Fred Beukema

Find me over where the threading is messy, GIFs are JPEGs, and DMs don't exist yet: @beukema.bsky.social

@RandyEBarnett Holy hell. Get a grip.

If Obama had a son, he’d attack the White House Correspondents Dinner like Cole Allen.

@Loonbird1 @SharylAttkisson Apt username. Stearns County is always there for you, you know.

@SharylAttkisson You don’t go downtown. Weather getting nicer. You don’t walk the lakes alone. You never leave your garage open. You never get out of your car without checking all your mirrors. You never stop at a light without leaving room to escape from a carjack. I live in Edina. No joke

Based on my recent reporting trip to Minneapolis (and we were told as much by the locals), it is unsafe for people who are white and not known to key people in the area to be in certain neighborhoods or stores. If you are not accompanied by a known local, you may be profiled, followed/tracked, approached and questioned by people who will demand answers but not tell you who they are, told you "don't belong," told to leave, and/or made to feel threatened. I'm talking about peacefully going to public places in an open society. I was surprised, too.

@SharylAttkisson Have lived here my whole life, very whitely. Doubt I'm known by any mysterious Key People. This is absolute hogwash.

@janenb @CheyCab @SharylAttkisson Oh, that has indeed happened to plenty of people, when ICE was stalking them.

@CheyCab @SharylAttkisson Soooo...Minnesotans who've reported being tracked, followed, had their license plates photographed, been confronted, etc....are all making that up?

@Tyler_A_Harper @chrislhayes Minnesotan here: Tim Walz has (to his credit, imo) not been on-board with sports betting, and it remains illegal in MN.

@chrislhayes I didn't say they weren't *now*, I said there was a failure to anticipate legal weed/gambling would be a problem. But (setting aside how we define the left), there are a lot of liberals who happily went along with sports betting (e.g. Tim Walz) which has been rather bipartisan!

This is excellent, especially the point below. As I’ve written before, I think it’s desperately important for the left and liberals to rehabilitate the idea of human nature and not reflexively eye roll at accumulated, traditional human wisdom as if it’s all mere superstition.

Like anti-abortion Trump-voting pastor Victor Martinez, loser of a couple City Council Races. Both these guys are also in the orbit of our shitty mayor (now riding the national media circuit taking credit for what the people have done to resist ICE.) x.com/hellodonavon/s…

Coming out of post protection to let you Texans know who Julius is. He's a Republican who lives in Mpls and works for the most conservative Dems who have a shot of winning something. His advice is worthless to Democrats.

@realChipEvans @EdKrassen They fucking didn't, you ghoulish asshole.

This is absolutely horrifying in Minneapolis, Minnesota.. Ice just allegedly shot this woman in the head and killed her after her and her wife (speaking in this video) pulled out their cameras to videotape their operation. She was reportedly serving as a legal observer when she was shot in the face and killed in a Minneapolis neighborhood. This is Trump's America

@CoachForGov Finally, people who don't know what a cummerbund or waistcoat is are allowed back at WH holiday celebrations.

Thankfully, Christmas is BACK under President Trump.

Saw Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair this afternoon, and had a great time with it EXCEPT that @AMCTheatres put 30 MINUTES of ads & trailers in front of it. Including 2.5 ads for AMC, the theater chain I was already attending, and 1.5 Coke ads, one of them that awful AI one.

@Smigens_ @dilorenzo @rrahmani @JuanJesus @Spinazzola @Gutierrez @mazzocchi @Olivera @marianucci @anguissa @politano @lobotka @gilmour @debruyne (@beukema is not the soccer player.)

@Dilorenzo @Rrahmani @Juanjesus @Beukema @Spinazzola @Gutierrez @Mazzocchi @Olivera @Marianucci @Anguissa @Politano @Conte @Mctominay @Lobotka @Gilmour @DeBruyne

@ScottThompson_ @Glinner My god, this is disappointing. Established comedians standing by each others' shittiness is worse than cops backing the blue.

I stand with Graham Linehan. @Glinner

@andybrehm @OmarFatehMN @rochelleolson @StarTribune He has another job with the University of MN that he disclosed, and you have access to look it up, and I think you know it.

@SportsVikingBro @daviss youtu.be/PAcdbhYgD9A?si…

@SportsVikingBro @daviss As Frey himself used that arrangement to hit Hodges in 2017: "some of the worst police-community relations in a long time. And that’s the Mayor’s job. The police report directly to the Chief, the Chief reports directly to the Mayor, and, ya know, that’s how it works."

“Had it right all along” is a weird way to describe what happened in 2020

@WedgeLIVE Worth noting, all you folks coming here via @AllOfMpls emails or @bloisolson snark, that this photo was taken during a scheduled prayer break, when most delegates were in the concourse.

Minneapolis DFL convention 12 hours since check-in.

@Gary_J_Fisch @WedgeLIVE It was originally scheduled for North High School. It was moved at great trouble and expense in the last month to a securable place in the wake of the Hortmans’s assassinations. As a consequence, it had to be compressed to one day for the party to afford it.

@WedgeLIVE How much did it cost to rent that space? Why not rent a high school auditorium or the Parkway Theater?

@empty_cars @kystokes @JoshMartinMpls @MinneapolisDFL @BrianaRoseLee @DeWayneForMPLS @jazzformayor @Jacob_Frey @darwinforsyth @aishaforward10 @OmarFatehMN His campaign sent out a text telling everyone to leave before the vote could be taken. It was a high-risk attempt to deny quorum, but they didn’t have the numbers to make it work, and when a quorum run attempt fails, you basically cede the endorsement.

@kystokes @JoshMartinMpls @MinneapolisDFL @BrianaRoseLee @DeWayneForMPLS @jazzformayor @Jacob_Frey @darwinforsyth @aishaforward10 @OmarFatehMN Why did his supporters leave? Was it because he knew he was not winning the endorsement and this way he can claim it was rigged or something?

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