I realize there are more important things going on in the world. but my flag football team won a championship in the pouring rain this evening, and I'm ready to run through an effing wall right now. Back to real life in the morning.

There was a time in Christianity's past when it supported trans rights?

Superb question

So, was she doing a bad job, or was Trump wrong to fire her? Good luck figuring that out, bootlickers! wapo.st/4bqprpl

I can finally SCREAAAM about this! New bingo square unlocked for me as an editor at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social ! This novella is so wild and so cool. Imagine an vampire story with the vibe of a European 90s action movie. If that makes sense. (It will.)

New video and podcast about the rift in the MAGA Christian coalition over Iran. On one side, Wallnau, Feucht etc who see it as part of the end times. On the other, America 1st nationalists and trad Catholics who see it as a betrayal of nationalist principles and a fool's errand youtu.be/S_C07MzAMtM

When asked on Tuesday who he would like to rule Iran, President Trump responded: “Most of the people we had in mind are dead.” “Now we have another group,” he continued. “They may be dead also, based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.”

"This article was updated to reflect new death tolls." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

Can the Sunday show bookers please let their Republican guests know ahead of time that you are going to ask them specifics about Trump’s deranged “hospital boat” post so they can’t claim on the show they don’t know anything about it.

If you're nominating non-fiction work for All the Awards, please take a moment to read the wonderful work published at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk on the @ruadanbooks.bsky.social website. We really pub'd some amazing words by so many amazing writers last year. ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...

Oscar-nominated co-writer of It Was Just an Accident released from Iranian prison

"By scrapping the finding, the Trump administration is essentially disputing the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981) • Now playing in our Stunts! collection. George Miller’s acclaimed sequel to his postapocalyptic action classic MAD MAX delivers even more audacious, adrenaline-rush mayhem.

The new photo book highlighting Philly fans features a "sermon" from Philly journalist Dan McQuade, who died in January.

We analyze Bethel Church's two not-pologies about Shawn Bolz - and do a timeline of his life to show exactly why his leaders protected him for so long. This is one rabbithole that just keeps getting deeper. www.patreon.com/posts/bethel...

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

Didn't make a mistake, but...deleted it anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Granderson: Trump keeps reminding us why people support him. It's the racism

Writer's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

I really need people to understand that the National Prayer Breakfast is not harmless. It is a front for an elitist, authoritarian project, and always has been. @jeffsharlet.bsky.social literally wrote the book about it („The Family“). Read it - or watch the Netflix documentary about it.

We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽

"Whew! I mean you wouldn’t want to tell your mom you bought her flowers at the Acme, would you?" share.inquirer.com/Fq7d9g

A commenter declared this to be the best article they had ever seen on @reactorsff.bsky.social. I can't think of a better one myself. Excellent stuff here.

"No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How has the SFF Bestiary persisted for so long without talking about cats?? It's time we address this:

I wrote about forgotten TV movies again. God help me.

A quick recap of my writing and activity from 2025. But first: this piece from late 2024, on Christianity and fascism, might be worth revisiting a year later (from @religiondispatches.org): religiondispatches.org/with-so-many...

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

share.inquirer.com/hbmkzU @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social

One of the books that scrambled my writer and reader brain in the best way possible. Great book, and the start of a great series.

Worth sharing, I guess. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My latest, for the LA Times. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Obligatory self-promotion: this is my first novel, an inter-species love story set amid a war between humans and sentient animals. www.amazon.com/Morte-War-No...