Martin Kelley
@martinkelley.com
Quaker with a focus on outreach, nonviolence, and the Christian roots of Friends. Sharing stories of Quakers as senior editor of @friendsjournal.org and blogger at Quakerranter.org.
Bio, etc.: MartinKelley.com
He/him. Let your life preach.
Bio, etc.: MartinKelley.com
He/him. Let your life preach.
Bending Spoons did the same thing when they bought Evernote a few years ago and while it undoubtedly sucked for the employees it really turned the product around.
Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know what comes next: Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’. [gizmodo.com]
Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.
gizmodo.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Bending Spoons did the same thing when they bought Evernote a few years ago and while it undoubtedly sucked for the employees it really turned the product around.
There's often an implied us-them dichotomy when Quakers talk about Indigenous Peoples so I'm fascinated by communities that are both.
Many Indigenous Friends do not see embracing Christ-centered Quakerism as a loss of their ancestral culture.
Some Native Americans, pointing to similarities between Quakerism and traditional Indigenous religions, aim to preserve their cultures while embracing a decidedly Christian spiritual path.
Some Native Americans, pointing to similarities between Quakerism and traditional Indigenous religions, aim to preserve their cultures while embracing a decidedly Christian spiritual path.
Indigenous and Quaker Both
Reflections from Friends in Indigenous-majority meetings.
www.friendsjournal.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:19 PM
There's often an implied us-them dichotomy when Quakers talk about Indigenous Peoples so I'm fascinated by communities that are both.
What these bozos don't get is that immigration has been the engine of U.S. economic growth, even more so now that domestic birth rates have fallen and our population's aging. Do we really want generational stagflation like Japan?
U.S. Population Growth Slows Sharply as Immigration Numbers Plunge
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
What these bozos don't get is that immigration has been the engine of U.S. economic growth, even more so now that domestic birth rates have fallen and our population's aging. Do we really want generational stagflation like Japan?
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George Fox called on people to “be a terror to all the adversaries of God,” not through violence, but by “awakening the witness, confounding deceit, gathering up out of transgression into the life, the covenant of light and peace with God.”
It’s happening in Minneapolis.
quaker.org/2026/01/26/w...
It’s happening in Minneapolis.
quaker.org/2026/01/26/w...
January 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM
George Fox called on people to “be a terror to all the adversaries of God,” not through violence, but by “awakening the witness, confounding deceit, gathering up out of transgression into the life, the covenant of light and peace with God.”
It’s happening in Minneapolis.
quaker.org/2026/01/26/w...
It’s happening in Minneapolis.
quaker.org/2026/01/26/w...
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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
The secret police illegally kidnapping people don't want us calling them the gestapo or say that their kidnapping is kidnapping. They don't like words having meaning.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The secret police illegally kidnapping people don't want us calling them the gestapo or say that their kidnapping is kidnapping. They don't like words having meaning.
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Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
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Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.”
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
January 26, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.”
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
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“YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY,
WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE…
THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.”— Matt Moberg, Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain
There’s a lot more than that, and you should read it all.
WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE…
THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.”— Matt Moberg, Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain
There’s a lot more than that, and you should read it all.
January 25, 2026 at 10:56 PM
“YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY,
WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE…
THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.”— Matt Moberg, Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain
There’s a lot more than that, and you should read it all.
WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE…
THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.”— Matt Moberg, Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain
There’s a lot more than that, and you should read it all.
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“.. Dan and Jane resisted the idea that they had become political. .. ‘It became clear very quickly that ICE is the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo boys. They’ve given them uniforms and let them run wild,’ Dan said.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 12:13 PM
“.. Dan and Jane resisted the idea that they had become political. .. ‘It became clear very quickly that ICE is the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo boys. They’ve given them uniforms and let them run wild,’ Dan said.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
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New on Quakers Today: Moving from "I" to "We." 🤝
Featuring: ✨ Rubén Hilari Quispe on Jiwasa ✨ Renzo Carranza on Liberation Theology ✨ Rachel Overstreet on healing boarding school history
A journey into radical belonging. 🎧
Listen now: www.friendsjournal.org/podcast/quak...
@friendsjournal.org
Featuring: ✨ Rubén Hilari Quispe on Jiwasa ✨ Renzo Carranza on Liberation Theology ✨ Rachel Overstreet on healing boarding school history
A journey into radical belonging. 🎧
Listen now: www.friendsjournal.org/podcast/quak...
@friendsjournal.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:05 AM
New on Quakers Today: Moving from "I" to "We." 🤝
Featuring: ✨ Rubén Hilari Quispe on Jiwasa ✨ Renzo Carranza on Liberation Theology ✨ Rachel Overstreet on healing boarding school history
A journey into radical belonging. 🎧
Listen now: www.friendsjournal.org/podcast/quak...
@friendsjournal.org
Featuring: ✨ Rubén Hilari Quispe on Jiwasa ✨ Renzo Carranza on Liberation Theology ✨ Rachel Overstreet on healing boarding school history
A journey into radical belonging. 🎧
Listen now: www.friendsjournal.org/podcast/quak...
@friendsjournal.org
Oh I'm going to get a birthday present from Apple!
For All Mankind — Season 5 Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Oh I'm going to get a birthday present from Apple!
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i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
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How dare the press *checks notes* focus on the president threatening to take an ally's territory by force because he didn't get a peace prize, which would then lead to the destruction of the world's largest security pact.
January 20, 2026 at 1:08 AM
How dare the press *checks notes* focus on the president threatening to take an ally's territory by force because he didn't get a peace prize, which would then lead to the destruction of the world's largest security pact.
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Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!
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Gerrard Winstanley and James Nayler on the worship of God at a distance based on human notions.
January 18, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Gerrard Winstanley and James Nayler on the worship of God at a distance based on human notions.
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Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.
How does anyone think this is a good idea?
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
How does anyone think this is a good idea?
If you really wanted to make America great again, you'd start with making unions great again.
Where Did All the American-Born Roofers Go?
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
If you really wanted to make America great again, you'd start with making unions great again.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
Opinion | The Resistance Libs Were Right
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
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The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
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1/2 My worrry about Post-Christian Universalism is that it ends with a rather rootless storyless Divine Principle--which erases the differences between traditions & communities, & forces them into a predefined shape. But there is an older Quaker perspective which expects to find Chtist...
Within worship and during personal spiritual practice, many Pluralist Liberal Friends focus on what they regard as a universal divine principle that is revealed in different ways in all the world’s faiths.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, pp.80-81.
The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, pp.80-81.
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM
1/2 My worrry about Post-Christian Universalism is that it ends with a rather rootless storyless Divine Principle--which erases the differences between traditions & communities, & forces them into a predefined shape. But there is an older Quaker perspective which expects to find Chtist...