Karin Jacobs
@kajmn.bsky.social
Loves painting, reading, dogs, horses, antiques, sports, Minnesota.
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“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.
Good lord www.poynter.org/business-wor...
September 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.
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This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops.
But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents.
I’m heading to Danbury.
But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents.
I’m heading to Danbury.
August 26, 2026 at 7:44 PM
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops.
But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents.
I’m heading to Danbury.
But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents.
I’m heading to Danbury.
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Ban every one of these fucks from the WNBA and NBA for life and charge them if possible
Sex toys tossed on court interrupt WNBA games in Chicago and LA in replay of 2025 incidents
The Chicago Sky’s home game against Golden State was interrupted when multiple sex toys were thrown on the court, the second consecutive night for a disruption similar to what occurred in several WNBA...
apnews.com
August 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Ban every one of these fucks from the WNBA and NBA for life and charge them if possible
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If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why:
PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.
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August 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why:
PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag
share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag
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Somewhere I saw this posted with the caption “Bowling Budz” and I can’t stop laughing.
August 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Somewhere I saw this posted with the caption “Bowling Budz” and I can’t stop laughing.
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Michele Tafoya calls crop art “seed art”.
August 17, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Michele Tafoya calls crop art “seed art”.
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After a 2011 sexual abuse scandal, the national sports organization AAU pledged to implement “historic child protection measures” for the hundreds of thousands of kids in its care.
But ProPublica and @washingtonpost.com found that most of these reforms were never implemented.
But ProPublica and @washingtonpost.com found that most of these reforms were never implemented.
A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
www.propublica.org
August 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
After a 2011 sexual abuse scandal, the national sports organization AAU pledged to implement “historic child protection measures” for the hundreds of thousands of kids in its care.
But ProPublica and @washingtonpost.com found that most of these reforms were never implemented.
But ProPublica and @washingtonpost.com found that most of these reforms were never implemented.
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An undercover federal agent infiltrated a Minneapolis church despite a court order barring immigration enforcement at churches in its network. Newly released documents also show federal agents surveilled the church several times this spring.
Feds spying in Minneapolis church may have violated court order
Homeland Security spied on a Minneapolis church in May as part of an investigation into alleged anti-ICE activities, potentially violating a court order barring federal agents from enforcing civil imm...
www.mprnews.org
August 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
An undercover federal agent infiltrated a Minneapolis church despite a court order barring immigration enforcement at churches in its network. Newly released documents also show federal agents surveilled the church several times this spring.
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"Just protecting women" crowd going full mask off to show their subservience to abusive men
August 12, 2026 at 6:58 AM
"Just protecting women" crowd going full mask off to show their subservience to abusive men
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Minnesota Senate nominee Michele Tayofa on the Iran war: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further. Until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."
August 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Minnesota Senate nominee Michele Tayofa on the Iran war: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further. Until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."
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“Pugilist” -36” x 48” oil on linen. All framed up and headed to the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
#oilpainting #boxing
#oilpainting #boxing
August 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
“Pugilist” -36” x 48” oil on linen. All framed up and headed to the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
#oilpainting #boxing
#oilpainting #boxing
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Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
August 3, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
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NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
July 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
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🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought.
JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day.
JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day.
JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
austinkocher.substack.com
July 21, 2026 at 11:01 PM
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought.
JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day.
JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day.
JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
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An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy.
Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon.
Here’s how it happened… 🧵
Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon.
Here’s how it happened… 🧵
July 21, 2026 at 7:52 PM
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy.
Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon.
Here’s how it happened… 🧵
Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon.
Here’s how it happened… 🧵
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“It appears we are about to experience what may be the largest wildfire in modern Minnesota history. It feels like a fire-breathing, town-eating dragon is coming for us,” writes Jana Studelska.
Opinion | What it’s like to watch northern Minnesota burn
Around Ely, it feels like a fire-breathing, town-eating dragon is coming for us, Jana Studelska writes.
www.startribune.com
July 20, 2026 at 10:43 PM
“It appears we are about to experience what may be the largest wildfire in modern Minnesota history. It feels like a fire-breathing, town-eating dragon is coming for us,” writes Jana Studelska.
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to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
July 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
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Frenchman Meets with an Actual Surrender Monkey.
June 15, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Frenchman Meets with an Actual Surrender Monkey.
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If Texas’ MMRC is not reauthorized, Texans will lose the most important source of data about preventable reasons for maternal deaths and severe illness.
Texas May Eliminate a Critical Tool for Preventing Maternal Deaths
As Texas reviews the future of its Maternal Mortality Review Committee, researchers warn that failing to reauthorize the panel would leave the state with fewer answers—and fewer opportunities to save ...
msmagazine.com
June 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM
If Texas’ MMRC is not reauthorized, Texans will lose the most important source of data about preventable reasons for maternal deaths and severe illness.
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Another woman has been shot and killed by her partner. Law enforcement will tell you there’s no threat to the public, but this woman was a member of the public, as are the 70 women shot and killed by partners every month in the U.S.
We have to name this as a pattern…
nbcboston.app.link/FYOZ1Ypwr3b
We have to name this as a pattern…
nbcboston.app.link/FYOZ1Ypwr3b
Man charged with killing his wife at Winthrop apartment Sunday, DA says
A man has been charged in the fatal shooting of his wife at an apartment building in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning, prosecutors said.
nbcboston.app.link
May 26, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Another woman has been shot and killed by her partner. Law enforcement will tell you there’s no threat to the public, but this woman was a member of the public, as are the 70 women shot and killed by partners every month in the U.S.
We have to name this as a pattern…
nbcboston.app.link/FYOZ1Ypwr3b
We have to name this as a pattern…
nbcboston.app.link/FYOZ1Ypwr3b
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The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
May 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
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Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this.
I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
May 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this.
I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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People I care a whole lot about rely on SSRIs to make their lives work. I don’t know where I would be without SSRIs.
Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.
Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.
Exclusive: Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants, sources say
U.S. health department officials last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of antidepressants as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared to roll ou...
www.reuters.com
May 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
People I care a whole lot about rely on SSRIs to make their lives work. I don’t know where I would be without SSRIs.
Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.
Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.