A number of posts from friends reminded me that it’s been ten years since we lost the towering journalist Gwen Ifill. Here’s a tribute I did for Politico which sums up why we need to remember her now more than ever. loom.ly/VzuPK7c

Remembering Gwen Ifill

1955-2016

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Artist Bobby Wilson worked alongside several St. Paul east side community members to create a mural that honors both the local community and Dakota history through vibrant imagery and storytelling. The mural is along Mounds Boulevard near sacred site Wakaŋ Tipi.

New mural pays homage to St. Paul’s east side community, Dakota history

Artist Bobby Wilson worked alongside several St. Paul east side community members to create a mural that honors both the local community and Dakota history through vibrant imagery and storytelling. Th...

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sorry there’s no money to fix air travel, we spent it all on secret masked police to solve the problem of having construction workers

“Being Heumann” is out on AppleTV today! Please watch this explicitly political film about successful direct action with your pals this weekend. It’s also funny & raunchy & silly & beautiful. With a legitimately “star-making” performance from the brilliant Ruth Madeley as badass Judy Heumann!❤️

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · last mo.

And here’s the trailer for BEING HEUMANN. In cinemas Nov 6, streaming on AppleTV Nov 13. I saw it last night at the London Film Festival & it’s a triumph.

Charles Riley, Governor of the Pueblo of Acoma, calls on us to stand together to protect our sacred places & Tribal sovereignty.Call Senator Heinrich and tell him you oppose Senate Bill 5653, aka BAAJA. And call Rep. Gabe Vasquez (505) 208-4777 to take a stand against BAAJA if it goes to the House.

Yes, that means: 1. Incoming Georgia Gov. @keishaforga.bsky.social 2. Incoming Iowa Gov. @robsandia.bsky.social 3. Incoming Ohio Gov. @amyactonoh.bsky.social 4. Incoming Nevada Gov. @aarondfordnv.bsky.social 5. Incoming Texas Gov. @ginafortexas.bsky.social

“It was not that everyone knew everyone. But everyone knew someone who knew someone who knew everyone.”

Farewell to Stanley Zabar, the ‘Mayor’ of the Upper West Side

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People keep sayin' they want to chip in, so the Mississippi Victory Beer Fund is now accepting contributions. gofund.me/846118a20

Donate to Mississippi Victory Beer Fund, organized by Steve Lafleur

Guess I'm doing this. Feel free to chip in. This app wants me to provi… Steve Lafleur needs your support for Mississippi Victory Beer Fund

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Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

“Make no mistake, white evangelicals will be back. They haven't changed their theology, their cultural attitudes, their informational insularity, or their certain belief in their own righteousness. They comprise the most pro-authoritarian subculture in our country, and that's not a recent thing.”

The Evangelical Vote Will Return in 2028

Those writing obituaries for Christian nationalism need to hold off.

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I’m certain Medgar Evers is celebrating in Paradise. He fought at Normandy on D-Day against fascism and later fought and lost his life for voting rights for black people in Mississippi. I would be remiss if I didn’t remember him on Veterans Day.🇺🇸🗳️💙 #ScottColom #midterms2026 #VeteransDay #democracy

Our survey asked, “If [a candidate] talks about defunding ICE, are you less likely or more likely to vote for that person?” And the majority was more favorable… for independents, it was a good thing. For Democrats too. Saying you’re gonna abolish ICE was more helpful than hurtful, campaign-wise.

There's not nearly enough screaming about this: Trump is trying to rip away food assistance from an additional 6.3 million Americans. That's roughly ONE IN FIVE people who rely on SNAP, many of them kids.

Trump administration moves to cut food stamps for 6.3 million people

The Trump administration ‌on Tuesday moved to cut millions more Americans from the nation's largest food assistance program, even as enrollment continues to fall from other administration cuts.

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#poetry Ooh, this poem by Alina Kalontarov: "...the sky is an unswept mess of stars from that one time god, excusing himself from the table, threw salt over his left shoulder and said good luck."

Well, it’s official: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc... I started toying with these ideas in 2021, I think, and wrote most of this argument in 2023-4, and then the hardest chapters in 2025. It’s been a process. I don’t know if I’ll ever write another theological book. Left it all on the page.

Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

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Pete Hegseth had his inner circle google promotable officers and create paper-only files assessing their wokeness. www.ms.now/news/pete-he...

‘You gotta be kidding me’: Hegseth used these four things to decide on senior officer promotions

A senior official exclusively told MS NOW how decorated military officers with decades of experience were withheld from promotion after Pentagon staff printed out internet searches showing they had at...

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It really does shock me how many “why did the Democrats win” round-ups I’ve been seeing in major outlets that don’t even MENTION ICE. If you’re trying to explain Blue Texas and aren’t even bringing up ICE’s terror campaign against Latinos, you’re either stupid or have a very suspect agenda.

A *really* important point by Massie. The US massacre of school children was before there were any countermeasures etc from Iran. Either grotesque incompetence. Or intentional slaughter. Take your pick. Either way, on Hegseth's watch.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Massie: "There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"

Yes. Accountability for the Trump family. Convict and clawback.

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yes and thank you! Let us all hold mock trials in our communities in solidarity. Let's keep making it absolutely clear what it is we want, even when there isn't an immediate election.

Win that went under radar cause election eclipsed everything: The unrelenting badasses across immigrant rights legal orgs blocked the regime's fast tracking unaccompanied kids' removal. And yeah, we're at such depravity, this is a battle currently underway. www.nilc.org/press/advoca...

Advocates for Unaccompanied Children Applaud Judge’s Decision to Block the Government from Rushing Asylum Proceedings

Legal services providers representing thousands of immigrant children celebrated a federal court’s ruling granting a temporary restraining order (TRO) that will help prevent the government from fast-t...

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First Freshmen Senator selfie! Couldn’t ask for a better team.

Thank you, @vjbarnett.bsky.social for this and for your scholarship and service for many years.

Victoria J Barnett@vjbarnett.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just published: a resource I authored for professors & students of theology & religious studies on “Bonhoeffer, Barth, the Church Struggle & the Holocaust.” You can access it at the link below & then scroll down the page to “Teaching Resource: Protestant Churches under Nazism.”

Just published: a resource I authored for professors & students of theology & religious studies on “Bonhoeffer, Barth, the Church Struggle & the Holocaust.” You can access it at the link below & then scroll down the page to “Teaching Resource: Protestant Churches under Nazism.”

Stephen Miller's promotion isn't the only reason to be skeptical of Trump's "too tough" musings. ICE still has tens of billions left to spend over the next two years. The money will drive mass deportations: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

ICE After the Blowout

The midterms were a backlash to Trump’s immigration policies. But ICE has billions more to spend.

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How should organizations navigate terminology debates about Native Americans? #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #AmericanIndian

1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers. This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 7d ago

Ross Douthat asks the President how his net worth rose by nearly $3 billion, according to a Forbes estimate, since he returned to office. Watch the interview Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes.

Pope Leo; “Democracy is also strengthened by the daily conduct of public life: through willingness to listen, through careful use of words, through the patient search for agreement, and through the ability to see those who think differently as fellow citizens with whom we share a common future.”

A reminder of the fiscal damage Trump did in 2026, especially to poor to median households. Higher fuel prices alone cost the average household $1000! Has any US war ever cost citizens as much, as fast as Trump’s attack on Iran? economist.com/united-state...

Is the NYT ever, ever going to do these kind of safari trips to blue areas? Talk with latino hotel workers in Vegas? Middle-aged suburban resistance moms? Young black men? Does the paper ever extend its empathy to anyone other than disgruntled white people?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.