Bob Collins
This guy, who retired at 55 and is letting us know he’s doing great while we’re hunkered down in our cubicle farms. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: 1000 Words
Isac Mcfadden went to use the toilet in his Abilene, Texas home last week when he was greeted by a rattlesnake.
So he did what any red-blooded Texan boy would do. He called his mom. Read more →
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NOAA’s new GOES-16 satellite has given us the clearest high-resolution pictures yet from a geostationary satellite 22,000 miles above us.
The first images — it’s still undergoing testing — were released today. And they’re magnificent. Read more →
Minnesota DFL U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar brings Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders together for a little photographic unity. Read more →
This video suggests to us that we’ve entered another era when people are running across a major American airport in search of safety.
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Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders printed out a tweet — you can get them on your computer now — and went to the floor of the U.S. Senate where he put it on an easel, so it would show up on television.
This, no doubt, all seemed perfectly normal to the U.S. Senate. Read more →
It’s a stunning display of courage in the interest of journalism turned in by a photographer for the Associated Press today. Read more →
It’s unclear if Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., intended for her snapshot of the meeting of the House Republican Caucus, of which she’s chair, to go viral today, but it has. Read more →
A website with instructions and help on moving to Canada crashed at the height of returns on Election Night. Read more →
This picture, from the Morton County, N.D., Sheriff’s Department, from the scene of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest should spark another discussion about that equipment the U.S. government gave away to police departments with all the money it had to fight terrorism. Read more →
Conditioned as we are by a three-year presidential campaign season that has intended to destroy whatever is still united in the states, there’s a good reason why the rational among us took note of this picture this weekend. Read more →
Elaine Harmon today finally got the respect she more than earned as a member of the Womens Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS). Read more →
With the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years came a return to the water for the nation’s TV reporters.
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Some Packers fans might be gloating a bit much about the season-ending injury to Vikings QB Teddy Bridgewater. Read more →