For example, we escalated a war to de-escalate attention on the Epstein files.

It's weird to me that a conflict started by the dumbest people I have ever known who have spent the last twelve months huffing their own farts and losing the ground war in Minneapolis is not going according to a seemingly entirely improvised plan.

Our country has concentration camps

🧵Thread of Christian nationalist responses to this exchange. Mind you, none of these folks have posted about Trump saying it’s good that Robert Mueller died.

Love, despite everything.

The ChristoFascists have already branded James Talarico a heretic. The next step was bound to follow.

🧵Thread of Christian nationalist responses to this exchange. Mind you, none of these folks have posted about Trump saying it’s good that Robert Mueller died.

“I pray God kills him”

The Immortal Man was an abysmal ending to the series. Thin plot. Flat characters. Weird relationship to S6. Felt like the creator just needed to see Tommy’s arc to the end.

“I pray God kills him”

Brooks Potteiger, Hegseth’s pastor, and Josh Haymes - Doug Wilson wannabe - say James Talarico should be crucified and perhaps killed. Prominent Pastor Says He Wants God to Kill James Talarico youtu.be/euz2lA1qyis

Art of the deal

Brooks Potteiger, Hegseth’s pastor, and Josh Haymes - Doug Wilson wannabe - say James Talarico should be crucified and perhaps killed. Prominent Pastor Says He Wants God to Kill James Talarico youtu.be/euz2lA1qyis

Oh you’re watching March Madness. I’m watching the Forsyte Saga (2002). I know something about drama - ever seen an unmarried heiress touch a bachelor’s wrist? Take that to your half court buzzer beater.

So heartwarming to see Kash is getting to pretend he’s one of the boys, like when the team manger plays the last two minutes of the last game. Some dreams come true.

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Why let an Ivy League professor off the hook so easily in ways we wouldn't do for a 20 year old? If a student wrote a paper without defining the thing in question, they'd get a C- at best, right?

This is false equivalence - "sure Heath doesn't do the baseline thing expected of academics, but neither do debunked wannabes like Barton or a long-dead theologian." Why not compare him - an Ivy Leaguer - to his peers - @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social who actually define it?

Can you make the argument for him? I read the piece ten times. Did not find what you’re saying. He also NEVER defines CN. Isn’t that the baseline of an undergrad paper - define the phenomenon your are critiquing and then explain why it’s misguided?

WHO WRITES THESE HEADLINES WHO APPROVES THESE PODCAST GUESTS CARL IS A RACIST

Re-upping for the afternoon crowd:

This entire piece hinges on a (willful?) misunderstanding of what Christian nationalism is, which is the idea that a nation should be *compelled* to be Christian and practice Christian doctrine which is not remotely what Talarico believes

Check out @bradleyonishi.bsky.social’s helpful critique of the recent Atlantic piece on Christian nationalism. open.substack.com/pub/swaj/p/i...

This is an important thread from @bradleyonishi.bsky.social on the ongoing conversation around Christian nationalism. In short: faith in politics is not CN. My coauthors and I never argued that, & the empirically supported definition of CN that I & others developed and refined never claims that.

1/ Ten days ago, @theatlantic.com published this piece by Princeton historian Heath Carter, who suggest @jamestalarico.bsky.social is a Christian nationalist, simply because he wants to be senator. Is James Talarico a "liberal" Christian nationalist? www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

“Christian extremists have shown that when democracy no longer serves their purpose, they will ditch the democratic vessel in favor of the authoritarian ship…because they will stop at nothing to create the society they think is divine” — @bradleyonishi.bsky.social

Kids: what’s the happiest you’ve ever been? Me: For 8 months your mother & I lived blocks from a churro dealer. Choco. Fresa. Dulce de leche. On demand. At all hours. Glorious. Kids: What about when we were born? Me: Also good. But have you ever had a churro that was fried in front of you?

1/ “When Christians see only their vision of society as sanctified, bypassing the sacred nature of democracy, they are already religious nationalists, because they will stop at nothing to create the society they think is divine, even if it means abandoning the American experiment for a monarchy.”

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This is Carrie Prejean Boller, who is an antisemitic protege of Candace Owens. Learn more here: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

There are now over a million internally displaced persons in Lebanon. There are some 5-6 million people in total in Lebanon. That’s around 20% of the total population. At least. It’s barely been 2 weeks. The curse of having Israel as your neighbour.

Infrastructure Week shaping up nicely

After all, the idea that "the unexamined life is not worth living" was actually invented in 1991 by the Beastie Boys if I recall correctly. Totally modern and pointless. No history at all in the vaunted "Western civilization" that he and Yarvin and Musk always tout.

After all, the idea that "the unexamined life is not worth living" was actually invented in 1991 by the Beastie Boys if I recall correctly. Totally modern and pointless. No history at all in the vaunted "Western civilization" that he and Yarvin and Musk always tout.

Where's Wallace?

Art of the deal

“There is such peril in loving things at all, and he feels sort of proud, in fact, that he just keeps on doing it.” -Raff, Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy

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Always fun being on SWJ with Brad!

Great feeling to be reading a book you can’t put down knowing there is another one waiting behind it.

Tomorrow - my interview with @matt-avery-sutton.bsky.social on his magisterial new book:

Everything in the world is terrible - except the Shamrock Shake sitting before me, glowing in green glory, crowned with whipped cream and the aura of royalty.

Trump’s Iran Strategy Is Falling Apart — And MAGA Masculinity Explains Why youtu.be/LNQ1yL9qhlE

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

On Hegseth’s incoherent comments in Hormuz and the MAGA masculinity destroying the world:

On Hegseth’s incoherent comments in Hormuz and the MAGA masculinity destroying the world:

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