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minneapolis southsider. held out on being here until feds raided the neighborhood. recovering “local news reporter”
Two weeks ago masked cops from an array of agencies, wearing an array of uniforms, swarmed a restaurant at Lake & Bloomington and everyone who showed up to protect our neighborhood was asked to accept these mysterious authorities on faith
No paywall:
left part of Grant Hart mural in downtown Saint Paul
right part of Grant Hart mural in downtown Saint Paul
TIMES, PLACES AND SITUATIONS GRANT HART AND CHRIS LARSON LASER-CUT ALUMINUM DIGITAL PRINT 2019 GRANT HART (1961-2017) WAS AN AMERICAN MUSICIAN AND LIFELONG RESIDENT OF SAINT PAUL, BEST KNOWN AS THE CO-FOUNDER, CO-SONGWRITER, AND DRUMMER FOR THE INFLUENTIAL HARDCORE PUNK AND ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND HOSKER DU, WHICH ACHIEVED INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION IN THE 1980S. ADDITIONALLY, HART WAS A PROLIFIC AND GIFTED VISUAL ARTIST, CREATING MORE THAN 400 FINE ART COLLAGE WORKS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. WORKING FROM VINTAGE MAGAZINES, HART TOOK A UNIQUE APPROACH BY BLENDING TWO VISUAL IMAGES, CUTTING UP EACH AND WEAVING THEM TOGETHER TO CREATE A COLLISION OF TWO SUBJECT MATTERS IN ONE COMPLETE COMPOSITION. CHRIS LARSON (B. 1966), VISUAL ARTIST AND LIFELONG RESIDENT OF SAINT PAUL, WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF HART. COLLABORATORS IN ART, MUSIC, AND PERFORMANCE FOR 15 YEARS, HART AND LARSON CONTINUE THEIR FRIENDSHIP IN THIS MURAL. THIS WORK TRANSLATES THREE OF HART'S COLLAGES INTO A MONUMENTAL PUBLIC PIECE, FITTINGLY DISPLAYED ON A THEATRE CURRENTLY OPERATED BY FIRST AVENUE, THE MINNEAPOLIS NIGHTCLUB WHERE HART AND HIS BANDS PLAYED MANY TIMES. HERE, HART'S ARTWORK IS REPLICATED THROUGH INK-JET PRINTING ON LASER-CUT ALUMINUM, USING THE ARTIST'S SIMILAR LAYERING TECHNIQUE. FROM HART'S LARGE ARCHIVE OF WORK, LARSON CHOSE THESE THREE PIECES SPECIFICALLY FOR THEIR INTERSECTION OF HARTS WIDE-RANGING INTERESTS IN HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, OUTER SPACE, AND GEOGRAPHY. THE TITLE OF THE TRIPTYCH, TIMES, PLACES AND SITUATIONS, IS TAKEN FROM ONE OF HART'S SONGS CALLED "FLEXIBLE FLYER." THESE THREE WORDS ARE A CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HART'S VISUAL WORK AND MUSICAL CAREER. SPECIAL THANKS TO BRIGID MCGOUGH HART AND THE ESTATE OF GRANT HART, JOE SPENCER, THE PALACE THEATRE, FIRST AVENUE, SIGNMINDS, COLLEEN SHEEHY, PUBLIC ART SAINT PAUL, AND THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL. THIS MURAL PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL'S PUBLIC ART ORDINANCE.
looking up at Grant Hart mural you can see the relief element of the collage structure
Grant Hart mural in downtown Saint Paul
10.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 51 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 5
Line of law law enforcement in riot gear standing side by side along a crosswalk. Behind them are their vehicles with flashing red and blue lights. On the corner across the street stands a huge donut shaped sign over a Dale's Donuts (Compton, LA). Screenshot from TikTok feed by @mr.tacovato ~1:15AM PDT.
Hardly anyone still out in Compton. The donuts appear to be safe.
08.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 58 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 2
Gonna be a lot of pearl-clutching locally among unaffected people over community defense. The sort of folks who might cheer a Tesla takedown but get antsy when direct community protection is warranted. Sometimes you need to get off the sidewalk into the street. www.startribune.com/social-media...
06.06.2025 12:21 — 👍 132 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 4mannnn why don’t the bluesky bios have locations
06.06.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
anyway have we all listened to alex g’s new song? youtu.be/kt0Z9RZkg-4?...
06.06.2025 00:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Local officials going at each other over the Lake St raid is exhausting. The tactics were clearly just a Trumpian middle finger to Minneapolis. The city has regularly collaborated with federal law enforcement on gangs & violent crime for the past couple years without incident.
06.06.2025 00:20 — 👍 66 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1i’ve been sent this footage of an MPD officer on east lake st during the federal action on 6/3 turning around and shoving a person who was filming him
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