minnesota
I realized today that there's been a dark and moody theme running through my photography since the start of the pandemic. It isn't all my work, but it has been a constant addition and is different than what I did before.
#Photography #seascape #LandscapePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota
Welp. You asked.
Via Brian Tyler Cohen (who has the news vid):
And there it is. The #Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.
Her bosses halted her work.
As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
Via Democracy Docket:
NEW: #Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signs a package of pro-voter bills into law — including the Minnesota Voting Rights Act — to protect ballot access after the 8th Circuit gutted private enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act in the state.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/minnesota-governor-signs-pro-voting-package/
"Those who have never seen Superior get an inadequate, even inaccurate idea, by hearing it spoken of as a 'lake,' and to those who have sailed over its vast extent the word sounds positively ludicrous. Though its waters are fresh and crystal, Superior is a sea. It breeds storms, and rain and fogs, like the sea. It is cold in mid-summer as the Atlantic. It is wild, masterful, and dreaded as the Black Sea." - Rev. George Grant, Ocean to Ocean, 1872
NYT:
The newspaper in #Minneapolis is expanding its statewide coverage and changing its name to The #Minnesota Star Tribune. The expansion is a rare big bet in the newspaper industry. #NewsMedia
Sunset over Lake Superior is so good this time of year. I love winter in northern Minnesota.
Via Democracy Docket;
BREAKING: #Minnesota Supreme Court rejects a right-wing lawsuit and unanimously upholds a law signed by Gov. Tim #Walz in 2023 that restores voting rights to over 55,000 Minnesotans with a previous felony conviction.
NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge rejects a right-wing lawsuit seeking to block a #Minnesota law that establishes criminal penalties for knowingly spreading election disinformation or engaging in voter intimidation. The law will remain in place. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/minnesota-law-prohibiting-election-disinformation-and-voter-intimidation-upheld-by-federal-judge/
This morning's sunrise over Lake Superior was amazing.
Here in #Minnesota, our weather forecasts work because NOAA and Environment Canada have agreements to share data from the weather services' sensor networks back and forth across the line.
Yet again, USA:
End this. Hold Elon Musk personally accountable. And #ImpeachTrump and remove him.
QT Tim Marchman
@timmarchman.bsky.social
2025 February 5
NOAA workers ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals.
https://www.wired.com/story/noaa-employees-foreign-nationals/
https://bsky.app/profile/timmarchman.bsky.social/post/3lhhueqltd22z
OMG
Yesterday, a #Republican state lawmaker in #Minnesota named #JustinEichorn introduced a new bill he coauthored to legally define "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a "mental illness" in the state.
Later in the day, he was arrested. For what, you ask?
via @bulwarkonline’s Adam Keiper
#criminal #law #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #pedophile #SexOffender #StatutoryRape
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/gop-state-sen-justin-eichorn-arrested-for-suspicion-of-soliciting-sex-with-a-16-year-old-girl/
Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Griffin:
#Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a preemptive lawsuit against #Trump — seeking to block the administration from acting against Minnesota in the way it's taking on Maine under a federal push to ban transgender athletes from girls and women's sports.
Anyone on here #trans and from #Minnesota with experience changing the gender marker and name on their birth certificate? 
#PBS sued #Trump on Friday to block an #ExecutiveOrder that would cut federal #funding for public television & radio, arguing that it was #unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, filed in DC by PBS & a public TV station in #Minnesota, says that Trump’s EO violates laws that “forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the #content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”
#law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/media/pbs-trump-lawsuit-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=BD8357FA-8CA8-4C37-B249-5CDD44A19A77
#Minnesota picks of the day:
➡️ @gefc - Food co-op in St. Cloud, Minnesota
➡️ @focimcga - Non-profit public glass arts studio in Minneapolis
➡️ @StarTribune - Newspaper in Minneapolis, founded 1867
➡️ @ne_mn_bot - Historical photos of northeastern Minnesota
🌤️ Weather accounts for MN, follow a town or city to see its forecasts:
@apple_valley__minnesota
@bemidji__minnesota
@blaine__minnesota
@bloomington__minnesota
@brainerd__minnesota
@brooklyn_park__minnesota
@burnsville__minnesota
🧵 1/3
So the assassin in Minnesota was a wearing a police uniform and had a police car. Think about it...
#minnesota #killings #lawmakers #usa #politics
"Two people familiar with the matter identified the suspect being sought as 57-year-old Vance Boelter. The people could not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity." 1/...
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172
Via Rupar:
holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.
Via Kyle Griffin:
Reuters: ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY FOR DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA SAYS VANCE BOELTER HAD A LIST OF MORE THAN 45 #MINNESOTA STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS IN HIS CAR
Sunset in northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
🚨 Another day, another…
“2 #Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials
They took place in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, officials said.” #GunViolence
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.link%2FcR1gLSW
BTW really loving the updates from #Minnesota. they showed out to #NoKings even though Indivisible cancelled the event.
this is important.
a mostly white, suburban crowd decided they didn’t need permission to protest fascism. minnesotans decided the moment was more important than the fear of fascist #MAGA #terrorism.
to those of you who carp about the comforts of the hegemonic majority: if not the hegemons, who?
this is what a point of sociological inflection looks like.
#Minnesota Senator #JohnHoffman & State Representative #MelissaHortman, along with their spouses, have been shot by men dressed as #police officers who showed up at their homes in Brooklyn Park & Champlin, according to law enforcement sources & local media.
The first shooting happened just after 2AM on Saturday at the Champlin home of State Senator John Hoffman, a #Democrat who has served in the Minnesota Senate since 2013.
#criminal #law #PoliticalViolence
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/06/minnesota-hoffman-hortman-shooting/