Kathleen Cole
@kcolempls.bsky.social
political scientist, organizer, knitter, animal rescue, fan of early bedtimes. Currently: Transformative Justice Alliance; formerly: People Over Prosecution, Recall Freeman, MN for Warren.
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I’d like to get an announcement that there’s a presser where David Schultz is stepping down as pundit
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I’d like to get an announcement that there’s a presser where David Schultz is stepping down as pundit
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all my homies love Isaiah Stewart
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
all my homies love Isaiah Stewart
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Here are my top 10 most unique dog jobs!
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Here are my top 10 most unique dog jobs!
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This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
@Mercado Media video credit #minnesota #illinois #louisiana #america
TikTok video by June Osborne
www.tiktok.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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.
Join us tonight! Be in community with people who share your values. We need each other now more than ever.
TONIGHT: Come join TJA and learn how we're going to help harmed parties heal from violence and responsible parties take accountability for repair. We're building safer, more racially just communities and providing an alternative to incarceration.
Come be in community and learn how you can support!
Come be in community and learn how you can support!
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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.
Join us tonight! Be in community with people who share your values. We need each other now more than ever.
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And Angie Craig voted for it
Trump chose the Laken Riley Act as the first bill of his administration for one reason: He wanted to legitimize his mass deportation agenda.
Every vote in favor of this bill normalized the chaos we see now.
Every vote in favor of this bill normalized the chaos we see now.
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
And Angie Craig voted for it
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$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.
Biggest overspender for 2025: MPD is projected to be 19.5 million over budget. Boosted from $226m to $246m.
Biggest underspender: The department of Neighborhood Safety will be nearly $11 million under budget. Over half their $17m budget.
Biggest underspender: The department of Neighborhood Safety will be nearly $11 million under budget. Over half their $17m budget.
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
$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.
December 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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.
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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.
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Melissa Hortman got every Minnesotan kid fed at school. Cyndy Martin killed a Minnesota kid with her car.
now we’re using melissa hortman’s memory to protect cyndy martin. holy shit
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Melissa Hortman got every Minnesotan kid fed at school. Cyndy Martin killed a Minnesota kid with her car.
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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
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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Pistons guard Cade Cunningham has been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Month! 🌟
#DetroitBasketball
#DetroitBasketball
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Pistons guard Cade Cunningham has been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Month! 🌟
#DetroitBasketball
#DetroitBasketball
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After an incredible November, Pistons HC JB Bickerstaff has been named the NBA Coach of the Month. 🌟
#DetroitBasketball
#DetroitBasketball
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
After an incredible November, Pistons HC JB Bickerstaff has been named the NBA Coach of the Month. 🌟
#DetroitBasketball
#DetroitBasketball
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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!
We need grassroots donations to keep the work moving. Please join us on 12/10 for a fundraiser at Pilllar Forum!
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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!
We need grassroots donations to keep the work moving. Please join us on 12/10 for a fundraiser at Pilllar Forum!
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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?
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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?
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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?
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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/
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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/
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
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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.
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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.
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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...
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Zach Lowe imagining hypothetical trades is not Detroit Pistons news. It’s Zach Lowe news, at best. Wish sports media knew the difference.
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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:
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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!
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hearing folks yelling Deeeeetroit Baskeball at the Hawks arena is really something!
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"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."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"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."