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Daniel Farnitano @dfarnitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I still say it should be about actor Daniel Craig getting murdered before his appearance on the Muppet Show, requiring Benoit Blanc to investigate…

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

11 million ppl voted in Florida in 2024. This means that instances of illegal voting—if all 20 of these cases are actually that (which, doubtful)—would have been .00018% of the total vote.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This show is easily among the happiest (& zaniest) experiences I've ever had doing voiceover. Great scripts. Great cast. Great FUN! Now: Let's... Get... DANGEROUS!!! #DarkwingDuck #DisneyPlus

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Education Minnesota @educationmn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One job should be enough 🗣️ BE A VOTER this fall for candidates that will invest state money into raising the pay of all teachers and set a minimum wage of $25/hour for school support staff: edmn.me/guide #mnleg #edmnvotes

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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 16/09/2026

Out of love and gratitude for Summit Brewing and in hopes they make it through any financial problems we are making Summit EPA $5 (that’s like 4 plus tax homies) for the rest of the month.

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Cheers to Beer Time

ALT: Cheers to Beer Time

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Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are just coming off of COVID, the murder of George Floyd, a complete school district redesign, and now operation metro surge. MPS needs stability and increased investment, not school closures.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2026

One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.

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Heather Rule @hlrule.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For Strib Varsity: How Two Rivers knocked off defending Class 5A champion Spring Lake Park The Warriors took the lead in the fourth quarter on an 81-yard play with only a few minutes left. varsity.startribune.com/two-rivers-h...

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/09/2026

there are maybe six types of stories that never miss and "Let's put on a show" is one of them? the Muppets have been Let's Put On A Showing for half a century? if the Walt Disney Corporation can't figure out what to do here, that's incredibly embarrassing for them

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Visit Lake Street @visitlakestreet.com · 03/09/2026

Taco Tour on Lake Street 🌮 Join us, Saturday September 19th, for a day full of music, food, fun, & tacos 🌮🌮🌮 🕛12pm - 4pm at Mercado central, 1515 E Lake St 🕓4pm - 8pm at El Nuevo Campo, 2709 E Lake St www.lakestreettacotour.com #TacoTouronLakeStreet2026 #TacoTour2026 #VisitLakeStreet

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is particularly relevant for the Twin Cities which has had weird weather today, but also everybody else. The reason your weather apps are getting glitchier, is bc. NOAA got eviscerated and can't sample atmospheric conditions as much. The data is worse for everybody.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here’s what the evidence found on the flu, COVID-19 and RSV immunizations. ⬇️ There were no new safety concerns in comparative studies when examining currently recommended immunizations. Review the full reports, published in @jama.com: bit.ly/4x0nIhW

Graphic titled "VIP released an independent evidence review of respiratory virus immunizations." Includes logos of the Vaccine Integrity Project and CIDRAP. Text states, "Here's what the evidence found on the flu, COVID-19 and RSV immunizations." A rightward arrow is shown against a blue background with virus illustrations. CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image.

A graphic with an teal and blue ombre background. Microbe icons are in the background of the right hand side of the image.

Text reads, "The influenza review found:
Among adults over 65, the flu vaccine increased protection against hospitalization by 31%.*
Vaccine effectiveness was 80% against laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated deaths among infants and children aged 6 months to 17 years.**
*according to an analysis of VISION Network data
** in a case-cohort analysis of national surveillance data over eight seasons (2016-2020, 2021-2025)"
CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image.

A graphic with an teal and blue ombre background. Microbe icons are in the background of the right hand side of the image.

Text reads, "The COVID-19 review found:
For adults over 65, vaccination cut the risk of COVID-related hospitalization by 53% in the 2025-26 respiratory virus season.

Maternal vaccination lowered the risk of emergency department and urgent care visits for pregnant women by 58% and to infants aged 0-2 months too with a vaccine effectiveness range of 50-54%.

Vaccinated young children (9 months-4 years) saw a 76% reduction in COVID-related pediatric emergency department visits."

CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image.

A graphic with an teal and blue ombre background. Microbe icons are in the background of the right hand side of the image.

