What is/are the most reputable, reliable, adaptable, and “ethical” blogging/reporting platforms folks are using now?

A red t-shirt featuring Sylvester the cat from Looney Tunes that says “Thaint Louith.”

I have many excellent eBay/thrift T-shirt finds, but this St. Louis one that I still have never worn is definitely in my Top 5 most ridiculous.

CW. One of the most radicalizing moments of my life was in my 1L criminal law course. My male prof actually taught us rape laws, which some profs straight up don’t do. But he spent one day just asking the men in our class “no means no right?” And they’d all respond with fucking unhinged things.

Yeah… in every instance of random violence I have responded with anger and fight. Kicking, spitting, cursing, screaming. Once, when traveling, I was screaming “chinga tú madre!” at two dudes who dragged me to the ground.

And when that fight adrenaline wears off, it turns into sobs. Ugh.

Yeah, definitely life-changing moments every time. One was in daylight in a parking garage at the University of Missouri-St. Louis with people not far away. I could see them walking to/from class. I was able to spit in dude’s face, knee him him the balls, and run over his foot at least.

Ha YES. There is never the “right amount,” actually! 😂

Actually wait…I forgot the time I was 15 and dude jumped out of a car put a gun to me at a stop light when I was a passenger in a car and demanded my bag. So 2x at gun point by random dude.

Yes, hence my constant red-flag scanning until trust is earned. And random men have attacked me at knife point 2x; at gun point once; attacked and attempted kidnapping me in a parking garage; and abused me in the workplace.

So 100% my high alert is on and sometimes never off for certain men.

That has also happened! It’s the worst. And that’s happened with food delivery and I literally don’t want to eat at that point.

I hate it. I recently cried on a plane from St. Louis to Mpls because a dude in front of me was wearing so much cologne I started gagging at one point, and I felt so bad for the people next to me who had to hear me gagging. And I was wearing a mask!

Ohmygod. On Xmas Eve in MN. This is some Very Good Content! 😂

Right!!? I literally don’t understand it and want to so badly. Like, is it a wildly different olfactory perception? Or is it as intense for them and they just like it?!? ONE CAN NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

Also, this is such a great story. And that you’re still together! I would love it to see like an eight-panel comic of this day! ❤️😂

Omygod amazing. I don’t know how people who use it the first time don’t have that exact reaction!? I honestly don’t understand the science of it. Like, do they become increasingly immune to its absolutely vomit-inducing scent? Like they can’t even smell it anymore, so they spray till they can?

I don’t know. I feel instinctively unsafe around men. Not once I know them. But first-time meeting or if I am the only woman in a room of cis men? 100% my instincts are always to scan for red flags or precursors to danger. I am instinctively on fight-or-flight high alert until shown I am safe.

I use a pharmacy that only delivers, via courier, and the dude who delivered them today was wearing so much cologne that my house still smells like it.

He was at my front door for maybe 12 seconds max.

Someone needs to rescue men from drowning in cologne in order to save us all. Please.

She was religious. Very Lutheran, from southern Minnesota. I remember she felt less personally affronted by the misogyny than she did his translation of the Bible, saying she was picking and choosing what to leave out, and therefore wasn't a true believer in God.

And I couldn't record ANY OF IT.

What it was like to get schooled by Prince EW's TV critic recalls the night in 2001 when His Purpleness slammed the door in her face

Melissa Maerz, who was at CP then, remembered it here. But she wasn't invited by Prince to stay after the press conference and chat more. Only I and an intern at Request were invited.

It was the MOST WILDLY misogynistic conversation. The intern was in tears.

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I happened to be sitting right next to him. I remember guffawing out loud with a loud WHAT?!. He had stated that society was falling apart bc of of the breakdown of the family. I asked, what do you mean? And he preceded to blame women for not obeying men, basically.

My Very First Job Out of College, I was lucky enough to work at Request Magazine, a music mag owned by Sam Goody and Best Buy. LOL. But it was actually a good magazine!

Anyway, one of my gigs was covering a Prince press conference in 2001. Where he told me directly that women are below men.

He would've at least been "canceled" like 10 times by now for his past comments about women and his physical and emotion abuse of women— and comments between then and now he would've made—so maybe the Strib at least could stop dedicating multiple spaces every to rehash Minnesota Messiahing.

Look, I know Prince was an amazing musician and artist who contributed so much to musical and cultural history.

But can we maybe stop Minnesota Messiahing to re-death on every single birthday and death anniversary, especially to a known abuser?

The music here “this is how legends are made” really does some heavy lifting.

How is it possible that I often force myself to stay awake because I am too tired and lazy to go to bed.

Amazing! 😻

If you live in South Minneapolis and often meet up with friends at the Bungalow Club on Lake— but you don’t call it the BUNGHOLE CLUB every time and have since it first opened?

Then, I don’t want to meet you. At the Bunghole Club.

Yes, I would love to see how those OT assignments worked. To what extent were they focused on Priority 1 calls versus ICE-related activity.

Domestic violence is one of the highest-risk categories of 911 calls, with well-documented patterns of escalation.

When domestic abuse calls in progress wait more than 30 minutes—or even eight—it’s not just a delay. It’s a test of whether the system is built to respond during an active threat.

MPD staffing shortages are the norm. Protest response was planned. But there was still no system to ensure Priority 1 calls were answered when those demands overlapped.

In other words, the system is not delivering its most critical function under predictable and planned conditions.

MPD often points to low staffing to explain slow response times. But during that same period—and on those same days—MPD & law enforcement partners were planning ICE-related coordinated deployments, monitoring protests, and sharing intelligence.

Yet Priority 1 calls were waiting for up to 88 mins.