Hello,

I love your fine city!

We came for a long weekend trip to visit my wife's cousin, friends, and grandma's grave.

The people are amazingly chill and sweet. I visited from SF Bay Area and enjoyed complete absence of tech bros and AI billboards.

We saw Waiting For Godot at Guthrie and what a superb performance it was.

We love MIA. I discovered Crop Art. Thank you nice bartender at the Picnic.

Landmark Center is like time travel. Mineapolis Arboretum is beautiful. I love looking at old mansions in the Summit. The cemetery in Carver was touching

The lakes, the bridges, the river are full of life.

Visiting Paisley Park was a long dream of mine.

We popped at the Great Mall to check it off my American Things bucket list and I am in awe of the indoor amusement park.

All the food we had was flavorful and inventive. Special mention to Nightingale. I can find food this good that late in SF.

Thank you for your amazing city!

Average MPD interaction:

But hey their salaries and OT are totally justified

I mentioned because it is not coming or going in the direction from the Whipple building and I also have not seen any movement in quite a while in this neighborhood despite it being so close

The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.

The suits names as defendants Jonathan Ross, the agent who killed Good as she sat in her SUV on Portland Avenue, numerous other federal agents and various current and former Trump administration officials.

“Renee’s death was not an accident,” read a news release from Chicago-based Romanucci & Blandin, the law firm representing Good’s family members. “It was the predictable result of a coordinated campaign by senior officials in this administration to target Minnesotans of Somali or Hispanic origin and silence anyone who dared to raise their voice in protest.

“Operation Metro Surge was built on exaggerated fraud accusations that the White House embraced as a pretext for thousands of masked, unidentified federal agents to rove neighborhoods and stop people based on how they looked. Administration officials told agents to force confrontations with observers like Renee and led agents to believe they would face no consequences for using force.”

Gift link here to read more on this developing story.

Her commercial. I totally agree about the president committing fraud and scamming taxpayers out of money to enrich himself and his family. The fraud and corruption indeed has to stop. But why would she speak so poorly of her own party? /s

I turned on my heater today, so you can expect Second Summer anytime now.

Werent 3 kids detained? What do I even do in this situation? I move out of Minneapolis in a week. Do I get to repair right away just for it be broken again?

It's gonna be raining this week.

When I walk around my neighborhood I see so many young trees on the verge of death from this drought. Young trees don’t have root systems large enough to tap into ground water. They need our help. This is our city’s future canopy. Drag the hose out there or even a bucket or a couple pitchers of water and help them out. Thank you to everyone that cares enough to do this. 🙏

Jake Lang was confronted by community members today in front of Minneapolis City Hall.

Police arrested several people at the protest and later arrested Lang and his entourage.

Link to news story about the event and Lang’s arrest: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/jake-lang-rally-in-minneapolis-draws-some-clashes-with-counter-protesters/

If you're out of the loop: pardoned J6 rioter Edward Jacob Lang held a 'protest' at MPLS city hall today, where he originally planned to just yell the N-word a bunch of times, or something. Naturally, the locals didn't like that.

He was chased out of downtown (again) and picked up either at Washington Avenue or near MOA, (it's unclear) and he and his associates were all arrested on probable cause of riot, per MPD.

Among those arrested on riot charges this afternoon are:

• Edward Jacob Lang, 31 of Florida
  • Pardoned J6 rioter
  • Pulled a similar stunt at city hall this past winter wherein he was going to burn a Quran. Was chased out of town.
  • Arrested and charged for knocking over a "PROSECUTE ICE" sculpture at the state capitol. Trial is set for October.
  • Due to appear in court in DC on September 2 for probation violation, faces 180 days in jail if found.
• Jayden Scott, 23 of Michigan
  • Has had bench warrants out of Michigan for missing court and travelling to Minnesota during Metro Surge
  • Also post a video online appearing to threaten Andrew Mercado, local independent journalist
  • Was detained at Whipple by federal agents in January after 'instigating violence,' per Unicorn Riot
• Matthew Norby, 37 of Minnesota
  • Charged in 2025 after allegedly destroying an Easter display on MN Capitol Grounds
• Matthew Oduguwa, 31 of Minnesota
• John Irwin, 32 of Michigan
• Stephen Major, 42 of Minnesota
  • Multiple disorderly conduct priors
• Charles Miles Jr., 73 of Michigan
• Eric Dawson, 53 of Minnesota

Arrestees will likely remain in custody until at least Monday, when they will be seen by a judge to determine bail.

All suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

they never used to care about us like that 🥱 let’s give em a show then 😏😂

❤️💙🕷️🕸️

Thought this would be appreciated here.

I brought an out of town visitor to the Walker Art Center this week and we were disappointed to see so much AI garbage throughout the new Olalekan Jeyifous exhibit, “Hydricosmic Litanies”. There were three looping videos that were obviously AI along with many graphics that appeared to be AI generated. WTF? Nowhere in the exhibit did they let guests know that Jeyifous used AI, which feels so shady and wrong.

I talked to a Walker staffer and they said they’re not allowed to provide an official statement but agreed that AI was clearly used in many of the pieces. I was told even the “sculptures” in the exhibit were machined from AI-generated 3D models.

It’s sickening to me that the Walker has this crap (I won’t call it art) on display and misleads people into believing it was actually made by a person. I usually like the Walker’s exhibits but this is a huge step in the wrong direction.

See for yourself: https://www.walkerart.org/whats-on/olalekan-jeyifous-hydricosmic-litanies/

Edit: It’s gross how many of you are defending this person’s use of AI just because they thought of words to prompt the AI model and then collected what it spat out. That’s just lazy and totally skips over the process of creation. I guess original ideas and actual creativity are dead.

My partner and I were stopped by someone after voting this morning who claimed to be from the federal government "interviewing" voters about election security. He asked us if our polling site was following federal oversight. I told him that they are as far as I know, and we didn't tell him anything else.

They are not allowed inside polling precincts, so they will approach you from outside.

Links:

https://www.fox9.com/news/doj-observers-denied-access-hennepin-ramsey-polls-will-be-watched-state-observers

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-observers-minnesota-primary-polling-places/

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-conduct-election-monitoring-minnesota-primary-election

I hope everyone’s ok

Edit: calm down y’all I was on the bus and not driving while I was filming this damn…

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I guess Lime is just deciding to put themselves out of business.

If they are gonna pull this kinda sh*t they have to show you this map before you pay to rent a scooter!