“It will be totally again obliterated.” apnews.com/article/iran...

The Searching Mothers of Sonora are looking for Nancy Guthrie in Arizona and Mexico. They said officials aren’t doing enough to find the missing 84-year-old. https://wapo.st/3OEcUWt

The Journal of Hate Studies is accepting submissions for publication consideration. JHS publishes peer-reviewed, fee-free, open-access interdisciplinary work scrutinizing the roots and prevalence of hate. Visit the website for publication and review opportunities. bit.ly/4aKYug1

Here’s the 60 Minutes report on “white genocide” in South Africa. It demonstrates it’s a lie, shows what’s really happening, debunks the specific claims made by Trump and ends with an Afrikaner saying it’s racist for the US to welcome his people rather than genuine refugees from around the world.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Cats secretly rule the world.. 😅

With a “strong spirit and a duty” Aliya Rahman speaks a truth our entire nation needs to hear and act upon.

Breaking new research from @prri.org today on political violence and hate. We find that only about half of Republicans (51%) and white evangelicals (52%) now believe that hate symbols like Nazi flags or swastikas contribute a lot to political violence. prri.substack.com/p/breaking-r...

Can’t recommend this book and interviews with @milleridriss.bsky.social enough. Plenty of podcasts, too, like the one below.

You know he wants to call it Trumplandia.

Domestic terrorism.

Trump’s lies, both big and small, have been corrosive to the foundations of civil society and democracy, which depend on a shared sense of reality. But the events of the first days of 2026 also show that they are deadly. They are literally killing us. www.whitetoolong.net/p/trumps-lie...

After posting on the White House website just yesterday that Ashli Babbit was "murdered in cold blood," the administration states that the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota was justifiably killed as a "domestic terrorist."

Took a @bsky.app timeout from reading Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism by @milleridriss.bsky.social only to learn of ICE killing of woman in MN and Nancy Mace calling Ayanna Pressley ‘baby.’

The "poverty penalty." Excellent points.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

It doesn’t have to be this way.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Not yes, but Yes, and @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social #hannareichel

Great day in Kutztown, Pe-ay. #NoKings #Kutztown

That voice. That perspective. That insight. That integrity. Alas…

When a cartoon summarizes your last two years of research...

Looking forward to using work by @roberpjones.bsky.social in a hate studies class I teach. Why? Read my review below. And shout out to @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social and her #SouthernLights conference for introducing me to Dr. Jones. readingreligion.org/978166800952...

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.

Anyone looking for the proverbial hill to die on has plenty of options these days.

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Read it and weep, and then act. And if these numbers boggle your mind, read article to get to link to research showing 88 human beings are dying every hour due to these cuts. bsky.app/profile/kare...

We couldn’t get to yes with having this decent human being and effective leader of a divided state as our VP.

Anyone else googling if Sharpies are waterproof right about now? #NoKings

I’d be laughing if things weren’t so incredibly serious.

Thought I’d wait to make a sign to respond to the most recent most dire situation but remembering they all matter. #NoKings

I don’t know who else needs to see this remarkable image - hopeful, grand, fierce. Like a baby elephant surrounded by the troop. Becoming.

Small towns, too! About 300 at little old Kutztown, PA’s #handsoff event.

This may be way down on the list of things that matter from @booker.senate.gov momentous and historic speech yesterday, but I am so moved by the example he set of elevating all the other people and voices around him, from average Americans to his Senate colleagues past and present. True leadership.

A special #caturday - this old lady and I momentarily shared a cushion this morning. Also, fascism is unAmerican.

Dear neighbor…

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

If you are a @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social fan, take some time out to watch this segment from @jaketapper.bsky.social about the Birds. It's amazing, and also a big lesson about being resilient when people don't see your worth. Thanks Jake, this was glorious.

When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Senator Booker on 🔥!!!!

Doh! I’ve got it! Lutheran Social Services must have been targeted for having the words Agnus Dei somewhere on their website. “I’ll get you my deity, and your little lamb, too!” You might be next, @elcalutherans.bsky.social

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

Democracy Docket is hiring! Marketing Specialist Staff Writer www.democracydocket.com/careers/

When men rage, they blow and shoot things up and start wars. When women rage, we create. We knit, do embroidery and cross stitch. We create new things ... while we figure out how to fix the broken things. Behold rage project #1

I wonder how all those “War on Christmas” folks are gonna react when the day comes they ~have~ to say “Merry Christmas”

It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.