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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 26/09/2026

Our cat Ollie is trying out his Halloween face.

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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"How do we create a world where checks don't need to be cut because harm never happens in the first place?" Ant Smith on connecting reparations with abolition on Quakers Today @friendsjournal.org 🎧 QuakersToday.org #Quakers #Reparations #Abolition

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 15/09/2026

Just another bankruptcy notch for Trump, in a career full of them.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11. The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 06/09/2026

Moved to Bitwarden this weekend. Annoying since I had just recently renewed my annual 1Password sub but I found the transfer easy enough and things are mostly working well.

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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 06/09/2026

A beautiful meditation on Quakers’ softening on the ideas of times and seasons and how he (and I suspect many other Friends) have come to more fully embrace the seasons of both the wider Christian Church and also the natural seasons of the earth. amorvincat.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/c...

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“Creationtide” and thoughts about liturgy

September 1 has been marked for centuries as the beginning of the Orthodox year, and in recent times as a day of prayer for the protection of the Creation. In 1989, the Patriarch of Constantinople …

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 31/08/2026

I’m curious, if “eggs expensive under Biden” was newsworthy, how come “Trump intentionally caused every single fucking thing to be heinously expensive” isn’t a story?

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 30/08/2026

Signs outside of the Medford NJ meetinghouse. Taken because a Friend at my meeting is thinking about signage that might further convince neighbors we’re not an abandoned space.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Leadership works💪🏽💟🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 30/08/2026

Fuck Google Maps. At some point you have to decide that the official US federal geographic names database has become an unreliable stew of politicized 💩. What happens when President Demented names the Atlantic Ocean after himself?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 24/08/2026

martin_kelley Happy would-be birthday to my mom Liz. She would have been 96 today. This is her in 2014, about a year before she passed.

A woman with four grandchildren sitting on a couch.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 21/08/2026

A fundamental feature of consensus/sense of meeting is that the lack of it defaults to the status quo ("how we've always done it"). This makes decisions that might involve a perceived or real judgements of the behavior of fellow Quakers quite difficult.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 21/08/2026

Thoughts on the surprise Truitt family visit yesterday, because I know Quakers can be really really bad at this… Make sure you have a website that lists a phone number that rings through to a real person in real time. One that also lists an email that will be promptly read and answered...

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Be Ready to Answer the Phone | Quaker Ranter

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 21/08/2026

I had a wonderful time playing host for a visit by an old Cropwell Meeting family that was visiting the area this week. The highlight was definitely 103 year old Margaret Adele McGee, who told stories of worshiping at Cropwell in the 1920s!

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Truitt Family Visits Meetinghouse - Cropwell Quakers

On Wednesday, August 19 members of the extended Truitt family, led by 103-year-old Margaret Adele McGee, dropped by for a visit to Cropwell Meeting. McGee and her daughter Patti McGee Colston had flow...

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 15/08/2026

I think what it comes down to is that we have a problem with conflict. We have a lot of Friends who just Cannot Handle frank disagreement. Peace as the absence of conflict rather than the presence of justice, etc.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 15/08/2026

I’m powered by Freedom, baby! This has always been a sketch location, constantly closing and reopening. There’s definitely been some sort of con going with its owners and this month it’s Freedom Fuels.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 14/08/2026

I'm Quaker and my wife Catholic so my four children have spent time in both communities. The only times I've later learned someone they were close to at some event was a predator was in Quaker circles. I'm not kidding. There are Quakers who don't want us talking about this stuff but we must.

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 14/08/2026

In decades past, many Quaker schools and meetings did not have child safeguarding policies. Friends often assumed Quakers were wholly good people, not capable of child abuse. Times have changed. What have Friends learned about developing child protection policies and responding to abuse allegations?

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Child Safeguarding in Quaker Spaces

Truth and transparency in dealing with abuse.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 14/08/2026

For some reason my Friday newsletter didn't go off last week so it's an extra bundle today. Learn how philosophers are rediscovering plainness and what a "worship fluid" Quaker meeting might look like. us17.campaign-archive.com?u=7e77489ebc...

