The point of Jonah is not Nineveh’s repentance but Jonah’s fury at God’s mercy. It is a scathing parody of nationalistic religion that wants God on 'our side' and cannot stomach the possibility that God’s love extends beyond our religious and political borders, especially those considered 'enemies'.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

How many school libraries have you worked in? How many LGBTQIA+ students have thanked you for stocking books that represent them? How many Black students have thanked you for putting up Black history and/or BLM book displays? Because for one of us in this conversation, the answer's not "zero."

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones

people should be safe in churches and schools and grocery stores and bars. they should be safe where they live and where they work and where they learn and where they worship. our society is sick; it is death-loving and death-dealing. god help us. help us turn from our evil ways and live

Each day you will be confronted with three unmarked doors. Behind door one is getting all your work done. Behind door two is getting enough rest and exercise. Behind door three is a tiger. Good luck.

Boosting bc this can come for anyone, anywhere

"her area of the world" You mean, Minneapolis?

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

You can tell that trans women are women because we get blamed when random white men do crimes

“He was a Christian” Baby evil don’t have a religion Immorality and Brutishness is not hindered by religiosity

Focusing on what truly benefits kids, with their input, would save us all. I wish that, collectively, we desired a free future for children more than we desired the power to harm or control another adult. Every day I try to imagine that better world for all the children who should get to live there.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Same, and I didn't even leave my house

Regardless of shooter ideology (though shooters often share a stated ideology that gets overlooked by initial reporting), mass shootings have an ideological form, which is that agency belongs to those willing to do violence, that the dead deserve their fates, that this is the point of gun power.

I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health

For anyone who has completed #TheArtistsWay: am I better off doing the Reading Deprivation during Week 4 (even though I have to do a ton of reading at work this week), or am I better off postponing this activity a few weeks, for when I'm certain I can just coast by on ignoring my emails?

GOOD I'm skeptical that anything will come of it, but GOOD

This should be required reading for most US adults

"All that can be done with abusive criticism is to heal from it " Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way ooooff

“Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Luke 1:38 Blessed feast of Mary to all who celebrate +

If there was an opposition party, people would clearly hear every single day who is to blame for their current conditions.

Y'all have to understand that when these people say "violent crime," they don't actually mean violent crimes. They mean that people of color exist somewhere near them.

'live in the countryside? that meth-ridden pit of crime?'

Racism is the reason why your rent is high, racism is the reason why you will never have universal healthcare, racism is the reason why college costs a fortune, racism is the reason why democrats and republicans completely agree on killing Palestinian people

Rounding up and arresting homeless people is the same as rounding up & arresting Jesus. “Whatever you do to the least of these you do it to me.”

Who in public life is regularly saying: “Be realistic - demand the impossible?” None of these assholes are. It's all just shrunken horizons and telling people that nothing can actually change.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting so many Americans to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires, and empathy more than cruelty.

you cant code humanity

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Certain kinds of liberals & leftists are really going to need to get okay with having Christians who take their faith seriously in their coalition.

An unfortunate realization is that while I grew up in a setting of many races, colors, genders, and creeds coexisting awesomely and had a fairly casual "this is neat & I wish similar awesomeness for everyone" feeling about these things I assumed this feeling was pretty universal and wow was I wrong

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death

There is no justification, because they haven’t given one? No, they haven't given one because there is no possible justification for their actions

As we all know, the NYT is *massively* problematic, yet even they recognize what's at the heart of our communities www.nytimes.com/games/strand...

every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know

Every Eucharist is a protest against a world that devours the vulnerable.

Please stop saying "parents have the right to decide what their kid reads but not yours" and start saying "children have the right to read." Children and teenagers have rights all their own. We should treat them as patrons with full library rights like anyone else. #alaac23

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