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Brewery workers, bar owners, and union organizers in MSP are setting the mark on how to actually care for their community, rather than just invoke as a buzzword. At @vinepair.com, I reported how their work doubles as a playbook for colleagues nationwide whose homes may face MAGA sieges soon enough.

As I noted, this is virtually identical to the advice I relayed from folks whose breweries were threatened or outright attacked for holding drag shows just a few years ago. It's the same illness, with the same prescription: prepare now, not when the thugs are at the barroom door.

Craft breweries and bars are small businesses, and this is traditionally a shitty month for them even without masked thugs rampaging through the Twin Cities. @wesburdine.bsky.social of @blackhartstp.com was candid about the struggle of trying to keep a business afloat while living its values:

Like all the people I spoke with for this column, the anxiety of lost sales (a virtual reality across the board, as workers and customers alike limit non-essential movement throughout town to avoid ICE et al) has not stopped Burdine and Black Hart from stepping up for their community: