Book giveaway! After a great podcast conversation with Cassidy Hall this past Monday, I’m giving away a few copies of her book! Giveaway runs until Monday Feb 23rd, and you just need to enter your name and email in my google form (must be subscribed to me on Substack) forms.gle/uP5x447TgEkz...

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

This is really excellent www.globalsistersreport.org/columns/reli...

i don't think i knew anything about the history of Olympic gene testing. really great read.

There is something about white collar holidays (like presidents’ day today) that always brings out the “Well, actually” types of commenters on my content lol

If you only read one thing today, let it be this. ICE is not in retreat. What we saw in Minnesota is going to spread everywhere. Get ready, friends. Take a training. Connect with your neighbors. Find out which groups are already doing prep work and volunteer. Lock arms and love on your community.

New profile picture! This is one of my favorite photos of myself because it shows me out in nature, living my life, doing my thing. A commentary on embodiment.

Being able to center yourself and refocus during times of intense stress and collective trauma is an important moment that precedes action. In today’s Whiplash episode, I talk all about it with Cassidy Hall, author of Queering Contemplation.

Thanks so much for sharing a recent episode of Whiplash as well as my recent essay on how caring about LBGTQ+ rights & all those on the margins strengthens society for everyone!

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

If we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism globally, our politics need to center the working class.

It hasn’t escaped my notice that this news came after Pope Leo announced he’d be celebrating Vatican 2

more institutions putting everyone's faith back in faith-based institutions

TRICKLE UP!!!💯💯🤬🤬🤬💯💯 tRumpstein's budget chief Russell Vought reportedly DIVERTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EARMARKED FOR USAID!!! THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT ONCE PROVIDED GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AND ECONOMIC AID 😪 IN ORDER TO PAY FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Via @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Judge orders ICE to allow Catholics access to Chicago-area detention center —> religionnews.com/2026/02/13/j...

EXCLUSIVE from me: A group of 40-plus Catholic Democrats have issued what amounts to a theological rebuke of Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent theological defense of Trump’s immigration agenda, outlining religious principles they suggest compel them to reform ICE. religionnews.com/2026/02/13/c...

Christopher Poole, the creator of 4chan, is now on the record saying Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with the creation of /pol/, the infamous alt-right board. He says they met 24 hours later at a social event and again for lunch. From me: www.theverge.com/tech/877903/...

The big business of detention centers.

Commentary: The Epstein scandal endures because it reinforces public belief that wealthy elites operate with impunity through powerful global networks that shield them from consequences.

Beautiful, mushrooms are so cool

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

The argument I'm making here is also a response to Pam Bondi saying "but the stock market is so great!" while ignoring and shutting out the epstein victims

Living in Minnesota right now is wondering if your patient is late because they got caught in traffic, because they got arrested, or because they got detained and all of these are perfectly plausible and equally likely.

What's crazy is I just wrote this last night

I keep thinking about how Americans think about the economy — and who sits at the margins, not just in dollars, but in human lives. Protecting human dignity — including LGBTQ people — makes all of us stronger, more creative, and more capable of actually caring for each other.

When a culture pushes vulnerable people to the margins, it exposes deeper cracks in how power, safety, and belonging are distributed. Systems that treat some people as expendable eventually fail everyone.

LGBTQ rights are stress tests for what society values. open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...

A group of Buddhist monks walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. The 108-day pilgrimage captivated Americans. n.pr/4cnpTWb

We need to reclaim the term "welfare." It's one of many words that the US right has poisoned, but truly, it's necessary. simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare

One of my favorite things is dogs in coats lol

Cannot overstate the importance of trusting yourself and your instincts

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

All I see in his post is "blah blah blah football only for white manly men" 🙄🙄🙄

This is a good illustration of the way our liberation and freedoms are intertwined

What can we do to defeat the bad guys? Love, connect, share, create — all the things they can’t do. New episode is live now (Spotify, Apple podcasts, Youtube, etc)

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle by Shannen Dee Williams for a very well researched and well written book about incredibly important figures in the struggle for Black liberation in and out of the Catholic Church. 🕯

"The Church exists to go out and serve all people. We exist to follow Jesus who fed the hungry, healed the sick, rejected hatred, and proclaimed love.” — New York Archbishop Ronald Hicks

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

Powerful men are just scammers. They don’t actually create anything—they extract and exploit *our* energy, our money, and our labor like a parasitic class. Their power only exists because they’re feeding off others, not because they’re smarter, stronger, or “more superior” than anyone else.

Powerful white men once equated Black people with monkeys to justify their abduction, deportation, enslavement, lynching and segregation. The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism. There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.

"'The pastors’ group that I’m in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,' he said..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

Catholics conveniently forget that the preferential option for the poor is in fact a preference.

This is a subject I would love to see more Catholics and Christians interested in, as I think it has tons of helpful things to say for the moment we are in: www.ncronline.org/opinion/quee...

Interesting religious subtext: Mamdani made this announcement while speaking at NYC's annual Interfaith Breakfast, which is why you hear him referring to the "stranger" — a reference to Christian and Jewish scripture and principles, he says, in other faiths. (More @rns.org coverage of this soon.)

The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad

Best books on organizing?

So is this why Trump went after Catholic Charities so hard?

What divides us now is not our political views, but our ethical beliefs. #Truth