Human Rights Watch has launched a new report on the human rights crisis caused by the U.S. Federal Government in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. This report is a step towards ensuring accountability and justice are achieved. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
I'm excited to participate in @urbaninstitute.bsky.social 2026 Giving Innovation Summit next Tuesday (6/30) in Washington, DC, where I'll be discussing my six years of research on mutual aid in MN. Link to register: www.urban.org/events/givin...
Giving Innovation Summit 2026: Charitable Giving and Philanthropy in Turbulent Times
Charitable giving and philanthropy have long been central to conceptions of American national identity, understood since the nation’s founding to be vital to…
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UMN Sociology@umnsociology.bsky.social · 3mo agoPhD candidate Daniel Cueto-Villalobos will be speaking at @urbaninstitute’s convening on the evolution of charitable giving, recent shifts in policy and public funding, and his research on mutual aid in Minneapolis. Learn more about the June 30 event: z.umn.edu/UrbanInstitu... #liveaturban
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Religion and the Politics of Masculinity
Dr. Lauren Horn Griffin is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow focusing on racial justice and white supremacy. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies and the...
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NEW Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion @jssreligion.bsky.social Open Access Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations By Daniel Cueto-Villalobos 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UEKJVI...
Throughout the Twin Cities, residents are carrying on the state’s long-standing tradition of solidarity. You can read my latest piece on mutual aid and 'Minnesota nice' in The Conversation. theconversation.com/minneapolis-...
Minneapolis united when federal immigration operations surged – reflecting a long tradition of mutual aid
Minnesotans from all walks of life, including suburban moms, veterans and protest novices, have bucked their ‘nice’ stereotype to speak out.
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Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.
@stevegrove.bsky.social · 7mo agoCrowd-sourced data gives us a lens into how big the ICE surge was in MN compared to other places, visualized today in the Minnesota @startribune.com www.startribune.com/is-ice-reall...
This is so embarrassing. A conscientious decision to withdraw from something is absolutely not "failing to prepare," it's a choice to not participate, and anyone who can't tell the difference should not have a job in writing or editing. Such as being a newspaper editor.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 7mo agoA conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories. Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.” You can’t make this shit up. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
I’ll be in virtual conversation with the amazing Hank Owings at the University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy on 2/24 @12pm est. Zoom link below. Come hear me talk about the far right online and trad worldbuilding. Share widely! amc.sas.upenn.edu/event/gender...
Gender, the Internet, and the Radical/Trad Right | The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
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The most religiously diverse countries 1 Singapore 2 Suriname 3 Taiwan 4 S Korea 9 Australia 10 France 11 Canada 12 UK 16 NZ 20 Germany 24 Japan 32 US 34 Nigeria 78 India 83 Brazil 126 China 160 Egypt 201 Yemen www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 7mo agoReligious Diversity Around the World www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Cooper River Indivisible@crindivisible.bsky.social · 8mo agoYesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe rule of the AK Party in Turkey and the ayatollahs in Iran is rapidly persuading Turks and Iranians that a strictly sexual approach to government is best and that those who talk non-stop religion are usually both inept and corrupt. Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization.
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This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8mo agoJeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."
The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings
Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.
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This is Minneapolis: When we rolled down Portland Ave toward Renee Good's memorial, tons of families (many sheltering in place for many, many weeks) waved & cheered from their windows, porches & front steps. My kids' classmates. My neighbors. 😭
Laura G Mitchell@lauragmitchell.com · 8mo agoI ❤️ Minneapolis This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches. ICE out, now.
The end goal of Christian nationalist policies likely aren't greater religiosity, but power. New research shows laws that support Christianity or restrict non-Christian groups actually incline committed religious citizens to *disengage* from religious & civic participation. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
All of this!!! For example, Ohio State (not an Ivy but big deal R1) has... Wexner Medical Center Wexner Center for the Arts These are named after Les Wexner, who made his money on Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie, etc. + employed Epstein as his financial manager for 20 years + bankrolled his abuses.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 8mo agoIt's easy to see these men as individual bad apples. But I'd argue--the bigger problems are "elite" universities' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name bad actors, and the fact that, societially, we let "elite" universities play such a big role in determining who can get ahead.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
3800 kids taken into ICE custody in 2025 (as of mid-December; must be higher now), according to the Marshall Project. 1300 of them held longer than 20 days. Genuinely monstrous. The (tiny, scrappy, wonderful) group I was part of under Trump 1 formed specifically to fight family separation. Now the
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
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“Forced adoption.” Remember: As citizens we always have agency and we can always opt out of this AI bullshit. They might make it harder and more of a pain in the ass but we always have the power.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 8mo agoMicrosoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion." Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social
The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out. We’re winning and it’s not even close.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 8mo agoMinneapolis is going to win. Can’t you feel it? They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them. It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Catholic leaders at the national and local levels are calling for calm, prayer and renewed respect for human life following the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis.
US bishops call for peace after fatal shooting of Minneapolis man
Catholic leaders at the national and local levels are calling for calm, prayer and renewed respect for human life following the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis.
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
