Jeremy Fugleberg
@jeremyfugleberg.com
Journalist in Minnesota who writes about history, mystery, mayhem, artifacts, treasure and international relations. I have strong hot dog opinions, and I like your weird thing too! Contact: [email protected] | https://www.jeremyfugleberg.com
This is the way. And word to the wise: A newsroom properly fueled by free food is an unstoppable perpetual motion machine of news.
Almost every day for the last couple weeks, a big stack of pizzas or boxes of bagels or other goodies show up in the @startribune.com newsroom, paid for by journalists at other news orgs around the country.
January 20, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is the way. And word to the wise: A newsroom properly fueled by free food is an unstoppable perpetual motion machine of news.
Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton #22) providing a good example of how to navigate the haters.
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton #22) providing a good example of how to navigate the haters.
These are huge factors in what's powering the ground-level response to ICE in Minnesota. I also think these factors are mobilizing people who might otherwise not be as motivated to say/do something about it all.
There's a huge gap with your reporting if your Dispatches From MN don't mention both the direct violence *and also* all the families afraid to leave home, the businesses shut or locked down, the preschools being targeted for harassment, the local parents organizing patrols—*the day-to-day toll*
January 18, 2026 at 5:34 PM
These are huge factors in what's powering the ground-level response to ICE in Minnesota. I also think these factors are mobilizing people who might otherwise not be as motivated to say/do something about it all.
Reposted by Jeremy Fugleberg
Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
A lot of people tuning into Minnesota to learn about ICE activity might be surprised to find out ICE is going all over the state, including to some fairly small towns. From my company's regional reporting earlier this week: www.inforum.com/news/minneso...
ICE activity reported across Greater Minnesota
Minnesotans across the state are reporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in their communities, from Rochester to Detroit Lakes.
www.inforum.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
A lot of people tuning into Minnesota to learn about ICE activity might be surprised to find out ICE is going all over the state, including to some fairly small towns. From my company's regional reporting earlier this week: www.inforum.com/news/minneso...
I finally decided to come clean ... at least as clean as I could be with this sticky orange powder on my fingers.
I don’t have a cheeseball problem
I swear.
jeremyfugleberg.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I finally decided to come clean ... at least as clean as I could be with this sticky orange powder on my fingers.
"CORN! CORN! ... No Kentucky manipulation whereby the man animal gets it up his snoot, but just as it came from the fertile fields of the STATE OF IOWA." -- Corn advertisement from the June 25, 1888, edition of the Fargo Daily Argus.
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"CORN! CORN! ... No Kentucky manipulation whereby the man animal gets it up his snoot, but just as it came from the fertile fields of the STATE OF IOWA." -- Corn advertisement from the June 25, 1888, edition of the Fargo Daily Argus.
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
The greatest timeline, the best events
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The greatest timeline, the best events
This is some complex symbolism.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is some complex symbolism.
Striking aerial photo of a train/grain trailer collision in South Dakota (per Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office). Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Striking aerial photo of a train/grain trailer collision in South Dakota (per Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office). Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
An example of how Nazi and SS iconography has slid into pop culture -- here is a T-shirt currently sold at Target for $13. (photo from an ebay listing) www.target.com/p/men-39-s-s...
October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
An example of how Nazi and SS iconography has slid into pop culture -- here is a T-shirt currently sold at Target for $13. (photo from an ebay listing) www.target.com/p/men-39-s-s...
I love everything about this book, but the front cover most of all.
October 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I love everything about this book, but the front cover most of all.
This is the best hot-dog take.
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the best hot-dog take.
Reposted by Jeremy Fugleberg
on the next episode of copse
October 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
on the next episode of copse
"Pigs is Pigs? No! Radiators!" -- classic coverage here from the July 25, 1921, edition of the Duluth News Tribune. www.newspapers.com/article/the-... cc @katierohman.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Pigs is Pigs? No! Radiators!" -- classic coverage here from the July 25, 1921, edition of the Duluth News Tribune. www.newspapers.com/article/the-... cc @katierohman.bsky.social
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This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
Reposted by Jeremy Fugleberg
The rigidity of Apple’s brand made sense when it was a paragon of design and innovation giving it a certain mystique but that rigidity has become an albatross that’s turned them into, frankly, a fossilized archaic shell of itself whose risk aversion has made it essentially inept.
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The rigidity of Apple’s brand made sense when it was a paragon of design and innovation giving it a certain mystique but that rigidity has become an albatross that’s turned them into, frankly, a fossilized archaic shell of itself whose risk aversion has made it essentially inept.
Totally normal things going on
September 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Totally normal things going on
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MOM MOM MOM MOM
Child's crossbow, 1676
Steel, walnut, ivory
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)
Steel, walnut, ivory
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)
September 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
MOM MOM MOM MOM
Live a life that will result in someone having a 500-year-long grudge against you. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis
Christmas is a time for tradition, and the University of Oxford is well known for diligently preserving its traditions for centuries. Many of these have long outlived the people who established the…
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Live a life that will result in someone having a 500-year-long grudge against you. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
Today I learned a baby puffin is known as a "puffling."
Today is a good day.
Today is a good day.
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today I learned a baby puffin is known as a "puffling."
Today is a good day.
Today is a good day.
Was there a previous era for TV commercials when, yes, there WAS an obligation? And below 100% satisfaction guaranteed?
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Was there a previous era for TV commercials when, yes, there WAS an obligation? And below 100% satisfaction guaranteed?
"Let me summarize that for you."
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Let me summarize that for you."
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
"How about a summary?"
"Would you like to summarize that for you?"
The robots, shouting into the void, telling us what we told them we want to hear.
Tsunami watching right now also feels like watching a tourism commercial for Hawaii.
July 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Tsunami watching right now also feels like watching a tourism commercial for Hawaii.