Stacey Burns

have you called Jacob Frey today?

Don’t worry, you won’t have to talk to anyone. Just leave a message.

This was his actual response to the question “Why hasn’t Target taken a stronger stand against ICE?” (Source: AP; link in quoted post)

This.

Why protect the landed class when the balance is someone losing their home?

Can we please bring back “rentier” as a dirty word?

Glorious. Transcendent. Borderless. (No longer pinned, but this was the post, with both the U.S. and Mexico in frame):

“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke

Ooh, since you know someone who actually delivers the Strib: can you ask them how I can tip the NYT delivery folks? The same person brings both papers, but there’s no tip option in the NYT online payment form (the Strib has a line for delivery tips). Do I have to be up at 5 am and hand it to them?

Didn’t they open for The Waterboys?

And every turn, the Republicans who represent these communities have voted against protections for their kids.

I was 14 and had yet to learn about the Catholics and their bureaucracy

Gone to Stay YouTube video by Freakwater - Topic

As someone raised atheist, have never ever grasped why anyone thinks religious belief is necessary to live and act morally.

Or as Freakwater puts it:

There's nothing so pure as the kindness of an atheist

A simple act of unselfishness that never has to be repaid

When and if the paper *is* delivered, the March 6 front page features a story that ran online two days ago, with the words “heated ICE” in the print headline

Well, that answers my question about where the NYT edition that’s distributed in Mpls is printed.

We cancelled our Strib a few weeks ago but kept the Times so we could taper off our print habit, and: no NYT today.

I went to a friend’s Methodist church and encountered communion for the first time at a relatively late age (14) and I was MORTIFIED. You want us to eat WHAT? And drink WHAT?! How is this not symbolic cannibalism?! I gagged. When I told my mom she allowed that maybe she should have warned me.

A more formal religious background would’ve helped in some instances (a fuller understanding of art & literature, for example), but otherwise I’ve always appreciated the lifelong remove. Not that I inherited the rigid posture of rejection that my mom possessed. Though I do recall one time when

My parents were devout atheists, and my brother and I would occasionally attend services with grandparents or friends whose families were aghast at the heathens in their midst and insisted on it after a sleepover. Like going to a museum, but with less context provided.

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

@ilhanmn.bsky.social doing the right thing, as usual. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with the rest of these Dem fools.

“Your anger, and for some of you boycotts, did not come up at Tuesday’s meeting. And that’s because your issues are not the toughest Target faces.”

Translation: Target says, “Go fuck yourselves, libs.”

Doctors sound alarm as ICE presence delays pregnancy care Many pregnant immigrants have faced difficult decisions in recent weeks as they balanced having a safe birth and the risk being detained by ICE, Twin Cities health providers say.

We should be so lucky as to have a corps of NHS midwives on bicycles à la Call the Midwife.

But what do you do when your patient needs a transfusion or complicated surgery and ICE is the wolf at the door?!

I simply do not believe that even Senate Brain could make someone respect Markwayne Mullin

this is awesome (and you should enter it in the state fair art competition) ❤️

burnnnn

A good day to remember that multiple local law enforcement chiefs and Our Mayor have made public statements this year trying to normalize and defend pre-surge DHS/ICE. They hunger to return to the old arrangement, not to dismantle the post-19/11, anti-immigrant machinery that made this possible

Conference calls are so early 2000s

The Minneapolis council member on the front lines of the resistance to ICE • Minnesota Reformer When heavily-armed federal agents and Minneapolis police officers surrounded a Lake Street taco shop in June, Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez was incensed.  “This is completely wrong,” Ch...

Chavez isn't the only progressive elected official who has been out on the streets during Operation Metro Surge and beyond — but he is possibly the most personally affected by the operation. Two of his uncles have been deported in the past few months.

If I were to return with the intention of sticking around for a while, I think — I hope — I'd manage to gravitate to my community, but who knows...I know I'd be angry a lot, which isn't great

maybe it's because I immediately and abruptly (if fleetingly) go back to feeling what it was like to be a 17 yo there, and I'm just conjuring up ghosts

there are places I've always hated there and places I've always loved, and I still harbor the suspicion/resentments as well as the affection

Seeing “Weird AI” in sans serif always triggers a “who’s on first” volley in my mind’s ear

Living here for two decades—longer than I’ve ever been anywhere, longer than I expected to be here—has been a trip. The last three months are what has really cemented it, though.

Yes, and I have great affection for Texas and many of its people. I miss it. But every time I return to visit I feel the differences acutely, and thinking about what kinds of public services I’ll need as I continue to age (Bastet willing)—just as one example—I know going back would be a mistake