catholics or that subsect of evangelicals who become adult converts to catholicism for the cosplay?

I saw an old guy with a cane crawl under the turnstile this weekend and honestly if that was worth $2.90 to him I really would rather he just get let in the emergency exit and I get charged more.

Periodic reminder that most stuff we consider central to American culture was originally invented by some weird religious dude to prevent people from masturbating.

I also talk a bit about "identity politics" here, and why organizing around identities is in fact a way to address larger issues, not an abdication of universal values.

🙋‍♀️ do normal people in the US not learn about the first and second great awakenings in US History class?

Bouie is a national treasure

who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? WITSODHS???????? nymag.com/intelligence...

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

How much do you think we have to start calling him President Miller before Trump gets sick of this weirdo and punts him

this is peak genxer childhood/teenage/ya territory.

Jesus H. Christ, this is a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot.

Christians: I'm not responsible for people who use Christianity for hate/fascism because they're "not real Christians" Also Christians: The things I do in the name of Christianity are always good because Christianity is good and my intentions are good and how dare you impugn my motives.

things that take a long, annoying time to change take a long, annoying time to revert.

bureaucracy — lit. "rule by desk" — was invented for a reason! and that reason was to prevent rule by fiat and favor

For some reason that time Jon Stewart hosted that Iranian political satirist on the daily show keeps springing to mind.

I rewatched Chernobyl this weekend and I know there are liberties taken with the details for storytelling purposes but damn it feels ominous.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Meet the posters behind Instagram’s federal agency alt accounts

This is a good article that lays out the difference between actual "alt" accounts and the alt national park scammers

l'shana tovah I guess

Absolutely 100% this. If they give up citizenship (which is what they have to do in the US to stop paying taxes) we also win.

Cannot start enough how important it is going to be for everyone to take time off-line as the fascism solidifies further around us. I have been consciously trying to take days off over weekends from being on any social media and it’s going to be increasingly important for everyone to do so.

All the guys going “hey libs your beloved Jimmy Kimmel did blackface” would be insanely mad if the government pulled someone off TV for doing blackface

If there's a deity they're either an omnipotent asshole or benevolent bystander and either way I'm not changing my behavior for them.

The Times has actually been pretty good on the law on this one, because when they went to the legal experts they found not that they “raised questions” but that they unanimously said it was murder and had no possible justification; where it’s been slipping is letting new murders play as old news.

When the right began working the media refs in the 60s, pushing them to balance reality with right wing bullshit

The same people who were making bad faith attacks on journalism for the last two decades for being “liberal” are in many cases now making the editorial decisions at these publications.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

I really loved working with @mattnegrin.bsky.social on this one

Let people like things they like even if you think it’s not cool.

He who can get you to believe absurdities (like that there are Communist Billionaires) can get you to commit atrocities. And also, the people who are trying to get you to believe absurdities are also almost certainly most interested in just ripping you off. rightlandia.ghost.io/its-funny-un...

Trump is the debut guest on Peter Doocy’s new Sunday morning show on Fox News. Pre-taped interview.

SCHUMER: “I hope and pray Trump will sit down with us.” BASH: “And if he doesn’t Dems will vote no?” @schumer.senate.gov : *suddenly seems to lose his hearing* He “hopes and prays”, y’all. 🤔 Hard to watch.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Folks saying "why did it take Kimmel for folks to get upset?!?" Like are y'all new here? 😭 😭 I thought we all understood why well trained activists tell folks to put the white folks upfront and in the frontline of most protest actions?? They ain't moving until they see themselves in the victim

jennifer rubin and bill kristol are now the left flank of the democratic party

🧑‍🌾 NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN Rep. Don Bacon: “We have a company that makes combines moving their entire operation to Europe BECAUSE OF TRUMP’S TARIFFS. Hundreds of jobs. Our farmers are really struggling.” Hey @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @CSexton25 @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills you up?

Were any Republicans on the Sunday shows asked about Tom Homan’s bag of cash?

Reminder for new followers

I’m in favor of everyone who feels like they deserve to get raptured getting raptured as even if we’re left behind fighting rabid helldemons it’s a lateral move at worst.

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

I want this video of Tom Homan taking $50k in marked bills from an FBI agent playing on repeat for the next year in front of the White House

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This has been prepared for though. For decades the popular wisdom of “all politicians are corrupt’ has been encouraged so that even obvious corruption is just seen as transparency

Everything I ever manage to do is a mix of anxiety and determination, though.

What... what do they think we're *supposed* to do at the High Holidays?

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

is it just a coincidence that these stories are coming out one year to the day after he took the alleged bribe

It may be the edible talking, but I’m just saying, Cava’s fresh pita chips are worth it

Great point. So offensive not to understand this cultural norm