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Mike Scholtz
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I’m a documentary filmmaker who lives in the woods of northern Minnesota.
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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
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Here’s the other side of Snoopy’s sign at today’s protest.
An inflatable Snoopy at the No Kings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Snoopy’s sign is a cartoonish word balloon and it says “Good Grief”
October 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Duluth, Minnesota City Hall / No Kings / October 18, 2025
Thousands of people fill in the plaza in front of Duluth, Minnesota City Hall on October 18, 2025 for the No Kings rally. Inflatable Snoopy at the Duluth, Minnesota No Kings rally. Creepy Trump mask and assorted signs at the Duluth, Minnesota No Kings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A pre-protest protest in tiny Cloquet, Minnesota had 50 sign-wavers tonight. They’re expecting 400 tomorrow! #NoKings
A brown chihuahua regards the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota. A protester holds a sign of the inflatable frog over her own face at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota. 2 inflatable penguins at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota. Two inflatable dinosaurs at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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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.
An illustration of Donald Trump, crying, with an overturned bowl of mashed potatoes on his head. This illustration is designed by bag0fish.
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The prompt was “melissa hortman assassination”
The results of my Google search: melissa hortman assassination Al Overview Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the "Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. a Key details about the fictional event: • Date of Event: June 14, 2025 @ • Victims: State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman. & • Perpetrator: Vance Boelter, a suspect who had planned a spree of "targeted political assassinations". ® • Context: The fictional events are described as a night of terror and politically motivated violence against elected officials and their families. Important Note: The incident described in the search results is not a real event but a olot element from me Assassm" series of
September 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I searched for “melissa hortman assassination.” But thanks for calling me a liar.
September 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I was trying to remember when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. So I Googled it. This is what I saw. Utter madness.
Some text from a web search that says: Al Overview Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the "Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. o Key details about the fictional event: • Date of Event: June 14, 2025
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I walked into the dining room and found my chihuahua lying on the table in the sun. We normally use this table for things like eating and jigsaw puzzling. But not anymore.
September 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Journey into Space in a space station simulator at the Minnesota State Fair
August 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Everything that is great about Minnesota can be found at the Minnesota State Fair. Including Steve Solkela, with special guest Kaylee Matuszak.
August 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Here in Minnesota, it’d be Old Dutch Rip-L Chips. But you’d have to throw in some Top the Tater if you want that bribe to stick.
A container of Top the Tater sour cream dip.
August 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Enjoy the Wiener Dog Races in Vergas, Minnesota
August 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My chihuahua enjoys Lake Superior on a chihuahua-sized surfboard.
August 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Minnesota Historia, that TV show I make with @historyhailey.bsky.social is airing on PBS North tonight. (Right now would be a great time to make a donation to PBS.)
History Hailey, host of Minnesota Historia, introduces an episode in a screenshot from my Tv. This is a creenshot from my TV of the pledge drive during an airing of Minnesota Historia.
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The new Fantastic Four movie was great!
In a vintage photo of cosplayers at a comic convention, one person bravely wore a bulky homemade Thing costume that makes me laugh every time I look at it.
July 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Our PBS North documentary Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota got 200,000 views on YouTube in less than a week. Is it the Minnesota, the secrets, or the things that are cold that’s bringing people in?
The title screen from the documentary “Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota” featuring, the title of the film, a shot of the road between Duluth and Ely and the words “200,000 views’l
July 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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It felt like the entire city of Brainerd came out for the “No Kings” protest. People were lining Highway 210 for more than a mile through downtown.
June 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I just sent you some videos of you and your smelt family. Like this one.
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Duluth’s Magic Smelt Parade delivers pure joy.
A man dressed in a Jason Momoa Aquamam shirt and a woman dressed as a Jedi with a giant smelt mask on her head hold a dog who doesn’t look like he wants to be there. A woman dressed as a Jedi with a giant smelt mask on her head, a man holding two cameras with a shark hat, and a woman wearing another giant smelt mask on her head. On a beach, a woman dressed as a Jedi with a smelt mask on her head and a boy dressed in a brown Jedi robe hold lightsabers and reach for the camera.
May 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Our smelt heads (for Duluth’s Magic Smelt Parade) are coming along nicely.
Two paper mache heads sit on a table with a can of silver spray paint sitting between them. The heads vaguely look like decapitated Loch Ness monsters. But I can assure you, they will eventually be smelt heads.
May 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Look at how filthy R2-D2 gets on Dagobah. This is how I feel whenever I go to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag.
My favorite droid R2-D2 is covered in dirt on the swamp planet Dsgobah.
May 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I got this cool tattoo at Duluth Homegrown. But can someone please let me know if I’m now at risk of being deported? Thank you.
May 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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"The homegrowns" protesting at City Hall in Duluth, Minnesota on April 5, 2025.
Image of City Hall in Duluth, Minnesota, with more than 2000 protesters filling the plaza in front of the building.
April 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Happy Record Store Day!
This is a picture of me in front of Know Name Records in Minneapolis. I’m holding a Public Image record in front of my face. The record artwork features John Lydon’s head. So… it kind of looks like LYDON’S HEAD is on MY BODY!
April 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM