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.
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He/him. Let your life preach.
Bio, etc.: MartinKelley.com
He/him. Let your life preach.
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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
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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...
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there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command
Imagine Trump of all people trying to say someone is corrupt because of building renovations. I hope this gets thrown out as quickly as the other political persecutions.
January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Imagine Trump of all people trying to say someone is corrupt because of building renovations. I hope this gets thrown out as quickly as the other political persecutions.
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You do not need to watch the new footage -- I'm about to go brain scrub for five minutes, let's put it that way -- but you have got to be literally deranged with misogyny to think this makes the shooter look justified. Which explains why the Vice-President of the United States shared it.
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
You do not need to watch the new footage -- I'm about to go brain scrub for five minutes, let's put it that way -- but you have got to be literally deranged with misogyny to think this makes the shooter look justified. Which explains why the Vice-President of the United States shared it.
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We were saddened earlier this week to hear of the death of Carter Nash, a member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting who had been living with cancer for many years. In 2018, Carter talked with QuakerSpeak about "walking a path of love."
Being God's Hands - QuakerSpeak
If God is love and we are God’s hands, what does that mean for how we should show up in the world?
quakerspeak.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
We were saddened earlier this week to hear of the death of Carter Nash, a member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting who had been living with cancer for many years. In 2018, Carter talked with QuakerSpeak about "walking a path of love."
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It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
If a potential author sends me a pitch written with AI, should I respond to them with a no written by AI?
January 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
If a potential author sends me a pitch written with AI, should I respond to them with a no written by AI?
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Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"
He never dropped his phone.
Even while “fearing for his life” and shooting her with the other hand.
Even while “fearing for his life” and shooting her with the other hand.
January 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"
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DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
And his last words on his video was "Fucking bitch."
And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
And his last words on his video was "Fucking bitch."
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And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”