Conservative evangelical end times theology facilitates unhealthy psychological distance from God’s good creation and from our neighbors created in the divine image. The rapture makes enemies of the world Jesus came to save.

This person is a sociopathic killer. Horror movie origin: His father was absent and his mother dressed him up and other kids picked on him relentlessly. IRL origin: He inherited a an astronomical amount of money.

Naïveté aside, she is simply expressing the the neo-liberal assumption that the marketplace is the center of democracy. We can see it as patently false in this moment but we need to dig deeper. Where we are should lay out the fundamentally false foundations of governance the last half century.

It’s become self-aware. 👀👀👀

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

Unfun fact, I was the recreation leader of a camp where Tomlin was the worship leader. It was as he first started getting big. He absolutely avoided or ignored everyone else at the camp. Absolute worst camp worship leader I can remember due to just not caring about anything outside the stage.

“‘I told you so’ doesn’t help” is the child of “You are wrong so I won’t listen” and the parent of “you are wrong again so I won’t listen.”

It is wild to me that we had an entire national freak out about a Presidential candidate's mental acuity, and it *wasn't* about Trump—totally unserious country.

Pritzker using Andor to celebrate Disney backtracking their anti-free speech, pro-authoritarian policy is 👨‍🍳😘

Imagine if the money invested in a broken project that spits out corrupted and blended up bits of millions of past writings sent to it was put into…the human capital of this country.

This, like tariffs, is not meant to work toward any particular economic outcome. It IS meant to put the power over opportunities for individuals in the hands of Trump and his admin—a group which will use those levers to empower and enrich themselves.

Love Bouie

Rebuild our relationship with the world by holding ourselves accountable to them.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

Next time my students ask me”when will I ever need this?!?” I am gonna use this example.

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The number of times I’ve told Southern Baptists that the denomination was founded to state that slavery was moral and they didn’t know is astounding (it’s all Southern Baptists). And there is zero evidence of the denomination reckoning with that reality. Ever. It’s always the minimum and evasion.

What ended up happening is that institutions created their own investigating agencies that required the most limited connection to communism to fire leftists and liberals while conservatives proven to spout bigotry and fascist talking points were protected. See: “A War of Ideas” by Zoe Burkholder

Like so many things utilized by the right to limit freedom, the original intent of HUAC was largely to protect against anti-democratic, white supremacist activity. Yet, because of the makeup of the committee, soon it almost exclusively focused on communist and then leftist activities. #HUACsky

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

Story of the century and our media fails to even act.

I mean, honestly, I don’t know that I’ve seen it happen on Bluesky but if there was a place that fostered a culture where admitting wrong and being dedicated to change was a core value I’d love it.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

My son loves art and plants, so we looked around for games. Based on videos and reviews we ended up with Bonsai. Very solid purchase. Aesthetically pleasing. Easy to play while strategically deep. Varied win approaches and some ways of playing “against” others but primarily about one’s own tree.

Is a time when the Left cancelled for protecting the rights of the abused and mistreated. Perhaps this was wrong since we see the current cancelling of people by the Right for not being on the Right enough? These things are the same and we won’t investigate the differences.

and another thing: im not white man. please dont put in the newspaper that i’m white man.

I actually think something like this would be wise

Holy gamole She nails it in every word she says.

This is what the lionization of Kirk has been about. For conservatives, rights and life are conditioned on morality. Morality is determined by the Right. If the Right doesn’t have power they cannot enforce their moral code and, thus, this is *less* impactful. With power…we aren’t worthy of life.

And the corollary of this is that conservatives love this because it makes them feel special. As if they have some natural, intellectual defenses against being propagandized. This only reinforces their belief in their ideas being “natural” and in biologically determined intelligence.

A winning campaign.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Fascism doesn’t just demand obedience. It demands pre-obedience. The consequence is that any in authority—even at the lower levels—are compelled to the most radical response to any situation. This results in a feedback loop of radicalization from below and above.

Absolutely. History is multifaceted and events are multicausal. BUT Racism and antisemitism are almost always a key feature in American politics.

I am not against a party’s leadership refusing to endorse a candidate due to moral failings or immoral policies. But otherwise or if you just have policy differences that aren’t moral? Yeah, that’s just anti-democracy.

And you know it's because it's seeing videos of seeing someone of their demographic getting murdered that's the tipping point.

Tuomas has some great thoughts on the precedent the camps of these chapters set. #OneLongNight

Some thoughts on #onelongnight Chapters 3 & 4. - Access to British run camps in South Africa was very limited. I see echos of this today, in the US with members of Congress denied entry and even arrested when trying to assess conditions in holding centers, much less camps. 1/X

If the capital class is so willing to sacrifice our rights of speech, assembly, habeas corpus, etc for the protection of their right to property I’m not so sure that they should keep their property.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

As he said, “Those who would give up comedy for decorum deserve neither comedy nor decorum.”

This kind of thing is literally what I discuss in day 1 of my class. It’s why we should study history. To see these kind of thru-lines on a longer scale.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

It is imperative that we take this moment to educate on the actual meaning of “politicize”. For too long it’s been used to mean anything political actors determine to discuss or disagree about. This is its true meaning. The rejection of expert consensus in favor of a politically derived position.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

We are in a period when truth is being made to mean agreement with power.

She did nothing wrong other than shop at Target.

Oh man. This. My conversations with other white men never cease to astound me.

One fascinating aspect of the Boer War in #OneLongNight is how the horrid conditions into which the British placed the Boer’s simultaneously served as justification for the war and the treatment of that group. This is not uncommon.