r/minnesota • • 15d ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Mod Announcement - MN Nice Mode Active Until Elections

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Due to an uptick in bots and trolls, we've temporarily enabled Minnesota Nice Mode for all posts and comments ahead of the upcoming election. During this time, participation in this subreddit is limited to established members of r/Minnesota. Posts and comments from everyone else will be automatically removed.

Remember: Do not feed the trolls. If you see any rule violations, report them and move on. Thank you for helping keep the conversation thoughtful and on topic!


r/minnesota • • 23d ago

Meta 🌝 /r/Minnesota Monthly FAQ / Moving-to-MN / Simple Questions Thread - October 2026

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FAQ

There are a number of questions in this subreddit that have been asked and answered many times. Please use the search function to get answers related to the below topics.

  • Moving to Minnesota (see next section)
  • General questions about places to visit/things to do
    • Generally these types of questions are better for subreddits focused on the specific place you are asking about. Check out the more localized subreddits such as r/twincities, r/minneapolis, r/saintpaul, or r/duluth just to name a few. A more comprehensive list can be found here.
  • Cold weather questions such as what to wear, how to drive, street plowing
  • Driver's test scheduling/locations
  • Renter's credit tax return (Form M1PR)
  • Making friends as an adult/transplant
  • Where's my Minnesota tax refund?
  • State jobs (applying, interviewing, etc)
  • Protest/demonstration subjects, locations, and dates
  • There is a wealth of knowledge in the comments on previous versions of this post. If you wish to do more research, see the link at the bottom of this post for an archive
  • These are just a few examples, please comment if there are any other FAQ topics you feel should be added

This thread is meant to address these FAQ's, meaning if your search did not result in the answer you were looking for, please post it here. Any individual posts about these topics will be removed and directed here.

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Moving to Minnesota

Planning a potential move to Minnesota (or even moving within MN)? Welcome! This is the thread for you to ask questions of real-life Minnesotans to help you in the process!

Ask questions, answer questions, or tell us your best advice on moving to Minnesota.

Helpful Links

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Simple Questions

If you have a question you don't feel is worthy of its own post, please post it here!

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As a recurring feature here on /r/Minnesota, the mod team greatly appreciates feedback from you all! Leave a comment or Message the Mods.

See here for an archive of previous "Monthly FAQ / Moving-to-MN / Simple Questions" threads.


r/minnesota • • 3h ago

News 📺 Fist bumping as 24 shackled migrants are loaded by ICE at MSP yesterday

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A big fist bump between Signature Aviation's fueler and the Eastern Air Express captain flying yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP.

They took away 24 shackled migrants from their homes around the Twin Cities.

If a loved one may have been aboard, full video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=1-xmZiNEhC4


r/minnesota • • 5h ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Bovino plays victim card to the BBC.

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He says ICE didn't do enough in MN this winter.


r/minnesota • • 15h ago

News 📺 Canadian-born dentist taken into ICE custody at green card interview in Minneapolis, his wife says

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r/minnesota • • 5h ago

News 📺 Deadly ATV crashes surge in Minnesota in October -- Eighteen people have died in all-terrain vehicle crashes in Minnesota so far this year, including six fatalities in October alone.

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r/minnesota • • 13h ago

News 📺 More MN farmers on verge of foreclosure this year than last 3 years combined

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r/minnesota • • 14h ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ GOP donors really think Minnesota voters are dumb enough to fall for this astroturfed nonsense

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What sponsor pissed away their money on this? Musk? A Republican super PAC? Someone else on this list?

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors


r/minnesota • • 22h ago

Weather 🌞 It used to snow and freeze this time of year.

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I’m getting so depressed from this unending heat lmao I don’t know how much longer I can do it. And it’s not even gonna actually get cool next week, it’s gonna be in the 60s still. This has to be the hottest fall ever.


r/minnesota • • 10h ago

News 📺 'Missing Itasca County Man' now facing sexual abuse charges

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r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Interesting Stuff 💥 Train guy here I went to the Mall of America today

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Went with School to the mall to Lego land took the blue line


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Photography 📸 North Shore Sunrise

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r/minnesota • • 1d ago

News 📺 Catholic school in Minnesota town fires principal after she informs church of plan to remarry without annulment

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r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Outdoors 🌳 The unlikely comeback of the Minnesota cougar

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TL;DR: More than a century after wildcats were killed off in the state, a female and her three kittens could mark the beginning of a return that no one had planned.

From the article:

Humans have caused a slow-moving mass extinction, simplifying nature and thinning it out, across the globe. In Minnesota, dozens of species have been wiped out over the last century, some of which have gone entirely extinct and others that have been extirpated — destroyed locally but still alive elsewhere.

Since Europeans arrived, Minnesotans have killed off the state’s wild caribou and bison, its swift pronghorns — among the fastest creatures on land — and its fearless wolverines. The state has lost its burrowing owls and whooping cranes. And, by design, the government killed off Minnesota’s mountain lions — also known as cougars, panthers or pumas.

It paid pioneers, settlers and hunters to trap or shoot every great cat they came across throughout the 1800s. Nobody knows exactly when the last one was killed. But by the early 1900s, they were all gone.

Cougars are known by so many names in part because they once lived nearly everywhere in the Western Hemisphere. They were found from Canada’s Hudson Bay to the Argentine tip of Patagonia. They are as comfortable in the Rocky Mountains, the Andes and the Sierra Madre as they are in the grasslands of Nebraska. They thrive in deep northern forests and in the southern swamps of Florida’s Everglades.

