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ICE agents detain University of Minnesota student in Twin Cities

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

I just spoke with Homeland Security to get more information and I will share when I learn more. The University of Minnesota is an international destination for education and research. We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers. www.startribune.com/u-graduate-s...

submitted 19 hours ago • 252 comments

NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Free pantry service closes in St. Paul, with operators saying outsiders keep emptying it

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Story updated with statement from DDP Restaurant Group and Unite 17 union representatives.

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DDP is closing all four Café Cerés locations in Minneapolis months after the staff unionized. They didn't yet have their first contract in place. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li... @bringmethenews.bsky.social

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St. Paul Art Crawl will bring artists to Union Depot in April

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Eden Prairie pub temporarily closes, will transform into Italian restaurant

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Movies to see this week: 'Suspicion,' 'There Will Be Blood,' 'It Follows'

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2 scenic Wisconsin escapes land among the 'best weekend getaways' in the country

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California company launches frozen Juicy Lucys at Target

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Preview of the most exciting spring concerts in the Twin Cities (according to me), including The Hold Steady (4 nights!), @lowtheband.bsky.social with Mount Eerie, @minnesotaorchestra.org's "Future Classics," @lambrinigirls.bsky.social, Midwest Music Fest & more. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

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20 of the best concerts in the Twin Cities this spring

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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

submitted 7 days ago • 180 comments

Sad news for fans of MN craft beer: Dangerous Man will close this month. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

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Hook & Ladder's outdoor concert series is back this summer

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Planned Franklin Avenue construction has Electric Fetus worried about its future

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Minneapolis comedy festival returns for 3rd year with Jamie Kennedy, Emo Phillips

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The Walker Art Center acquires more than 50 new works

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Justin Eichorn resigns as senator after arrest for soliciting a minor

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Three Twin Cities distilleries win medals at American Craft Spirits Competition

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Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of Fame 2025 inductees include Lou Nanne, Terri Traen

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Lots of good shows in the Twin Cities this week. Couple from Liquid Music w/ Kali Malone and Kelly Moran, Shabaka at the Walker, 7th St Entry anniversary shows from @firstavenue.bsky.social... more here: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

feeling pretty down but at least I get to write shit like this

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Unless I'm missing something, WSJ appears to have (usually solid on the booze beat imo) published a piece this week framing Asahi's $35M investment in the Wisconsin plant it acquired in 2024 as a result of Trump's trade war...

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A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

submitted 14 days ago • 85 comments

Minnesota restaurant, sculpture display named on Time's 'World's Greatest Places' list

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Lyn-Lake sports bar, The Iron Door Pub, will close this month

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MN Opera's new season features rarities, world premieres, and 'Pagliacci'

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"It would be a disaster!" Minnesota businesses brace for worst as President Trump threatens 200% tariff on alcohol from E.U.

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Quinnipiac poll out today: More than half of voters would blame Trump or congressional Republicans for a shutdown. One third would blame Democrats, and 15% are undecided.

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Central to their platform and message is saving the state grain — wild rice, manoomin in the Ojibwe language, psin in Dakota.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This story is so disturbing. Among the details: An NYPD officer hit a man with his car. After the man died, the NYPD charged his family for damage to the car. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Surely in service of handouts to corporations.

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BREAKING: EPA head announces sweeping actions to revoke Biden-era rules on power plants, climate and electric vehicles.

submitted 17 days ago • 78 comments

Mad Enough To Blog It:

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Semisonic's John Munson recovering from a stroke

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

There are now two confirmed deaths in a measles outbreak that has spread from West Texas across the border into New Mexico. And infectious disease doctors are concerned RFK Jr's response is missing the mark.

submitted 22 days ago • 428 comments

'Giants' brings the provocative, exciting collection of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats to the Mia

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Track from Room3 that just went up on @bandcamp.com is pretty great. (Also, it's a Bandcamp Friday this week...) room3collective.bandcamp.com/track/wobbuf...

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Twin Cities chef to appear on 'Chopped' episode Tuesday evening

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Bill Murray is bringing his new band to downtown Minneapolis

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Some excellent movies playing around the Twin Cities this week. I kind of forgot how good 'Thelma & Louise' is until rewatching it recently. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li... via @bringmethenews.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Another day in paradise. x.com/blgtylr/stat...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

As a former athlete & current researcher of online rumors & disinfo, today's atrocious example of the "right wing bullshit machine" in action — anchored on a truly idiotic claim from a football coach turned GOP senator about trans girls making girls sports "extinct" — enrages along both dimensions.