yeah hittin minnesotans where it hurts
― j., Friday, 5 June 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
I guess it felt better to support local than, like, Sabra or whateverI think Emily's sells some too though
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 June 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Federal prosecutors charged Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, of St. Paul with arson in connection with the fire at the 3rd pct. in Mpls May 28. Police say at the time of Wolfe's arrest, he was wearing a tactical vest with his name written on a piece of duct tape stuck to the back. pic.twitter.com/jk0Lc79ron— Matt Sepic (@msepic) June 8, 2020
― j., Monday, 8 June 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.startribune.com/authorities-offering-5-000-for-information-about-suspected-arsonist-in-st-paul/571089712/
Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of a man they say set fire to a St. Paul neighborhood school and several businesses recently.The man was seen starting fires at several locations, including Gordon Parks High School. Authorities did not know where the man lives.
The man was seen starting fires at several locations, including Gordon Parks High School. Authorities did not know where the man lives.
― j., Monday, 8 June 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Holy Shit, I know those sunken eyes, that's the Autozone guy too!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 9 June 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
maybe
so he's the One Bad White Guy? hrrm
― mh, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
haha, well, apparently there were a lot of white dudes with skeletor faces out doing bad shit that night
― Dan I., Tuesday, 9 June 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
Members of the American Indian Movement are preparing to tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State capitol pic.twitter.com/8vLdELlxqG— Max Nesterak (@maxnesterak) June 10, 2020
― j., Wednesday, 10 June 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
now do nyc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
this 'scandal' regarding the MFF is making me actively furious
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
if you don't know, people are mad that the Minnesota Freedom Fund, dedicated to posting bail for activists, is getting dragged on all sides for having raised $35m in two weeks, and 'only' having spent 200k so far. people mad about this have literally no idea how anything works and they're carrying water for the far right. the BoD are already getting anti semitic death threats
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Just looked at it on Twitter, and it's so horrifying. Makes me sick seeing that much anti-Semitism in one place.
It's crazy that this is even a remotely successful fake scandal. IT'S A BAIL FUND! It uses money AS NEEDED to bail people out! The scandal would be if they'd somehow spent MORE than was needed for bail over the past two weeks. And they can't even be accused of deliberately collecting more than they needed, because once the donations started flooding in they told people to donate elsewhere and stopped accepting money.
― Greetings from CHAZbury Park (Lily Dale), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
otm. I am sick of bad faith scandals like this and they always fucking ALWAYS seem to start with a bunch of idiots on Twitter circle-jerking.
$200,000 spent in two weeks for bail for minor crimes that you get arrested for at protests = still a lot of money spent on bail!
$35 million spent in two weeks = someone at MFF has a coke habit and embezzled the money
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
I made a Twitter thread just to try get some clarity:
MFF Facebook post from May 29, the day after the police station went up in flames pic.twitter.com/YI94QwRhM3— Bernard Snowy (@wasntmebro) June 17, 2020
For further context: last night I saw some viral thing on Twitter calling out Black Visions Collective and Reclaim The Block (will look for the tweets in a minute) and saying "lol how convenient that the fake scandal around MFF is sucking up all the oxygen as this is going on...!"
Anyway the content of the tweets was not really important, just a lot of hearsay that I have no reason to credit. Worst case scenario, given those two organizations were signal-boosted by MFF early on, they could just be struggling with a version of the same drinking-from-the-firehose issue. At least one Minnesota ilxor in another thread specifically vouched for Reclaim The Block as a "great org" so I'm not too worried.
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
I expect not a single one of those fanning the flames donated one single dollar to any of these organizations.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/17/twin-cities-pride-cancels-2020-virtual-lgbtq-parade-honoring-ashley-rukes/
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
The idea a nonprofit could get that much money in such a short time and draft any sort of plan or statement of how they’re going to use those funds, when their core group is busy doing their primary task, over the course of several weeks, is an insane expectation
― mh, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
yeah, seriously. i'm sick of these insta-react scandals
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
if anything, pepole can protest knowing their bail will be covered out there
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
A lot of the criticism was way overblown, they definitely need to spend some time figuring out how to handle all that money.
