jkshields has lost the plot

Learning to be idle and blessed, to stroll through fields of wisdom that fill from beneath like well water, drawn up by the pump, primed by our tears and sweat, exceeding need or rationing

“The loneliness of the electric menorah” is an absurdly good title

Honestly not the kind of online content that should have you crying, but I guess that’s why we call it Monday

From the Head of the Fish this morning around 7:30

"A flooded zone rarely announces itself. Any one item may look ordinary on its own. The pattern becomes visible when we notice what the accumulation is doing to our attention: which subjects dominate and which questions go unanswered." cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/the-flood-...

As you read this story, keep in mind that we should have always had free school breakfast and lunch for all children, always. As the cheapest option! One of the best policy ROIs that there is!

Here's what really happened with this Elissa Slotkin saga: She said that a Dem Congress will seek real accountability for Trump's enablers, and a bunch of MAGA goons decided this posed a major threat to their political project. Which it actually does! newrepublic.com/article/2168...

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And this is yet another reason that NYT piece on Denver "solving homelessness" reads like copaganda... Sweeps w/ social workers are probably less violent than sweeps without them.... but its v. hard to imagine something called a "sweep" and conducted by uniformed officers that is not traumatizing.

We've gotta learn to believe these authoritarians are who they say they are the first time they tell us. Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home this morning. Her office says, "The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong." Here are some things I'm not seeing enough of in our online chatter. 🧵

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Hundreds of residents gathered for a community-wide re-dedication of the original First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, which was established in 1776 by enslaved and free African Americans in defiance of laws that prevented them from congregating.

"The loudest person doesn't get to influence basic safety infrastructure that we know works,” Lewis George said. “It's time that we stop believing that everyone has to love an idea in order for an idea to happen. That's not what governance calls for us to do.”

States that require (or have a lower standard for) arrests in DV cases are more likely to arrest the victim -- usually both parties -- because they don't want to sort out the issue. www.propublica.org/article/dome...

“Even the nudes, of trans women showing their breasts and genitals, for example, are captured in poses neither erotic nor obscene, just, again, casually human.” @sandyernestallen.bsky.social revisits Loren Rex Cameron’s classic photography book, “Body Alchemy”: www.thebeliever.net/looking-for-...

Private renters on housing support already go without essentials. Last year, six-in-ten (58 per cent) working-age adults in private-renting families on housing support could not afford basic items buff.ly/tmfEAWh

Massachusetts' history is inseparable from the history of Indigenous peoples who have called this land their home for centuries. We honor Indigenous communities for their enduring presence and ongoing pursuit of justice.

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

@smothurston.bsky.social I'm reading your PT article, and am reminded of a set of texts beyond Lewis I meant to get back to... but I also found myself trying to remember what it was like with my first child. We moved to YDS and away from all extended family help when he was just about 2 months old.

For the first time, a Catholic archbishop sues Trump over access to immigrant detainees by Jack Jenkins religionnews.com/2026/10/07/s...

My dining room table barely fits our family of five and the room can't hold a bigger one... which makes the afforable hosting options... weather dependent.

This book is dark and lovely and lyrical and worth your time. It would also make a good gift for someone 10+ who likes stories that have a little ambiguity.

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Confession: I'm delighted the church I was helping out has found a bridge pastor who can support them every week.... but I was hoping to pay down debt with the honoraria they pay for a couple weeks of pulpit supply. It's not why I preach. But I'm not in a financial position to think nothing of it.

I want to see a candidate for U.S. Senate run on reparations for all victims of ICE's illegal activity.