Everything that needed saying, and then some. Thank you @jamellebouie.net 🙏🏼 | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

"Unlike prominent right-wing influencers like Mr. Bannon, Charlie Kirk and Laura Loomer, he has no ties to the Trump White House." Well, that's just flat out wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

Yes DC!

D.C. is pounding pavement! ✊🏼 Power to the People ✊🏼

Guess I never announced this (rather exciting) news publicly. Along with my ongoing work for @cpitco.bsky.social, not to mention varied and sundry other projects, I'll now be working officially as a Writer™. 🥳🎉🤨

In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.

Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions: "Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me." "Do you have a badge? Show me." "Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

*whispers* I think the @historians.org "guiding principles for AI in history education" are actually pretty good (and I say this as an historian and a public interest tech professional). 🧵 www.historians.org/resource/gui...

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths. ENOUGH. I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

Catholic institutions preach justice—but are they practicing it when it comes to workers’ rights? Ken Homan dives into the clash between faith values & labor organizing in Catholic spaces in her piece for @poweratwork.bsky.social. Read now at poweratwork.us/faith-labor-...!

Wait. Chloe Kelly has scored the winner in two Euro Finals. Has any footballer ever done that?

Good piece by @jamellebouie.net taking apart JD Vance's reprehensible immigration worldview on the substance. I'd add that JD seems to cast our admission of immigrants purely as an act of benevolence on our part, when of course that's not the story at all www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

2019 all over psmag.com/ideas/yes-tr...

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

let's just all ask ourselves very seriously where we think *this* is going and whether or not we'd like to go there www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Bless me father, because the latest @jgodsmonsters.bsky.social is dedicated to THE EXORCIST. Essays on religion, science, sex, demons, and the 1970s, all #openaccess. @josephlaycock.bsky.social @mjcressler.bsky.social @rmclindsey.bsky.social godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonst...

I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city

Pumped to contribute to this special issue on 50 years of The Exorcist for the Journal of Gods and Monsters (this is the revised and published version of a rockstar roundtable we did a couple years back). Check it! 😈🤮 | godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonst...

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Ignore the clickbait title. The article is a fascinating, nuanced long read that’s worth your time (especially if you’re an historian). | A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

"Bluesky is dead" Meanwhile on Bluesky:

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

bUt WhErEs ThE rEsIsTaNcE 🙃

Catholic influencers are saying it's sinful to break the law. From the Catechism: "The citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of civil authorities when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order, to the fundamental rights of persons or the teachings of the Gospel."

'Horrendous incident' Dem. senator on Sen. Padilla's forced removal from DHS Sec. Noem's press conference.

I was thrilled to review Sam Tanenhaus's epic "Buckley" for The Unpopulist. substack.com/home/post/p-...

BREAKING @prri.org: 76% of Americans, including 52% of Republicans, oppose spending $45 million to hold a large parade of soldiers, weapons, and combat vehicles on the streets of Washington, D.C., in celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday and President Trump’s birthday. prri.org/spotlight/mi...

guess we will soon see how this take ages

"Catholicism is not merely a matter of how one identifies oneself but also a language one speaks, the chill one gets walking into a cathedral, perhaps even the fear one has when his body shakes and tears run down his cheeks as he crumbles a consecrated communion wafer in protest" gdi

reading (well, "reading") @apetro.bsky.social's provocative and tragically timely new book for another installment of @religiondispatches.org's Phoning It In what a joy to think through creativity and conflict with this brilliant friend y'all should check out the book academic.oup.com/book/59697

“Palantir is creating digital infrastructure for the multiple forms of state violence & control contemporary authoritarianism relies on—from the software facilitating mass deportation to the AI wielded in war against colonized people.” @alfatau.bsky.social on big tech’s fascist R&D @inthesetimes.com

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

Oh my goodness. The lunatics at Claremont (especially Anton), who are now entangled with Thiel's group, have just thrown-in with Leonard Leo. READ THIS BOOK by @katherinestewart.bsky.social Is our boy Donald improvising? How could that be?

2 thoughts (not mutually exclusive). 1) Tech CEOs never say these things out of altruism; bigging up the revolution bigs up the company. 2) And also, it is 1000000% true that most people have no idea how rapidly and profoundly AI is transforming life, work, play, etc. | www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

(Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister threatened unspecified measures against Israel on Tuesday and said Berlin would not export weapons used to break humanitarian law, as he and Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered their most severe rebuke yet over Gaza @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

“She was a child who carried in her heart a love for doing good, a spirit of initiative, and dedicated her young energy to planting hope in the hearts of those around her.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“And if one day, O Light / All the galaxies / Of the entire universe / Had no more room for us / You would say: ‘Enter my heart, / There you will finally be safe.’” — Hiba Abu Nada | www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“His idea of American identity has gone hard and narrow—not the encompassing creed of the founding documents, but the Appalachian dirt of the graveyard where his ancestors lie buried.” Really appreciate this George Packer essay. Worth your time. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Thinking a lot about the banality of evil while watching #Andor and coming back to a piece I wrote for @therevealer.bsky.social on the subject... | therevealer.org/on-the-banal...

We read two essays by @mjcressler.bsky.social in my “Religion and Race” class this semester, and here he is going for the hat trick. Check it out!

did I thrust a DelCo / Wawa reference upon @mjcressler.bsky.social's prose?

Me thinking about Leo from the vantage point of Black Catholic religious history for @religiondispatches.org | Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope? religiondispatches.org/leo-xiv-the-...

@mjcressler.bsky.social for RD: what Leo XIV's family history tells us about America and its religion(s) religiondispatches.org/leo-xiv-the-...

Pretty cool way to start the day! Joined Jenn White on @npr.org @wamu.org's 1A show to talk about our new Peruvian Chicagoan American pope! | wamu.org/story/25/05/...