Glenn Howatt

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Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

In some places, Minnesota voters have been voting by mail for decades. State law allows cities with fewer than 400 registered voters and townships of any size to choose to vote exclusively with mail ballots. But elections officials worry the president’s attacks have sowed distrust in the system.

NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.

Ed Sheeran, perhaps best known for writing the kind of music that your second cousin chooses to play for the father-daughter dance at her wedding, cemented his status as a floppy-spine dummy this week by bending the knee to American billionaire idiot Robert Kraft. defector.com/massive-own-...

The true cost of “vertical integration”: Patients directed to a higher-priced location for surgery. Or forced to buy from their insurer’s own pharmacy. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/vertical-integration-high-health-costs-prices-hospital-mergers-pharmacies-pbms/

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Democrat Matt Little was aiming to shake more hands than any politician in history over eight hours at the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday, but officials shut him down before he could get there.

State Fair officials allegedly argued that Matt Little was causing an inconvenience by trying to set the world record for most handshakes in eight hours. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/minnesota-state-fair-shuts-down-matt-littles-guinness-world-records-attempt

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“We were early to basically telling our staff that ‘you don’t have a choice,'” the Axios co-founder said during a panel hosted by OpenAI. “If you’re scared, if you don’t like it, we don’t care — you have to embrace it.”

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

June Foray and Bill Scott #BOTD the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle. "It was a special show for special people," said Scott, who also voiced Mr. Peabody and Dudley Do-Right and was the head writer and co-producer of the show (with Jay Ward). #TVSky #animation

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

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In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Trump's Great American State Fair is using our taxpayer dollars, our National Mall and our nation's 250th birthday to promote conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists, Chinese technology -- and, mostly, Donald Trump. My latest column: www.notus.org/perspectives...

About that Star Tribune Retraction: What Wisconsin DNR Records Reveal About How the Story Unraveled

RIP Karen Clark. 🕊️❤️ We lost a giant. She was the first openly lesbian member to serve in the MN Legislature, spent decades fighting for LGBTQIA+ rights, environmental justice, & BIPOC neighbors. She spent her last decade fighting for the East Phillips Urban Farm that we will get done in her honor.

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Editors, fact-checkers, designers and news assistants at the Minnesota Star Tribune are losing their jobs today. Anything you can donate to help our laid-off journalists is greatly appreciated. Can’t donate? Share this post to boost our efforts.

A statement by our President @chappatte.bsky.social on Russian cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky, critic of Putin regime, shot dead on streets. 👉 freedomcartoonists.com/skrepetsky-s...

Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. It’s a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again. @amymaxmen.bsky.social reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

Minnesota passed an important law in 2023 meant to check the growing consolidation of health systems in the state. Now is the time to use it.

If you think Bill Peterson will make a good MPD Chief, I’d encourage you to Google “Metro Gang Strike Force Minneapolis” and read up on some of his earlier work.

Sahan Journal reporter Becky Dernbach has received a national education award for her yearlong project following two immigrant students in Minneapolis.

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Editorial director Chao Xiong accepted the 2026 Columbia Journalism Award for Sahan Journal at the May 19 commencement ceremony. In his speech, he urged graduates to innovate and lead as they enter the journalism industry.

Minnesotans need protection from corporate takeover of our healthcare minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/19/m...

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Texas limits eligibility for Medicaid to families living below 15 percent of the poverty level, meaning that a family of three earning more than—get this—$4,098 annually is not eligible for any benefits. trib.al/xIxx6h8

Scoop: SAMHSA will take down its website for locating providers that can prescribe buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder next month. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

New @ms.now supercut: How long will it take for Trump to mention the ballroom?

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If you're a producer for a cable news show, you should have a tight two-minute montage with a sampling of the many times Donald Trump has encouraged political violence, just waiting for the inevitable Republican guest who tries to pretend Democrats are the real problem here.

NEW: An @ij.org review of media reports has identified at least 14 recent cases of police officers allegedly using Flock and other automated license plate reader systems to stalk wives, girlfriends, exes, and even strangers who caught their eye in public. ij.org/police-have-...

For the second year in a row, the annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Little Village has been canceled due to immigration enforcement concerns, organizers announced Monday.

Dear Strib: Tired of Minneapolis City Hall Drama? Focus on Something Else. By, well, me. racketmn.com/dear-strib-t...

Pod listeners have probably picked up from Mike that something went wrong at SPLC, which abruptly kicked him to the curb. He sued and won a settlement. Here, Mike explains what happened. His story feels familiar to me and many others on the beat. michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/what-happe...

This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Consolidation too often leads to higher prices, worse care (Commentary) minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/30/a...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell not only just lost his latest motion to overturn a defamation verdict related to the 2020 election — the judge also said lawyers for the media company he founded must explain why they shouldn't be fined and referred to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings.

never forget in 2020, MPD built this shitty wall blocking 1st precinct sidewalk, and i wrote to complain that it was in violation of the ADA, and the city told me to "contact the ADA." a piece of legislation! this city cares so little about disabled people getting around bsky.app/profile/tayl...

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

The reporter who lifted Gillian's story so completely she didn't even edit out the referral link went to the COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL, per her bio