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skypilot

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Sun Sep 21, 2025, 02:29 PM Sep 21

Does anyone remember the Trader Joe's "controversy"... [View all]

...from 2020 when a high school student named Briones Bedell took offense to the ethnic names TJ's gave to some of its products (Trader Ming's, Trader Giotto's, Trader Jose's, etc.) and started a petition to get them to change the product names because she supposedly found them racist and "othering"? Here's a link for those who may have missed it or don't remember:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay-teen-leads-campaign-to-get-trader-joes-to-rename-some-products/2329437/

Anyway, I live near a Trader Joe's and every now and then I think about this story and google Ms. Bedell to see what she is up to these days. There are now some interesting search results that I'd never seen before. I never trusted her and always kinda suspected the TJ's thing was some sort of high concept trolling. Just google her and check out the pro-Charlie Kirk stuff that she reposts on her Twitter page. Also, there's this:

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2024/11/13/democrats-young-women-republican-harris-abortion/76133431007/



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