For ongoing coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, follow @mprnews.org

Read Renee Good's statement, and ongoing coverage of the aftermath, here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Read a statement from Renee Good's wife at MPR News: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

For updates on the ICE shooting in south Minneapolis, we're posting updates here www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

What steps should you take to request government data? Come hear from myself and @fishnette.bsky.social ! In about an hour

My husband now makes me hot cocoa with egg nog. It's glorious and I already mourn what we are about to lose.

I need a to-do list for my to-do list

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

A former colleague asked me "Is there a way to use a D&D campaign to teach public records access?"

My answer: "Your party must study the dark arts of bureaucromancy to unearth why a storied adventuring party died. Someone wrote a report. You just have to find it"

What other ideas do you all have?

Thinking about young professionals today likely heading into their first major market correction.

This is the 2008/9 Great Recession bottom and the total US market ever since.

When the AI bubble pops the market will tumble but selling locks in a loss.

Good morning! Enjoy this rainbow in my backyard

OK this is a cool story but did the reporter get to hold the diamond? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

I'm just gonna say it. We need to tap the strategic egg nog reserve. We deserve this.

I can find my car using my phone. It has a fancy heads-up display, heated or cooled seats and turn-by-turn navigation.

Yet I have to change the time manually for DST??

It's like a massive sea monster crawling ashore...

Every time I sit down to write a piece I feel certain that I would rather die than actually write it and yet somehow I would rather die ten times harder before I ever let the word machine write for me.

DFL Rep. Liz Reyer said she plans to introduce legislation addressing questions that surfaced in a recent MPR News story. The story looked into a police investigation that concluded a former Eagan High School band teacher showed a "pattern of predatory grooming.”

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After firing 90% of IES staff, the @usedgov.bsky.social has reopened the same roles.

Source: "There are a lot of upset former staff talking about it. ... Those look like the same jobs" they were fired from.

Annunciation shooter appeared to have fascination with mass killings

"For 50 years, we’ve been mapping a timeline of progress of our high school system, and we’re going to have a big blank," @agamoran.bsky.so<a href="https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/trump-cancels-survey-of-high-schoolers" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">cial recently told @apmreports.org
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/trump-cancels-survey-of-high-schoolers

NAEP is one of the few education initiatives Trump has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed staff responsible for keeping tests up to date. And the board overseeing the assessment has eliminated more than a dozen tests, citing “cost efficiencies.”

www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...

I've never been offered money (that I know of, I can be pretty dense sometimes) but one time a woman had her landscaper leave an unreasonable amount of luxury dark chocolate in the back seat of my old Ford Taurus

Multiple complaints from faculty, administration, staff and students. Why was nothing done again?

apnews.com/article/kohb...

Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness — conditions few of the facilities are equipped to handle.

By @egawthrop.bsky.social: www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...