I also think this is not an unreasonable demand.
'Community Call' for the @MNFreedomFund to set aside a small percentage of their funds for long-term legal support for all arrestees—even the ones with unsavory charges. We get free together or not at all! pic.twitter.com/05fDMuaWZZ— The Minnesota Wild (@lets_go_wild) June 18, 2020
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 18 June 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
yeah I totally agree with that, a lot of those "scary" charges are trumped up anyway
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 June 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/100027937897130/posts/609647896643135/?d=n
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Lay off the sugar, lay off the racism, I always say.
Yeah, when I heard they keep a decommissioned tank outside the store, I figured that it be the way it is
― Dan I., Friday, 24 July 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/minnesotas-largest-candy-store-got-a-tank-to-catch-bad-guys/565292121
― Dan I., Friday, 24 July 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
I grew up in MN and I've never heard of this place
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 24 July 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
yeah it's been there for a long time, can't miss it, but unless you were making the drive down 169 to Mankato there's no reason you'd know it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile, the Minneapolis City Council just eliminated the MPD's PIO position, which is unique.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
hello MPLS ilxors,
i'm looking for a roommate in a 2br in seward. it's a nice place, wood floors, nice big backyard and garden, chill other tenants and landlord. if you know anybody looking for a room you can reach me via ILX mail to inquire ! i've got some lines written about myself and the place + photos to provide. rent is $1400 split in half (so 700 each) and i'm looking for somebody for sept. 1st although for the right person i'm willing to eat first months' rent and wait up until oct. 1st.
thanks !!!
― budo jeru, Monday, 3 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
City Pages walks it back: http://www.citypages.com/news/lets-laugh-at-all-these-very-good-trump-has-covid-tweets/572612251
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
(Which is to say they pulled the story after complaints: http://www.citypages.com/news/a-statement-from-city-pages-publisher/572618101)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
yeah hopefully no one loses a job over that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah, either of them left over there.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
i didn't have a problem with that at all but winced a little knowing how it would be perceived and handled
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 3 October 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Sid Hartman has died. I was so sure he'd outlive us all.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
crazy run, unimaginable
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 October 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Sports writer out in extra innings. He’d like that.
In other news, the owner of Fjrst Avenue during the Purple Rain years, Allan Fingerhut, died on Friday. He was in my mom’s graduating class in high school.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
RIP city pages
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
Nooooooooooooooooooooo
― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
It's felt like an inevitability for awhile now, but still hate to see the end of alternative weeklies here.
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
their stream of content really slowed dramatically the past month or so, not surprising but sad. i hope some 501c3 model could crop up in its place. minn post does great stuff as does minnesota reformer but there has to be something covering arts and culture...
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
A GoFundMe for staff has been launched:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/assistance-for-city-pages-staff
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
so i was driving down minnehaha in MPLS and saw a group of (adult) people in halloween costumes walking north, a few blocks from lake street. one of those people, i'm not making this up, was dressed as ... a burning auto zone building. like, for real ??
― budo jeru, Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
ugh
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
any twin cities folk have a tip for buying a pair of (used) hockey skates? it's been a few years. i thought maybe the play it again sports on snelling next to cheapo but idk
― budo jeru, Saturday, 9 January 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
play it again probablyprobably not used stuff there but there's an old school sporting goods store called Bill St. Mane's on 38th St by Buster's on 28th in South, got my daughter skates there, they do sharpening there toohttp://www.stmanes.com/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 9 January 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
good info, thanks!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 9 January 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Is there a sadder MN headline than this Y or N pic.twitter.com/NjaGnE80Ci— Molly Priesmeyer (@mollypeonies) May 7, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 May 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
this is amazing
https://m.startribune.com/after-bitter-debate-minneapolis-to-cut-down-use-of-pesticides-in-parks/600068172/
― goole, Thursday, 17 June 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link