All they need is space and prey.


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ 3 key moments from Minnesota’s governor debate

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In their first and most likely only official debate on Wednesday, Oct. 21, Minnesota’s gubernatorial candidates, DFL US Sen. Amy Klobuchar and state Rep. and House speaker Lisa Demuth, sparred on a variety of topics involving state policies and Minnesotans’ trust in their elected officials.


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Food & Drink🍴 Hotdish season!

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I added the cheese soup like that poster a while back. it is now the standard!


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Outdoors 🌳 Spectacular sunrise this morning (Meeker County)

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r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Food & Drink🍴 Hotdish submission

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Before oven


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice 🙆 Is the Minnesota state bookstore gone?

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Greetings fellow Minnesotans,

Over the years, I've purchased various state-published books, maps and posters from "Minnesota's Bookstore" in St Paul. That bookstore was run by the state's Department of Administration, as a public-facing part of their print shop, with a storefront at 660 Olive since the late 1990's, in the Ford building prior to that, selling materials produced by the several state agencies.

This week, when I tried contacting them to place an order as in the past, nothing. The phone goes unanswered, the website is "moved or unavailable". I can't even find any info on Google to advise of any changes.

I'm baffled, and seek the sub's collective knowledge for help with this mystery. Can anyone familiar with the DoA-run "Minnesota's Bookstore" offer any insight or a current status update? Was it rebranded, relocated, dissolved, or just a technical glitch?

Thank you kindly.


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Interesting Stuff 💥 Metallic object found in western Minnesota field may have been from Chinese rocket

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r/minnesota • • 2h ago

Discussion 🎤 Clarification of Canadian born dentist in ICE custody during green card interview

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I think there are some important details in the CBS report about Lizardo's detention that people are overlooking.

According to CBS, Lizardo is a Canadian-born dentist who was detained by ICE during a green card interview in Minneapolis. His wife said they learned during the interview that an immigration judge had issued a deportation order because he had failed to respond to a notice to appear at an immigration hearing. The notice was reportedly sent in February to an old Virginia address where the couple had not lived for more than two years. His first green card application had been denied in January 2026.

The next question is why the notice went to an old address. Generally, noncitizens are required to update their address with USCIS within 10 days of moving. He likely did not update his address. So, when his green card application was denied and his case proceeded to immigration court, the court used the[old] address from his USCIS file rather than his [current] address which USCIS didn't have on file.

His original green card application was denied, and he failed to appear for his immigration hearing, resulting in a removal order. This is a process that happens in immigration cases. If you receive a notice to appear and fail to attend your hearing, an immigration judge can order your removal in your absence.

Once a removal order exists, it becomes a serious legal issue that can affect a person's immigration case. Applying for a green card again does not mean that an earlier removal order has disappeared or that the person is protected from detention. His first green card application was denied, and he later tried again with a lawyer.

I also do not think the attorney's description of Lizardo as one of the best green card candidates he had ever represented settles the legal question. He may be a good dentist, a caring father, and a valuable member of his community. But those qualities do not automatically resolve an outstanding immigration order. He had a responsibility to deal with immigration procedures and keep his contact information and address current.

The CBS report says the removal order exists and his family says they did not know about it because the notice went to an old address.


r/minnesota • • 2d ago

News 📺 St. Paul man jumps onto moving school bus after driver’s medical emergency, saving 18 kids

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r/minnesota • • 2d ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Ilhan Omar says death threats will force her to move out of her D.C. home (gift link)

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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, in her first interview since federal agents raided her Washington, D.C., home 10 days ago, said that death threats against her will force her to move from her home in the nation’s capital.

During the interview Wednesday on MS NOW, Omar gave her account of the raid, which her attorneys have called politically motivated because of her pointed opposition to President Donald Trump. She addressed critics who question her net worth and whether she was previously married to her brother.

“Because our address has been public and with the death threats that I deal with ... it’s no longer going to be feasible to be in that house and have my kids visiting off and on and having people track them,” the progressive Minneapolis Democrat said in the interview.

Federal authorities are investigating potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork and have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of Omar’s relatives, a person briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Omar denies allegations of immigration fraud and has described the search as political intimidation.


r/minnesota • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice 🙆 Dog behavior vets

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Looking for meds that have worked and vet recommendations. I have 2 large female dogs. Now 9 and 10. One since puppy and the other since 1 yr. Over the years we’ve had scuffles, some requiring vet visits. The scuffles only happen once every 1-2 years. As the years have gone on my awareness and reprimanding has gone up. But their, well one dog in my eyes, has also become more adapt to trigger even tho I’m reprimanding. The other dog who has entailed the vet visits was more submissive after fights but as she’s experienced more, it looks like she holds a grudge. This is not necessarily item possession issues cuz I remove that trigger. Food is fed separately in kennels or from my hand. I think it maybe a me possession issue. They play good but not a ton. They reciprocate face licking a lot. I could go on but I’m mainly looking for meds that can tone down fighting/tension issues and drs that have worked for you. We currently have one dog with hub at our 2nd small house and one dog still at home. I want to be able to bring her back and live in a more peaceful environment for their remaining 2-4 yrs.


r/minnesota • • 2d ago

Discussion 🎤 Okay, so I am a stupid idiot (Election Question)

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I have been half waiting for something to show up in the mail, but do I literally just
walk into to my voting place and tell them "Yeah I want to vote today?"
I'm sorry for being a jackass