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Many thanks to homie and hero, Toshira Garraway for joining me on KFAI 90.3 FM this morning No Name In The Street, we talked about the fsfav.org March For Stolen Lives this Saturday 9/6 at 3pm starting at 389 Hamline Ave N in St Paul
Tolkkinen LITERALLY “all violence matters” in this column: “By the way, do we really need to say ‘gun violence?’ Can’t we just say ‘deadly violence?’” www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-sh...
i grew up in little falls, where there was a nationally-infamous double execution of two teenage home invaders (2012) and the police STILL haven’t solved the 2016 hunting murder in my parents’ neighborhood soooooo not buying this
The Star Tribune @StribOpinion printing conservative gun nut opinion on why guns are more noble when owned by rural white people might be peak bullshit from the Strib, but they have aspirations so I don't know, might not be apex yet.
“what is it like to be like this” applies to the editors employing her and OKing her bullshit, too, fwiw
what is it like to be like this
love it
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
it is theater for the least informed. His campaign is counting on that ignorance to win. It is the sleaziest. Precisely how he campaigned on “banning no-knocks” in 21 as police reform, turns out he did none of the actual work to ban no knocks and MPD killed Amir Locke as a result. All show
I had the exact same reaction to this Strib story. Strib is going to ride this one hard to get Frey elected. An NYC friend saw Frey on the nationa;l news and told me, "Your mayor is amazing and inspiring." She was surprised that I didn't think so. Sigh.
There were so many community members, community leaders, community voices at this meeting in North Minneapolis Folwell park in July, folks who have been this voice for a long time, Princess Titus, Toshira Garroway. - Jacob Frey was not there. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...
objectively, in Frey's whole 8 yrs, has his leadership in the area of gun violence or gun control been even mid or significant? Now trying to portray him as a leading voice? His response to the 11yr old Black child gun death was to launch a PR campaign for gun owners thru MPD
This is going overboard now. Obvious using abject tragedy as political campaigning. Frey is just that cynical to use tragedy to elevate his campaign, he has history doing this. they are so opportunist they couldn't resist overindulging in this. just gross www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-a...
We shouldn’t do theater and pretend its an actual safety strategy.
Newsom is example #5000 of why people should not conflate Democratic electeds with anti-fascism.
here’s that clip from the all of mpls call, never got shared here
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
This is performative nonsense. There’s no reason to believe Minneapolis schools are in any greater danger from guns tomorrow than literally any other city in the state. This speaks volumes, though. We’ve given up on gun proliferation, so all we have are symbolic acts.
it's truly wild that the Democrats have watched all the protest movements of the past few years and seen it as an opportunity to cultivate zero young leaders
In the face of radicalization, let’s choose connection. In the face of gun violence, let’s fight for gun reform together. And in the face of this overwhelming grief, let’s embrace the power of our love and care for one another.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
The 5th American school shooting this school year, and it’s still August.
every single one of you 2nd amendment assholes that would not give up the 2nd amendment in a heartbeat to stop this from happening just one more time, you are the worst, and entirely complicit. Any reasonable gun owner would give up there gun in a second to end this.
the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025. the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025. the 146th shooting at a k-12 school so far in 2025.
As we close the month, make sure you check out this special Black August edition of No Name In The Street with D.A. Bullock, KFAI 90.3 FM in the Twin Cities. www.mixcloud.com/kfaiFMradio/...
We live in a country that is ok with going door to door rounding up brown skinned people but would lose their shit if we went door to door rounding up the instruments that fuel their worst realities of violent crime in the US.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Already a dude in the Star Tribune Letters to the Editor section trying to implicate progressives and leftist policies in Minneapolis politics for the recent shootings in Minneapolis. Baseless and super gross.
I can’t believe they printed this, but I also can believe it. What a shitty section.
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
Can we not interview traumatized kids after a school shooting? What is wrong with mainstream media and their obsession with trauma porn? Interviewing a 10 yr old, after their school was shot up, is ghoulish. They’ll pay themselves on the back for this, but it’s grotesque.
