Laurie Hertzel
@lhertzel.bsky.social
Book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist." Next memoir, "Ghosts of Fourth Street," pubs in 2026. I review for StarTribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LATimes and elsewhere. Teach in MFA program at UGA-Athens.
what the hell is a "narco-terrorist"? that's not even a thing! STOP KILLING FISHERMEN.
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
what the hell is a "narco-terrorist"? that's not even a thing! STOP KILLING FISHERMEN.
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📢 Early 2026 releases await! Fascinating fiction, children's books, scholarly titles, MN writers, translations. Thrilled to feature @danhf.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lhertzel.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social @timcresswell.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social & more!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
📢 Early 2026 releases await! Fascinating fiction, children's books, scholarly titles, MN writers, translations. Thrilled to feature @danhf.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lhertzel.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social @timcresswell.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social & more!
z.umn.edu/ss26
z.umn.edu/ss26
Get him out of there
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Get him out of there
THE SEA CAPTAIN'S WIFE by Tilar J. Mazzeo is a true story of mutiny, shipwreck and courage. A terrific, outrageous and infuriating read! This is my last review for StarTribune, which has cut out freelancing. Thanks for the ride, Strib. @stmartinspress.bsky.social www.startribune.com/the-sea-capt...
Review: ‘The Sea Captain’s Wife’ did his job; she wasn’t paid
Nonfiction: When a heroic woman took over a treacherous voyage, she was in for a rude awakening.
www.startribune.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
THE SEA CAPTAIN'S WIFE by Tilar J. Mazzeo is a true story of mutiny, shipwreck and courage. A terrific, outrageous and infuriating read! This is my last review for StarTribune, which has cut out freelancing. Thanks for the ride, Strib. @stmartinspress.bsky.social www.startribune.com/the-sea-capt...
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Sure, let’s fuck over the most beloved people in the country
Proposal to declassify nursing as 'professional' threatens ability to secure student loans
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Sure, let’s fuck over the most beloved people in the country
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Spotify needs to remove the ICE recruitment ads. If you hear one, make sure to give it a thumbs down.
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Spotify needs to remove the ICE recruitment ads. If you hear one, make sure to give it a thumbs down.
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
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Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
"never in our nation’s history has such supreme incompetence and monstrous depravity so thoroughly disgraced a meeting of the Cabinet officers of the United States."-- @rbhubbell.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"never in our nation’s history has such supreme incompetence and monstrous depravity so thoroughly disgraced a meeting of the Cabinet officers of the United States."-- @rbhubbell.bsky.social
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Donald Trump’s disgraceful attacks on Minnesota’s Somali community are injecting more of his poisonous racism into our beloved home state. Hearing him single out our people based solely on their race and country of origin is downright disgusting.
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Donald Trump’s disgraceful attacks on Minnesota’s Somali community are injecting more of his poisonous racism into our beloved home state. Hearing him single out our people based solely on their race and country of origin is downright disgusting.
Don't you have to actually BE in war to blame the "fog of war" for confusing you? I mean, rather than sitting in a comfy chair watching a video screen thousands of miles away?
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Don't you have to actually BE in war to blame the "fog of war" for confusing you? I mean, rather than sitting in a comfy chair watching a video screen thousands of miles away?
What could possibly go wrong?
Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
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NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Well, well, well....
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Well, well, well....
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
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ICE's actions in Minnesota this last week are deeply disturbing. Masked agents in Northfield pulled a father out of a car at gunpoint and arrested him in front of his son. After, ICE claimed he attempted to drive over agents despite the fact that he was in the passenger seat.
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
ICE's actions in Minnesota this last week are deeply disturbing. Masked agents in Northfield pulled a father out of a car at gunpoint and arrested him in front of his son. After, ICE claimed he attempted to drive over agents despite the fact that he was in the passenger seat.
What's appalling is that not one reporter in that group spoke up when he did that.
Last night, Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist sexual abuser who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, called a female reporter “piggy” for asking a question about the Epstein files.
Party of family values, amirite.
Party of family values, amirite.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What's appalling is that not one reporter in that group spoke up when he did that.
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This is a must-watch PSA.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is a must-watch PSA.
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We stand with survivors everywhere. Release the files, and jail the PDFs, including the ones in the White House.
#EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #JeffreyEpstein #50501movement
#EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #JeffreyEpstein #50501movement
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We stand with survivors everywhere. Release the files, and jail the PDFs, including the ones in the White House.
#EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #JeffreyEpstein #50501movement
#EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo #JeffreyEpstein #50501movement
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@couriernewsroom.bsky.social has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025.
#ProudBlue
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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#ProudBlue
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@couriernewsroom.bsky.social has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025.
#ProudBlue
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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#ProudBlue
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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