| Website | https://jeffdmerrell.ghost.io/ |
| Home base | Evanston, Illinois, USA |
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“When we search for something and find it, we feel efficient. When we stumble onto something we weren’t looking for and recognize its significance, we feel met. There’s a quality of gift to it, of the world participating in our thinking in a way that purely intentional search never produces.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/cardcatalogforlife/p/in-praise-of-serendipity
Note: This is a long post - much longer than I usually write. But it lays out the full current state of the work I am doing, and how I think about community listening, co-creating local solutions, and learning what those activities mean for environmental equity in my home city.
"The question is whether it gets built well, with accountability, in places that have the political infrastructure to negotiate real benefits, or whether it gets built badly, in places that don’t."
Long read, but great stuff. Fight the battles to reshape the rules to protect all communities.
https://open.substack.com/pub/drlennecefer/p/what-the-anti-data-center-movement?
My town. Not perfect, but doing some work.
‘I don't want to feel like a victim': 'No Kings' protesters fill lakefront - Evanston RoundTable https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/03/28/i-dont-want-to-feel-like-a-victim-no-kings-protesters-fill-lakefront/
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Family #Deportation #Children #Data #Trump
More of this kind of journalism, please. Why ICE should not be funded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/ice-detention-center-dilley-children/686302/
‘It's clearly fake‘: Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/brady-tkachuk-white-house-ai-video-00802767?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“The unknown,” said Faxe’s soft voice in the forest, “the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action…The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
I recently started reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (science fiction is now my favorite holiday from current news and events). A moment in the story stood out. Genly Ai i…
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