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A list of new blogs or old blogs that deserve attention! Feel free to put your new blog addiction in the comments.

Minnesota Monitor
http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/

It’s like the Old Country Buffett of the MN Blogosphere and I mean that in the best way possible. On one site you have REW from Power Liberals, Matt Martin from MN Publius, Joe Bodell from MNCR, Craig Cox and Abdi Aynte from TC Daily Planet, Jeff Fecke from Blog of the Moderate Left, Leigh Pomeroy from Vox Verax, Andy Birkey from Eleventh Ave South, Sara Reller from Broken Nails and Paul Schmelzer from Eyeteeth.

If that wasn’t enough, they also have a concise but powerful blog/news aggregator.

Current highlights - an upcoming interview with Coleen Rowley by Jeff Fecke and two stories from Abdi Aynte: the first part in a series on immigration and border security in northern Minnesota and a breaking story of an attack on a Minneapolis mosque.

Aynte is a talented journalist: watch out for him in the future.

Kiffmeyer Watch
http://www.kiffmeyerwatch.com/

This blog just launched Wednesday: all Mary Kiffmeyer, all the time. Nuff said.

Migrant Worker
http://blogs.princeton.edu/pia/personal/epay/

You might wonder how a blog about being an American migrant worker in China has to do with Minnesota. Well, very little actually. But author Even Pay did attend Carleton College and that’s enough of a Minnesotan connection for me to link to my new favorite on the ground blog in China.

If Even keeps this up she’ll soon be better than Shanghaiist and One Man Bandwidth: An American Professor in China combined.

Even’s friend Chris reminds me on GoKunming that Optimus Prime has defected to China. I’m not sure exactly when this happened, but it’s probably because Optimus saw the ridiculous flames they’ve put on him for the live action Transformers movie. I don’t know how to put this in stronger terms: Optimus Prime does not need flames. Period.

Other highlights:

• Tim Walz made the Netroots ActBlue page! This could be a huge boon for Walz but only if everyone chips in - he was added late so he’s already running behind the other candidates.Show the rest of the blogosphere that Walz is one of the best new candidates this cycle - bar none. Contribute now!

  As always, Bluestem Prairie is the authoritative blog for anything regarding MN-01.
  
  

• Patty Wetterling has won $5k from the “Pick a Progressive Patriot” contest sponsored by U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D–WI) Progressive Patriots Fund!

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