And so, an odyssey of 5 days trying to get my kid’s meds refilled has now ended, bc it turns out the pharmacy is entirely confused by a kid changing their name. Ugh.

This is a rich theological text with regard to the right's relationship with Christianity

I strongly agree with this. We did have several big ecumenical councils to work this stuff out—you want all those catering budgets to go to waste?!

BREAKING: Microsoft blocks Israeli army use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians. This follows sustained public pressure, fueled in part by reporting by our team at Local Call alongside partners at @972mag.com & @theguardian.com on Microsoft’s close relationship w/ the army.

So excited to hear a presenter telling my diocesan workshop about the several models of disability—I cannot even tell you. It’s like KPop and my soul is a squee-ing fangirl.

Kids almost sparked a war at the farmer’s market. They went up to a stall selling Taiwanese mooncakes, leaned over and asked Husband “Are these Chinese?” Husband, immediately and loudly “THESE ARE TAIWAINESE WHICH IS NOT OWNED BY CHINA.”

Remarkable document: hundreds of European politicians are calling to mobilize European resources to protect the Sumud aid flotilla as it faces escalating attacks on its way to Gaza. In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*

(friendly QT) Interestingly there is a minor precedent here. The Kushner plan from 2020 allowed for the annexation of 30% of the WB by Israel, but only if the PLO agreed. Netanyahu et all attempted to go ahead with it w/o agreement, and Trump blocked it. This led to the Abraham Accords.

He…..this was literally Jared’s entire plan last time. “Oh, let them annex the whole West Bank and everyone calm down.” Does he think we’re all goldfish?

All of 4 pages into my new book on South Africa anti-apartheid work and Allen Boesak is PREACHING.

Conspiracy theories are modern day Gnosticism. Good morning.

I just don't think I can handle another thoughtful white man regretfully concluding that we'll just have to widen the tent to include people who are a danger to people who aren't white men.

The moral is not that media conglomerates will do the right thing if you pressure them enough, it’s that you need to be ready to be way more annoying than fascists

The rapture offends me the because it’s based, in part, on the idea God wouldn’t let the church suffer through the Antichrist. Christianity isn’t a get-out-of-suffering-free card. It definitely isn’t leaving others to suffer. It’s the cross and resurrection. Never one without the other.

Is it just me, or is the whole message of this op-Ed “Biden wanted to censor speech that was killing people (that was bad), conservatives want to do it when it hurts their feelings (this is good) except Trump also tries it and he’s making us look bad bc ew.”

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

I had no idea that the (wicked) doctrine of qualified immunity had its roots in SCOTUS’s rejection of claims against police filed in response to the arrest of fifteen Episcopal priests who desegregated a bus station in Jackson in 1966.

Baal has prophets

I want to surface these replies here, because I think the question of “how can the church be committed to repentance and discipleship in these times without compromising its message of inclusion” is important. And the key is that we have to GET SPECIFIC and offer MULTIPLE ENTRY POINTS ⚓️

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and those who have canonized him. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

A story no one is talking about - last week's high school shooting in Denver. 16-year-old white boy radicalized online and promoting white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracies, inspired by - and a fan of - terrorists who promoted replacement theory. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“A new Democratic think tank wants to actually be Republican.” There, fixed it.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

De Ruchy, in writing about how Calvinism went so wrong in South Africa, ties it partially to class. Here, we have been enthralled to the illusion of classlessness, and white supremacy both.

If the church does not start speaking the truth, the uncomfortable truth, and acting like the truth has life or death consequences for the children of God, then I do not know that we will survive this. Or that we deserve to.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

So in the late 1980s, the apartheid South African government banned several major NGOs and political parties which they saw as enemies. Irate, the churches took over their messaging and organizing, saying that the right to gather and express themselves was intrinsic to the Gospel. Just saying.

"The killer has done a great disservice to the nation in the elimination of Rockwell by making a martyr of a despicable enemy of America." Samuel Samuels, the leader of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA, in 1967 on the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.

Reading a critical history of the church during apartheid South Africa while I get spam texts telling me “Charlie Kirk lived and died for Christ” is quite a thing.

Hi. I’m going to hold your hand while I say this. Don’t tell your deepest, darkest secrets to a robot.

FWIW, I think we’re in a normie crisis. There are too many “normal” moderate and conservative Christians who are being fed falsehoods by algorithmic social media and led down a path into radicalization via FOX and so on. But others are just reading AI slop and thinking it’s reality.

I dunno, yall, but what if we decided that if was just wrong to kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason? Like…if we just tried it out for a week or so?

yeah. this is very true, and *as a woman working in games in 2014* it was extraordinary how many of us were screaming that something VERY NEW AND BAD was happening and how little of a shit the mainstream media gave about either women or 'what's going on in videogames'

Listened to a podcast on the accelerationist far right wing corners of the internet today and wow is the world a cess pit of brokenness sometimes.

All heresies come back and smack you in the back of the head, yet again!

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Well I know one thing for sure. I am never ever ever letting my kids onto the internet, ever.

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

I pause in this here garbage fire to report that this book yall recommended about how Dutch Reformed theology gave rise to apartheid is super good. “Liberating reformed theology” by John De Gruchy

I have this clear memory of waking up the first anniversary of 9/11 to a loud, blaring God Bless America on the radio, and realizing that this day would be hell. Not just because of what happened a year before, but because of how we were now responding &becoming.

it must be so easy and freeing to think of politics as an academic discourse that does not effect you or anyone you know ever

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

Ps 50 really hits today, I am just saying.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.