Michael Corey
@mikejcorey.bsky.social
Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice. Previously: Star Tribune, Reveal. Racial covenants, public history, mapping, data journalism. Team St. Paul.
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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university administrations are doing things they want to do and blaming the trump DOJ and SCOTUS but they are things they want to do
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
university administrations are doing things they want to do and blaming the trump DOJ and SCOTUS but they are things they want to do
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.
Oh weird, when you fight back you might win? Does this work better than preemptively surrendering? Asking for, um, all of society.
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oh weird, when you fight back you might win? Does this work better than preemptively surrendering? Asking for, um, all of society.
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Steve Jobs said they would redesign cities around them.
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Steve Jobs said they would redesign cities around them.
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Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
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Our government pardoned this guy after he was tried, convicted and sentenced. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
But we are summarily executing fishermen with no due process based solely on supposed intelligence the adminstration won't release.
But we are summarily executing fishermen with no due process based solely on supposed intelligence the adminstration won't release.
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Our government pardoned this guy after he was tried, convicted and sentenced. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
But we are summarily executing fishermen with no due process based solely on supposed intelligence the adminstration won't release.
But we are summarily executing fishermen with no due process based solely on supposed intelligence the adminstration won't release.
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"When we talk to our kids tonight, what is the highlight of our day? We got tear gassed for justice. We got tear gassed for doing what was right. We got tear gassed for standing up for our neighbors." www.startribune.com/taylor-schli...
Taylor Schlitz: The voices that stuck with me after the St. Paul ICE raid
"Our problem is not a lack of evidence. Our problem is whether we will let what we are seeing change us," Haley Taylor Schlitz writes.
www.startribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"When we talk to our kids tonight, what is the highlight of our day? We got tear gassed for justice. We got tear gassed for doing what was right. We got tear gassed for standing up for our neighbors." www.startribune.com/taylor-schli...
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Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
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December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Many talk on here about the need to reform American journalism. The members of the @tinynewscollective.bsky.social are doing the work. Chances are we've got a member in your state. Consider supporting them today. At all of these organizations, every donation has a huge impact.
This is what I expect from my representatives, and I'm thankful that Molly is our councilmember.
Our city says loudly and often that we stand with immigrants, peaceful protestors, and everybody who is fighting for a better world. Every elected official in our city has an obligation to make that more true than it was today.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is what I expect from my representatives, and I'm thankful that Molly is our councilmember.
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Hey @mayorcarter.bsky.social what the hell? @mayorher.bsky.social are you going to take a stance on this?
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey @mayorcarter.bsky.social what the hell? @mayorher.bsky.social are you going to take a stance on this?
I really really really want a reporter to ask Target: "It seems like the company needs all the help it can get right now. Have you discussed admitting publicly you made a mistake on the DEI retreat and that it has been an unnecessary drag?"
ALSO, today’s 1,200 word front page story by the Strib’s retail reporter (the Strib doesn’t have a labor reporter) devotes exactly one sentence to Target’s blunders, implying that the boycott was brief.
I wonder whether the retail reporter ever reads the letters to the editor; this one ran on Sat.
I wonder whether the retail reporter ever reads the letters to the editor; this one ran on Sat.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I really really really want a reporter to ask Target: "It seems like the company needs all the help it can get right now. Have you discussed admitting publicly you made a mistake on the DEI retreat and that it has been an unnecessary drag?"
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We should develop and fund a plan to reconstruct this predictably dangerous street with traffic calming measures, maybe throw in a nicer bike trail while we’re at it.
"Preliminary information indicates the pedestrians were in the crosswalk and had the right of way when crossing Summit Avenue," police wrote in a statement Monday afternoon.
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Driver hits pedestrians on Summit Avenue; woman critically injured
According to police, impairment is not suspected to be a factor in the crash.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We should develop and fund a plan to reconstruct this predictably dangerous street with traffic calming measures, maybe throw in a nicer bike trail while we’re at it.
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This *strongly* accords with my impressions of the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area (both cities and also the suburbs with which I'm familiar), fwiw
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This *strongly* accords with my impressions of the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area (both cities and also the suburbs with which I'm familiar), fwiw
Wow, look at how hard they're fighting antisemitism!
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wow, look at how hard they're fighting antisemitism!
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Reporter Andy Mannix from the @startribune.com and I have been speaking to women all over the country about allegations of child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. This is the story of how one perpetrator in Minnesota escaped consequences for years: www.propublica.org/article/sexu...
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reporter Andy Mannix from the @startribune.com and I have been speaking to women all over the country about allegations of child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. This is the story of how one perpetrator in Minnesota escaped consequences for years: www.propublica.org/article/sexu...
I am reminded this week that having 1 or 2 talking points or visuals that journalists can latch onto is SO IMPORTANT and NOT REALLY THAT HARD. Makes a huge difference in the coverage you can expect.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I am reminded this week that having 1 or 2 talking points or visuals that journalists can latch onto is SO IMPORTANT and NOT REALLY THAT HARD. Makes a huge difference in the coverage you can expect.
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It’s dangerous to have someone this incompetent working as a news editor
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s dangerous to have someone this incompetent working as a news editor
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It’s been almost 48 hours and we still don’t know with certainty how many people were detained on Tuesday, the grounds (if any) on which they’re being held, or what will happen next for these members of our community—all of whom have families and friends and people who love them.
This isn’t normal.
This isn’t normal.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It’s been almost 48 hours and we still don’t know with certainty how many people were detained on Tuesday, the grounds (if any) on which they’re being held, or what will happen next for these members of our community—all of whom have families and friends and people who love them.
This isn’t normal.
This isn’t normal.
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Keep an eye on Appleton MN. Almost 3 hrs from the Twin Cities, feds are looking at it for an ICE detention facility. Far from the prying eyes of the largest and densest population of people who oppose concentration camps. (Gratitude for the locals on the right side) www.minnpost.com/greater-minn...
Appleton residents weigh value of potential ICE detention center
Appleton’s private prison, once the town's biggest employer, has sat unused for 15 years. The Trump administration might have plans for it.
www.minnpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Keep an eye on Appleton MN. Almost 3 hrs from the Twin Cities, feds are looking at it for an ICE detention facility. Far from the prying eyes of the largest and densest population of people who oppose concentration camps. (Gratitude for the locals on the right side) www.minnpost.com/greater-minn...
Did not need to know this to shape my feelings about OpenAI but yup that sure checks out.
"Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after Epstein emails made public" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after Epstein emails made public
The former US treasury secretary has faced a backlash over frequent messages to Epstein.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Did not need to know this to shape my feelings about OpenAI but yup that sure checks out.
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Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
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And yes, I wrote a full book about Jamal Khashoggi and his murder. Delivered edits, everything.
Until my editors at Harper Collins completely disappeared and stopped work on my manuscript, forcing me to pull it.
www.thedailybeast.com/harpercollin...
Until my editors at Harper Collins completely disappeared and stopped work on my manuscript, forcing me to pull it.
www.thedailybeast.com/harpercollin...
HarperCollins Halts Work on Book About Jamal Khashoggi
Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia, was murdered at the country’s consulate in Turkey.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
And yes, I wrote a full book about Jamal Khashoggi and his murder. Delivered edits, everything.
Until my editors at Harper Collins completely disappeared and stopped work on my manuscript, forcing me to pull it.
www.thedailybeast.com/harpercollin...
Until my editors at Harper Collins completely disappeared and stopped work on my manuscript, forcing me to pull it.
www.thedailybeast.com/harpercollin...