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🚨🚨BACK IN STOCK! 🚨🚨

We’ve got Mind Your Own Damn Business shirts to benefit back in stock (Unisex S-4X) and Law Signs to benefit our neighbors who provide accessible medical care and street outreach programming to the community here in Minneapolis.

Ps. Keep tagging us in your photos! We love to see them! 💖💖

Back in stock Friday @ 10am
~now with shipping~

What a pleasant surprise to find Bench Pressed goodies in ! Thanks to for including us! 🍻🌭🌽🍋

Mind Your Damn Business shirt to benefit update: we are officially sold out in less than 24 hrs😳 🥰.

We’ve got more on the way next week, with updated sizes.

Are you on our email list? That’s the best way to keep in the ~loop~ 💖

Inspired by our own highlighting the protection of reproductive freedom in Minnesota, new shirts in the shop! A donation from each shirt will be made to . In shop and online now!

Prairie Abortion Fund is an abortion fund serving North Dakotans, South Dakotans, Minnesotans, and people who travel to our region for abortion care by offsetting the cost of an abortion fee, travel and lodging expenses, and other associated costs such as birth control options and STI testing.

Full quote from : “We also protected reproductive freedom because, in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn’t make the same choices for ourselves, we’ve got a Golden Rule: mind your own damn business.”

Happy First Day of the !
Heads up! We’ll be closed Monday, 8/26 for a staff party to the fair. 🌭🧀🍻🐄🤠

This Sunday from 10-1 our buds will be at the shop with a mini- farmers market! They’ll have flowers, veggies, herbs and pottery.

The Black Radish is an Artist-led Urban farm initiative and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in the heart of South Minneapolis. The Black Radish works with and within the local community to convert ornamental lawns or unused private spaces into lush, food producing gardens.

In 2019, I went to speak with & on behalf of small business owners for Paid Family Leave.

Since it was my day to help care for my aging Grandmother who had just moved to MN, she came with me. I’ll never forget how happy she was to be there and how kind both Tim Walz & Peggy Flanagan were to her.

Very excited to support both Walz as the VP pick and Flanagan as our new Governor!

Get ready!! This Saturday we’ve got our friends and at the shop for the Saturday pop up of my dreams.

Tomorrow is the day! We’re thrilled to be celebrating all things Stationery tomorrow with other shops all over the country. Shout out to for taking this on!
Tomorrow (Sat 8/3), the first 10 customers to spend $10 or over in shop will get a swag bag full of all kinds of stationery goodies.

And if you haven’t already, go enter into the giveaway we’re doing with , & .

Not often called to be patriotic, but very proud of our governor right now. Thank you to both & .

Anybody else feel like this right now??
Ugh: here’s this week’s events!

😎This Sat & Sun you can find me and at slangin cards & hot sauce (!) while trying not to melt.

😎Sun-Thurs you can catch Andy with & at

😎The shop is open all weekend! We’ve got Saturday 11-2 and with a 🍃 seltzer sampling 2-4.
Come by and say hi! Also remember to keep calling your reps. Remind them who they work for.

This Saturday 10-1 (or sell out). We’re thrilled to have so many friends popping up at the shop!

1: our buds with the some of the best coffee in the twin cities, will be here ☕️. You can always find roasted beans in the shop for sale too.
2: if you missed last month, now’s your chance to fix that. They do classic pastries and updated classics (looking at you blonde croissant (IYKYK)🥐👀
3: new friends will be here with bouquets are that are constructed using native, pollinator-friendly, and pet-safe plants whenever possible 🌻
4: last but not least our buddies at will be here from 12-3 with free samples of 🍃 drinks.

We can’t wait to see you!

New stickers in the shop— and soon to be online!

The Longfellow & Seward Summer passport is here! & .biz put this passport book and we’re thrilled to share a page with our buds at . Come and grab one at the shop for $10, they’re not going to last long!

The world feels dark and the news is bleak but we try hard to be a bright light in the dark. Come and see all the fun things we have put together for you. ☀️

This Saturday we are *beyond excited* to host two of the most exciting pop ups happening in the Twin Cities.

☀️ is an amazing Vietnamese Coffee pop up that makes traditional Vietnamese Coffee with sweetened condensed milk. I promise, it’s a real treat.

☀️ We’re also thrilled to have , a new pop up bakery that makes some of the most amazing classic pastries that I’ve been dreaming about since I had them the first time (heads up- they’re currently accepting pre-orders on their instagram).

I’d recommend getting here early because these are going to sell out. We can’t wait to see you! ✨✨

Palestine flag stickers from are back in stock! 100% of sales from these Palestine flag stickers are going to Mutual Aid Food distribution in Gaza. Swipe for receipts.

We have cards for all kids of dads!

Join us this Saturday for a pre-Father’s Day Party. We’ve got some of our faves here— will be here with samples of 🍃 seltzers, will have delicious bao for purchase and will have their amazing ceramic work.
You don’t want to miss this one!

Feeling snacky? We’ve got so many good food and food adjacent items on the shelves right now. Come and see us and let us help you put together the perfect snack/picnic.

So excited to have stickers and prints from our bud in the shop! They’re all so good, I can’t choose my fave but I’m pretty sure it’s the shrimps bud. 🦐🦐🦐

Come snag my new favorite shirt, super soft and it’s only available at Bench Pressed. Designed by us, printed locally by

It’s finally the weekend and we’ve got plans for you! Come by the shop today (Saturday) for a FREE tasting at the shop from 11-1 and grab a treat from from 11-2! See you soon! Button by

We’re open today, Sunday, regular hours: 10-4 and closed all day Monday. Today’s the day to stock up!
Enjoy the day and see you Tuesday!

We’re so thrilled to be hosting an intro to collage class at the shop Sunday, June 2nd by local artist, . Tickets are live -with limited availability- so snag one while you can.

The new summer is here! Including these amazing Keith Haring prints ✨😍

New MN state flag, but inclusive! We’ve got stickers and 3x5 flags for y’all that have been asking! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Fully aware that Mother’s Day is not easy for all of us. But know that we see you and we love you. And you’re doing great.

According to sources*, Moms hate big box stores. With Mother’s Day on Sunday, we’re ~probably~ past shipping cut offs. So get out there and hit up your locally owned independent shops. It’s a win-win-win.

*It’s me, I’m the source