Text reads, "The RSV review found:
For adults over 60, studies showed significant protection against hospitalization, with vaccine effectiveness ranging from 69%-83% within the same season as vaccination.

Vaccination during pregnancy reduced the risk of RSV among vaccinees by 82% and also reduced the risk of RSV-associated hospitalization among infants born subsequently.

The infant monoclonal antibody immunization nirsevimab reduced the risk of RSV-related hospitalization by 64%-93% within 6-12 months."

CIDRAP and VIP logos are on the bottom of the graphic. A link to the VIP website is on the bottom right corner of the image.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our food supply is just MadLibs now. "_____ has been recalled due to possible contamination with _____."

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One way to look at the 2016 election is as a contest between one person who wanted to be President, and one who wanted to play the President on TV. And since so many people think of the President as a TV character, they voted for the one better at that.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

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Honey Biffket @b1ffy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy 75th birthday to Tom Kelly, responsible for me never giving up hope for my teams, and also the greatest baseball picture ever taken. #MNTwins

Tom Kelly loading a ball into a pitching machine at the Metrodome, in a shiny practice jersey, red white and blue Zubaz, and smoking a cigar

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.

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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/08/2026

That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This book is wild: Rocky won’t convert from Catholicism to the Church of England and even though they’re friends, Chase has him executed 😳

Cover for the Paw Patrol book Pups for All Seasons, with a warm female pup in winter wear on the cover

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/08/2026

Most Minnesota counties use electronic poll books to track voter information on a roster securely. But one city is fighting to use paper rosters — a method championed by election skeptics. Now, it's up to the state Supreme Court to decide for the midterms. demdock.com/4fWvX8m

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Mitch Wagner @mitchwagner.com · 06/08/2026

This is cool: The cast of "The Pitt" will do a live table reading of the first broadcast episode of "Star Trek" to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary and benefit the Writers' Guild Foundation.

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Wyle, LaNasa, More Set ‘Star Trek’ Table Read For WGA Foundation

Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Shabana Azeez, and Ayesha Harris will appear at the event on August 30.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.

A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.

A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).

A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.

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Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Study suggests no link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism. The findings reinforce existing evidence of the safety of MMR vaccination, the authors say. Read more: bit.ly/3TEwYKQ

A gloved hand with a vial of the MMR vaccine.

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Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Apparently is is much harder than I thought for people to just be decent and not be jerks. So many people seem to have trouble clearing that basic bar. Just don’t be a jerk.

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Minnesota Twins @twinsbaseball.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Like snow... but way better

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

the problem with conspiracies is they require a LOT of people to stay quiet about incredibly juicy things. always a tough sell. and in the attention economy? impossible.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 22/07/2026

i am very tired of living in interesting times! i will never tire of living in Minneapolis and my specific corner of Minneapolis, but perhaps there should be fewer international newsworthy murders of people by law enforcement officers in my neighborhood!!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

so gender-affirming care then

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

When guys are like “that’s not rape, all my friends have done that,” that’s exactly what we’re talking about. That’s the problem. Rape is so common and unpunished that a guy could casually reveal all his friends are rapists and not see it as a problem.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

No, this really really really is rape

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Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer @ashafferwx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Tomorrow we get the rare smoke + heat combination, as our beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness burns. It's a nightmare - but I wanted to talk air quality. Winds Wed. will be light, thankfully from the west/northwest at first, so smoke/low AQI would build in later in day. #MNWX

Graph showing a lot of numbers on a chart, but temperatures maxing out in the middle 90s on Wednesday on one and winds from the NW at 5-6mph Wednesday afternoon on another, which would/could bring in smoke from northern Minnesota.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you never thought you'd ever hear a group of Anything Muppets from SESAME STREET sing the Blood, Sweat & Tears song "Spinning Wheel", well, never say never... (Oh, and keep an eye on the puff of smoke, knowing that it's coordinated between a performer & a separate cued smoke mechanism)

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

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NBER @nber.org · 12/07/2026

Reasons for decline in fertility involve greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and women, from Claudia Goldin www.nber.org/papers/w35425

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It is a really sour note that the home crowd of a host country has been loudly chanting a homophobic slur at their opponents during games this World Cup.

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