Katie Rohman

Minnesota hospitals received more than $1B selling discounted drugs for full price A Health Department report highlights big dollars that could be better targeted, some say, so patients and safety net providers can better handle Medicaid cuts.

Duluth-based Essentia Health received $77 million, according to this report.

I AM THE CHAMPION

(at least for one word)
#crossplay

Let’s trek down to Lake Superior in a blizzard and see what the waves are up to 🌊 🌊 🌊

Ice Caves - Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (U.S. National Park Service)

The ice caves at the Apostle Islands are expected to open to the public for the first time since 2015.

Duluth’s aging and lead-laden homes are poisoning children Portions of two Duluth neighborhoods have the highest rates of children with elevated blood lead levels of any census tract in the state, according to new Minnesota Department of Health data.

“Two census tracts covering portions of the East Hillside and Endion neighborhoods have the two highest EBLL (elevated blood lead level) rates in the state, at 9.1% and 9.2%, respectively.”

Awww🥺 #koreydropkin #teamusa #duluth

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?

“Each violation of press freedom plants and waters seeds of repression.”

Why is SD like this

ten years ago today no one clapped

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.

“Martin Shelton, deputy director of digital security at Freedom of the Press Foundation, advised ‘journalists to disable biometrics when they expect to be in a situation where they expect a possible search.’”

Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.

I have seen Train at least 3 times and none if those times were intentional. They are constantly touring and at every damn festival.

Also in the punchable divorced dad genre: HINDER

THIS is the correct list

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

i don't have much to add that hasn't already been said but if you think going after journalists will convince other journalists to slow down or stop their reporting, you don't know journalists

Tanner Hagen on Instagram: "Grateful to be a part of the new show #ThePitt ❕Check it out @streamonmax" tannerzahnhagen on February 1, 2025: "Grateful to be a part of the new show #ThePitt ❕Check it out @streamonmax".

Hermantown native Tanner Hagen spotted in “the tonsillectomy” episode of #ThePitt 👀

(There are more straws but I ran out)

artificial intelligence-generated video screenshot of light-skinned man speaking into microphone in studio

#KnowBe4 training is now even more tedious — the actors have been replaced by AI.

Just saw 5 national guard Humvees being escorted by two MPD squads going south on 3rd Avenue

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

GIFT LINK: “As the gun emerges from the melee, another agent aims his own firearm at Mr. Pretti’s back and appears to fire one shot at close range. He then appears to continue firing at Mr. Pretti, who collapses. … Both agents appear to fire additional shots into Mr. Pretti as he lies motionless.”

The longest sled dog race in the lower 48 starts Sunday in Duluth and anyone can attend!

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

we are going to be the WORST

Beatrice Ojakangas invented Pizza Rolls for a food company in Duluth, MN.