Jennifer Brooks

I won't believe spring is coming until the groundhog says it's not!

I am so mad at a groundhog right now.

I shouldn't discourage the bakers from conveying cinnamon and sugar to the people by any means necessary.

I'm not crying!

OK, I'm crying.

I once created a pie chart to explain which pie is tasty (pumpkin, pecan) and which is a personal attack on me (apple, cherry) and which is simply mid (every other pie in the universe)

Nobody in my family can accept my lifestyle choice.

I've gotten apple pie in lieu of birthday cake *several* years running, just because my mother could only process "firstborn something something apple pie?"

Some days, felt ornaments can break your heart.

Gasp! The perfect tag-team! My pie is your pie!

YouTube video by Talking Retail Cadbury's Bournville advert | Talking Retail

Dark chocolate fans in your mentions: youtu.be/_Z7Htwb6g3c

I will die on Apple Pie Is Terrible hill.

Honestly, any dessert that turns delicious crisp apples into globs of mush.

‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”

Must read: "Holding facilities were so crowded that immigrants in one cell had to take turns lying down because there was no space, according to a refugee detained there for one night in January. Basic human needs like food and medical care were sometimes denied."
www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Oh no.

darth vader is making a heart shape with his hands in a star wars costume . Alt: darth vader is making a heart shape with his hands

JOIN ME

STELLAAAAAAA!!!

Gasp!

Of COURSE we want to zhuzh it up!

The next time someone asks “where did the Minnesotans get all these gas masks, hmmm?” you can tell them. Our cousins. This one is noice! Full-face coverage. Photo shows a disheveled journalist who has wrestled her head into a gas mask without adjusting the straps first. She had never looked so suave. A black and tan mutt is sniffing the mask, wondering why her human now sounds like Darth Vader. The dog has never been happier, because now my entire head smells like like a Kong.

My cousins sent me a gas mask 🥹

Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…

"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies."

- Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Why Ilhan Omar Makes the Right Lose Its Mind Trump and his MAGA allies want people like Omar to vanish from this country—and they hate her for refusing to do so.

I talked a little in this piece I wrote about ilhan last month that she’s a big fan of combat sports, and the way that influences her treatment of politics.

Last night you saw her first response to a physical threat was to square up and cock a fist. Case in point.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.

The thing about Minnesota Lutherans is that while the U.S. military can deploy a functioning Burger King anywhere in the world in 48 hours, your local Mainline Protestant church's women's committee can do it in under 36.

Italian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed. Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him. “I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?’”

Knutson now goes to the Whipple Building almost daily, bringing thermoses of hot coffee for the people who hold up signs and bellow at the ICE agents and convoys as they drive in and out. He has been tear-gassed so many times, he said, his voice has gone hoarse. When I met him at his house in St. Paul, a row of megaphones was on the counter. He hands them out along with the coffee. He once brought an ice-fishing clam, a portable shelter, to the Whipple to help the protesters withstand the subzero temperatures.

pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,

"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

There should be more murals of 70 year old guy grabbing a bottle of water and walking into the gas than there are of Bob Dylan in this town.

Woke Hoth got me laughing out loud. WOKE HOTH.