As kids we are taught—overtly, covertly, through osmosis—how to go against our human inclinations and “be white”.

I was reading a poorly copyedited book this morning and randomly though to ask what coping mechanisms you use to live in our “between him and I” world, @bcdreyer.social

Look, it’s no secret I’m a Springsteen fan. But this No Kings Tour is something else—it wasn’t in the plans, but they made it happen because this moment requires all of us to step to the plate with what we’ve got.

I don’t think everyone understands that it felt like being occupied by an outside army. Because it was like that.

Allyship is a crucial tool for white people to be able to use appropriately and well. But it isn’t the goal—the goal is to reclaim our full ability to think about race and to reclaim the humanity that our racial conditioning tries to steal. #whitepeople #racialequity #race #whiteness #allyship

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

It’s ok for our intent to matter to *us* as white people. But the impact is what we get to clean up and make right with people of color. #whitepeople #racialequity #race #whiteness #intent

@violanorth.bsky.social apparently I am the intern in your management company, taking clippings and filing them for you. This is from the bad place 🤷🏻

It’s no longer the Quiet part out loud. Now it’s The regular part. #haiku

“It’s like a whole administration of AJ Sopranos” — @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social

This thing that feels like breathing room domestically is actually part of the playbook. #authoritarianism #trump #ice

First thing I thought of when Trump fired Noem was Rep. @balint.house.gov telling her this in a hearing: “You are the secretary of DHS ― for now." "You think you’re immune from accountability. But I promise you this: One day, he's not gonna be president anymore.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I’m Gen X so the edges of the “time passing” knife have dulled. But I do recognize and respect the violence you’ve chosen to bestow upon your people today, @jonathancohn.bsky.social

@violanorth.bsky.social I need you to know that on Insta you’re famous.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

As a rule US Attorney's have a 99 percent win rate. Of the cases they've brought, so far (well over 100) in LA/Chicago/Minneapolis/DC, they are losing. Like, more than 99 percent *losses*. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Man, you're not going to believe which political party this guy charged with sex trafficking minors belongs to, not in a million years, no way

Beth Wright, a senior staff attorney at NARF and a member of the Pueblo of Laguna: “We’re getting a lot of outreach from folks all over the country,” Wright said. “There’s a lot of concern about what to do if tribal citizens are stopped by ICE and what their rights are in different encounters.”

*Inherently* not immigrants, for heaven’s sake.

I am a Minnesotan. As a result, every member of the Norwegian and Swedish curling teams looks a little bit like someone I went to high school with.

I have multiple videos of ICE agents doing this to legal observers. They did it to me too.

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

White people are not the targets of racial oppression, which is designed to actively harm people of the global majority. We do carry wounds from the role we are normalized into playing, however, and until we heal them (1/2)

The tools of racism are like dog whistles for white racial conditioning, calling us to stay quiet at the very least. We can draw on our humanity instead. #whitepeople #trump #authoritarianism #race

How the hell is this not a bigger story?

Same! Sociology major turned Master Social Worker continuing to do the woke work on the ground here. In solidarity. Xx

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

📣 ICYMI: WPI's @betsyfischermartin.bsky.social was joined by former mayors Victoria Woodards, @nanwhaley.bsky.social, & @betsyhodges.bsky.social to discuss findings of a new report. Here’s Nan’s on the impact of running for local office: 📷 Watch the replay: youtu.be/Gg6ZR78EjsE

Couldn’t be more proud to be a trained sociologist.

It's Axl Rose's birthday today, so no better way to celebrate than by sharing this classic @johnmoe.bsky.social piece.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

Trump is planning to use tactics from two playbooks for this fall’s elections: the authoritarian playbook and the Jim Crow playbook. I wonder how they’ll couch it in this briefing?

Marimar Martinez is so incredibly courageous in her quest to demand justice and transparency. We all owe her a debt.

One of the best ways to celebrate Black History Month is by honoring the Obamas, who made history in the People’s House by bringing us a prosperous economy after the 2008 near-depression and by advancing a positive, uplifting, hopeful vision for our nation. 1/2 #BlackHistoryMonth

Doing art badly is good and sacred

📣 ICYMI: WPI's @betsyfischermartin.bsky.social was joined by former mayors Victoria Woodards, @nanwhaley.bsky.social, & @betsyhodges.bsky.social to discuss findings of a new report. Here's Betsy on what the data says about female mayors' experiences: 📷 Watch the replay: youtu.be/Gg6ZR78EjsE

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

So great to be with my sister (former) mayors talking about the @mayorsinnovation.bsky.social data. Thank you @au-wpi.bsky.social for a great conversation!

@betsyhodges.bsky.social on double standards: "I was judged by a whole different set of criteria in my leadership than men are judged...I will either be smiling too much or smiling too little, I will either be doing too little policy work, or too much policy work..." #WPIWomenOnWednesdays

I think the denizens of Bluesky in particular need this thread. Enjoy.

Please join my colleagues Nan Whaley, Victoria Woodards, Betsy Fisher Martin, and me as we discuss the Mayors Innovation Project research on the experience of women mayors.

We've got some incredible guests on @heartlandsignal.bsky.social/ WCPT today. I hope you'll join us: + George Packer of @theatlantic.com + Jim Santelle, former US Attny + Steve Held of @unraveledpress.com + @betsyhodges.bsky.social,former Minneapolis Mayor 🤳Stream 1-4 CT bit.ly/3DAcG8s

From the city that gave you "Make the golf course a public sex forest..."

An offer to my sibling white people this Black History Month: any time you have the urge to ask a Black person anything about Black history or culture this month, either google, ask another white person and you two can find out together, or come here and ask me and we will figure it out. 🧵

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

Rise Up - protest songs from now & before; a mixtape with lyrics 1. No Kings No hatred, no violence, no starvation, and no greed And no kings no kings no kings No lies, no bullets, no bombs, and no need And no kings no kings no kings