Minneapolis is a welcoming and loving place. Gun violence and senseless acts of hate have no place in our society. Let me be very clear, violence can and is perpetrated by anyone. The identity of the shooter does not matter. 1/
A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Jacob Frey’s shameless pandering is catching up to him. On a leaked fundraising call, the PAC supporting him shared with donors that they would be targeting “older voters and Black voters across the city.” 5 days later, well…he certainly did that.
Brother you support the liar in charge who said he had banned no-knock warrants until he was outed when his lie was exposed with the death of an innocent man as a result of a no-knock. What are you blathering about? Is there any Frey supporter who is serious?
this reads like extortion to me. but who am I? just a voter. that is all.
crime vibes
I’ve been around awhile but I’ve never seen the Strib’s editorial pages manage consent this hard. They have Cramer & Hunegs on speed dial; the last time I submitted a commentary to them I never heard back (of course, it was critical of their coverage). Anyway congrats lefties for making them sweat.
The Star Tribune will print an op ed from Jacob Frey’s newborn or toddler before October, bank it.
Strib Opinion’s point-counterpoint on the Minneapolis City elections: Lefties suck, but on the other hand, lefties also suck
There's a lot you can do if you are anti-racist to address the attempted erasure of U.S. Black history by the fascist regime. And I hope that people actually take various easy actions to combat their attempts.
And please shift your attention to the people who warned about this, to those who have been correct all along.
This puts the issues with the Twin Cities rail in proper perspective. It's a decent system in national perspective, and people ride the service that's available. Just need more trains per hour, for more hours of the day
and I do understand that Angie Craig is a true believer police sycophant, so this might just be her kink and nothing to do with an election
She was literally posted up under a big ass Alpha News advertisement 🙄 straight clown shit
Nobody: ... Dems: "Instead of Defund the Police, we are gonna Fund the Police, ha, see what I did there?! Now watch the good faith outpouring from people who irrationally hate me just rush in! Just watch you will see!"
Angie Craig wandering around giving out cookies trying to cajole at a Republican booth that is selling ridiculous anti-woke slogan paraphernalia to ridiculous people who would buy such a thing is how dumb we are as a nation.
would she have called for the end of US arming and funding the genocide? That is a simple question, and the morality of the answer is not relative to Trump evil. Your conscience and use of power toward good is not “I would be better than that devil,’ it should exist as a standard of your own. Asshat
None of what would be happening? You sound like a child. Of course some of THIS would be happening, the US would still be fully supporting a genocide and ethnic cleansing like with Biden. And of course there would be difference, point being things that incredibly matter there is not enough space
You just lost me on that last line cuz in fact some blues are fascists, or so fascists appeasing or adjacent there is a distinction without a difference.
The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.
I owe them what I am currently giving them. How much are you giving?
Minneapolis is ready for change.
and the party does have a choice, stop serving dog food
And I apologize to anyone I've ever used this appeal with, I was sincere, I'm ever hopeful, but yeah they really haven't even delivered the lesser of the evils. - Evils are thriving, and so are certain Democrats whether they win the race or not.
cant do the lesser of two evils schtick anymore, it hasn’t really amount to less evil
Definitely never ever voting for another Dem who does not earn my vote, like really earn it like they want to be truly representative of the people. Not representative for the ones already doing fine, those folks ALWAYS have their interests looked after no matter the party
The man is a nonstop mensch
For that matter, what is Meg Tuthill up to (think she worked for the city after council)? See also MAK
She and Frey are literally laughing in our faces.
Had heard someone connected to my neighborhood asked her what her job is and LG’s response was a laugh. Literally. Seems like a reasonable question without an answer so far.
Minnesota establishment DFL leaning into waste, fraud and abuse. I really think this is the thing to hammer away at--the legacy of the Frey administration, from MPD overtime, to Feeding our Future, to the north-loop late-night thing they wasted $. It would likely benefit Davis and Hampton the most.
