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Jennifer Brooks
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Minnesota Star Tribune columnist. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
Let's see where this journey takes us.
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is the funniest and most insulting story pitch I have ever received. (Of COURSE it's about AI.)
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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
ART!
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Misplaced my “I Voted” sticker before I could take a picture with it noooooo
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I may have overestimated demand…
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“I wonder if there was a No Kings rally in Zanesville?” I said to myself. Quick check of the Appalachian foothills and folks: Even Zanesville. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This crowd won’t even JAYWALK.
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If I have to look at this nightmare fuel protest sign, so do you.
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I have covered many protests. This is the puffiest.
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you’re going to exercise your First Amendment rights, what better place to gather than 425 Portland, former home of the Star Tribune?
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hardy Minnesotans endured harrowing commutes to reach this rally.
October 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
No Kings has the highest axolotl-to-journalist ratio of any march I’ve ever covered.
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.

Let it wash over you.
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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...
September 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ugh, they made me tap the sign again
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Dig if you will, this felt ornament.
September 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My god, it’s like poetry in motion
September 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Crouching Coldplay, hidden felt ornament!
September 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
There’s got to be some way to rig up a slider to make the guy drop out of frame…
September 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
OK, I am not proud of this, but if I can’t start a felt ornament bidding war, we can’t replenish the Cheer Committee coffers. And we need those coffers to buy beer. So.
September 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Ooh, found it
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Now I need to find two other things that happened in 2025 that hit the felt ornament sweet spot of “dumb but not heartbreaking.”

(The latter is proving a real stumbling block this year)
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
He looked cold, so I gave him some hair.
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM