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I’m inviting a friend to leave the other place and come here, and so I shared some advice. Maybe this is useful to you, too?

“It was Peterson’s insistence that we live and minister as if God is real. He is the person who taught me, at long last, to pray. I did not need to agree with everything he thought, even about some things that matter a great deal, to be grateful on an eternal scale.” – Katherine Willis Pershey

“I do think in the past we let the events determine the narrative, rather than pre-writing them for the sake of goosing attention across the media.”

And don't forget to give me back my black T-shirt

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

It’s illegal to rank kids in children’s sports before age 12 in Norway. I find that fascinating. I wonder how many American children got put off from sports because of the results-focused culture.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Fun fact: MLK Jr was planning to write an opera. ??!?! Does anyone know anything more about this? I was just googling this composer who has a local connection and found this gem in his obit. neptunesociety.com/obituaries/h...

Dear @libbyapp.com: I was just pitched by your PR firm to promote Libby as part of the "bookmaxxing" trend and I would like to strongly urge you to rethink associating your app with a trend with origins in white-supremacist/manosphere spaces. The idea that reading is something to optimize is gross.

Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973. During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening. the park should not be full of broken glass. you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved. 1) they now have no play area 2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons

But it's fundamentally wrong headed. You don't teach pupils to make an omelette by giving them bits of chopped up cold dead omelette to reassemble. They make an omelette from raw ingredients paying attention to how they come together. Chopping up knowledge is not the same as building up knowledge

may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Bad Bunny and Sir Ian McKellen and Anoushka Shankar all reminding us this week, in very different ways, just how important art is for a progressive future.

This. For those of us living in red places, I’d be thrilled if my friends and neighbors would wake up, even late.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Every American needs to watch this:

Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

It’s very similar to the extremist Christians trying to bring about the end times. They don’t care about the consequences of their actions because they believe everything will end in glorious (for them) fire before they live to see consequences.

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

w/ alt-txt

If you *must* get the I-told-you-sos out of your system, you have many good options. Bitch to your friends, scream it into the abyss, roll your eyes when you are off screen on zoom. You don't have to hold it in, just be thoughtful about how you let it out. And then shake it off and move forward.

What are we doing here Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

R losing religious right is the end

An experimental finding sure to shock: white evangelicals are especially attuned to slights against Christians, but significantly less likely to view same actions as discriminatory when against a religious out-group. And this double-standard is unique to white evangelicals. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

I rarely listen to country music, but this video made me chuckle, in a kinda heartbroken way youtu.be/f0YPWYcL9CI?... @chrishousman.bsky.social

Walz: "We're no longer having a political debate. We're having a moral debate."

Keith Ellison: "It is in the DNA of American history that the federal government cannot trample over the prerogatives of the state. That's exactly what's happening here and that's exactly why we're going to court."

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Walz: "I don't care if you are conservative are flying a Donald Trump flag, a libertarian 'Don't Treat on Me,' a Democratic Socialist -- this an inflection point. If we cannot all agree that the smearing of a citizen and besmirching everything they stood for -- someone has to be accountable."

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Mamdani: "To first take a moment about Mpls. It is horrific what we have seen there. And I think that there are too many Americans who are being asked to not believe their own eyes, not believe their own ears, not believe their own realities." (This interview was conducted before Pretti killing)

it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Running off to work on a story. In the meantime: Religious left: still a thing.

Singing

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

Not quite what you asked for but you can unroll threads here (by going to your address bar and adding a 't' to the start of 'bsky'), and that shows you a page which is just the original thread in an easier to digest (or copy/paste) form. tbsky.app/profile/marg...

This is a kitchen table issue. These children should be at kitchen tables, with their families. They should be at lunch tables, with their friends. Instead they are being kidnapped and trafficked

Excellent @radleybalko.bsky.social piece on why what we are seeing in Minneapolis is, in fact, something qualitatively different than the police violence that happens all too often. This struck me as a key line: the OPEN contempt for accountability. Such explicitness matters.