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Jennifer Brooks
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Minnesota Star Tribune. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
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I’m in Chicago, bracing for the drive home. Uh, wish me luck with that.
www.startribune.com/weather-snow...
Winter storm to bring snow, possible blizzard conditions to Minnesota on Sunday
A winter storm warning has been issued for much of eastern Minnesota, while a blizzard warning is in effect for portions of central and southern Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The last edition of The Minnesota Star Tribune printed in Minnesota.
Minnesota Star tribune front page
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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New carol just dropped
Snoop Dogg - Christmas in Minnesota (Official Audio)
YouTube video by SnoopDoggTV
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December 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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May this 2025 felt ornament — a drunk raccoon — carry us into a new and better year.
This year’s felt ornament is a grey raccoon, clutching a green bottle of spirits with “2025” stitches across the booze. It looks nothing like a real raccoon, and yet carries all the vibes of that raccoon that broke into the liquor store, drank the stock, and passed out next to the toilet. The ultimate encapsulation of 2025. Good riddance, 2025.
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I’m home for the holidays! It’s time for Unnecessarily Topical Gingerbread!
A doughy gingerbread with poofy hair and a ginger pout, runs away with a ginger bag of loot — pursued by the puniest gingerbread man we could mold.
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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And now, a look at the weather.
A garden sculpture of two rusty metal thingamajigs, making off with a garden gnome that they hold triumphantly aloft with their spindly metal arms. The snow is up to their little chins. Snow fills their toothy maws. There’s a pile of snow on the gnome. If I had to sum up this photo’s whole vibe in one word, that word would be: “aaaAAAAAAGH!!”
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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A siren against a dark cloudy sky with the text "It is Wednesday my dudes"
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Driving home while 97.1 is stuck
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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I think I know what happened
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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You’ve just died.
6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

This tracks.
Gru the turkey, who was presented to the governor, but not pardoned by the governor on Tuesday. (Minnesota refuses to pardon turkeys because turkeys are delicious.) Thanks for getting me murdered by a vengeful turkey, Tim Walz.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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This is the funniest and most insulting story pitch I have ever received. (Of COURSE it's about AI.)
Ahahahahahahahahhahahahaaaa *cough* aaaaahahahahahahahaha The text of this story pitch reads as follows: Hi Jennifer, I wanted to follow up again in case this story about AI tutors replacing traditional teachers is still of interest. If it helps, we can even share a suggested article structure — key angles, data points, and human stories — to make it easier to frame the piece if you decide to cover it. No pressure at all, but happy to send a short outline or example anytime.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The aurora borealis? At this time of year? In this part of the country? Localized entirely over my kitchen?
Northern lights over my pretty city! All pinky-green! Ha ha Simpson’s reference! Stripey green northern lights in the sky!
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Rewrite of the famous Onion "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades" article: Fuck Everything, We're Doing Fifty Year Mortgages
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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
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When I say @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story, I mean @zoemjack.bsky.social will hunt down a story.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Misplaced my “I Voted” sticker before I could take a picture with it noooooo
THE EMPTY HAND OF SHAME
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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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
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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.
The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I fucking dare this guy to say that to a soybean farmer in Sibley County, Minnesota. #mnleg
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 20
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
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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No Kings has the highest axolotl-to-journalist ratio of any march I’ve ever covered.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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
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A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.

Let it wash over you.
OK, I’m usually pretty good with alt text, but this one may defeat me. Imagine the biggest, wrinkliest black dog. Now imagine a large, violently green ball. Now imagine that Peanut the mastiff has put a ball exactly the size of his enormous maw into his enormous maw, completely filling it like a cork, or a big green baby binky. That is this.
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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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...
Text about the sword of Burgomaster Van der Werff of Leiden, currently on display at the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. "In 1574 Spanish forces besieged Leiden. The city’s inhabitants were so hungry that they considered surrender. Legend has it that their mayor, Burgomaster Pieter van der Werff, gave them with his sword and demanded that they kill and eat him. This sword is believed to have belonged to the self-sacrificing mayor."
September 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM