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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For @slate.com, I reported on the nostalgia surrounding Pizza Hut's Book It! program 🍕 People shared fond memories of falling in love with reading, what it meant to them as kids in terms of food access, and the glory days of books + personal pan pizzas. Gift link:
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It Might Be the Best Thing a Corporation Has Ever Done. It’s Finally Back.
Reading may reportedly be in crisis, but the personal pan pizza is forever.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
Album cover photo of the Marina apartments in Chicago for Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wildfire smoke is blanketing Minnesota. Stay inside, wear an N95 if you must be outdoors and protect your indoor air. More tips here www.startribune.com/wildfire-smo...
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Wildfire smoke is blanketing Minnesota. Here’s how to stay safe.
The air quality in Minneapolis is among the worst in the world. Here’s how to avoid exposure to the fine particles that can damage your health.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 14/07/2026
The Trump administration has ordered ICE officers to halt most vehicle stops while carrying out operations across the country, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about the directive.
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ICE ordered to cease most vehicle stops after 2 killings in a week
The move comes as some influential lawmakers and state officials have demanded answers about the latest shootings.
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
likely place
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Nancy Yang @nyang.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
ADOPT THESE BEAGLES AND GIVE THEM THE BEST LIVES EVER (and if there are no more rescued beagles to adopt, adopt another dog and give it the best life ever)6
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These caged beagles found their barks again. Now they just need homes.
Beagles rescued from the Ridglan research facility in Wisconsin have been making a joyful noise in their Minnesota foster homes.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/05/2026
i don’t take myself seriously, so my first urge is to make fun of the fact that i made the Time100 Philanthropy list. but i really am honored. not just to be on a fancy list (w/my buds Messi and Shakira) and have my work seen, but to have gotten to help people in the place i love so much
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TIME100 Philanthropy: Ashley Fairbanks
Find out who else is on the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2026 list
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
5 years later www.startribune.com/how-to-prono...
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
happy birthday!!!
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 04/05/2026
Photos: The 51st Mayday parade, always a cathartic welcome for spring, was especially poignant this year after our particularly brutal winter. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/03/m...
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Melting ICE and welcoming spring at the 51st Mayday parade • Minnesota Reformer
After a remarkably difficult winter, the 51st Mayday parade in south Minneapolis was especially poignant. The festival of puppets, music and protest art has long highlighted immigrant communities and ...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 01/05/2026
Rep. Elliott Engen, R-White Bear Township, on Friday said that he doesn’t like to listen to “nonsensical ideas” brought forward by lefty activists. That’s why he ditched a committee hearing in March to grab lunch at a local bar and have a beer.
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Other Minnesota legislators also drink on the job, GOP lawmakers argue in defense of day drinking • Minnesota Reformer
Rep. Elliott Engen, R-White Bear Township, told members of a Minnesota House ethics committee Friday that he’s a good legislator who doesn’t like to listen to “nonsensical ideas” brought forward by le...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/04/2026
After working three jobs, Jailynn Dickerson surprised her grandmother by purchasing the house back she once owned, which was sold three years earlier. What they didn’t realize was how many strangers would be moved by it, too.
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This 21-year-old saved up for years to buy her grandmother’s house back
Jailynn Dickerson surprised her grandmother in a viral video after working three jobs to purchase back the house, which had been sold three years earlier.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/04/2026
The prediction market platform Kalshi caught a Minnesota politician who traded on the outcome of his own election. State Sen. Matt Klein is a co-sponsor of a bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature that would ban prediction markets.
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Minnesota Second Congressional candidate caught betting on outcome of his election
The candidate traded $50 on the prediction market platform. Any political insider trading violates Kalshi’s rules.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 25/03/2026
Commentary: It was easy to get on MinnesotaCare. Once I no longer qualified, it took months to navigate the bureaucratic maze of our healthcare system. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/25/g...
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Getting on MinnesotaCare was easy. Getting off it wasn’t. • Minnesota Reformer
Why was it such a kaleidoscopic maze?
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Pregnancy is the only condition where FL courts have ruled that a patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment.Even a state prisoner on a hunger strike has more rights to make medical decisions. Those rulings give the state vast control over pregnant women" www.propublica.org/article/flor...
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Racket @racketmn.com · 04/03/2026
One St. Paul native dubbed Mancini’s “the supper club most likely to be chosen for cop retirement parties.” But, this winter, the timeless steakhouse became an unlikely hub of anti-ICE activism.
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Yes, That Mancini’s: How a Legendary St. Paul Steakhouse Raised $35K for the Resistance - Racket
‘The Gathering for Good’ brought the West 7th neighborhood together.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/02/2026
Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas. she can help you do it, too.
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She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too
Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
ty bestie
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Carson Hartzog @carzharts.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We’re looking for volunteers to share their social media feeds for a possible story about how algorithms shape people’s understanding of the ongoing immigration crackdown. If you’d be willing to share your own experience and insights, fill out the form below. www.startribune.com/what-kind-of...
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What kind of immigration-related content are you seeing on social media?
Share your experience to help inform our reporting.
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
if anyone is selling a ticket to sudan archives at fine line 2/7 let a girl know <3
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Journalists have not only the right, but the responsibility to observe and report events in the public interest. It is not illegal to document a protest against the federal government. The fact that the protest took place in a church does not negate journalists’ First Amendment rights to report."
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
thank you for sharing! <3
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Sydney Wise @sydneyywisee.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Local news is important! To keep up with events in Minnesota, highly recommend @zoemjack.bsky.social ‘s newsletter for @startribune.com : link.email.startribune.com/join/7v1/sig...
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Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Tall bikes, porchfest, giant puppets, Battle Train, jucy lucys, dive bars, breweries, banh mi, unicycles, sambusas, Cat Tours, Open Streets, pho, taco trucks, Mercado Central, the lakes ands creeks, Al's, 10 pm dusk, and the too long winters that always end and the spring that's never let us down.
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
beautiful
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
i was there in spirit
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
damn without me
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
story
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Another person in Minneapolis shot and killed by feds • Minnesota Reformer
Over 10 shots can be heard in the video, but it’s unclear if more than one agent fired a weapon.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026
The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
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Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man, DHS officials say he was armed
A bystander video shows several agents wrestled with man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm, as protesters gathered at the scene: “Please do not destroy our own city.”
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
LOL
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/01/2026
A federal appeals court has paused an injunction barring immigration agents from “retaliating” against peaceful protesters and observers in Minnesota. This photo from today shows a federal agent spraying a protester on the ground with a chemical irritant.
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Live: Appeals court pauses order mandating ICE not ‘retaliate’ against protesters
A federal judge previously issued an injunction meant to prevent immigration agents from detaining and pepper-spraying ‘peaceful’ observers.
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randball.bsky.social @randball.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The @startribune.com has done a ton of amazing and important work in recent weeks, but this story might be the best. www.startribune.com/the-trump-ad...
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The Trump administration calls them the ‘worst of the worst.’ Here’s what we found.
The federal government has identified only a fraction of the immigrants it has detained. Many have violent criminal records, but few were wanted by police.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
Voting for Trump — and regretting it
Sharif, the Madina Mall shop owner who fears she may have to return to the bad old days of having a boss, gave out an exasperated sigh. 

“Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump.

Sharif is not politically active, but in 2024, some campaigners came to her shop and told her that Trump would be good for business and against the LGBTQ agenda. 

“I was immediately hooked,” she said. She voted Republican for the first time.

Now, chagrined, she said, “I never thought the man I put in office would come for my family, make me financially struggle and cause me so much fear that I carry my passport when I go to the bathroom,” she said, pointing at the mall’s bathrooms.

“I feel as though the weapon I built is coming to kill me and my people,” she said.
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Observers and concerned neighbors are using whistles to bring attention to the scene of ICE raids on the streets of Minneapolis. Here's how the whistle became the symbol of the anti-ICE resistance @startribune.com www.startribune.com/whistle-symb...
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How the whistle became an anti-ICE rallying cry in Minneapolis
From street corners to City Hall, the sight and sound of whistles have become common around the Twin Cities amid the ongoing immigration operation and organized resistance.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Should also say that the obvious reason observers are mostly white is many of my POC friends are staying home. The narrative of the occupation is largely about white people because POC folk are laying low, but are paying a much bigger price.
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
pow wow grounds, moona moono, briar bar, a bar of their own—i spoke with these folks and many more about their role in this ongoing federal invasion, and about the "overwhelming support" and "massive" scale of donations that are flooding in to support immigrants, organizers, and ICE observers.
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With the Twin Cities Under Siege, Restaurants Become Hubs of Solidarity - Racket
Restaurants, bars, and coffee shops are collecting donations, handing out whistles, and acting as gathering sites for volunteers and observers.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 13/01/2026
If 3,000 federal agents land in Minnesota, their footprint will be bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.
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ICE's presence in Minnesota dwarf Twin Cities' largest police forces
3,000 agents is more than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 14/01/2026
People can find whistles at businesses across Minneapolis, including at spots like Pilllar Forum and Smitten Kitten. Since December, women’s sports bar A Bar of Their Own in the Seward neighborhood has handed out more than 1,500 whistles, said owner Jillian Hiscock.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 14/01/2026
Small, colorful and often 3D-printed whistles have become synonymous with anti-ICE activity in Minneapolis. The tool, which originated during immigration enforcement blitzes in other cities last year, have come to the Twin Cities by way of downloadable design files and social media. bit.ly/4jCnEAd
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zoë jackson @zoemjack.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...
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In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations • Minnesota Reformer
As Elle Neubauer drove before dawn past the darkened windows of the immigrant-owned businesses on Lake Street in Minneapolis, her co-pilot and friend Patty O’Keefe scanned the passing vehicles with bi...
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sue Department of Homeland Security over ICE surge www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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The latest: Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sue Department of Homeland Security over ICE surge
Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her are holding a news conference concerning “Operation Metro Surge.”
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12/01/2026
Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Trump says civil rights-era protections resulted in white people being "very badly treated." "... it also hurt a lot of people — people that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job. So it was, it was a reverse discrimination."
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Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’
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