Come hang out! There is a virtual option!

"Recovering from the devastation gives us the chance to build the system we’ve needed for so long. Yet confronting the sheer scale of what needs to happen is the first step toward recovery."

What to do when law enforcement demands ballots? Election officials are in the dark "This is a wake-up call, I think, for election officials and judges to make sure that they’re very well educated about the protections we have in law."

NOW there's a "wake up call" that county sheriffs will use their investigatory powers to disrupt elections despite me writing about this since 2021.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's Pckt Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go do...

I know that someone told you that this April 10 report on an April 4 outage is somehow really about the April 15-17 outage but that is not how dates work

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

love it!

Never gets less wild, really.

I think if I could run any business and not have to worry about whether it made money, it'd be a combination bookstore/coffee shop. Put it next to a nice beer bar, maybe.

Yeah, I imagine that regardless of his faults, the way so many of his concepts are being used by companies would make him opposed to their entire project.

Visuals Help Expose the Realities of Mass Incarceration to a Wider Audience A Brooklyn exhibition in collaboration with Mariame Kaba features paintings about prisons, incarceration, and abolition.

"I hope that this exhibition reminds people of our shared humanity. I hope that this exhibition reminds people of the immense potential of our care for each other and that it breathes new life into our imagination of what is possible."
truthout.org/articles/vis...

We won.

Tesla Chicago is closed.

Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.

Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com

Public opinion is simply a resource. It doesn't actually DO anything.

Donate to Honoring Bennie Montgomery’s Life and Legacy, organized by M N It is with the heaviest hearts that we share the passing of son, brother, father, unc… M N needs your support for Honoring Bennie Montgomery’s Life and Legacy

Folks may know of Kandace Montgomery, who among other things was a cofounder of both Black Visions and Reclaim the Block. She recently lost her dad, and there's a GFM to support her family here: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-b...

Understanding that MAHA is a border politics is very important, imo. The body politic and the body individual are both natural, "sovereign" spaces of national (white) power and must be protected by the full denial of porosity or constructedness

A grey and burgundy striped scarf on a dress form that reads FUCK ICE

A highlighter yellow and black scarf that reads FUCK ICE

A cream colored scarf with rainbow speckles that reads FUCK ICE

Win an anti-ICE scarf! Enter by donating to rent relief for East Side Saint Paul Public Schools families affected by ICE activity in MN.

d2cc.betterworld.org/campaigns/ea...

I appreciate the delegates at the @mplsdfl.org convention taking this important stand today! As a city, we are better when democracy is allowed to express itself in full. Stripping away every vestige of authority from city council (or park board) weakens us as a community. Our voices matter.

It’s wild how often that exact kind of tweet seems to go viral. I have to wonder at this point if it’s just for the engagement numbers.

If you were an alien and you saw that jeep commercial about America you’d think nothing except a delayed promise that a jeep would eventually fulfill happened between 1776 and 1941. Wild.

Christin Crabtree. Running for Minneapolis School Board at Large. Endorsed by the Minnesota DFL!

THANK YOU MINNEAPOLIS! ON TO NOVEMBER!!!

People who chased Molly off this site are participants in the genocide, if you wonder why I dont allow replies or even QTs at this point from anyone other than moots its actually because after a certain size doing any kind of actual material help for folks brings you wild harassment.

Critique is absolutely necessary but broad strokes denunciations are not.

Palestinian students are fighting for their right to education As the Israeli occupation targets universities, Palestinian students resist scholasticide while calling for international solidarity.

As the Israeli occupation targets academic institutions, Palestinian students resist scholasticide while calling for tangible international solidarity.

long-winded shaggy-dog joke about how despite the Scooby Doo Crew unmasking and demystifying supposed supernatural phenomena when at the end of the day they travel in the company of a talking dog

the crisis of modernity

passkey is imho one of the most important security developments that touch consumers and also one of the worst consumer rollouts i ever witnessed because every company involved treats everything like an enterprise customer solution

Morbid Symptoms I scrolled through my past newsletters this morning to make sure I hadn’t used this particular title before—goodness knows poor old Antonio’s ghost has gotten quite a workout in the last few years.

Good reflections, and good articles to read including a great one about Minnesota’s school organizing, in @sarahljaffe.bsky.social’s newsletter. sarahljaffe.substack.com/p/morbid-sym...

Issue 004 of The Key is dedicated to Palestinian Prisoners' Day:

Home | The Key The Key is a new online magazine brought to you by the Palestine Festival of Literature.

Issue 004 of The Key is out now with:

· Memories of a poet's home in southern Lebanon
· A photo essay on prisoners' liberation
· A review of Sabri Jiryis’ The Foundations of Zionism
· New poetry from Zena Agha

www.thekeymagazine.com

An Inward Migration Brian McLaren reflects on how contemplation and community enable him to live according to the values of the kingdom of God: During my years as a news

“Instead of helping nostalgic people inhabit bubbles of the past, religious communities can help people go forward on this inward migration toward sovereignty of mind, where in defiance of a rising level of ugliness, people cultivate beauty.”
cac.org/daily-medita...

I think it's very good for people to know how much work this kind of step is, and to think about it in a context like this one where it is one of many related steps, and nobody can take all of them at once.