600 people returned to Mexico and about 520 deported to Ecuador. At least 17 minors were also deported. (2) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Half of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deported

The federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Fyi, the numbers in this piece were obtained via a FOIA lawsuit by the @deportationdata.org. They provide the best picture yet of fed arrests during surge. My colleague @katereports.bsky.social helped clean the data for us and highlighted the top line takeaways. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Data shows three-quarters of ICE arrestees in Minnesota had no criminal record

The new data shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested by immigration agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge had a criminal conviction on their record. A little more than 13 percent of ...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit from @deportationdata.org, Minnesota is getting its first credible numbers on arrests during the federal government's surge here this winter. About 3,800 Minnesota residents were arrested. Most from Latin America (only 106 from Somalia). (1)

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm at the @nclocal.bsky.social News and Information Summit. It's awesome to see so many talented and dedicated people. Yes, I still live in North Carolina (for the several people who seemed surprised that I haven't moved yet)

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Talented reporters @elliemroth.bsky.social @jenpenned.bsky.social and Chris Peak take us to the the epicenter of Minnesota's group home boom. Police visited one such home 88 times in a year - more than once a week.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

When I was in high school in Alaska, I sewed little doggie booties out of polar fleece and velcro for seemingly hours on end. This is so far above and beyond. I'm in awe.

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

UGH Why does the time change feel like it steals half a day from you?

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I pitched five perfect innings in a Little League World Series game.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/03/2026

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator to qualify for copyright protection. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

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Tyler Dukes @mtdukes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Great advice for those of us in journalism covering AI technologies or experimenting with how to use them responsibly.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

When I tell people to not be afraid of maths I secretly picture this meme and go back to work on my Excel files…

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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/02/2026

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

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Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says

State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My friends at Niemanreports.org asked me to write about the experience of being a journalist on the ground in Minneapolis right now. I knew I wanted to tell reporters elsewhere how even this most hopeless of times has been clarifying and, in some ways, energizing. (1) share.google/ms1wKDQZmgep...

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Free Speech in Deep Freeze - Nieman Reports

On the ground in Minnesota, where journalists are working to tell the truth about government-sanctioned violence and spin

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

One of the more outdated assumptions in the public records process is that requests originate from a fully stocked 1998 office with a working fax machine.

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Trying to learn new things in gimp. It's been many years since I used photo processing software. I do have a question. WHY is every tutorial a video now? I want to read the instructions not wait for someone to tell me what to do. It's such a time suck.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident

The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My @mprnews.org colleague & I rode along with observers after the Twin Cities surge at the start of December, well before most national publications came to town. It was really necessary to get at what ICE is really doing on the ground & how people are opposing it. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods

Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible and protect their immigrant neighbors.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 28/01/2026

MPR News host Nina Moini spoke with Attorney Eric Lee, who heard the protest from the center over the weekend, and Sam Doiron, an attorney with the Texas-based group RAICES, about conditions inside the detention center.

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Inside the Dilley detention facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo-Ramos is being held

Protests took place this weekend at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, where a 5-year-old Columbia Heights boy and his father are being held. The two were detained by ICE in Minnesota last Friday.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'm at the hearing in St. Paul where Minnesota is asking a federal judge to preserve evidence in Saturday's killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The judge issued a temporary restraining order, but feds are arguing it should be denied because they already plan on preserving the evidence. (1)

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Cathy Wurzer @cathywurzer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Man shot and killed by ICE agents in Mpls this morning. News briefing at 11:30 am CT carried live here: www.mprnews.org

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APM Reports @apmreports.org · 20/01/2026

Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Agents didn’t give her CPR and turned away the help of a man who said he was a doctor.

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ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 19/01/2026

In Monday’s filing in response to Menendez’s ruling, the DOJ said it’s appealing the order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. It provided no other details. For now, the judge’s order remains in effect.

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The latest: DOJ appealing judge’s order limiting federal agents’ actions against protesters

The U.S. Department of Justice filed notice Monday that it’s appealing a judge’s order setting limits on federal agents’ actions against protesters in Minnesota, amid increased immigration enforcement...

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Kate Martin @katereports.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Doing a search for news clips from the 1960s, and this came up. I can just tell this lady was fed up with someone, who presumably was in the dog house

A screenshot of an old newspaper clip. The text shows the title of a book followed by a brief description of it:
Okay, I'll Do It Myself - Or a handwoman's primer that takes the mistique out of home repairs, by Barbara A. Curry.

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