“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago

"How in the hell do we expect 16-year-old kids to sit in prison for most of their lives when grown-ass men can’t do two years?" @betsyphillips.bsky.social www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

"politics is not always theology, but theology is always politics" - @daviddark.bsky.social (heard on the Rock That Doesn't Roll podcast)

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

"How in the hell do we expect 16-year-old kids to sit in prison for most of their lives when grown-ass men can’t do two years?" @betsyphillips.bsky.social www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

That's for funding during the shutdown. This is about funding going forward.

"Anna Bower has been spending her weekend documenting how Eagle Ed first posts, then deletes, tweets trying to gin up the frothy mob." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/09/l...

Listen.

Trump lackey Sean Duffy is squirming. After our video, Fox News (of all places) asked Duffy to defend why billionaire private jets are still flying while Trump is canceling commercial airlines.

ICYMI: I reviewed hundreds of internal FBI emails and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The records appear to undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey. My latest for @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

Tony! Toni! Toné!

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

Reposting as long as they keep killing Civilians in cold blood.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

What a treat this article is. Please enjoy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Nashville Banners on Bridges braving the weather to get the word out! FEED KIDS VOTE AFTYN - Drop a comment if you want to know more.

I’m so excited to work hard for the next 25 days to help get @aftynbehn.bsky.social elected to represent Tennessee in Congress! I’ll be canvassing twice a day the next two Saturdays. DM me if you want to join!

"I'm fairly certain the threats from Forticone were nowhere near the first credible threats targeting Comey. Yet instead of minimizing such a threat, Lemons fueled it." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/08/a...

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I mean I tried to get elected, and might again. I left the gate open, y’all.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

"Miles Starr is a witness to, if not a co-conspirator to, Jack Eckenrode (and FBI Director Kash Patel) committing a crime, precisely the crime they’re chasing." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/07/t...

Use bookshop.org bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

This is pleasant. NUMBER ONE in 21st Century Literary Criticism. Also, buy local.

This is pleasant. NUMBER ONE in 21st Century Literary Criticism. Also, buy local.

Does anyone understand why Jay Jacobs still has that job? I feel like I should and I don’t.

Man, people won't even let Bill Lee enjoy his favorite hobby: benignly neglecting Tennesseans until they die.

How is Matt Van Epps so bad at this?

So much about meaningful art is a negotiation of repression, of one kind of another. Crumb’s entire project thinks it’s about this, but Crumb is not repressed at all, he’s just a normal person. He *seeks* repression but that’s not the same as living with it day to day.

Change IS possible in the South, and Tuesday’s elections prove it. We have a special election in TN D7 and we can elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social if we turn out. Follow her, share her posts, DONATE, volunteer- it’s going to take ALL of us working together to get her elected. We can do this! 🗳️💙

There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.

Such a great session @daviddark.bsky.social “Art Eats Empire” is gonna stick with me.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

In other words, the bête noire moderates have spent a year telling us is to blame for all Dems’ problems either had no impact or actively helped Spanberger. I’m sure the Jentlesons of the world are currently adjusting their priors in light of new evidence. Right?

I'm so grateful to @andrewgill.biz & @drleahpayne.bsky.social for having me on their show I can hardly stand it. We talk Amy Grant & Switchfoot & Michael W. Smith & Brian Eno & Nashville. Also apocalypse. Also the Prayer Trade. Listen here. www.iheart.com/podcast/310-...

You're the only one to ask. He wrote back: "Dick Cheney. You never apologized for the killing of millions in Iraq through the invasion carried out under the lie of “weapons of mass destruction.” 1/2

Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again

I'll do a new thread for the response, from Neal Katyal. Tariffs are taxes, is the big thrust.

Good for Curtis. Civil society for the win.

filmmaker mira nair created mississippi masala and the next mayor of new york, bravo🫡

Speaking of the value of labelers, here's a cool project from Cornell Tech that is "investigating using automated signals to help users have more context about the accounts they are interacting with." I'd love to see more academic institutions, media orgs, and NGOs make labelers.

Neil's comment is the kind of logic that not only has led to women being stepped on, but enables abuse. Feminism is NOT the opposite of patriarchy. It is not a "leadership" paradigm. Feminism is the acknowledgement that women have the same agency, voice, and value as men.

A perfect video to post today

Excited to see you and @thecroftonshow.bsky.social tonight at Parnassus!