What are the load-bearing posts of our time? Obviously 'facing god and walking backwards into hell' and 'miette' are up there. Does Ed Balls still count? PS if you can parse this you should probably log off
BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.
A cloud of phosgene gas, the same chemical agent that killed 85,000 people during World War I, was released by Norfolk Southern Railroad in Ohio and nobody is talking about it
Hot damn this blew up
This is Athena, my emotional support cat
She and I wish to dedicate this to all trans and gender nonconforming comrades throughout the world
❗️If you’re on an iPhone install iOS 15.6.1 ASAP. It patches major security vulnerabilities. How major? Like bad enough for a remote user to execute code with kernel-level access. That’s really bad❗️
If you’re the kind of person who thinks a bench warrant for one (1) missed court date warrants the same death penalty allegedly abolished by the state of Minnesota in 1911 then I really don’t know what to say to you
The Swifties rolling into town and being allowed to camp outside downtown without any threat of police harassment, personal property destruction or worse sticks very pointedly in the craw
People aren’t mad about Taylor Swift they’re mad about this city and its prioritizing of entertainment and infrastructure for comfortable white people in the suburbs over residents
@IntelligntSteak
You mean to say that pathological hoarders who see other humans as bags of warm meat to be exploited or killed based on how it impacts their respective net worths have failed at interpersonal relationships? Shocking
Joanne, it’s POTS or PoTS in the form of English that you’ve regurgitated upon the world
Either way, carry on pissing on people fighting chronic illness for being mean to a billionaire
Minneapolis people:
If you rent and your heat is either not working at all or can’t maintain a room temperature of at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20° C) these are your rights and resources per municipal ordinance
The chief of police of a department under state and federal investigation got a $70K pay raise from the same city that has public schools unable to afford soap and toilet paper
And you’re here still asking about why Minneapolis people are Nice until we start talking politics
Heads up Twin Cities.
Tuesday morning may actually be the worst commute with this sloppy storm.
Freezing temperatures overnight and another shot of ice and snow ❄️ Tuesday morning will produce slick roads!!
#mnwx
FULL STATEMENT: The White House urges OPEC+ to pump more oil (above and beyond the current 400,000 b/d monthly hikes the cartel is already implementing) |
#OOTT
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My dude, I’ve got some bad news about your great-grandparents, the kind of people they were and what they believed
When we build the Great Lakes Socialist Federation Edmund Fitzgerald Day will be declared a holiday in its constituent states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
I’m sorry, but saying he had a gun is not enough evidence from bad faith actors of the caliber of an interim chief of MPD and Jacob Frey
We need body cam footage. NOW
@SleazyC_
1: it really doesn’t hold up
2: Berger was the most believable of Carrie’s boyfriends; she and Aidan had almost nothing in common
3: Team Samantha
4: Harry Goldenblatt was one of the best characters on the show and certainly one of the most attractive
What we are seeing right now in Minneapolis is a convergence between centrist liberals and the far right that may or may not indicate a significant innovation in fascist discourse
A quickie thread
What Freeman and Ellison are arguing is that if police want to kill you for whatever reason, at whatever time, you’re dead
You have no right to even attempt to defend yourself. Responding with force commensurate to an illegal entry is not an affirmative defense
Right now in Stillwater, MN, a group of incarcerated people who’d been in an AC-less lockdown at 95° temperatures has stood up
They haven’t been able to bathe or have any ice for a number of days
The water running to their cells is brown
Solidarity to all of them
I would like for Jacob Frey to be surrounded by members of the gang he inflicts on us and forced to watch as they destroyed every single one of his earthly possessions while jeering at him
St Paul police have announced that an arrest has been made in connection with the murder investigation that caused Minneapolis police to murder Amir Locke
The arrest was made in Winona
Over a hundred miles away from Minneapolis
This is outright malpractice in journalism. It’s not “neighbors say,” there is a racial equity impact study from 2021 that was done by the city
Its data show that the rate of asthma cases in East Phillips are between two and four times the average in Minnesota
@edburmila
@NickKristof
Is it possible a tenured professor at Harvard who makes $140K per year might feel a little....class solidarity with the wet president?
Minneapolis police do not clear even 38% of annual homicides
Every year thousands of violent crimes go unreported because people assume that any MPD interaction will only add to the trauma
I was one of those people
Heads up Minneapolis:
I’ve heard from a confidential source that the National Guard will be on standby to defend the white supremacist state this weekend
Stay careful stay dangerous
*pushes button*
[Loudspeaker]
Attention Walgreens associates! Customer assistance is needed in the personal lubricant case. Repeat: customer assistance to lube
@jerrysaltz
Yeah, that’s how they got chumps like Wayne Shorter, Larry Carlton, Chuck Rainey, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, Anthony Jackson, Michael Omartian to play on their records
@CriminalUnionFW
@Waitareyouawake
Holy shit, that’s some of the water supply to Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and that’s not even including runoff to tributaries
Locking toothpaste up in stores has nothing to do with loss prevention and everything to do with psychological tactics designed to remind white people of Crime and that they’re in Danger unless they accept more security theatrics
St. Paul officers were involved in a shooting off of the 100 block of Western Avenue S, the department said.5 EYEWITNESS NEWS photographers on scene say a person was taken away in an ambulance. Police tape was set up and officers were investigating.Ther...
We aren’t responsible for the suburbs. For the most part their denizens contribute nothing to this community but pollution, real estate fuckers and their failsons
Minnesotans who are 21 or older can start buying edibles and beverages that contain THC — the ingredient in cannabis that gets you high — under a new state law that takes effect Friday.
About 30 hours ago Mark Hanneman decided to end Amir Locke’s life in an interval of nine seconds
We demand body cam footage
We demand that he be fired with cause and no longer allowed to endanger the people of Minneapolis
We demand that he be arrested and charged with murder
Today I left an abusive relationship
I wanted to help my mother confront her own unresolved trauma and how it has damaged both of us
I tried to fix her, enduring closeting, ableism, disregard for boundaries etc
I told her what her husband did to me
And now I’ve had enough
Information has been made available concerning the victim. Its source is not entirely trustworthy
Name was Amir Locke. He had an active Minnesota concealed carry permit and was sleeping on the couch of a family member’s apartment
He was not wanted. MPD executed an innocent man
I’m at the failed police department. I’m at a barren, Soviet-style Nicollet Mall. I’m at the combination failed police department and barren, Soviet-style Nicollet Mall
I’m in Minneapolis
I am once again reminding the city of Minneapolis that ice and snow seriously limit participation of disabled people in society at any level of mobility support needs
Watching this elder have to plead to sentient turds like Michael Rainville, Lisa Goodman, LaTrisha Vetaw et al. to not turn her home into a toxic waste dump is the most damning indictment possible of the system
All of Mpls is very displeased about the Uber/Lyft ordinance.
The email includes, among other things, a claim that people with disabilities and visitors "will be left stranded," because apparently Uber/Lyft are the only transportation services in the city. Big if true.
Fun fact: Brian Cummings, the officer charged with criminal vehicular homicide and manslaughter II for hitting and killing Leneal Frazier, has not yet been fired from the Minneapolis Police Department
Andy Warhol’s father Andriy Varhola emigrated to the US from what was then the Kingdom of Hungary in 1914. The family were Lemkos, spoke Carpathian Rusyn and had no affiliation with any Ukrainian state or Ukrainian ethnicity
Nick Magrino is one of Frey’s drinking buddies. He works for the city and has been a personal friend for years now
Naturally the bastion of journalism that is Glen Taylor’s Star-Tribune disclosed neither the professional nor personal connections