Screenshot of a YouTube interview with the title "Open Worship, Guided Worship, Fluid Worship"

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 10/08/2026

The AI resistance. These are great. Via @kottke.org aftermath.site/ai-resistanc...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/08/2026

For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...

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Here's How the WNBA Can Win the Anti-Trans Controversy

The league has a golden opportunity to make a definitive and educational point about trans athletes–if it has the courage to do it

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 10/08/2026

Pew Research divides the U.S. political scene into nine typologies. Seems awfully neat still, but does help explain the fractured and sometimes distrustful diversity within "left" or "right" circles.

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Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology

Our typology sorts the public into nine groups based on their political and cultural values, not their party – painting a picture of American politics with far more than two colors.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 07/08/2026

Really well-done article on the cult of Anthony Bourdain, complete with a link to a 2002 bulletin board tribute that has been repurposed as an actual Bourdain quote in service to his cultural canonization. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/m...

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The Gospel According to Anthony Bourdain (Gift Article)

Fans of the late writer and chef are cultlike in their devotion. But have they misunderstood his message?

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 03/08/2026

My interview with John Helding is up. He makes a good case for being open to become more playful and experimental in our worship and suggests better language for our various worship styles. #quakers

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Open Worship, Guided Worship, Fluid Worship: A Talk with John Helding

YouTube video by Friends Journal Quakers

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 03/08/2026

On the blog: Finding the Sweet Harmony in Friends Worship www.quakerranter.org/finding-the-...

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Finding the Sweet Harmony in Friends Worship | Quaker Ranter

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 29/07/2026

Not at all a surprising outcome. China's been disciplined and strategic while Trump changes policies every month. In the last 18 months the U.S. has pretty definitively dropped the ball on future-looking energy, transportation, and education policies and they're the odds-on favorite to win on AI.

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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

'According to Quaker doctrine...“inner illumination” can only come as a result of concentration of the thoughts on God, for which purpose neither a learned sermon nor a liturgy is necessary. On the contrary...everyone...shall say what he has to say, whom the inner voice prompts' (Edward Bernstein).

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 24/07/2026

Invariably on first dates the clapper would fail to respond to my first two-clap prompt and I’d see a panicked look as my date reevaluated the life decisions that had led them to my bedroom.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 22/07/2026

Sorry boss, @theverge.com dropped a 70-minute video on the history of The Clapper and I will be off Slack till 4pm.

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How The Clapper became a viral sensation

YouTube video by Version History

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

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Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Twin Cities Marathon, which featured heavily in this story I wrote about climate change and road racing, just announced they're moving their to mid-October starting in 2027 slate.com/life/2025/09...

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It’s the One Factor Runners Can’t Control. It’s Wreaking Havoc on Marathons.

It’s only going to get worse.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 06/07/2026

This is shocking but at the same time not surprising.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Every day it's like "Republican-Appointed Supreme Court to Decide Whether the FDA Can Stop People From Selling Ground Glass as Flour"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Pundits: "The left doesn't know how to make appeals with patriotism!" Protestor at Delaney Hall waving an American flag:

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I just can’t even

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 18/06/2026

Is there anyone, and I mean this, *anyone*, who believes any of this or believes these aren't the most self-serving, craven, people who have negotiated a U.S. surrender? I'm glad if the fighting stops, certainly, but this has been even more of a shitshow than I imagined going in.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

normal guy: hey man how’s it going Greg Bovino: you gotta hand it to vlad the impaler

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 17/06/2026

Lutnick and Rubio must take tranquilizers when appearing with Trump so their eyes don't bug out. Even so they sometimes break.

Lutnick smirking and looking to the side.

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 11/06/2026

In our September issue, we're revisiting the peace testimony: How does it speak to the experience of Friends today? Do we need to rethink some of its assumptions, or should we be doubling down? We're accepting submissions (1,200-2,500 words) until June 22. Visit our website for more guidelines!

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Write For Friends Journal - Submit Writing For Quaker Publication

Friends Journal is an independent magazine serving the entire Religious Society of Friends. We welcome articles, poetry, art, photographs, and more.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trump's surrender to Iran raises eyebrows in some liberal circles.

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