Clergy friends, your moral voice matters so, so SO much in this moment. In the public square. Pushing your electeds. With congregants. At actions. Teaching the truths of your tradition & using the authority of your office. & calling in all that damn social capital. What ELSE is it FOR

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

Three thoughts. 1. It’s always been about the white nationalism 2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning 3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness

Just want to say, I see all the comments saying it’s a sign of his senility or mental decline. You could be right but I have a thing about linking racism to mental acuity. Not sure it needs to be, most of the time, and I don’t like the idea of racism as deviant, for a lot of reasons.

Norway has also launched an investigation. So that's the UK, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Turkey....

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

ICE isn’t out of Minnesota. Enforcement hasn’t stopped; in many places it’s intensified. What changed wasn’t the raids, it was the coverage. As pressure grew, cameras shifted and Democrats redirected the conversation. But ICE activity in Minnesota is still very real & ongoing. #FuckICE #AbolishICE

How fitting that this happened at Morrill Hall, named after the 1862 act giving stolen Native American land to land grant universities like UMinn to promote settler colonialist agriculture and its extractive practices. Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.

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

what he should hear every day for the rest of his godforsaken life

What I will say is that this never should have happened to begin with. End family detention. Defund and dismantle ICE.

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now. Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

NO OF COURSE THERE ISN'T YOU DOORKNOB WHY DOES THIS CHUCKLEFUCK HAVE TENURE AT HARVARD AND I'M SLINGING DRINKS TO SCOTTSDALE'S MOST ENTITLED CHILDREN

It's hard, as both a woman and a journalist, to understand both of these things and figure out a path forward. I can't mitigate them through more personal effort, education or professional experience. And it's galling to read the defenses for the layoffs and the people named in the Epstein files.

It doesn't matter what the women said or did, how educated or successful they are, how faithful she is to her partner, anything. The Epstein files explicitly detail how these men (and their allies) emailed each other for advice and strategy on sex with girls and women, as well as helping each other.

We wrote a whole paper on this in 2017, on the women who often leave the field sciences as their only route to get away from harassment anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

I sorta wish that journalists describing this national push against higher education would somehow acknowledge that control of the public's sources of information and education fits with all the other anti-democratic measures going forward right now.

NEW: I spent hours combing through the references to #MeToo in the latest tranche of Epstein files. I found Epstein closely tracked the fallout of #MeToo, joked about being in a "pariahs club," and advised men accused of misconduct behind the scenes 19thnews.org/2026/02/jeff...

Proud to have signed this pledge alongside nearly 120 of my colleagues. Our work is so important, and we deserve a fair contract. Several of our top managers had similar protections as the ones we're fighting for -- back when they were union members in their prior newsrooms. We deserve the same!

Running instagram is currently going through a big debate about AI run training plans, after a big influencer for one of the training app companies got a stress fracture

strangely enormous numbers of people think that criticizing the democratic party on this website somehow resulted in or will result in destroying the party's electoral chances. bizarre!!!

I’d agree except that Rogan played a crazy conspiracy theorist on Newsradio when he was 28 years old. He’d have to live a completely unexamined life if he didn’t under- actually never mind I hear it now

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

I can now report that Judge Blackwell did not grant Julie Le’s request for a nap, and also noted that, as overwhelmed as she may be, the people who the Trump administration is detaining in violation of court orders have it worse ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

#WATCH | Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen takes part in cutting off the water supply to the UN Agency for the Palestine Refugees,(UNRWA) headquarters in occupied Jerusalem.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

Hey have I told Bluesky the story yet of how I was invited to submit a piece for The Edge, I made it about sexual harassment/misogynist cultures in STEM, so it was of course rejected, then someone stepped in and they ended up printing it? Anyway, I get why they didn't like me or my writing now!!!

Lebanon says 'toxic' chemical spray by Israel constitutes environmental crime - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-says-toxic-chemical-spray-israel-constitutes-environmental-crime

"I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing. I think I will spend my life trying to rectify this." - Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

He says stuff like “very tough on the waters” because he is now forgetting words like “sea” and “ocean”. These word substitutions are a sign of dementia and he is now starting to forget some of the 500 most common English words.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

The douchecanoes really lined up for the child sex trafficker didn't they

Lol, some teenagers are all three, said with love as a mom of teenagers

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

UBI for musical instruments

As a parent and a college professor, I argue that teenagers can also be sorted into these three categories. (Said with love, because teenagers are great.)

chat is it a good thing when the US Attorney representing the DOJ is also afraid of getting disappeared by the same organizations they're representing

This whole piece is amazing. Please read it.

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

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This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot. Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.

Bezos and Trump are at war with the arts and humanities. While trying to force “AI” on us to let machines steal ideas from the past so we can all let our critical thinking muscles atrophy in the present, they are destroying the anchors of artistic and journalistic community

The Post eliminated its books section and most of its local coverage. The Kennedy Ctr ended all of performances. Institutions are community ANCHORS. Writers of books, dancers, teaching artists, hip hop poets, musicians, critics, they depended on an ecosystem anchored by the Kennedy Ctr & WaPo.

I *love* freelancing. I have done the best work of my career as a freelancer. But the idea that several hundred new freelancers, newsletter writers, and worker-owned co-ops is remotely feasible, much less a replacement for The Washington Fucking Post, is insane.

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Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

I encourage you to consider that the @cato.org is right about this

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.