It’s up to Minnesota to protect the Boundary Waters • Minnesota Reformer Just when we were in the homestretch for permanently protecting canoe country, the Trump administration vowed to greenlight sulfide-ore copper mining in its headwaters.

Commentary: With the feds looking to approve dangerous mining in the watershed, it’s up to Minnesota to protect the Boundary Waters minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/08/i...

Robin on the bird bath.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen - Matamoros Banks ("Devils & Dust" Acoustic Performances)

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Go Pack Go.

RADICAL LEFTIST rioters take over the streets of WAR ZONE Portland, EXTREME ANTIFA now controls 200% of the entire city. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon.

The marchers held flowers. 💐

More from the garden.

Monarchs on the lantana.

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I want to be in her art class. Go Lydia!

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Hard Times (Come Again No More) (London Calling: Live In Hyde Park, 2009)

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A sunset bike ride on the midtown greenway would fix u
Minneapolis, MN
9/11/25

YouTube video by DropkickMurphysVEVO Dropkick Murphys - Chesterfields and Aftershave (Official Music Video)

In honor of Grandparents Day — here’s the music video for CHESTERFIELDS & AFTERSHAVE !! 

This is the second single off our new album FOR THE PEOPLE.  The song is about Ken’s grandfather and the important people in ALL of our lives…..

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YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (Electric Nebraska - Official Audio)

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Monarch.

YouTube video by The Tiny Chef Show Tiny Chef | Bottlecap Apple Pie

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More from the garden. I think maybe some cream cheese with everything bagel seasoning in those peppers.

A little rain.

Everything bagel with garlic scallion cream cheese from the Farmers Market.

a child looking down at a golden retriever named Samaria resting in their lap. the child pets the dog's face.

a person holding a child on their hip crouches down on the sidewalk to pet a golden retriever on the head.

a child wearing all gray sits on a yellow curb. a golden retriever lays on the sidewalk next to them, and rests their head in the child's lap.

A group of 6 LCC K9 comfort dogs arrived in Minneapolis yesterday in the wake of the latest mass shooting. The organization deploys comfort dogs following tragic events. The dogs wore their "please pet me vests," offering love and comfort to those processing this heartbreaking tragedy. 15/10 for all

Love it!

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."

Monarch on the lantana again.

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen - Matamoros Banks ("Devils & Dust" Acoustic Performances)

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