I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.

This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats. Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives. You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.

5/🧵 Race divides the Democratic Party more than it does Republicans. Young Republicans remain almost as racially resentful as older Republicans. But among Democrats and independents, massive shifts. White Gen Z independents have lower racial resentment than Boomer Democrats.

4/🧵 The generational shift isn't just among white Americans. Young Asian and Hispanic Americans show the same pattern: dramatic declines in racial resentment across education, gender, geography, and religion. This is a broad, multi-racial generational transformation.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi

One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency

Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there

And like every Chicagoan he could get it: bsky.app/profile/crob...

I went to this extraordinary @theologypolicy.bsky.social conference at Yale Divinity School on Monday on how faith communities can and should respond to authoritarianism in the US. Phenomenal, inspiring, a call to action. www.faspe-ethics.org/symposium/

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

this is fucking ghoulish

It was 20 minutes of conversation with a woman I had never met before. It was so nice and brought two complete strangers together all for the main topic of the simple bicycle. The bicycle and active cities can heal society in a way that segregating car culture could never.

This thread is a perfect illustration of why e-bikes are an absolutely mobility gamechanger for so many people. (NB: We need to forever bury the idea that e-bikes are "cheating")

New toy new toy new toy!!! #guitar

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

Note: Per this, one of the largest protests outside of the Broadview ICE facility (where there have been…many) is kicking off, and it’s led by faith leaders. Religious left: still a thing.

We need to legislate full-sized dump trucks OFF urban streets. Get them out of here. NOW. There are smaller dump, garbage, delivery, and salting trucks available; many municipalities use and mandate them successfully. The problem isn't that we can't do anything: it's that we just can't be bothered.

BlueSky could have shared a screenshot of my tweet showing the Oct 10 timestamp and that I was using Johnny Cash lyrics to quote-tweet about an article on Johnny Cash. Instead, they made it look like I issued a random death threat and falsely claimed I posted it this week. They should apologize.

Not sure “He was raping teenagers, not raping children” lands with the qualifier impact Megyn Kelly intended.

But you know what is the best unrestricted fund for a municipality? Taxes and fees, the existing social contract with our residents. A donation button is sort of a bougie look for a municipality, and people will see through it.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch If you're a Christian American, and you feel "surrounded" by Muslims (or Jews), take a deep breath. This graphic helps you to identify which group is actually surrounded.

Another wokest opinion: AI (as currently being force fed to us) is inherently colonial, oppressive, and intended to reinforce the power of the wealthy over the weak; thus antithetical to humanization and human flourishing.

When Christians tie Christianity to a particular political figure and party, not only do they fuse the reputation of Christianity to everything that political movement does, they become more shaped by the ways of that political movement than they do by the ways of Jesus.

Awful. Crossing guards are essentially human shields...and it is asinine things are so terrible out there that they are even needed. (2 drivers this morning running a red light & they gave me the "I'm so sorry I nearly killed you but I just couldn't possibly wait for another light cycle!" wave).

A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking. Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I personally think that this conduct would seem to violate the rule, particularly since this appears to be the lawyer himself speaking.

As an aside, I'm rapidly (*cough* obsessively/procrastinatingly *cough*) assembling a list of songs to learn on guitar and if you really want some simple, man-and-a-guitar, heartbreaking music, Loudon Wainwright III is your guy. Plenty of straight-ahead lyrics on mortality and personal failings.

“Radicalization doesn’t usually mean that someone abandons their old beliefs. Instead, it usually means that someone is convinced to embrace the worst version of themselves.” Holy shit yes that’s exactly it

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Also prosperity gospel also says god rewards the faithful with good health, so if you want like socialized healthcare or any kind of comprehensive public health system you also want a population that doesn't think god made you sick.

Prosperity Gospel is useful in few ways. It means that if a person with money is blessed you don't have to look at the systemic ways in which the person with money is perhaps robbing you. You can just think you're not godly enough.

There are lots of things that the bible sends mixed messages on - it's why theological debate exists. But the one thing the christian bible is pretty consistent on is, "fuck them rich people."

this thread is the content i signed up for when i joined bluesky.

"This isn't the America I know." Black people:

WHAT. whhhhattttt. To be clear we are talking about Donald J. Trump fellating William Jefferson Clinton? IS THAT WHAT I AM READING

I would give almost anything - ANYTHING - to have one more conversation with my mother, to show her how tall and beautiful her grandkids have gotten, to tell her I'm getting my PhD, to cry into her shoulder about how hard motherhood can be. But not in a million years would I use this. This is sick.

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.” Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old” @motherjones.com:

This is true! "Diot" was a diminutive of "Dionisia" (a forerunner of "Denise"), and "Coke" was a variant of "Cook," so a modern version of "Diot Coke" might be "Niecy Nosh."

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

I’m old enough to remember when conservatives would have called this Soviet, or foreign totalitarianism, and condemned it. Now, they are the totalitarians.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

I need this Lucy Lawless quotation on a sticker and I need to stick it on my laptop like yesterday: "Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.

The Epstein list isn’t like team sports We don’t care if it takes down Democrats We don’t care if it takes down progressives We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity If you raped children, you must be held accountable If you trafficked children, same I don’t care what side you’re on