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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Minneapolis to be born?
FOUND CAT ALERT, please share! 🚨 This cat was in Washburn-Fair Oaks Park in Whittier, South Minneapolis today. She was sitting on a bench this morning, and was still there this afternoon, so we picked her up. Very friendly and tame, not chipped. Safe at our home. Comment or message with leads!
In that case, here's un petit amuse bouche to lighten the palate
how she would've fucked my life up from circa 2003-2009
The newly-built 1st Ave has hilarious amounts of ditch weed growing in its boulevard. Probably just springs up naturally from the soil in Whittier…
My friend goes “my Vitiligo on my foot’s started looking just like Lake Superior” and I’ll be goddamned:
Fascinating, the Twin Cities saw a 62% increase in manufacturing jobs from the height of domestic manufacturing work in the 1950s to 2002. Having grown up in “the rust belt” I always considered the Cities to be outside of it, and sure enough.
shared this with my South Shore crew. I don’t see it but somehow… she’s right
Looking through photos of sumptuous, beautiful marbles for a project and I unfortunately think I really like marbles.
A good way to measure ICE activity is the invaluable flight tracking happening by volunteers at MSP. Here’s what their data looks like from November to now:
Which is everyone most excited for: the colonialism rematch game, the Hapsburg game, the Viking invasion game, or the Nazi enablers game?
It’s pouring rain in Minneapolis right now and I’m on the porch watching people walking back from various events, soaked past the point of hurry. I think that is a special experiential space, where everyone is so drenched you just laugh and walk
There are levels of zonked most of us don’t get access to
A timelapse of the 1st Avenue S. full reconstruction, scheduled for completion this fall:
1880s Minneapolis city planners building way too wide streets for no reason
This is the face of a federal agent who has been asked to barge into a polling station and demand someone volunteering there remove a 100% Constitutionally-protected five month old Instagram post sharing public information from the news about the government, and is like “sigh… fine. that’s the job”
People don’t consider the invisible labor that goes into the cat tour. The feline cost.
Mueller Park, Minneapolis: 5 months ago (Operation Metro Surge) and today (Wedge Cat Tour)
Going to take this moment to share some of my favorite Stan Kelly line-ups:
The first text here are the offending paragraphs from the retracted article; the second is the Strib's explanation of the inaccuracies that led to the retraction:
The new Greenway access ramp connecting to 1st Avenue is built about halfway up. This will be the best protected bike route from the Greenway to downtown between the Chain of Lakes and the river.