The Muck and the Meir

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Excerpt from Myor Frey’s letter reads: “ood, there is no data to show that it does good. Pande”

oh okay, apply this standard to mpd funding

My phone just corrected faucet to Faust. Come on now.

Protip: when the electrician pressures you into signing that the work is complete before they can schedule an inspection of it, you can just say no.

Broom apprentices stick together I suppose

Listening to early David Bowie to get my whimsy on

"I fear some [council members] are indifferent." Have you paid someone's rent, organized a fundraiser, gone on patrol, found someone an attorney, done someone's laundry, delivered groceries, held a baby of someone sheltering in fear? "If not you may be too far removed to have good judgment."

a man with a mustache says king in de castle king in de castle ALT: a man with a mustache says king in de castle king in de castle

Me when you make the chair

No, my argument is that you are making ignorant and corrosive claims based on your personal experience of disliking Jews. That tells me enough about you that it’s time to end this discussion.

My argument is a lot simpler than that. Anecdotes != evidence. Words have meaning. You’re free to dislike being called a goy, that doesn’t mean that the word means anything other than “non-Jew”

Exactly. You can call me a short fat self centered jerk, and none of those things feel good, but they’re also not slurs.

No, that’s not the definition of a slur. Nor is “goy” designed to denigrate even if that were the definition.

Yeah, this isn’t helpful or accurate. Just because you have experienced anecdotal discomfort doesn’t mean…anything.

So, as Minnesotans, do we still have to pay federal taxes?

A few of my friends ended up getting expelled over it.

I was friends with his son. The dad was never there so we’d throw parties after school most days.

Holy shit. I hung out at this guy’s house all the time in high school. He was never there but…damn.

My team does atomic commits and PRs, but I’m 67 PRs in on my current story and let me tell you, that is too many.

Why is the trans law center following one of my cis exes on instagram?

Sometimes getting your wife appliances for her birthday is okay

Honeydew is the industrial tomato of melons … flavorless due to capitalism, not its inherent properties.

I recently started using my 2010 Kindle and this thing has better battery life than any of my newer devices. Still works like a charm.

I appreciate it but I assure you I’m already insufferable.

That’s a really bad one 🙅‍♂️

That being said, wfh has really made me step up my lounge wear game.

I wore pencil skirts and silk blouses with a full face to work for a decade. Now that I’m working in tech, everyone wears jeans and sneakers and I’m a little salty that I don’t get to wear suits unless I’m going to a wedding or something.

Surely there is no more annoying autocorrect than “he’ll yeah”

Opens a can of worms, but I’d support denying state Local Government Aid for any municipality signing a 287(g) agreement with the Feds. Isle got $97k from LGA — which just about offsets the $107,500 the Feds will give them for terrorizing people of color. Let LGA go to places upholding justice.