Kate Martin

I pitched five perfect innings in a Little League World Series game.

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator to qualify for copyright protection. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Great advice for those of us in journalism covering AI technologies or experimenting with how to use them responsibly.

When I tell people to not be afraid of maths I secretly picture this meme and go back to work on my Excel files…

I recall an internet debate around 2018-19 where a guy who went to a state school was told he needed an Ivy degree to get into journalism. I still think about that now and then.

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

We suffered through a week of zero heat because the last time we called the HVAC people, they wanted to bill us for $1500 and it wouldn't even have solved the problem.

Husband bought $400 of parts and it's fine but it took 10 hours or so.

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Free Speech in Deep Freeze - Nieman Reports On the ground in Minnesota, where journalists are working to tell the truth about government-sanctioned violence and spin

My friends at Niemanreports.org asked me to write about the experience of being a journalist on the ground in Minneapolis right now. I knew I wanted to tell reporters elsewhere how even this most hopeless of times has been clarifying and, in some ways, energizing. (1) share.google/ms1wKDQZmgep...

DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

Ghastly

One of the more outdated assumptions in the public records process is that requests originate from a fully stocked 1998 office with a working fax machine.

Trying to learn new things in gimp. It's been many years since I used photo processing software. I do have a question.

WHY is every tutorial a video now? I want to read the instructions not wait for someone to tell me what to do. It's such a time suck.

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

My @mprnews.org colleague & I rode along with observers after the Twin Cities surge at the start of December, well before most national publications came to town. It was really necessary to get at what ICE is really doing on the ground & how people are opposing it.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Tell me about it

Inside the Dilley detention facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo-Ramos is being held Protests took place this weekend at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, where a 5-year-old Columbia Heights boy and his father are being held. The two were detained by ICE in Minnesota last Friday.

MPR News host Nina Moini spoke with Attorney Eric Lee, who heard the protest from the center over the weekend, and Sam Doiron, an attorney with the Texas-based group RAICES, about conditions inside the detention center.

I'm at the hearing in St. Paul where Minnesota is asking a federal judge to preserve evidence in Saturday's killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The judge issued a temporary restraining order, but feds are arguing it should be denied because they already plan on preserving the evidence. (1)

The latest on ICE in Minnesota Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.

Follow live updates from @mprnews.org www.mprnews.org/live-updates

Man shot and killed by ICE agents in Mpls this morning.
News briefing at 11:30 am CT carried live here: www.mprnews.org

ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Age...

Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Agents didn’t give her CPR and turned away the help of a man who said he was a doctor.

The latest: DOJ appealing judge’s order limiting federal agents’ actions against protesters The U.S. Department of Justice filed notice Monday that it’s appealing a judge’s order setting limits on federal agents’ actions against protesters in Minnesota, amid increased immigration enforcement...

In Monday’s filing in response to Menendez’s ruling, the DOJ said it’s appealing the order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. It provided no other details. For now, the judge’s order remains in effect.

A screenshot of an old newspaper clip. The text shows the title of a book followed by a brief description of it: Okay, I'll Do It Myself - Or a handwoman's primer that takes the mistique out of home repairs, by Barbara A. Curry.

Doing a search for news clips from the 1960s, and this came up. I can just tell this lady was fed up with someone, who presumably was in the dog house

Ugh. Post in haste, repent in leisure

Watch live: Ellison, Moriarty speak on ICE shooting Here’s the latest Friday around the killing of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis Wednesday by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

For ongoing coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, follow @mprnews.org

Read Renee Good's statement, and ongoing coverage of the aftermath, here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Renee Macklin Good’s wife: ‘We need to show them a better way’ Here’s the latest Friday around the killing of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis Wednesday by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Read a statement from Renee Good's wife at MPR News: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Live updates: ICE says agent, ‘fearing for his life,’ kills woman in south Minneapolis ICE officials say the woman was shot and killed Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis after attempting to run over agents with her car. Witnesses dispute ICE’s version of what happened. Mayor Jacob F...

For updates on the ICE shooting in south Minneapolis, we're posting updates here www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The best part of this event is the drop is at 7 pm. I might have to go next year!

That salary is so inaccurate for a lot of our industry

What steps should you take to request government data? Come hear from myself and @fishnette.bsky.social ! In about an hour