Joy Riggs
@joyriggs.bsky.social
Minnesotan. Author of Crackerjack Bands and Hometown Boosters (Nodin Press, 2019). Essays in Months to Years, Catamaran Literary Reader, Hippocampus, The Manifest-Station. I write about history, travel, and caregiving for aging parents.
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Living with the Dead - Months To Years
Twenty minutes before the community orchestra concert starts, I help Dad tuck his walker out of the way of the aisle, and we settle into padded wooden chairs at the back of the Lutheran church. I scan...
monthstoyears.org
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Months to Years is featuring my essay today on social media. I am grateful it found such a wonderful home! Be sure to check out other pieces in the fall 2025 issue - all about grief and loss, which we don’t talk about enough in our society.
#dementia #grief
Months to Years is featuring my essay today on social media. I am grateful it found such a wonderful home! Be sure to check out other pieces in the fall 2025 issue - all about grief and loss, which we don’t talk about enough in our society.
#dementia #grief
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"Why should we ever trust anything Nuzzi (or Lizza now that the two of them are having a literary mid-off with each other) ever writes again? Why should we trust anything Nuzzi edits again?"
For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi is an Embarrassment to Journalism
She seamlessly landed a plum role at Vanity Fair and got a sweetheart book deal after breaking a fundamental journalistic ethics rule.
When my co-host Christine Grimaldi and I recorded our October 20...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Why should we ever trust anything Nuzzi (or Lizza now that the two of them are having a literary mid-off with each other) ever writes again? Why should we trust anything Nuzzi edits again?"
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I was right. The question took Trump and MBS by surprise.
The reporter was Mary K. Bruce of ABC News.
She also asked about the murder Jamal Khashoggi.
Good for her and ABC News. It’s refreshing and rare to see actual journalism in the Trump White House.
The reporter was Mary K. Bruce of ABC News.
She also asked about the murder Jamal Khashoggi.
Good for her and ABC News. It’s refreshing and rare to see actual journalism in the Trump White House.
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I was right. The question took Trump and MBS by surprise.
The reporter was Mary K. Bruce of ABC News.
She also asked about the murder Jamal Khashoggi.
Good for her and ABC News. It’s refreshing and rare to see actual journalism in the Trump White House.
The reporter was Mary K. Bruce of ABC News.
She also asked about the murder Jamal Khashoggi.
Good for her and ABC News. It’s refreshing and rare to see actual journalism in the Trump White House.
monthstoyears.org/living-with-...
Months to Years is featuring my essay today on social media. I am grateful it found such a wonderful home! Be sure to check out other pieces in the fall 2025 issue - all about grief and loss, which we don’t talk about enough in our society.
#dementia #grief
Months to Years is featuring my essay today on social media. I am grateful it found such a wonderful home! Be sure to check out other pieces in the fall 2025 issue - all about grief and loss, which we don’t talk about enough in our society.
#dementia #grief
Living with the Dead - Months To Years
Twenty minutes before the community orchestra concert starts, I help Dad tuck his walker out of the way of the aisle, and we settle into padded wooden chairs at the back of the Lutheran church. I scan...
monthstoyears.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
monthstoyears.org/living-with-...
Months to Years is featuring my essay today on social media. I am grateful it found such a wonderful home! Be sure to check out other pieces in the fall 2025 issue - all about grief and loss, which we don’t talk about enough in our society.
#dementia #grief
Months to Years is featuring my essay today on social media. I am grateful it found such a wonderful home! Be sure to check out other pieces in the fall 2025 issue - all about grief and loss, which we don’t talk about enough in our society.
#dementia #grief
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MORE DOCUMENTS obtained by Oversight’s subpoena of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate include communications between Epstein and Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, and others. Take a look: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
MORE DOCUMENTS obtained by Oversight’s subpoena of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate include communications between Epstein and Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, and others. Take a look: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
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As food assistance runs out and he refuses to use the contingency fund— he posts about his new marble bathroom
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As food assistance runs out and he refuses to use the contingency fund— he posts about his new marble bathroom
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NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
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Both fatal and nonfatal overdoses declined significantly in Minnesota in 2024. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/overd...
