Jennifer Brooks
@stribrooks.bsky.social
Minnesota Star Tribune columnist. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
The aurora borealis? At this time of year? In this part of the country? Localized entirely over my kitchen?
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The aurora borealis? At this time of year? In this part of the country? Localized entirely over my kitchen?
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(LOUD WARNING) Full house for the Federal Dart’s arrival! They arrived at 2:15, the time the Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior 50 years ago today. Ship + bridge exchanged a Master salute as a memorial
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
(LOUD WARNING) Full house for the Federal Dart’s arrival! They arrived at 2:15, the time the Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior 50 years ago today. Ship + bridge exchanged a Master salute as a memorial
When I say @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story, I mean @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story.
City girl tries hunting for the first time ahead of Minnesota's 2025 deer firearm opener www.startribune.com/deer-opener-...
A hunting novice joins Minnesota’s deer opener
Hunting enthusiasts guide Minnesota Star Tribune reporter Zoë Jackson into the state tradition of deer hunting.
www.startribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When I say @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story, I mean @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story.
Misplaced my “I Voted” sticker before I could take a picture with it noooooo
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Misplaced my “I Voted” sticker before I could take a picture with it noooooo
OK, if kids are going out in this weather, I need to get them the GOOD trick or treat candy.
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
OK, if kids are going out in this weather, I need to get them the GOOD trick or treat candy.
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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I fucking dare this guy to say that to a soybean farmer in Sibley County, Minnesota. #mnleg
Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I fucking dare this guy to say that to a soybean farmer in Sibley County, Minnesota. #mnleg
No Kings has the highest axolotl-to-journalist ratio of any march I’ve ever covered.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
No Kings has the highest axolotl-to-journalist ratio of any march I’ve ever covered.
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Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.
A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.
Let it wash over you.
Let it wash over you.
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.
Let it wash over you.
Let it wash over you.
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
OK, it is almost Oct. 3, which means it is time to remember how in 1575, the mayor of Leiden set the bar for all future mayors.
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
September 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
OK, it is almost Oct. 3, which means it is time to remember how in 1575, the mayor of Leiden set the bar for all future mayors.
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Now this is Content
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The last musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live was @missmargoprice.bsky.social singing Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down
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youtu.be/58SJBhyGTHY?...
Margo Price – Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The last musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live was @missmargoprice.bsky.social singing Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down
youtu.be/58SJBhyGTHY?...
youtu.be/58SJBhyGTHY?...
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Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
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“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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September 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
How do you answer your phone?
September 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
How do you answer your phone?
I have a cousin who died of exposure on the streets.
That’s Bonnie you’re talking about like she was garbage, like she was vermin, like she came from nowhere and would be missed by no one.
That’s Bonnie you’re talking about like she was garbage, like she was vermin, like she came from nowhere and would be missed by no one.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I have a cousin who died of exposure on the streets.
That’s Bonnie you’re talking about like she was garbage, like she was vermin, like she came from nowhere and would be missed by no one.
That’s Bonnie you’re talking about like she was garbage, like she was vermin, like she came from nowhere and would be missed by no one.
Do yourself a favor today.
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Do yourself a favor today.
Poring over this crowd photo in case I ever need a thousand ways to transmit the message “FU CEO” with just a look.
www.startribune.com/target-downt...
www.startribune.com/target-downt...
Downtown Minneapolis abuzz with Target and other workers called back to the office
Stricter in-person work requirements starting this week mean more traffic and more people downtown.
www.startribune.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Poring over this crowd photo in case I ever need a thousand ways to transmit the message “FU CEO” with just a look.
www.startribune.com/target-downt...
www.startribune.com/target-downt...
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D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."
February 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."
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one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
I have three days to make the three felt ornaments I promised for the Newspaper Guild picnic.
Somewhere, a barrel is missing its cracker.
Somewhere, a barrel is missing its cracker.
September 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I have three days to make the three felt ornaments I promised for the Newspaper Guild picnic.
Somewhere, a barrel is missing its cracker.
Somewhere, a barrel is missing its cracker.