Human Rights Watch has launched a new report on the human rights crisis caused by the U.S. Federal Government in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. This report is a step towards ensuring accountability and justice are achieved. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

I'm excited to participate in @urbaninstitute.bsky.social 2026 Giving Innovation Summit next Tuesday (6/30) in Washington, DC, where I'll be discussing my six years of research on mutual aid in MN. Link to register: www.urban.org/events/givin...

Religion and the Politics of Masculinity prri.org/spotlight/re...

NEW Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion @jssreligion.bsky.social Open Access Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations By Daniel Cueto-Villalobos 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UEKJVI...

Throughout the Twin Cities, residents are carrying on the state’s long-standing tradition of solidarity. You can read my latest piece on mutual aid and 'Minnesota nice' in The Conversation. theconversation.com/minneapolis-...

Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.

This is so embarrassing. A conscientious decision to withdraw from something is absolutely not "failing to prepare," it's a choice to not participate, and anyone who can't tell the difference should not have a job in writing or editing. Such as being a newspaper editor.

I’ll be in virtual conversation with the amazing Hank Owings at the University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy on 2/24 @12pm est. Zoom link below. Come hear me talk about the far right online and trad worldbuilding. Share widely! amc.sas.upenn.edu/event/gender...

The most religiously diverse countries 1 Singapore 2 Suriname 3 Taiwan 4 S Korea 9 Australia 10 France 11 Canada 12 UK 16 NZ 20 Germany 24 Japan 32 US 34 Nigeria 78 India 83 Brazil 126 China 160 Egypt 201 Yemen www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences 7/11

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

Haiti accepted Jewish refugees during WWII before the US would.

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

This is Minneapolis: When we rolled down Portland Ave toward Renee Good's memorial, tons of families (many sheltering in place for many, many weeks) waved & cheered from their windows, porches & front steps. My kids' classmates. My neighbors. 😭

The end goal of Christian nationalist policies likely aren't greater religiosity, but power. New research shows laws that support Christianity or restrict non-Christian groups actually incline committed religious citizens to *disengage* from religious & civic participation. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

All of this!!! For example, Ohio State (not an Ivy but big deal R1) has... Wexner Medical Center Wexner Center for the Arts These are named after Les Wexner, who made his money on Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie, etc. + employed Epstein as his financial manager for 20 years + bankrolled his abuses.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

3800 kids taken into ICE custody in 2025 (as of mid-December; must be higher now), according to the Marshall Project. 1300 of them held longer than 20 days. Genuinely monstrous. The (tiny, scrappy, wonderful) group I was part of under Trump 1 formed specifically to fight family separation. Now the

“Forced adoption.” Remember: As citizens we always have agency and we can always opt out of this AI bullshit. They might make it harder and more of a pain in the ass but we always have the power.

the people’s mayor

The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out. We’re winning and it’s not even close.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Catholic leaders at the national and local levels are calling for calm, prayer and renewed respect for human life following the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

“They’re taking them to Ft Snelling which was literally built as a concentration camp.”

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives. Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are

I have a big post coming out about this tomorrow. We just recorded the podcast episode for it this afternoon. I think it will clarify things for a lot of people.

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

Hello! I'm coming up from the dissertation bunker to say that if you will be at SSSR I'll be putting together some fun Bluesky content with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social for the @asareligion.bsky.social account. COME TELL US WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. We'd love to amplify some voices.

Today a street vendor I’ve seen every day for two years was abducted from our neighborhood by masked thugs too cowardly to identify themselves. Her crime? Selling Tamales. What are you doing to stand up to the Gestapo?

Please spread the word! 📢 My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families. If you grew up helping in your family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧 [email protected]

The full issue is finally out, thanks to the incomparable Enid Logan. Here is her great introduction!

Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org

Our special issue on "Religion, Activism, & Community Action" is here! Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

New publication! 🚨 How do church leaders foster commitment + preserve organizational vitality in the face of crisis? "There Wasn't A Playbook For This: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020," out today in Sociology of Religion, offers insight from MN academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...

Willow Creek became a new model of American religion, which replaced stained glass, hymns and robed clergy with pastors in jeans backed by bands, video screens and smoke machines. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/w...

New in Social Problems: @michellesphelps.bsky.social & @dacuetovilla.bsky.social trace how Minneapolis activists debated public safety after George Floyd, showing how “racial demands” shape policy fights. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...