We no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace

In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...

Today I looked at my half-done book manuscript with editor's comments and thought "I could just . . . not do this."

I would bet a large amount of money on Cooper winning.

This is the female gaze. (straight) Women evolved to want a man who can survive a harsh winter and protect the neighborhood from ICE. It's science.

The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

Hey girl, come get your man

I just got chills

“In other words, AI reduces productivity, not increases it.”

WHY AM I ONLY JUST LEARNING THIS

The rent money has now been donated, but let's raise this family a little more. They are going to need grocery delivery, diapers, an extra cushion of money for a family sheltering at home w/ no income for who knows how long. Hell, let's raise enough $ for them to enjoy some small luxuries.

My 5-year-old is writing me notes

Despite everything, I'm super excited about this semester. One reason is I'm teaching a "Writing for Change" class -- every week looks at a different movement, project, or reform that was successful!

I don't like this new feature

A psychedelic trip guided by Kyrsten Sinema *shudder*

it's not just that they're supporting out-of-town ICE shock troops against their own community; it's that they're being paid with money you would rather have spent on buses and schools and parks and social services. I feel like in the year of our Mamdani 2026 that's an argument we can push harder

👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association." #X #AcademicSky

Today one of my students described living in a democracy as "like that feeling when you have to sneeze and you can feel it building up in your nose but it just doesn't happen." Everyone in the class, including me, instantly knew what he meant.

This sums up much of the Religious Left. Focused on the work, not the arguments or the press coverage. Local and quiet. But a louder presence seems needed right now and I hope (like @titonka.bsky.social has been writing) that happens this year.

If you put Amy Adams in, I'd watch it every year at Christmas

Beautiful

You have my sword!

Going to start carrying around a flask of maple syrup in my purse and taking a discreet swig when I need to fortify myself

& they try to paper over this deficiency by just telling themselves their base will fall in line on whatever they do—which is mostly correct! But you cant win an election w just MAGA & the more they play to those freaks the more theyre pushing away mods & indies they need to not get destroyed in Nov

5-yo just said "when it rains, is that God peeing?" and nothing in my evangelical background prepared me to answer

Monster loaf! I did everything normal and then one just had a ridiculous oven spring #bread #baking

The Afghan refugee family that I work with who was terrorized just a few months ago by ice sitting in an unmarked pickup truck in their backyard has now been ravaged by their apartment complex. The Arcadian apartments in Winston-Salem. Share this please for exposure:

She sounds like she's ready to run against him (complimentary)

Mark and Melissa Hortman were devout Catholics. Renee Nicole Good was described as a devout Christian (perhaps Presbyterian given earlier mission work?) Yet only Charlie Kirk gets to be remembered as a “martyr”

🎯

Just like watching an older relative deterioriate, when they can't really follow what's going on around and just fall back on a few familiar talking points

Renee wasn't mad at you BUT I'M FUCKING PISSED

Anybody near Raleigh want a kitten? This is not my kitten but sometimes the kitten distribution system works in mysterious ways.

We're rounding out #FeministFridays, Wrapped Edition, by celebrating with @drbethany.bsky.social: her book "I Grew Up in the Church": How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories won Book of the Year from the Religious Communication Association! 👏 👏 👏 📖 www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...

This hasn't been getting enough attention! She wasn't *disobeying* a clear order from the officer. Also there's a video record we need to see

Why is this event not on March 4th?

[saving this]

Let’s gooooooo

Should I bother learning what/who Nick Shirley is

Gmail, what makes you think I want those emails surfaced?

"Repelling a foreign invasion"? They are living in a complete fantasy world

Procrasti-baking this morning (upside down apple cake, I hope - it’s a new recipe)

Nicely done

This is cool! Went into effect Jan 1st this year www.wsmv.com/2025/12/29/f...

it's funny bc it's true

Nicely done

I want more millennial parenting discourse on here, personally

those ads that show how fucked up your lungs get if you smoke, but for your soul if you bet on global military activity on polymarket