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I've been sharing the basics of this with everyone ever since I learned about her research. Why should you push past your comfort zone and not be Minnesota nice to masked agents? Wouldn't that just provoke them to violence? No, actually; your loud, explicit disapproval could save lives.

Today Twin Cities schools are closed to prepare for a return to pandemic-era online learning because masked federal goons have been kidnapping parents and teachers and people standing on the sidewalk during dropoff and pickup times

#Minnesota, yes we are here, you need to do this. www.freewill.com Especially if you have children, if you are injured and cannot speak for yourself you need documents or representatives to speak for you #TheOccupation

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

Church service this morning opened with a sing-along cover of "I Won't Back Down" and closed with signing up to help frightened neighbors. Proud my kids get to see this is what following Christ can look like.

Can't overstate how much I love this beautiful song. "For if we had nothing in common / Wouldn't we both be somewhere else?" LIFE youtu.be/fyMUxhp0BCw?...

Slightly diminish a band: Panic at the Library

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

This is as good a step-by-step concrete approach as any for taking care of yourself and more sustainably living a purpose-driven life when receiving information about new harms and injustices in the world.

Are you a pastor looking for escapism in the latest Knives Out movie on Netflix? Maybe don't. There's lots of other content out there that won't leave your re-traumatized.

Beautiful. youtube.com/shorts/1qLoq...

Let the new wave of bot follows be a reminder that you are not obligated to join team follow back

Just had a mtg cxl'ed bc of 2 UNRELATED s*icide deaths. This year sucks. External forces increase the stress. If you're having a hard time IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT. There are still people who LIGHT UP when they think about you. Talk to your Pastor, therapist, etc. Life is better with you in it. Trust.

I picked up Alexei Navalny's book, "Patriot," on my birthday. On the back he writes about his (last) birthday in jail, expressing the conviction that some must suffer much now for freedom so that all may suffer less in the future.

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

I swore out loud in front of my kids when watching this sermon. NOT out of anger: it's just that no polite words could convey the emotional impact her narrative of God's power created inside of me. The feeling was so explosive that release was essential. www.centennialumc.org/media/6mn459...

I feel like I've seen this before:

ICE vs the clergy

I've never seen the northern lights so colorful to the naked eye.

"Moral imagination is what reminds us that not every response to evil is good." -Justin Giboney, Pres. of the (&) campaign.

At Transform Minnesota's evening about depolarization, Rachel Wightman of Concordia University Saint Paul says "to love your neighbor is to not share misinformation." Be a truth-teller and check your sources. Thanks to moderators who weed out disinfo on any platform and help me follow Christ!

I got to guest preach again this morning. One dude said "I'm going to go home and watch this again on YouTube right away." What if the "house of many rooms" is not about The Way to heaven, but a guide to living under occupation? www.youtube.com/live/u_ashYC...

After being awarded the Strengthening Democracy Field Test funding from @pascl-stanford.bsky.social , we spent 2024 working with @mjbsp.bsky.social and 700 participants to strengthen MCC Respectful Conversations with @civity.bsky.social 's storytelling tool. This paper is one peacebuilding outcome.

It would be fun if the data were more conclusive, but that isn't how science always goes! I learned a lot from this project and from working with @j-rock.bsky.social! I hope that others find our data useful as they pursue similar ideas.

We paired the Minnesota Council of Churches' Respectful Conversations program (intensive, stewarded by @j-rock.bsky.social) with a video intervention developed by @civity.bsky.social (light touch) that was effective at reducing partisan animosity in the Strengthening Democracy Challenge.

This preprint reports on a project with @j-rock.bsky.social. We merged a light touch intervention (typical of survey experiments) w/ an intensive intervention (more typical of practitioner efforts) for reducing toxic polarization to see if we could cheaply boost 🚀 the more intensive intervention

Christ is the true vine, and when we live in alignment with his purpose we bear great fruit. Plus, the character Hebrews might have known as "akkabish Adam." My guest sermon this morning. www.youtube.com/live/-qUteJJ...

Share your favorite black and white movie

Hilarious take! But also, good for the insurance cos.

But I landed tickets for his First Ave show next March!

Roommate's grandfather is demonstrating more restraint and responsibility than our premier media outlets

Every time I catch a cobweb while I'm walking through a doorway I pause to appreciate the spider's ambition.

Anybody else just get followed here by like 20 bots?

A 1940s headline dug up by @brezwrites.bsky.social

Going to YouTube university + researching the right replacement part, I basically paid myself $140/hr to replace my car's right side mirror compared to what the dealer would have charged. I received two major awards in the last two months, but I feel similarly proud of this accomplishment.

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

@tellthestories.bsky.social I'm catching up on emails. Congrats on the DMin!

WIRED magazine has some notes regarding "How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance." wired.com/story/how-to...

Bluesky, how much should you spend on a first date? I think it's $200.

I barely ever read corporate art but this book, a gift from friends, is an ambient delight. Written by Del Maguey's founder, "Finding Mezcal" is a spirit-focused travelogue of remote Oaxaca. It makes me remember the state, yearn to return, and to never let too much time separate me from my next sip.

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access: 1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... 2. Contact your elected officials www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

This one he's right about. I had a Huawei when HK was actively protesting. I looked up "how to support Hong Kong protestors" on Google on the phone and was directed to sites about how it was no big deal and they were wrong. Same term on my PC directed me to advocacy orgs and donation opportunities.

Thanks @wccoradio.bsky.social for featuring our Minnesota Ethical Leadership Award on The Sawkar Salute this morning! www.audacy.com/podcast/the-...

If you've been upset by the apparent White Nationalist support of a mom who used a slur on another mom's 5-year-old at a playground, then be heartened by the work of Kiandria Demone, and take the steps she recommends so that dirty money doesn't reward evil acts. www.threads.com/@kiandria/po...

What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film?

Drop a movie that you flat out refuse to watch again

Tuesday was a good day. Thanks, Minnesota Character Council!

But we were close back in 1304.