Overdose deaths in MN fell in 2024 for second straight year • Minnesota Reformer
The number of fatal drug overdoses in Minnesota dropped by more than a quarter from 2023 to 2024, according to updated data released Tuesday by the state Department of Health. Overdoses decreased acr...
minnesotareformer.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Both fatal and nonfatal overdoses declined significantly in Minnesota in 2024. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/overd...
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For the second year in a row, Minnesota saw a drop in overdose deaths and hospitalizations, with opioid overdoses dropping by 32%.
Minnesotans dealing with addiction deserve support, respect, and dignity - and we’re making the investments to back that.
Minnesotans dealing with addiction deserve support, respect, and dignity - and we’re making the investments to back that.
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
For the second year in a row, Minnesota saw a drop in overdose deaths and hospitalizations, with opioid overdoses dropping by 32%.
Minnesotans dealing with addiction deserve support, respect, and dignity - and we’re making the investments to back that.
Minnesotans dealing with addiction deserve support, respect, and dignity - and we’re making the investments to back that.
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Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:
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Commentary: Showing up — especially in our silly costumes and dance music — can illustrate how we are not afraid to stand with our neighbors and fellow American citizens. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/21/n...
No Kings showed the best of Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Lowering barriers helps bring new people into the greater project.
minnesotareformer.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Commentary: Showing up — especially in our silly costumes and dance music — can illustrate how we are not afraid to stand with our neighbors and fellow American citizens. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/21/n...
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“If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”
— Paul Wellstone
— Paul Wellstone
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”
— Paul Wellstone
— Paul Wellstone
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A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.
I see that @whitehousehistory.bsky.social put out a statement yesterday stating that they were able to complete a “comprehensive digital scanning project” to document the East Wing, and that the historic artifacts have been preserved and stored.
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.
The Minnesota @startribune did not choose to publish the letter to the editor/commentary piece I wrote and submitted on Sunday evening about Saturday's No Kings events, so I am posting it here:
As a longtime Star Tribune subscriber and a former newspaper reporter for other publications, I am
As a longtime Star Tribune subscriber and a former newspaper reporter for other publications, I am
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Minnesota @startribune did not choose to publish the letter to the editor/commentary piece I wrote and submitted on Sunday evening about Saturday's No Kings events, so I am posting it here:
As a longtime Star Tribune subscriber and a former newspaper reporter for other publications, I am
As a longtime Star Tribune subscriber and a former newspaper reporter for other publications, I am
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Joined a crowd of more than 5,000 people in Duluth, MN, today to stand up for democracy and our constitution! I also got to model the new hat my husband made for me. #NoKingsDay #nokingsmn
October 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Joined a crowd of more than 5,000 people in Duluth, MN, today to stand up for democracy and our constitution! I also got to model the new hat my husband made for me. #NoKingsDay #nokingsmn
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SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings
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October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.
Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues
October 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.
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Sens. Schumer & Gillibrand (NY), Schatz (HI), Durbin (IL), Peters (MI), and Hassan & Shaheen (NH) did the right thing by refusing to back a GOP budget that would decimate healthcare.
But now they’re under pressure to give in. Urge them to oppose the cruel GOP budget: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
But now they’re under pressure to give in. Urge them to oppose the cruel GOP budget: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
October 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sens. Schumer & Gillibrand (NY), Schatz (HI), Durbin (IL), Peters (MI), and Hassan & Shaheen (NH) did the right thing by refusing to back a GOP budget that would decimate healthcare.
But now they’re under pressure to give in. Urge them to oppose the cruel GOP budget: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
But now they’re under pressure to give in. Urge them to oppose the cruel GOP budget: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
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SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.
September 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.