Am told by reliable source that they’re here to map local streets. (It’s Google, ya know.) Would assume they will conform with state law & have drivers. (Source couldn’t speak to this but I think it’s highly unlikely they’d be uncrewed, even if they are gathering intelligence for said development.)

My first 3 books are 50% off + free shipping until Nov. 30. I recommend the history of how evangelicalism went fascist. Promo code CONFSHIP and for $10 you learn how a racist sex cult, against all odds, keeps handing all power to the stupidest predator in America wipfandstock.com/978153266846...

Here’s the extended interview with Danez Smith and Kandace Montgomery as part of the One Million Experiments travel episodes. It is a hell of an interview, brings up so many feels. overcast.fm/+AAw3zSwwKM8

Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.

I had no idea this was a thing. I felt weird enough joining a zoom to interview somebody from a hotel room desk chair once.

A good talk from @robertellsberg.bsky.social about what he has learned from Dorothy Day. catholicworker.org/what-i-learn...

Do the same with fire departments: abolish them and give people the proceeds to protect themselves from fires. Fire fighters just sit around most of the day anyway. They’re leaches on society. Reader: the actual solution is to make all insurance public rather than private, not to abolish it.

#tdih 1989, six Jesuit scholars/priests & two women were murdered by U.S. backed military in El Salvador. 💔 Priests were internationally recognized scholars who wrote & spoke extensively about need for peace and the root causes of the war in El Salvador. ➡️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...

I’m starting to think it is the time to shine for people who really understand the Roman Empire’s politics around hierarchy and how that related to household and community injustices.

Barbara Smith said, “Expectedly, the right wing is repulsed by identity politics… What is more disturbing is that a lot of people on the left also attack identity politics and are similarly unaware of the source of the term or what anticapitalist Black women actually meant by it.”

It never ceases to amaze me how often the other Jonathan Stegall used my email for stuff he owns, either accidentally or on purpose. He’s been doing it for more than a decade and every once in a while a whole new website pops up. Today apparently he’s been buying wine.

“effective campaigns of democratic renewal will thus focus on reshaping the meaning of certain identities that have been captured by anti-democratic forces—such as rurality or masculinity—and shifting the relative salience of others—such as class.” blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Jamar Clark 10th Anniversary Event For the 10th anniversary of Jamar Clark being killed by police, his family joins the Reinvestigations Workgroup for a celebration of Clark’s life and revealing new investigative details about the killing. Watch live in link. unicornriot.ninja/2025/jamar-c...

Last week, 65,000+ residents voted to elect a democratic socialist mayor. All Council races that had a DSA-endorsed candidate won by overwhelming margin. These results send a clear message: people want leaders who will fight for working-class communities, not corporate interests.

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

FB also reminds me that it was an intense time at Standing Rock. People who'd been camping there for months, weeks, or days were still trying to stop the pipeline and their lives were changing at the same time. A friend wrote a post that was meaningful to read again: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bk5...

Minneapolis folks may be remembering that tomorrow marks ten years since MPD killed Jamar Clark, and a new wave of organizing emerged with the fourth precinct occupation. It taught so much, and I think was one journey marker for many people, self included, who became abolitionists in the aftermath.

One of the more silly things I do toward the end of every year, since 2020 I guess, is make a playlist of all the albums I saved that came out during that year, and then I try to listen to the whole playlist to see what the year's favs are. Then I pick a few that I don't already own and I buy them.

Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...

Welcome to Truthout, @theappeal.org! ❤️

the church took revenge on jd vance’s murder of the woke pope by electing a newer, woker pope.

My wife has a friend who is close to death, and she got to say goodbye to her the other day. Later I watched her going through her friend's Facebook feed, copying posts and memes and putting them into a Word document. Such a tender action, really.

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

"White Property, Black Trespass is more than an analysis of religion, racial capitalism, and the carceral state; it is also a tool for abolitionist scholars seeking to challenge the presumption that society 'needs' prisons and police." Gratitude, always, when folks take the time to engage the book!

This is a wonderful and right-on-time conversation. I especially loved the recognition that fear clarifies what we value that we don't want taken away, and the invitation to connect with our fear, without shame, to let it show us what we love, and then to "think about possibility from that space."

Sameer Project’s Give Warmth campaign is up. Pls read, give, and stay tuned for additional ways to give ! maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/give-warmt...

Whew, every time they release another round of artist names, that Fire in the Mountains fest lineup gets better. www.fitmfest.com/2026-lineup

This is good theology. I’d expect nothing less, knowing at least one of the people who were there, but it’s still good to see it.

This’ll be an emotional one to hear, I’m sure! Kandace Montgomery and Danez Smith are on it.

Coats, hand warmers, waterproof gloves, ski masks, emergency blankets (annoying as blankets but ideal taped inside the walls of a tent reflecting the heat back in), dollars for other heat-related items! We can use it all!

The temps are dropping and many people in Minneapolis are prevented from accessing stable food and shelter. Please make a donation to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social (recurring one is best!) to help connect people with the resources they need.

Anyone have some crafty evenings free? Winter is my favorite time for projects ❤️ this might feel too small to matter, not as important as heat, or cheesy, but for the people who choose to take one I promise it means so much.

Nice to see the Wolves on a non-cable channel with their… bright green basketball court.

Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.

List of Congresspeople signed onto Tlaib's resolution to recognize Gaza genocide AOC Omar Carson Casar Balint Dexter Frost Garcia (IL) Green (TX) Jaypal Johnson (GA) Khanna McGovern Lee (PA) Pocan Pressley Ramirez Simon Velazquez Watson Coleman

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

I'd honestly forgotten the Discover feed existed - you can turn it all the way off & I did that about a day after joining. if you like your reverse-chron, that's Following & you can have it as your primary if you choose

I’m out here at Broadview ICE detention center where a group of inter-faith leaders just got arrested trying to deliver pastoral care to those locked up inside. Peg Haar from Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston says both her son and her pastor were arrested just now.

“Dems will not win on immigration with the average voter” Midwest right now

It is almost time for "remind your goth and punk friends that Doc Martens has a wonderful winter boot style now and it actually has tread and warmth" season. thehardtimes.net/culture/loca...

From Sarah Holst, a wonderful Great Lakes-rooted artist, "We Are Never Alone: A Watershed Discipleship Advent Workbook for Kids and Adults" www.sarahholstart.com/shop/we-are-...

do COs and wardens use their unfettered discretion and complete lack of oversight to bestow favors on some incarcerated people (and in some ways deputize them against other incarcerated people)? yes. is there such a thing as a "cushy prison" in the United States? absolutely not

It’s okay to punish bad people — an idea that isn’t confined to a political party.

I have a ~weird~ ask… if you like making friendship bracelets, or your kids like making friendship bracelets, would you consider making some for the unhoused people the Supply Depot serves? We want to bring joy

One difficulty with conversations about whether a person is experiencing prison as bad enough is rooted in subconscious emotional responses in which our brains find some satisfaction in a person getting punished "enough" for a thing they've done, but many people know there are disparities in this.

People should take accountability and make reparation for the terrible harm they do to each other. Prisons DO NOT DO THAT nor do they produce safety. They reproduce dehumanization and violence and sexual harm.

Between this discourse and the Prison Policy Report on menstruation, we have got to talk about how the denial of human dignity and cruelty is what prisons are for. And it’s why we shouldn’t have them! The solution to cruel inhumanity isn’t cruel inhumanity.

You know those banners on news sites that are like “This article is THREE YEARS OLD YOU WEIRDO, please act accordingly”? We need that for social but measured in hours.