Live for Love's Sake

The past 5 years have been the most politically clarifying of my adult life. Grateful for that, at least.

I understand the reasoning behind zeroing in on ICE & DHS abducting citizens. But when you lead with what's perceived as your most sympathetic cases, you cede the moral high ground & make arguing for others harder. It is wrong for armed, masked gestapo to grab people - doesn't matter their status.

Listening to the 'MASK with Tamar Manasseh' episode of @respairmedia.bsky.social's One Million Experiments podcast yesterday fundamentally shifted my understanding.

I'm so glad I found the #TinyKitchenProject today.

If you get a moment to look into and support these incredible works, please do. 💚

About 30 cars of ICE and DEA agents staging st Newell park in St. Paul

“We don’t know if government threats about returning in March with four times as many agents are true, or whether that dangling threat is just another act of terror, intended to sow fear and panic in a city this administration hates. But at a practical level, we must take the threat at face value and prepare. Some groups are already doing that work: synthesizing what we’ve learned from Midway Blitz to inform political education efforts this winter. It’s clear that ICE agents can’t hack the cold here in Chicago, and we have to make that our strength. People who showed up in droves for community meetings, protests and ICE patrols over the past couple of months can’t go into social or political hibernation now. We need to sharpen our skills and our analysis and strengthen the relationships that have enabled us to act together.” - Kelly Hayes

"As community members in other cities and states square off with federal agents, they will bring their own skills, tactics, and legacies of organizing to that work, and they will innovate, just as we have. We must learn from them, too, and offer our support." organizingmythoughts.org/what-now-chi...

“Listen, not being able to lord my mediocrity over attractive women who are much more competent than I has been very difficult.”

-Most “influential” men running the world, apparently.

Root & Reverie 🌿 Interest Form 🌱 “Something is taking root.” — Morgan Welcome to Root & Reverie, a creative writing workshop designed and led by Morgan Jerkins, NYT-bestselling author, educator, and journalist. This is an intimate,...

✨Some professional news ✨ I'm developing my own creative writing workshops called "Root & Reverie" and they will begin in January 2026. Early interest form is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1w5D...

There will be special incentives for early responders and general great news to come so stay tuned!

I wish Fox News was just news about foxes.

Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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"In Northfield, MN, masked ICE agents violently abducted a father. ICE agents smashed a car window, beating and dragging the man at gunpoint while his teenage son filmed and begged them to stop. He has not been heard from since. (11/11/25)"

Source:
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US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of white men in Ahmaud Arbery killing A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago

A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun

JFC - Trump is forcing every SNAP recipient to reapply for benefits because cruelty is always the point. There is ZERO evidence of widespread SNAP fraud.

That's not going to be a dumpster fire shitshow at all. And how much will it cost the government to review every applicant again?

“I’ve never met a single organizer worth their salt, who was constantly convinced that they were doing enough. I’ve never seen it. You will never get to a point where it feels like it’s enough and you really have to let go of the false assumption that we’ll stop once we’ve done enough because we’ll never feel that ... Instead, we have to resource ourselves with rest, with retreat, with reconnection, with re-grounding and reintegration. Those are the things we have to incorporate into our daily life. And it’s not a luxury.” - Aaron Goggans

"I think it’s much more important to get in touch with what our values are and act from those values, which may or may not produce the kind of thing we think people should be producing." truthout.org/audio/burnou...

Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us “Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.

Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.

Good. On Wednesday early voting starts for @aftynbehn.bsky.social Follow, amplify, donate, volunteer. TN 07 make a voting plan and vote. Grinder Mike, we’re coming for your tiny majority. LFG! bsky.app/profile/kenm...

🚨BREAKING: At long last, Mike Johnson will swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday at 4 pm ET.

Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.

On Tuesday, we helped score massive wins for our democracy — but we’re not done yet! There’s still one more election to win this year and it’s in Tennessee.

@aftynbehn.bsky.social, a state representative and former Indivisible group leader, is running in a special election to flip #TN07.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

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"It is one of the wounds of the West: This confusion between care and control as though they're the same thing.

So, I'm excited about being a part of REP because I'm excited about practicing what it is to care - again.

Deeper,
Better,
Including with boundaries." 💚

~ @susanraffo.bsky.social

"We know what wrong is -- big time know what wrong is -- but right? Right emerges...

How are we working to shift the generational betrayal?

...The fact that there are way too many moments where help actually ends up getting met by just more control?"

YouTube video by REP for MN a story of us

"How can we, lovingly, move whatever's happening to the next step? 🤔

A next step that is based on someone's agency, sovereignty, own sense of what's possible...

What I love about REP: ...We don't know if this is right. We don't even know what right is. None of us knows what right is." (cont.)

I get why people are upset about SCOTUS putting a temp freeze on SNAP funding. But Justice Ketanji Brown’s move is more strategic than it sounds—she said the 1st Circuit Court should rule first. Trump skipped that step and went straight to SCOTUS. See article for full context….1

- Liberation (n.) = The State of Making Freedom.

“Liberation is not about an outcome.
It’s not about a win.
It’s not about an end goal.
It’s about being in the state of making.” ✨
~ Damon A. Williams

YouTube video by Respair Production & Media One Million Experiments: In The Field | Ep 1 - Rebirth in Minneapolis

💚 @respairmedia.bsky.social's: Breakdown of the word “Liberation”
- Lib (root) = Freedom
- Liberty (n.) = Selfish Freedom. Irresponsible Freedom. Freedom from Being Organized. Freedom from Being Accountable. Freedom that can be Given and Taken Away.
- Liberate (v.) = To Make Free

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.