Jake Lovett
Currently: Kentuckian; designer, The Minnesota Star Tribune. Formerly: 206th Editor, Iowa State Daily; Iowan. Briefly: Texan, Washingtonian. Probably: Watching soccer or the nearest birds. Allons-y.
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- hell yeah now it's an Olympics www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
- This brought tears to my eyes this morning. "This is the strangers' case; and this your mountainish inhumanity."
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- Reposted by Jake Lovettthe Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing
- It's been such a joy to watch this story come together from the sidelines. Shoutout to Lindsey Vonn for skiing through the whole ACL thing so that we could still publish it. www.startribune.com/five-mountai...
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- Reposted by Jake Lovettwith his $253.2 billion, Jeff Bezos could afford to pay 100 sportswriters $100,000 a year for the next 25,000 years
- Reposted by Jake Lovettagain we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
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- Reposted by Jake Lovett"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
- Reposted by Jake LovettI expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
- One. Third.
- Reposted by Jake LovettA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- Incandescent with rage watching friends and colleagues post one-by-one they've lost their jobs at what was once a place at which I dreamed of working.
- Reposted by Jake LovettSeven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
- Reposted by Jake LovettPlease don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
- Reposted by Jake LovettI truly believe there is nothing more important that civic-minded multi-millionaires could do right now than start up local newspapers and run them at a small but steady loss and the benefits are amazing -- everyone has to talk to you and you get to act like you're a good and important person
- Reposted by Jake LovettBezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- Reposted by Jake LovettCrestfallen and f$&@ furious about the closure as we know it of @postsports.bsky.social by an indifferent, compromised owner and a failing publisher — a dept of Povich and Boswell, Wilbon and Kornheiser, Gildea and Sheinin, of poets, authors, Hall of Famers and Pulitzer finalists. A terrible day.
- Reposted by Jake Lovettsports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop
- Reposted by Jake LovettWaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast “Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said More in tonight’s Status
- Reposted by Jake LovettSo fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.
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- This sucks: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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- Coming in Wednesday's @startribune.com, a look ahead to the 2026 Winter Olympics and the Minnesotans of Team USA — with 16 original illustrations by yours truly. www.startribune.com/2026-winter-...
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- Lindsey all due respect this is a wild choice!!!
- Columbus, Ohio: Olympics host city.
- Doesn’t seem like enough, tbh.
- Reposted by Jake LovettThe woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
- Reposted by Jake LovettA reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days
- More Olivia Dean, please. Always more Olivia Dean.
- Reposted by Jake LovettA note from our editors:
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- Rayan Cherki, the player you are!!!
- Kerolin, the player you are!!!
- Coming in Sunday's @startribune.com: Inside Whipple: Packed rooms, overflowing toilets, limited access to lawyers. www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
- Reposted by Jake Lovett"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- SEEMS BAD apnews.com/article/lind...
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- Reposted by Jake Lovettphotographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.
- Reposted by Jake LovettYou have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
- JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Jake LovettWorth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
- Reposted by Jake LovettKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Jake LovettAlex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
- Reposted by Jake LovettAn overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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- Coming in Sunday's @startribune.com: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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- Reposted by Jake LovettSayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."
- Reposted by Jake LovettMan shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Jake LovettHere's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- Reposted by Jake LovettGotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
- Reposted by Jake LovettTomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
- Reposted by Jake LovettAnti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
- Reposted by Jake LovettFinished is better than terrible #oldknees
