Don Reeder
@donreeder.bsky.social
Emerging curmudgeon and aspiring writer. Views are my own and do not represent those of past, present, or future employers. Public affairs practitioner with love for baseball, coffee, hiking, dogs, books, politics and government, journalism. #Minnesota
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There comes a time in every freelance book critic’s life when their hand-me-down IKEA bookshelves fail and they must buy the more expensive solid wood IKEA bookshelves (because even in their mid-30s they cannot afford non-IKEA bookshelves)
February 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
There comes a time in every freelance book critic’s life when their hand-me-down IKEA bookshelves fail and they must buy the more expensive solid wood IKEA bookshelves (because even in their mid-30s they cannot afford non-IKEA bookshelves)
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You go to East Seventh Street, the West Side, Lake Street, University Avenue, etc. You find an immigrant-owned restaurant. You eat. They survive. It’s the best middle finger I can give to the shitstorm that has been 2026…
February 15, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You go to East Seventh Street, the West Side, Lake Street, University Avenue, etc. You find an immigrant-owned restaurant. You eat. They survive. It’s the best middle finger I can give to the shitstorm that has been 2026…
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Judge says most cases brought to him by ICE were for people lawfully in Minnesota
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/judge-says-most-cases-brought-to-him-by-ice-were-for-people-lawfully-in-minnesota
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/judge-says-most-cases-brought-to-him-by-ice-were-for-people-lawfully-in-minnesota
February 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Judge says most cases brought to him by ICE were for people lawfully in Minnesota
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/judge-says-most-cases-brought-to-him-by-ice-were-for-people-lawfully-in-minnesota
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/judge-says-most-cases-brought-to-him-by-ice-were-for-people-lawfully-in-minnesota
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Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
Genius!
One coffee shop's Fuck ICE latte has drawn hundreds of customers.
https://www.westword.com/food-drink/how-denvers-hospitality-industry-is-supporting-anti-ice-movement-40835916/
https://www.westword.com/food-drink/how-denvers-hospitality-industry-is-supporting-anti-ice-movement-40835916/
How Denver's Hospitality Industry Is Supporting Anti-ICE Movement
One coffee shop's Fuck ICE latte has drawn hundreds of customers.
www.westword.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Genius!
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Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
"Renee Good’s ethic of caring, rooted in her religious faith, started early. Growing up in Colorado Springs, she went on a church mission trip to Northern Ireland as a teenager in the mid-2000s." www.startribune.com/renee-good-f...
Renee Good came to Minneapolis seeking a safe place. Less than a year later, she was killed.
After years as a military wife, Good was starting over when an encounter with ICE agents cut her new life short.
www.startribune.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:18 PM
"Renee Good’s ethic of caring, rooted in her religious faith, started early. Growing up in Colorado Springs, she went on a church mission trip to Northern Ireland as a teenager in the mid-2000s." www.startribune.com/renee-good-f...
Anyone really surprised by this?
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has just revealed that federal officials have “reversed course,” and the investigation into the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent will be conducted by the FBI without assistance from the BCA.
FBI pushes Minnesota investigators aside in ICE shooting probe
The BCA added that this takeover of the investigation means that it will “no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Anyone really surprised by this?
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Once more, America focuses on Minneapolis because of the horrors of an oppressive government. When will it be enough? Are we just going to let our democracy evaporate?
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Once more, America focuses on Minneapolis because of the horrors of an oppressive government. When will it be enough? Are we just going to let our democracy evaporate?
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Accounts for ICE and DHS are attacking Hilton Hotels after a Lakeville location refused to house ICE agents.
Sunrise Twin Cities said it’s “heartening” to see the hotel canceling the reservation after the group's protests at hotels housing ICE agents.
Sunrise Twin Cities said it’s “heartening” to see the hotel canceling the reservation after the group's protests at hotels housing ICE agents.
The latest on ICE operations in Minnesota
For weeks ICE has stepped up enforcement in the Twin Cities as part of “Operation Metro Surge.”
bit.ly
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Accounts for ICE and DHS are attacking Hilton Hotels after a Lakeville location refused to house ICE agents.
Sunrise Twin Cities said it’s “heartening” to see the hotel canceling the reservation after the group's protests at hotels housing ICE agents.
Sunrise Twin Cities said it’s “heartening” to see the hotel canceling the reservation after the group's protests at hotels housing ICE agents.
I really like this idea.
December 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I really like this idea.
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The Kennedy Center was established and named by an act of Congress. No media outlet should call it anything different until Congress amends or repeals that Act. Trump is not a king.
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The Kennedy Center was established and named by an act of Congress. No media outlet should call it anything different until Congress amends or repeals that Act. Trump is not a king.
It's a Minnesota thing. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Here's why Madison, Minnesota, is known as the "Lutefisk Capital of the Country"
With the holidays fast approaching, and lutefisk on the menu for many families, one Minnesota town has the distinction of being called the "Lutefisk Capital of the Country."
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's a Minnesota thing. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
"As the Trump administration sits out an annual United Nations climate change meeting in Brazil that could (maybe) produce a detailed roadmap to transition the global economy away from fossil fuels, local governments in Minnesota and across the U.S. are preparing for more extreme weather to come."
At least 22 Minnesota city, county, regional and tribal governments have published “climate action” or resilience plans to mitigate the human and financial costs of future weather disasters, according to a report minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/20/r...
Report: Minnesota cities continue climate work, despite federal abdication • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesotans stared at their screens in horror last June as the raging Blue Earth River swallowed a beloved country store near Mankato. The same flood badly damaged a nearby dam and caused well over $1...
minnesotareformer.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"As the Trump administration sits out an annual United Nations climate change meeting in Brazil that could (maybe) produce a detailed roadmap to transition the global economy away from fossil fuels, local governments in Minnesota and across the U.S. are preparing for more extreme weather to come."
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In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
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October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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The human costs of Trump's war on government
The human costs of Trump's war on government
For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.
www.motherjones.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The human costs of Trump's war on government
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Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Thank you for this, Will! So important for readers to know that trans people aren't dangerous!
This stuff is really dangerous.
Not only are transgender Americans simply not committing violence at a disproportionate rate, they ARE far more likely to be the victims of violence
Spreading lies and disinformation only increases that risk
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Not only are transgender Americans simply not committing violence at a disproportionate rate, they ARE far more likely to be the victims of violence
Spreading lies and disinformation only increases that risk
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
No, there is not an 'epidemic' of shootings by trans people
There's no evidence transgender people commit more violence than others, experts say, despite online claims of an "epidemic" of trans attacks.
www.usatoday.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Thank you for this, Will! So important for readers to know that trans people aren't dangerous!
In these times of deep political and social divisions, it's comforting to remember a time when a watchful world united in support of a glorious individual goal. #Minnesota #unity #history www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...
Raccoon released into wild after successful skyscraper climb
Animal released after making it to the top of the 25-storey UBS Tower in St Paul, Minnesota
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In these times of deep political and social divisions, it's comforting to remember a time when a watchful world united in support of a glorious individual goal. #Minnesota #unity #history www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...
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On this day, the 90th anniversary of Social Security, every sitting U.S. Senator and House member should be required to describe what measures they will take to ensure its solvency. #accountability
August 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
On this day, the 90th anniversary of Social Security, every sitting U.S. Senator and House member should be required to describe what measures they will take to ensure its solvency. #accountability