Does the Minnesota DFL have rules about ethics, coordination, campaign finance law breaking? or only step in when needed to enact rules to support an unpopular incumbent?
She even voted to create the frivolous position that she knew she was going to get appointed to after leaving the council. Shady.
seems unethical, but maybe thats just me
I remember the video of her talking about collecting checks from big time donors to support political campaigning, which seems illegal at least unethical, dont remember seeing her describe any actual work she is doing on our dime
Does anyone know what Lisa Goodman actually does at her $156,000 per year, Frey political patronage job at the city of Minneapolis? We know she is active collecting donor checks as a part of Frey's PAC. Huh, this seems like it would be controversial to Dems if a Repubs did it
Frey got that Becka Thompson endorsement on lock tho
a spiteful petty campaign for a spiteful petty candidate does spiteful petty things
It's also wild to me that Jacob's camp is fighting the endorsement because they have huge structural advantages in this election. The likelihood of him winning is not dependent on the endorsement. Just straight up whiny loser shit all around.
"When the donors don't get the outcome that they want through the party process, they go to a super party process outside of the norm to try to reverse the decision of the delegates," Payne said. "It's an extremely short-sighted thing to do, not just tactically but philosophically," he added.
This is true, so true. And, I was talking about local Democrats, so it is bleak out there.
With barely over 30% of the first place vote, a mighty vote of no confidence for the incumbent with all the money, Jacob Frey should be feeling extremely confident that even less people like him now. Hats off to you Team Frey! Like scoring that electric Klobuchar endorsement 😀
Where is the local coverage of these PACs? I know we don’t expect anything from the Star Tribune, but we *should*. We should expect the political reporter at the state’s largest daily to investigate and draw the lines between these donors and the mayor’s office heading into a high-stakes election.
Collectively ho-ass 😆
and they are fucking cowards who send you anonymous emails, hide behind PACs and other shady devices.
motherfuckers who have ALL the advantages and ALL the privileges, still want to tip the scale. sociopaths.
coordination between the Frey campaign, Frey PACs and the failure/corruption of local journalism
Lisa Goodman STILL on that bullshit.
much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
Salem, Inc is still the most unintentional self parody shit in the world to me. 😁 Minneapolis, do better, please for fucks sake. Jesus Incorporated is the wildest shit.
Conservative incels running to file for this years election
To be fair, the only decent thing to do, any mayor or city council member or candidate who has every said fuck or who has ever fucked must step down immediately.
let’s just be honest
tis a difficult dilemma (for me at least), I know they have good reporters, I know they have a shitty stenographer Editor of the city desk, covering the mayor and politics. I hate that newspapers are dying, but I’m not trying to support genuflecting to copaganda and racial capitalism, it is a prob
agreed, the Star Tribune reporter slant editorializing says ALOT.
The thing that bothered me as a news editor is the use of "widely denounced" when only three members of City Council were signed on to a statement. That is not a wide denouncement.
who amongst us will ride for Cabo!? (Oh, Cabo died years ago?!)
We should all thank Space Monkey Mafia
Oh, the same fucking Star Tribune who endorses City Council candidates who don't even live in the city? Fuck them.
I mean, its hard to argue with “Fuck Jacob Frey, fuck fascism and fuck Donald Trump.” but leave it to the fucking Star Tribune to write a fucking article about fucking decorum, so fuck the Star Tribune along with this other list.
you’re telling me the trump administration was lenient toward someone accused of sex crimes against children? crazy
What are you supposed to do when your boss comments on your body and describes his own sex life in graphic detail? At KSTP, you take your complaint to HR and then get demoted. This Strib story doesn’t even mention that this is a pattern (1/2) No paywall on either link:
Oofda
And Mpls voters and the local media never held him or Palmisano accountable to any of those promises. With Palmisano conspicuous how she was apoplectic about MPD leadership failure including Mayor Hodges and MPD chief when a white constituent of hers was victim of MPD violence.
