Brad Weed
@bradweed.bsky.social
I write about the interaction of people and place and advocate for improvements at interplace.io.
"There are about as many people at the FTC as there are guards for the Smithsonian[]. We have a few dozen, at most, looking at health care, a $5 trillion sector. [T]he Federal agencies looking at all of corporate America have just 0.5% of the resources that DHS got [] to deport people."
Monopoly Round-Up: Why ICE Polices in Minnesota, and Not the Corporate Board Room
Law enforcement budgets shows we defunded those who police corporate America, while ramping up coercion on working people. Plus, Dana White tries to take over boxing & the FTC appealed its Meta loss.
www.thebignewsletter.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
"There are about as many people at the FTC as there are guards for the Smithsonian[]. We have a few dozen, at most, looking at health care, a $5 trillion sector. [T]he Federal agencies looking at all of corporate America have just 0.5% of the resources that DHS got [] to deport people."
I would love to watch Le Corbu take a shot or two. 🏀
January 25, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I would love to watch Le Corbu take a shot or two. 🏀
Carney's words send a blast of cold predawn air over the US border.
Bitterly cold surface temperatures infiltrated the northern US last night and early this morning, being so cold as to appear like cloud-top temperatures from the GOES-19 satellite's infrared band, followed by a quick recession once the sun came up this morning.
January 24, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Carney's words send a blast of cold predawn air over the US border.
Reposted by Brad Weed
Bitterly cold surface temperatures infiltrated the northern US last night and early this morning, being so cold as to appear like cloud-top temperatures from the GOES-19 satellite's infrared band, followed by a quick recession once the sun came up this morning.
January 23, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Bitterly cold surface temperatures infiltrated the northern US last night and early this morning, being so cold as to appear like cloud-top temperatures from the GOES-19 satellite's infrared band, followed by a quick recession once the sun came up this morning.
Human intelligence is "exbodied"—outsourced into engineered matter like tools, writing, and institutions. Much of what we call intelligence is distributed across the artifacts and practices we use every day.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Human intelligence is "exbodied"—outsourced into engineered matter like tools, writing, and institutions. Much of what we call intelligence is distributed across the artifacts and practices we use every day.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The "Cartesian Theater" is a comforting fiction that suggests an internal witness sits apart from the world. Real cognition emerges from distributed, parallel processes rather than a central "inner screen". @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
The "Cartesian Theater" is a comforting fiction that suggests an internal witness sits apart from the world. Real cognition emerges from distributed, parallel processes rather than a central "inner screen". @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Organisms don't just read the world; they also write it through "niche construction". By building shelters and cutting paths, living things create external organs of coordination that channel future action. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Organisms don't just read the world; they also write it through "niche construction". By building shelters and cutting paths, living things create external organs of coordination that channel future action. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Long before the first brain evolved, living systems navigated gradients of heat, salt, and light to survive. These primordial feedback loops coupled organisms to their environment without neural intermediaries.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Long before the first brain evolved, living systems navigated gradients of heat, salt, and light to survive. These primordial feedback loops coupled organisms to their environment without neural intermediaries.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
“It is also there in Miller’s worldview, which has long promoted racist fears of demographic replacement of white people and civilisation decline. He has become the editor who turns Trump’s pub chatter into “Make America great again” scripture.”
Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech
President’s anti-Somalia tirade and insults to European leaders were in line with aide Stephen Miller’s worldview
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:17 PM
“It is also there in Miller’s worldview, which has long promoted racist fears of demographic replacement of white people and civilisation decline. He has become the editor who turns Trump’s pub chatter into “Make America great again” scripture.”
