I really thought Nancy Pelosi was already retired. My friend said she's the Michael Jordan's of retirements.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Think about how much further along we’d be if there was more pushback when they were testing their limits at the beginning of this term

It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.

Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

The piece is alive! So grateful for the @objectivejournos.bsky.social for publishing this and for getting to workshop it during The Forge's Summer Writing class. What if instead of misdiagnosing journalism’s collapse and mourning a myth, we honor the radical legacy of people-powered media?

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Like I said... I assume NOTHING re: the NYC electorate except that folks usually live down to expectations. If you don't want Cuomo as Mayor then you need to get out to vote. Vote early if you can.

I enjoy facebook memories because I'm sentimental. 10 years ago today City Bureau launched and now I co-own the very coffee shop/bookstore where this photo was taken around that time:

submitted my first invoice for a piece of writing, ever! it's slated to be published next week. can't wait for it to be out in the world and to craft more things to share.

Any one who has reported on his real estate work or any business he's touched could've predicted this.

Saw One Battle After Another yesterday and walked away thinking it's the film Ari Aster wish he made with Eddington. It reminded me of the feeling I had after seeing There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in theaters in 2007. Paul Thomas Anderson knows how to make a truly American film.

the more I assess investments in tools/strategies to "save democracy" the more I'm convinced we need to be doing programs that are mutual aid, guaranteed income and/or rapid response funds for basic material needs. I would bet those would have a far greater impact than funding nonprofit news.

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

Honestly a pretty formative Pitchfork staff memory for me was when D'Angelo returned and started playing shows. I probably watched him cover "Space Oddity" 50 times when it happened. Black Messiah is a masterpiece. His cover of "Sometimes It Snows in April" still makes me cry. We didn't deserve him.

We remember trailblazing transgender activist Miss Major, who has sadly passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major began organizing before 1969’s Stonewall riots, and her love for her community has turned her into a mother figure to thousands of queer and trans people around the world.

Thinking about the power of Allied Media Conference (AMC), wishing it still existed. 20 years of convening an intersectional group of radical media-makers generated the cultural organizing we see today. The most dangerous thing in the world to the state is community itself and AMC fostered it.

12 years ago I first bleached my hair at home and it I only kept going.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Celebrate Banned Books Week with Build Coffee & Books! Join us tonight at 6pm CT for a special virtual event featuring bestselling authors Clint Smith and John Green in conversation about Smith’s newly adapted young readers’ edition of How the Word Is Passed:

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

This victory + State Rep. Justin J. Pearson's announcement he's running for U.S. Congress is a reminder: TN has some of the most people-powered candidates in the country. Don't let the loud, gerrymandering white supremacists dominate the story. Census data shows, the South is essential:

feeling very grateful to have gotten time to reflect on my unconventional career path—from journalist to youth media educator to co-founder to chaplain to now repro justice and a bookstore owner—with Bridget Thoreson. grateful for this wild journey and precious life.

thinking about all the ways capitalism has evolved to mediate our relationships. from doordash to airbnb to even social platforms. oddly thinking about this because of Assata Shakur's emphasis on relationship building and how many ways the state will disrupt the possibilities of being connected.

Revisiting Story by Assata Shakur

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dark thoughts but true thoughts: so glad my mom is dying now and can use medicare instead of later after Trump, Republicans gut it.

My poor mama this news is going to crush her.

every day I'm reminded how the owners of social platforms/the internet want to stoke division/fear by playing into our emotional responses. touch some grass or hug a tree--whatever gets you off line and back into reality.

I expect nothing better of Ezra Klein—he is a product of a kind of media training/grooming that Ta Nehisi-Coates critiques in The Message. Can people who claiming to value justice/racial equity/gender equity/the working class do me a solid and stop reading him? Or just stop claiming those values?

Atlanta folks—if you're looking to get involved with the reproductive justice movement in the Southeast join ARC-Southeast for a day of radical care and joy on Sept. 27 for our Radical Love Fest happening at Little Five Points Community Center: tinyurl.com/RLF2025

Just had my 90-day check-in with my amazing bosses and once again I am reminded that the journalism industry brutalizes people! I say this even having co-founded/co-led orgs. It gets so ingrained to prioritize the wrong thing and overwork people. So grateful for the reproductive justice field.

realizing just because a person is direct doesn't mean they are good at handling conflict.

Had to go to the doctor today and they had me "self-swab" instead of do it themselves. I'm like can I get a discount from my visit then?

NEW: Nearly a year after Chicago officials turned off the city's gunshot detection system, a new analysis of Chicago crime data shows a steep drop in violent crime & homicides in the 12 South and West side neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter sensors. @wttw.bsky.social

thinking a lot about how Southerners seeking reproductive care have to now leave their homes to travel hundreds of miles and spend thousands of dollars on travel and how airlines could do something about this immediately.

Just finished the @forgeorganizing.bsky.social's summer writing workshop. So grateful to re-ignite my writing practice for this next chapter of my life/work/organizing. Shoutout to ‪@akin-olla.bsky.social‬ for excellent facilitation and @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social for gems dropped.

Went into Mariano’s to get sunscreen bc I’m taking my queer nephew and his friend to their first pride. And they had NO PRIDE ANYTHING. they like you when you make them a profit but not when you’re political. Miss me with that shit.

Chicago gets it.

Building effective resistance in this moment is not going to be built on a WW3 narrative because it overlooks Iraq and Vietnam in dangerous ways. Policy, media and cultural organizing lessons from both the war on terror and the Vietnam war can teach us so much rn.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

This fell out of my journal this am from where I keep a bunch of photos. Checked the date and it was 16 years ago to the day.

One of these guys dove into the back of my head while I was running this morning. Welcome home indeed.

I really love my new job and fighting for reproductive justice and community-centered care in the Southeast.

doesn’t matter if the percentage is the same humidity up north is not the same as down south

West Virginia sure is beautiful which makes up for it taking 8 hours to drive through 😭

Are you (or do you know) a gender affirming care provider who received a Department of Justice subpoena for records over the past couple of days? Are you or someone you know developing a strategy around such subpoenas? If so, please reach out.

Israel is bombing Iran This ends with dead Iranians and puts targets on the backs of Israelis It makes no one safer

New thread: Israeli military source briefing the media: the Iranian regime has enough fusion material for 15 nuclear bombs.