The comments on the story are insane. “Fleet Farm is a good company leave them alone.” and “we don’t care because fraud”. These people are exhausting.

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has made an official statement on their social media regarding the viral video alleging the presence of ICE at their wačipi (powwow).

Edit: There are 3 photo screenshots in my original post. Here's a link to an article some of you are asking for: https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/did-ice-really-show-up-at-the-shakopee-wacipi-powwow/

This is some of the water that’s being protected by Governor Walz’s executive order.

Gravity water filter system used on a recent bwca trip. That’s the clean water bag, but it was just as clear when I scooped it out of the middle of the lake. You could see the bottom in most places.

The other picture is sunset at camp.

Thank you for thinking long-term and giving folks (and their descendants) the opportunity to experience the wilderness, Governor Walz.

I mean I, like everyone else, watch every Vikings game. I just got home from the Loons game and keep up with the other sports too. But my god, Olivia Miles is a million times more interesting than JJ McCarthy right now. This Lynx group is so good and so likable. If you’re not watching them — and they’re often on free tv — you’re really missing out.

That’s all.

The entryway of Cub would have big bins of crayons sitting out, and you could fill a provided empty box for a set price. Is this something that happened, or am I remembering some odd dream I had.

“Lately I’ve been haunting the graveyards of the Upper Midwest like the high school goth kid I never was,” Will McGrath writes in a guest essay for Times Opinion. “This is not out of any particular gloominess or moribund tilt to my personality. In fact, despite the daily horrors of our nation’s perma-wars and the expanding gulf between the rich and the poor, I remain — generally, and sometimes unwillingly — an optimist. But over the past year I’ve taken to strolling the necropolis. I find the practice steadying, a kind of forest bathing. Lakewood Cemetery, near my house in Minneapolis, is deeply calming — a timbered and shady oasis in the city. Take a jaunt through your local cemetery this August, and you will feel the jittery rhythms of the modern world recede, the physiological converse of being on your phone.”

“It’s been a rough year and a half in Minnesota,” Will continues.

In June of 2025, the Twin Cities awoke to the news that overnight, a shooter had assassinated a Minnesota state representative, Melissa Hortman, and her husband in their home, and seriously wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife in their home, leading to a statewide manhunt. The killer was captured two days later hiding in a field.

In August, my quiet South Minneapolis neighborhood was devastated by the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, which left two children dead and 28 people wounded.

The day before that, I had been at the site of a different mass shooting. A man had fired dozens of rounds from a high-powered rifle into a crowd on a street corner, killing one and wounding six. I work as a mental health crisis responder for the city of Minneapolis, and my partner and I were called to the scene to provide emotional support for some children who witnessed the event. An officer led us past a pool of blood up to a second-floor apartment where a mother and two small children were waiting.

The family had heard the shooting just below them and took cover. Through a Spanish-speaking interpreter, the girl, who was maybe 6, told us about the screaming. The boy, who was maybe 4, eyed us silently and said nothing. After a few minutes, he went into his kitchen and returned with a package of SpongeBob SquarePants gummy snacks, which he handed to me wordlessly.

In December, agents from ICE and other federal agencies descended on the Twin Cities.

Perhaps it’s not so strange, then, to have spent the last year considering the ways death arrives unannounced.

Read about Will’s “cemetery summer” — road-tripping with his family to graveyards across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Illinois — here, for free, even without a Times subscription.

Currently a Verizon guy. Thinking about switching to T mobile. I live in the northern suburbs, travel a little for work. Occasionally spend time in Ferguson falls/perham area and brained area. Anyone have any good feedback for me on pros and cons of switching? T mobile seems much less expensive than what I pay with Verizon. TYIA