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Middlemen of Healthcare
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
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January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Intelligence is not a "super-brain" perched in the cloud. It is a coordinated achievement of biophysical, social, and infrastructural loops that occur across time. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Intelligence is not a "super-brain" perched in the cloud. It is a coordinated achievement of biophysical, social, and infrastructural loops that occur across time. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
AI models are often viewed as internal plans, but they function more like situated actions. Prompts are not just inputs; they are improvisations with a partner in a world that refuses to hold still. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM
AI models are often viewed as internal plans, but they function more like situated actions. Prompts are not just inputs; they are improvisations with a partner in a world that refuses to hold still. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Navigation is a collective achievement, not a private mental map. Orientation happens through an ecology of cognition that includes charts, instruments, and social organization. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Navigation is a collective achievement, not a private mental map. Orientation happens through an ecology of cognition that includes charts, instruments, and social organization. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Human intelligence is "exbodied"—outsourced into engineered matter like tools, writing, and institutions. Much of what we call intelligence is distributed across the artifacts and practices we use every day.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Human intelligence is "exbodied"—outsourced into engineered matter like tools, writing, and institutions. Much of what we call intelligence is distributed across the artifacts and practices we use every day.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
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This MLK Day I'm going to tell a story from May 1968 when a right wing provocateur got the nation talking about how "white conservative Christians" like him were reguularly victimized by Black/leftist mobs while the "liberal elite" looked the other way. The story was a lie, & the "victim" was a Nazi
January 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This MLK Day I'm going to tell a story from May 1968 when a right wing provocateur got the nation talking about how "white conservative Christians" like him were reguularly victimized by Black/leftist mobs while the "liberal elite" looked the other way. The story was a lie, & the "victim" was a Nazi
Organisms don't just read the world; they also write it through "niche construction". By building shelters and cutting paths, living things create external organs of coordination that channel future action. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Organisms don't just read the world; they also write it through "niche construction". By building shelters and cutting paths, living things create external organs of coordination that channel future action. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The "Cartesian Theater" is a comforting fiction that suggests an internal witness sits apart from the world. Real cognition emerges from distributed, parallel processes rather than a central "inner screen". @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:15 AM
The "Cartesian Theater" is a comforting fiction that suggests an internal witness sits apart from the world. Real cognition emerges from distributed, parallel processes rather than a central "inner screen". @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Long before the first brain evolved, living systems navigated gradients of heat, salt, and light to survive. These primordial feedback loops coupled organisms to their environment without neural intermediaries.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Long before the first brain evolved, living systems navigated gradients of heat, salt, and light to survive. These primordial feedback loops coupled organisms to their environment without neural intermediaries.@geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
Intelligence is not a "super-brain" perched in the cloud. It is a coordinated achievement of biophysical, social, and infrastructural loops that occur across time. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
The Mind Can't Act Alone and AI Can't Either
From foggy trails to feedback, why cognition stays bound to the world
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Intelligence is not a "super-brain" perched in the cloud. It is a coordinated achievement of biophysical, social, and infrastructural loops that occur across time. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky open.substack.com/pub/interpla...
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This Friday in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, I’ll be chairing a shadow hearing after ICE’s invasion of the city and the killing of Renee Good. We will not back down in this fight for justice and accountability.
Tune in at 10am ET on January 16 to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVj...
Tune in at 10am ET on January 16 to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVj...
January 14, 2026 at 11:43 PM
This Friday in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, I’ll be chairing a shadow hearing after ICE’s invasion of the city and the killing of Renee Good. We will not back down in this fight for justice and accountability.
Tune in at 10am ET on January 16 to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVj...
Tune in at 10am ET on January 16 to watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVj...
Reposted by Brad Weed
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
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Trump is the first President to invoke the shameful Alien Enemies Act since FDR did it to justify Japanese-American incarceration during WWII, so this tracks.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Trump is the first President to invoke the shameful Alien Enemies Act since FDR did it to justify Japanese-American incarceration during WWII, so this tracks.
Reposted by Brad Weed
NBA coaches often exhibit moral clarity that is elusive in the NFL and MLB
Doc Rivers: "What happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder"
January 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
NBA coaches often exhibit moral clarity that is elusive in the NFL and MLB
Coffee climate conundrum. “…due to erratic weather, low stocks, production risks in Brazil and other top producers, and the 50% US tariff on Brazilian coffee imports. Volatility may persist in 2026…” via @dailychartbook.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Coffee climate conundrum. “…due to erratic weather, low stocks, production risks in Brazil and other top producers, and the 50% US tariff on Brazilian coffee imports. Volatility may persist in 2026…” via @dailychartbook.bsky.social