Really excited to know that every time a cis white guy gets it into his head to shoot someone, the cost gets passed directly on to Me, the American Trans Person

Today on Substack, our latest essay breaks down Catholic involvement with Christian Nationalism maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/how-christ...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Inquiring minds

Just fringe catholics circling back to being evangelical again

In the world of AI everything, your voice is now more important than ever. Your imperfections are too, because you’re real. You’re human.

Indeed

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Book writing tonight (it's an examination of high control catholicism throughout american history) and just got the first Chapter to my target, 3,000 words. Feels good. Only 19 more chapters to go 😆

It’s all so absurd but speaks to the power of scapegoating historically employed by authoritarians

I often wonder if white scholars have any idea what any of this feels like. If they have to spend weeks distracted by hate mail and death threats. If they have any clue how different we are. I spend so much of my time fighting to exist. My rights are always conditional. Their's are just a given.

Looks like a good one to check out

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

Exactly. This is exactly how Ezra has felt lately.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Via @natemup.com in NCR - Black prelate's essay on DEI deleted by U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The conference says "DEI Means God," from Auxiliary Bishop Roy Campbell Jr., was published by mistake. #DEI #Catholic #Trump www.ncronline.org/news/black-p...

The biggest problem with the democratic party is that they keep trying to find voters that will fit their niche that only really serves wealthy people who want to feel like theyre good people. Political leadership is needed, not this weird game of bespoke politics. That means having convictions

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

It doesn’t have to be this way

With the right folks in charge, it doesn't take long to get from a US economy that is "the envy of the world" to this: "The long-term unemployment number is a post-pandemic high and a level typically only seen during periods of economic turmoil..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Our thoughts on Pope Leo, the latest LGBTQ pilgrimage, and more: open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

As a priest who's been a priest longer than you have, I tell you, it is disrespectful of the dead to lie about them, even if the lies make them seem nicer or better. In giving memorials, it's difficult, but possible to tell the truth without insulting the deceased. Don't lie about Charlie Kirk.

The r/teachers subreddit is full of stories about lists of teachers who criticized Charlie Kirk (many listings without evidence) and harassment campaigns to get them fired. Free speech and open debate my ass. It’s the same as it always was—another way to destroy education

Latest essay open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Twenty years of social media has created a generation numb to violence and terrified of sex

The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition. But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update. Thanks, WSJ.

The motivation for young white men to embrace hate and authoritarianism is clear when even the institutions that are their supposed enemies work overtime to sanitize and honor their legacies

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak. This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.

Speaking up = imagining a Church where everyone can thrive

Could I get an ETA for when this too shall pass

Today we unpack purity culture on the podcast: what it is, who it normally targets, and how it impacts queer, gay, and trans folks in particular. maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/purity-cul...

Not only is it frustrating to watch this but I also think it’s highly disenfranchising for young people.

Yep. He pulled the ole side switcheroo, has been told off by two Popes, and takes more vacations that does actual work. Pure grift.

Excellent photo, I see views like this quite often on my bike rides in the farmland of rural ohio

We finished up the formal high control series this past Friday. For a look at all the topics we covered, check it out here. Keep in mind this is not the full spectrum of topics we could discuss--but we're working on a book next! maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/high-contr...

“I’m an ally, but…” I shouldn’t have to explain why this doesn’t work.

This

Phyllis Schlafly mobilized housewives by warning the Equal Rights Amendment threatened their domestic way of life, even though it would protect women outside the 1950s ideal. Our new essay uses her story to examine how similar mobilizations now shape debates over trans women’s inclusion & rights.

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

To understand Franciscan University of Steubenville, you have to know Fr. Mike Scanlan: the president who transformed the school from party central into a Newman-rated Catholic enclave, a distinction it still holds despite abuse allegations (and the conviction of Fr. Dave Morrier).

You can't "both sides" oppression and hate towards marginalised groups. Being "neutral" means siding with the oppressors. You're either against all oppression, or you're an oppressor.

The belief that trans people should be discriminated against because they are inherently predatory, as opposed to the cis strangers that parents allow their children to share a bathroom with, is in fact a crystal clear example of anti-trans bigotry (and mirrors other forms of bigotry, I might add)

My latest essay traces how Franciscan University became the epicenter of High-Control Catholicism—and how its influence stretches into parishes, media, and politics across the U.S. maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/a-hill-to-...

Via @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social in NCR Opinion - When tragedy is weaponized. ‘Some on the right use news like this to support their claims that trans people must be "eradicated" in public life.’ #LGBTQ #Catholic #trans #Minneapolis www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

No consequences for platforming transphobia is not just infuriating but also harmful. Especially when the person somehow gets to keep their credibility as an ally?? Absolutely not.