HRC, the damn fine group that works to provide equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folks, has found itself dragged into the Minnesota political scene due to Target and Best Buy’s choice to donate money to MN Forward, who’s using Target and Best Buy’s money to fund political ads in support of the [...]
I’m not saying that the fake grassroots organization funded by the oil industry, Consumer Energy Alliance, is a robot. I’m just pointing out that, after David Brauer and I exchanged tweets about the organization, we both received three tweets that are – character for character – identical. If you’re looking to “engage” in a “conversation” [...]
Aaron and I did the Tour de Niceride on Thursday night. It was basically a scavenger hunt where we had to make 10 stops around town using the Niceride bikes. A clue was provided for each stop, at one of the 65 Niceride locations around town. The manifest of clues came out at noon, so [...]
Here’s a shot of the new header photo being used on the right-wing ad buying group funded by Target: Does anything seem weird to you about this photo choice to you? Here are a few things that cause this image choice to make me scratch my head: 1. Taxpayer dollars built the bandshell. 2. Which [...]
Aaron and I biked over to Uptown to grab some pizza and check out Give & Take on Wednesday night. Pizza? Yes, I was with Aaron. Galactic Pizza was the choice of the night, for their Second Harvest Heartland vegetarian. A buck goes to Second Harvest, which is cool, but would only be cool if [...]
While Qwest Dex is fairly incompetent when it comes to maintaining (or, more likely, honoring) an opt-out list, it looks like their direct mail marketing team understands that it does no good to deliver marketing materials to people who are not interested in receiving them. For example, here is the response I received after contacting [...]
Jason DeRusha brings up a good point about the challenge of making out locally headquartered big box stores feel some pain over their funding of the newly formed “independent expenditure campaign”, MNForward (which is using the money to run ads in support Tom Emmer). Target has been getting some national attention over this due to [...]
Here’s an example of a typical email I receive multiple times daily from social media experts on behalf of their clients. The company that sent this one says on their website that they, “track, measure and analyze everything – making sure our team delivers exactly the right message, authentically and transparently, to the right audience.” [...]
I’ve had a chance to do some cool bike trips around town lately. 1. Reuben & Melanie organized Tour de Taco, which started at Powderhorn Park and involved stops at Liberty Frozen Custard (Chocolate), Sebastian Joe’s in Linden Hills (Raspberry Chocolate Chip), and Pinedas Tacos. In the end, I went for a burrito rather than [...]
It looks like a slumlord, group of slumlords, or some sort of pro-slumlord group in New York has been paying workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to make “grassroots” calls in opposition to a bill in the NY State Senate. This is a really disgusting use of cheap labor to deceive elected officials. Carter Cole [...]
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