Don Carr
@doncarr.bsky.social
Author of THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER and the upcoming THE REPUBLIC OF AWESOME. Great Lakes flack. Views my own. Minneapolis/Big Sugar, Minnesota www.doncarrauthor.com
Congrats to my friends at Racket for turning five! I'm thankful to live in the Twin Cities, which financially supports so much media, both traditional and independent. Trust me, it's not like this everywhere.
em cassel@biketrouble.bsky.social · 16h agoracket is five years old!!! i find that fact very hard to swallow and yet it’s true. here’s our fifth annual report to prove it. i feel very, very lucky that this is my job and my life!!!
We're looking for researchers wanting to dive into large water users and plastic pollution in the Great Lakes basin.
Research Fellow - Job
Alliance for the Great Lakes is now hiring for the position of Research Fellow in Chicago. Apply today.
idealist.org
Drums and Space sucked that’s when you hit the lot.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Make no mistake here. This is Trump objectively taking the side of Iran, a nation we are currently at war with, over the Americans in Minnesota because he hates the governor and the fact that a majority of voters there did not vote for him
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Everyone recognizes the urgency and importance yet...
Work Stopped on Critical Brandon Road Invasive Carp Barrier - Alliance for the Great Lakes
(CHICAGO, IL) July 30, 2026 – The Alliance for the Great Lakes today urged the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to provide transparency and resume construction after a recent work […]
greatlakes.org
about half of centrists and the center-left for some reason concluded that climate change was passe hippie bullshit that doesn't matter, and we're about to learn how wrong that was, the hard way prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...
The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. - The American Prospect
Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
prospect.org
Gonna have to face the other way if yer practicing Thanksgiving camouflage.
The chapters on the Camorra’s decades long illegal for profit toxic waste dumping schemes are terrifying and also were incredibly helpful in writing The Midnight Rambler.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you haven’t seen it, highest recommendation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorra...
If USDA really wanted to uncover fraud, waste, and abuse, they should focus on crop insurance and not SNAP.
A Farmer@afarmerinohio.bsky.social · 2w agoHere's a wild criminal enterprise. www.agweb.com/news/busines...
We posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.
Minnesota’s on the World’s Largest Lake—Why Don’t We Eat More Lake Superior Fish? - Racket
We posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.
racketmn.com
Farm Bill conservation programs could learn a lot from the GLRI's success at targeting problems instead of blindly showering money.
Most Americans support conservation – here’s how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative got politicians from both parties on board too
An analysis of one major effort shows how to get Democrats and Republicans to agree to spend billions of dollars on a decades-long environmental restoration project.
theconversation.com
“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.
startribune.com
Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?
Boot smell
ALT: Boot smell
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Adam Mallinger@bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what’s your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?
This pic from the great Politico profile of @theswinerepublic.bsky.social looks like point source pollution to me. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
It’s Lake Superior Day. I hope that means something to you.
Bravo @ewgofficial.bsky.social for the yearly expose of fraud in the agriculture welfare system. "between 2020 and 2025, $2.6 billion in farm subsidies went to 92,766 residents of Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and 197 other major metro areas – with many never setting foot on farmland"
‘City slicker’ payments swell to $2.6B with Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and farm bailouts
More than 92,000 “city slickers” living in some of the biggest metropolitan areas in the U.S.
ewg.org
OMG, it's happening! Today is the official publication date of my new book, The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
Join Farm Aid and Farm Commons for a webinar addressing ICE activity in farm country on Tuesday, July, 21 at noon EDT. This webinar will explore what we're seeing on the ground.
Meeting Registration - Zoom
How are farmers fairing in these times of stress around the things that sustain them: community, labor and financing? So much has changed, just as the fundamental challenges of agriculture and our food system remain the same. Join us to explore what we're seeing from the ground - in our communities and around the countryside - to the "grasstops". This informational session will be led by Rachel Armstrong with Farm Commons.
us06web.zoom.us
It’s a gutting of how the Endangered Species Act works. While you still can’t kill an endangered species, because it would cause it “harm,” Now you can destroy its habitat, food, water, shelter, breeding grounds. This is no longer a “harm.” It’s a way to make it easier for industries to extract.
Jennifer Molidor@jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 4w agoHistoric heartbreak. Only the depraved & greedy could push animals into extinction. Why? So the ultrawealthy can extract from the Earth her last drops of blood: money & more ranching, mining, drilling, and logging. All in a word. “Harm.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c... #EndangeredSpeciesAct
