Mike Scholtz
@mikescholtz.com
I’m a documentary filmmaker who lives in the woods of northern Minnesota.
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#OnThisDay Nov 13, 1936: The 25-ton "Pioneers" monument is dedicated in front of the new downtown Post Office. One of the most ridiculous pieces of public art ever unveiled in Minneapolis, it was moved in 1967 and again in 2010 to B.F. Nelson Park, where it now lives in relative obscurity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#OnThisDay Nov 13, 1936: The 25-ton "Pioneers" monument is dedicated in front of the new downtown Post Office. One of the most ridiculous pieces of public art ever unveiled in Minneapolis, it was moved in 1967 and again in 2010 to B.F. Nelson Park, where it now lives in relative obscurity.
Both of my chihuahuas climbed onto my chest for the beginning of The Valley of Gwangi. Then the little one licked the inside of my nostril. It’s going to be a great episode! #Svengoolie
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Both of my chihuahuas climbed onto my chest for the beginning of The Valley of Gwangi. Then the little one licked the inside of my nostril. It’s going to be a great episode! #Svengoolie
The Valley of the Gwangi is MY Jurassic Park.
#Svengoolie
#Svengoolie
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Valley of the Gwangi is MY Jurassic Park.
#Svengoolie
#Svengoolie
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
First the White House and now this? America is lost.
Word on the street is that Como Park is getting rid of their Mold-a-Rama machine. 😕
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
First the White House and now this? America is lost.
Duluth, Minnesota City Hall / No Kings / October 18, 2025
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Duluth, Minnesota City Hall / No Kings / October 18, 2025
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
I can clear my calendar for today.
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I can clear my calendar for today.
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One Battle After Another editor Andy Jurgensen talks with @jpraup.bsky.social about test screening cuts, keeping the momentum, and much more.
One Battle After Another Editor Andy Jurgensen on Cutting Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action-Comedy Epic
How do you make a 2.5-hour movie that feels like it flies by in a third of the time? Meet editor Andy Jurgensen, a long-time collaborator of Paul Thomas Anderson, who has followed up Licorice Pizza wi...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
One Battle After Another editor Andy Jurgensen talks with @jpraup.bsky.social about test screening cuts, keeping the momentum, and much more.
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
October 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
But today’s also good.
But today’s also good.
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
Today’s also good.
Today’s also good.
October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.
Today’s also good.
Today’s also good.
After today, if you’re not actively working to impeach Trump and Hegseth, you are doing it wrong.
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
After today, if you’re not actively working to impeach Trump and Hegseth, you are doing it wrong.
Behold North America! In this episode of Minnesota Historia, we tackle our state's divides.
What Do You DO With a Continental Divide?! (Minnesota's Laurentian) | Minnesota Historia
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September 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Behold North America! In this episode of Minnesota Historia, we tackle our state's divides.
The #Svengoolie gang keeps telling me Amityville 3-D is terrible. But I think it’s got a lot of potential. A real fixer-upper of a film.
September 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The #Svengoolie gang keeps telling me Amityville 3-D is terrible. But I think it’s got a lot of potential. A real fixer-upper of a film.
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Happy 30th birthday to David Bowie's atemporal cyberpunk neonoir murder mystery concept album— an amazingly deft exegesis of the early dream & burgeoning pre-millennial zeitgeist nightmare of the mid-late 90s internet; an album which also somehow proves more prescient by the day.
Here's 1.Outside:
Here's 1.Outside:
September 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Happy 30th birthday to David Bowie's atemporal cyberpunk neonoir murder mystery concept album— an amazingly deft exegesis of the early dream & burgeoning pre-millennial zeitgeist nightmare of the mid-late 90s internet; an album which also somehow proves more prescient by the day.
Here's 1.Outside:
Here's 1.Outside:
In Chile, Pinochet disappeared 1500 people.
This is more.
This is more.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In Chile, Pinochet disappeared 1500 people.
This is more.
This is more.
One of my favorite Minnesota Historias ever is now on YouTube. We interviewed an eyewitness to the arrival of the Leif Erikson Viking ship in Duluth in 1927. You read that right. Lilly Haldorsen was there 98 years ago, at the age of 10!
Witnessing History: Lilly Haldorson & the Leif Erikson Viking Ship in 1927 | Minnesota Historia
YouTube video by PBS North
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September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One of my favorite Minnesota Historias ever is now on YouTube. We interviewed an eyewitness to the arrival of the Leif Erikson Viking ship in Duluth in 1927. You read that right. Lilly Haldorsen was there 98 years ago, at the age of 10!
When Donald Trump was seven, his older brother Fred dumped mashed potatoes on his head to stop him from being such a bratty little turd.
I think about this every day.
I think about this every day.
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
When Donald Trump was seven, his older brother Fred dumped mashed potatoes on his head to stop him from being such a bratty little turd.
I think about this every day.
I think about this every day.
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This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
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TikTok misusing our personal data is bad.
Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.
Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
TikTok misusing our personal data is bad.
Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.
Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.
This week, Minnesota Historia visits the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN, where we account for every single second Judy Garland ever spent in the state of her birth.
Judy Garland's Minnesota | Minnesota Historia
YouTube video by PBS North
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September 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This week, Minnesota Historia visits the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN, where we account for every single second Judy Garland ever spent in the state of her birth.
I was trying to remember when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. So I Googled it. This is what I saw. Utter madness.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I was trying to remember when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. So I Googled it. This is what I saw. Utter madness.