Writer of long reads and short podcasts. Host of The Object podcast @artsmia.
Joined May 2012
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Tim Gihring retweeted
12 Sep 2025
if you do not know what oWo is or uWu then stop posting about this shooter like Bryant Gumbel in 1994 trying to explain the world wide web on the Today Show
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Tim Gihring retweeted
12 Sep 2025
Seems not ideal that we got a bunch of people at the ATF and FBI seemingly unfamiliar with internet/gamer culture when that’s basically like the biggest radicalization threat in the entire country at the moment
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Tim Gihring retweeted
10 Sep 2025
Charlie Kirk was not a good person, but his death isa tragedy.
Today I am reminded that what America needs to turn down the temperature on political violence is a complete democratic overhaul to a proportional representation system that punishes, rather than rewards, extremism.
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Tim Gihring retweeted
9 May 2025
“As you saw the president say today. Last night, he took my deal, and he made it better. Last night! So I’m always going to let the best dealmaker in the world be the closer every time.” - Howard Lutnick
The Nutlicker is working overtime today!
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6 Aug 2024
Time to re-up this @MinnPost piece on Paul Wellstone’s legacy, as Tim Walz was directly inspired by Wellstone’s grassroots, joyful approach to run for office in the first place. “Politics doesn’t need to be a pejorative,” he told me. minnpost.com/politics-policy…
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16 Dec 2023
Hold that flag. I think we’ve got the new MN flag design right here in my wild rice/turkey hot dish dinner.
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15 Jul 2023
One of the best things I’ve read in a while. But also, as a journalist you make your living asking others to be vulnerable for you. Bill got that, and in the end he reciprocated in a big way.
15 Jul 2023
Bill Alkofer, a St. Paul Pioneer Press photojournalist, dies at 61. And he shared what his last weeks were like to show the toll of dying from ALS.
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13 Jun 2023
It’s every podcaster’s dream to make Apple’s list of new and noteworthy shows. Today was that day for The Object at @artsmia. Very grateful.
12 Jun 2023
Mia’s podcast, The Object, is currently featured on Apple Podcasts—across all devices—as one of its top shows of the week! Listen to “Dangerous Liaisons: What Happened to the First Queer Art Star?” on Apple Podcasts or here: bit.ly/42CEhSb
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Tim Gihring retweeted
23 May 2023
via ruby slippers correspondent @TimGihring:
After two decades of the slippers being caught up in accusation and suspicion, the fandom remains unsettled.
“It’s obviously not closure,” one says, “it’s an upturned yellow brick in the road.”
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23 May 2023
I went down the yellow brick road once more for the latest on the world’s most famous pair of purloined pumps. Stay crazy, Oz!
Four times, Michael Shaw drove from his apartment in the San Fernando Valley to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, bearing his pair of ruby slippers, and displayed them in a Plexiglass case in the Judy Garland Museum. Three times, he took them home. minnpost.com/arts-culture/20…
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Tim Gihring retweeted
18 May 2023
For background on this whole ruby slippers thing, you gotta read this one by @TimGihring. minnesotamonthly.com/archive… via @MNMOmag
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Tim Gihring retweeted
21 Apr 2023
*lies and damn lies. I actually know exactly what I'll do with myself if the Kensington Rune Stone turns out to be true. I'll ask Tim what he thinks, because he wrote the definitive story a while back. @TimGihring
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14 Apr 2023
After all the fuss about a “long winter,” ice out on Lake of the Isles today is only two days later than average.
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13 Mar 2023
Citing fossil fuel as necessary for the “energy transition” and “a bridge to the future” is the new climate denialism. How long are pols like @MaryPeltola going to try to frame this as reasonable—5, 10, 30 years? thehill.com/opinion/congress…
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Tim Gihring retweeted
8 Mar 2023
Season 5, Episode 1 of The Object just dropped: “The Department of Missing Limbs.” Ancient statues missing arms, legs, heads, or other appendages seem strangely normal now. What happened to these objects? Listen here: bit.ly/3JKUYD7 or wherever you get your podcasts.
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8 Mar 2023
Always a pleasure chatting with @CathyWurzer. ‘The Object' podcast launches its fifth season on the hidden stories behind @artsmia collection mprnews.org/episode/2023/03/… via @mprnews
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7 Mar 2023
Always nice to make a “best” list, in this case best museum podcasts for The Object @artsmia. Being compared to @ThisAmerLife is just icing on the pod cake. thepodcasthost.com/business-…
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1 Mar 2023
In four seasons of The Object, I’ve covered Nazi-killing cars, assassin-proof forks, dueling novelists, and murderous popes. And yet I think this next one might be the most fun yet.
1 Mar 2023
Mia’s award-winning podcast, The Object, begins its fifth season on Monday, March 6, turning to some of the most persistent questions about art and museums. Learn more and listen to the last four seasons: bit.ly/3wzgZjp
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Tim Gihring retweeted
1 Mar 2023
Mia’s award-winning podcast, The Object, begins its fifth season on Monday, March 6, turning to some of the most persistent questions about art and museums. Learn more and listen to the last four seasons: bit.ly/3wzgZjp
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