Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/17/twin-cities-pride-cancels-2020-virtual-lgbtq-parade-honoring-ashley-rukes/

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

yeah, seriously. i'm sick of these insta-react scandals

if anything, pepole can protest knowing their bail will be covered out there

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

yeah I totally agree with that, a lot of those "scary" charges are trumped up anyway

https://www.facebook.com/100027937897130/posts/609647896643135/?d=n

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

http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/minnesotas-largest-candy-store-got-a-tank-to-catch-bad-guys/565292121

I grew up in MN and I've never heard of this place

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

Meanwhile, the Minneapolis City Council just eliminated the MPD's PIO position, which is unique.

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 !!!

City Pages walks it back: http://www.citypages.com/news/lets-laugh-at-all-these-very-good-trump-has-covid-tweets/572612251

(Which is to say they pulled the story after complaints: http://www.citypages.com/news/a-statement-from-city-pages-publisher/572618101)

yeah hopefully no one loses a job over that

Yeah, either of them left over there.

i didn't have a problem with that at all but winced a little knowing how it would be perceived and handled

Sid Hartman has died. I was so sure he'd outlive us all.

crazy run, unimaginable

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.

RIP city pages

Nooooooooooooooooooooo

It's felt like an inevitability for awhile now, but still hate to see the end of alternative weeklies here.

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...

A GoFundMe for staff has been launched:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/assistance-for-city-pages-staff

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 ??

ugh

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

play it again probably

probably 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 too

http://www.stmanes.com/

good info, thanks!

Is there a sadder MN headline than this Y or N pic.twitter.com/NjaGnE80Ci

— Molly Priesmeyer (@mollypeonies) May 7, 2021

this is amazing

https://m.startribune.com/after-bitter-debate-minneapolis-to-cut-down-use-of-pesticides-in-parks/600068172/

damn that went places

merry xmas at the Guthrie!

First play at the Guthrie in over 600 days. Still hasn’t been kicked out. pic.twitter.com/II4d2XJKjs

— Jake (@ekajmw) November 13, 2021

Lol I saw that. Do you know the context? I couldn't really understand what she was mad about.

Props to the Tweeter in the mentions who called this A Christmas Karen.

Lol

Allegedly upset after the couple in the row in front of her took a selfie (the angle suggests it was a covert attempt to get her in the shot, so).

still nice to see a white woman can rage for 40+ minutes, spit on someone for telling her to put her mask on (which someone from Twitter says happened to their boyfriend), and be allowed to just...keep doing it.

to be fair they did have to wait for police I guess

Sounds like schizophrenia.

in which case I don't think I'd want police to handle

given what the Guthrie Theater I wouldn't imagine generally has much in the way of security or many problems with rowdy patrons

yeah, in past years (esp pre-pandemic) usually the worst most theatres nationwide had to deal w/ was people illegally taking pics with cell phones. don't know much about the Guthrie but I can see how this is something you don't exactly expect or immediately have an easy way of dealing with.

backing off my kneejerk reaction a bit

in my experience it's usually a nice senior citizen with a flashlight who show you to your seat is about the extent of it

Lmao

NEW: Republican Sen. Jim Abeler, who chairs the MN Senate human services reform committee, tells me he did not realize the new MN law allowing THC edibles would do just that. He thought it would just regulate delta-8 THC products, said the Legislature should roll the new law back

— Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) June 30, 2022

We hear you. Tonight’s show has been cancelled at First Avenue and is moving to the Varsity Theater. See our full statement for more. pic.twitter.com/tkf7rz0cc7

— First Avenue (@FirstAvenue) July 20, 2022

Whew, we're in trouble here