We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

Happy Labor Day everybody. In a capitalist society, unions are very necessary. *Except police unions. Which is why union busters don’t go after those. Ron DeSantis is going to the bad place. 🙃

If you only want something to be done after this school shooting because the shooter was trans, please kindly go to hell – or better yet, to church, and learn that scapegoating and bullying is antichrist.

The Return of the King. Internalizing Aragorn’s “I give hope to men, but keep none for myself” kept me in some religious spaces as a somber reformer, to my agony, for far too long. Recovering from that has taught me a lot, and helped me better identify harmful religious mantras.

He is a loser fascist who will fail to get elected nationally. He is an empty man who believes in nothing but his own power. And he will stop at nothing to obtain it.

I just changed my iPhone dock for the first time in a decade. #ChatGPT replaced Camera. @signal.org replaced Maps.

The very obvious point here is to have a more pliant and compliant “national police force.” It’s going to become the Stasi/FSB (but dumber and more trigger-happy)

It's OK to hold multiple things with Newsom. What he's doing w/ redistricting is really important. He's using the power he has in a blue state to try & push back fascism. He's also shitty (see tearing down homeless encampments with his own hands) & shouldn't have a national future in the party.

Church takes many shapes.

again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society

There’s a theme here, between Miller and Vermeule, which is that the authoritarian right has a view of “order” which has nothing to do with actual crime and has everything to do with violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies.

If church is supposed to be a communion of the crucified many bound together by the Crucified One, the lynched with the Lynched God, then this effort to “violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies” is pure antichrist.

They return at evening, snarling like dogs, and prowl about the city. See what they spew from their mouths— the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, “Who can hear us?” …For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. —Psalm 59

Every protest sign in #DC this summer needs to be "Don't Tread on Me" on one side, and the American flag on the other. When #Trump sics his stormtroopers on American citizens exercising their #firstamendment rights, them holding those signs is the optic that everyone's inner antifascist needs.

Martial law is bad, right?

My morning prayer is “fuck this orange pharaoh bullshit.”

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /

Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”

This isn’t new, though; this has been a major strain in American Reformed Christianity for decades. It’s nonetheless abhorrent and opposed to THE single distinctive theological claim of Christianity (kenosis).

I had a blast with the @litbible.net team talking about a HEAVY text. Go ahead and enjoy!

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

Wildly fucking antichrist behavior.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."

💯 We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs

What bothers me about it most is that they just do not give a single fuck about anyone else. Speakerphone conversations in the store at full volume, videos in the doctor's waiting room, games with the little chimes on at the airport... Why? Because the rest of the world is just there to serve them.

Co-signing this 🧵

Hey, y'all! We would be absolutely thrilled to present on the podcast stage at the QCF Conference in January. If you appreciate Found in Translation, we would be honored to have you recommend us :) Here's the link: www.qcfconf.org/podcast-stag...

Jesus' discussion on nationalism The Black church and Anabaptism The Bible as the testimonies of the losers Jesus' advice for getting through apocalyptic times Immigrant-love as Christian witness Exasperation with revolutionary violence Where to see Jesus every day youtu.be/pFAVsrdpSRg?...

The Jesus thing is about collectively renouncing & recovering from domination games. "Getting the cop/colonizer/abuser/master/king out of your head" is the actual practice of renouncing the devil (accuser) & all his works. Participating in God’s life, practicing love, sanctification is decolonizing.

I had such a blast exploring Matthew 24 & 25 in the @litbible.net through an anti-authoritarian lens with @pastortrey05.com! He brought loads of wisdom. Also in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc youtu.be/pFAVsrdpSRg

US: We’re going to cut funding that supports old folks and pile crippling debt on our youth Meanwhile in the Netherlands: What if we let college students live rent free in retirement homes as a means of combating elder loneliness?

The kind of “being welcoming” the church seems too often concerned with offering right now means saying “Christians can keep working for ICE,” but the actual love demanded of the church is saying “we will pay your rent so you can quit your job with ICE” ⚓️

Censorship from the party of free speech smh

"You can not discover lands already inhabited." Purchase signed copies of Unsettling Truths from my website! buff.ly/WpVMtFk

Especially true for Christians, who recall that Jesus queer anthem was this lyric: “the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Normalcy, or “normal-centrism” is a false god that Jesus and the psalmists rejected.

There is only one way to read Trump’s post today about Epstein - basically a confession. He’s guilty, he knows he’s guilty, his cult isn’t culting on this, and he’s a cornered rat with no way out other than to plead with people not to care about child sex trafficking.

So honored to be on @litbible.net talking about Matt. 23, what it's like to #beUMC, name-dropping @queertheology.bsky.social , keeping the Bible in context while applying it appropriately to our modern lives, and the grief of our communities not living in integrity. open.spotify.com/episode/1F9j...

Billionaire CEOs don't create wealth. Workers do.

There’s a difference between appreciating your country and idolizing it. Patriotism invites accountability. Nationalism shuts it down.

The powers that be are terrified of Joy from the Margins because it gives the lie to their propaganda that their normativities are the only way to flourish. @paulhoard.bsky.social

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators

Yikes.

The whole Alligator Alcatrez thing sounds like something a comic book villain would do. The fact that it's REAL is insane. My brain cannot process the cruelty nor the Christians cheering it on.

This “party of life” I swear to god 🙄

Once again: “deport them” and “send them back home” are MAGA for “lynch them.”

I'm not sure this nickname will have the impact they think it will