Kathleen Cole

I hear that! Returning to Detroit always feels like a regrounding. Everywhere else feels slightly to very disorienting. But when I am back in the city, I feel like all the parts of me make sense in that place. Happy for you to get to return soon!

Every year it gets just that much harder to not be able to live there. There is nowhere else on Earth that I would rather be than Detroit.

We're at the All-Star break and the Detroit Pistons have the best record in the league. That's pretty awesome.

And to think all that talent sits for a large portion of most games. Takes a selfless person/player to be willing to take the way way back seat and stay ready to step up when it’s your turn. So much admiration and respect for Paul Reed #Piston

I’d like to get an announcement that there’s a presser where David Schultz is stepping down as pundit

all my homies love Isaiah Stewart

Here are my top 10 most unique dog jobs!

@Mercado Media video credit #minnesota #illinois #louisiana #america TikTok video by June Osborne

This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/

It's rough out there, y'all. It can feel hard to find things that feel hopeful. But TJA's work gives me hope.

Join us tonight! Be in community with people who share your values. We need each other now more than ever.

And Angie Craig voted for it

$246 million/year, and they still are steadily complaining it is not enough. $1 billion in less than 5 years - do you understand the kind of safety that money should buy you? even if you gave violent criminals a cut of that money to just go away, you would spend less. crazy.

They’re going to do as much about our ICE reports as they do about our unshoveled sidewalk reports.

Shout out to everyone who’s holding their people together right now. Helping people who are coming undone fall apart safely and put themselves back together. Checking on folks, feeding them. Whatever you’re doing to take care of your people while keeping your shit reasonably together is incredible.

Melissa Hortman got every Minnesotan kid fed at school. Cyndy Martin killed a Minnesota kid with her car.

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social

Pistons guard Cade Cunningham has been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Month! 🌟

#DetroitBasketball

After an incredible November, Pistons HC JB Bickerstaff has been named the NBA Coach of the Month. 🌟

#DetroitBasketball

A flyer for the fundraiser. The background is beige. The lettering is green and black. The TJA logo is in the upper left corner. The text reads: FUND OUR FUTURES. Help us fund the future of transformative justice right here in Hennepin County. December 10th, 6:30 p.m., Pilllar Forum, 2300 Central Ave NE. Co-hosted by: Amity Foster, Dan Engelhart, Jamey Erickson, Jared Mollenkof, Kathleen Cole, Letty Rogers, Nelle Rivers, Sam Blackwell, Will Dykes

We're building a program to help harmed parties heal from violence, hold responsible parties accountable for making repair, and interrupt cycles of violence.

We need grassroots donations to keep the work moving. Please join us on 12/10 for a fundraiser at Pilllar Forum!

NBA team defensive ratings for 2025 and 2026 with the Detroit Pistons being number one

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One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Like unless that man's name is Trajan Langdon, why am I giving a fuck? Is this news?

The thing that drives me nuts about all the trade gossip is they report some guy with an idea about a trade as if it's actually happening. I get headlines about Pistons being traded away and I'm like oh no! And then you click and it's just some dude saying here's an idea I had. Like, what?

A tuxedo and a marmalade cat curl up blissfully napping together

Urgent MSP #Caturday 🧵: these two handsome boys need a loving home as circumstances sadly force their person to part with them.

Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/

Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.

Members of the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules Committee are complaining about people online (particularly @taylordahlin.com) discussing Cyndy Martin killing a teenager with her car and running from the scene and the "bullying" that they are seeing. taylordahlin.com/f/the-dfls-c...

Zach Lowe imagining hypothetical trades is not Detroit Pistons news. It’s Zach Lowe news, at best. Wish sports media knew the difference.

The Pistons are 13-2, have won 11-straight and are the NBA's second-best team. Here's a thread of some of my work this past week:

Hearing folks yelling Deeeeetroit Baskeball at the Hawks arena is really something!

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Did you know you can help a shelter animal by bringing them into your home for the holidays?

Holidays are hard on animals in the shelter because staff and volunteers are away so they sit isolated in their kennels all day.

Sign up to short term foster an animal in need!