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Hell yea

 

Huge blow to the local arts scene. I always turned to them to see what local events were happening when I needed something to do on the weekends. Although their coverage at times was hyperbolic and "clickbaity", they were instrumental in serving as an alternative outlet to the mainstream ones..

 

Damn that really sucks.

 

wtf

 

dang man, that’s a huge fucking bummer

 

We live in hell.

And yet it’s still better here than most of the US.

 

There was something about going to a coffee shop / restaurant and grabbing that paper copy of the city pages on the way out that I am going to miss forever

 

lol what the fuck

And all the on air personalities have been taken off already, I’m gonna miss my boy auggie 5K in the mornings

 

This is still accurate, even more so today!

 

Really pissed that a) Strib shut down City Pages and b) they are actively stopping efforts for people to archive those articles. Why didn't they just try to sell it?!

 

Minnesota Hardcore | A Music History Series | Twin Cities PBS Originals

 

Another reminder to listen to Bob Mould. Especially today.

 

When Vita.mn was a thing, I liked that paper waaaay more than City Pages

 

also killed by Star Tribune

 

Barely made it past the governors mansion on my run before the crazies overtook it.

Stay the fuck at home today.

 

Fuck fascists

 

We have family in the Twin Cities area that we obviously haven't seen in almost a year, but it really feels like the next time up there will be really really strange. A lot of our favorite spots have closed (Muddy Waters, Butcher and the Boar, Bellecour) and a bunch of our favorite artists have been outed as not very good people. Weird to care more about the closings in a city 4 hours away than the one you live in that hasn't been as deeply affected.

 

The Schlotzsky's in Edina was the last one in the state and when it shut down a few weeks ago it fucking crushed me. My dad and I would eat there every other weekend since I was in Elementary School :(

 

If anyone knows of someone who has been unable to pay rent and their landlord is fucking with them in some way because of it, especially with an eviction, tell them to get some legal counsel ASAP. Even if you go to a private attorney rather than some legal aid office, most lawyers will at least give a cursory look at a case for free. I mainly do criminal defense but my office mate and I have been doing some tenant work the past couple months and good fucking lord these landlords are losing their minds over not being able to evict people for nonpayment of rent right now. Some really crazy stuff and I’m concerned there are so many more cases where the landlords get away with it because the tenant just gives up because they figure they’re screwed in court. Which, normally that’s true because housing court is just lay-up after lay-up for any landlord that just follows the normal simple procedures, but the moratorium makes that more difficult and so that - on top of not getting their typical rent money - seems to be making some of them do wildly illegal shit

 

Tool finally launched to sign up and get alerted when you're eligible to get vaccinated and where

Vaccine Connector / COVID-19 Updates and Information - State of Minnesota

 

Latest on COVID-19: Minnesota to open vaccine shots to all 16 and older - MPR News

 

I have the worst feeling in my gut about this week.

 

Anything other than a full conviction in the strongest terms will lead to big protests and most likely riots

 

My prediction:

He walks with a hung jury, on all charges. The demographics of the jury show plenty of folks who, broadly speaking, would give a pass to a cop under the guise of a reasonable doubt.

All the defense needs is one person who isn’t 100% there and will stick to their convictions about not convicting.

I feel sick.