Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Call your congressfolk and demand they cosponsor this: bsky.app/profile/than...

Abolish ICE and prosecute the criminal Trump regime from top to bottom. All Dens SHOULD be able to enthusiastically support those things. Too bad the most powerful and influential of them are still completely useless

NEW: “SHOULD ICE BE ABOLISHED?” We asked Tennessee Dems running for Congress in TN-9 (Pearson & Cohen) and TN-5 (Molder, Torino, Cortese, Neal) if they support abolishing ICE. Pearson & Cohen were the only ones to say “YES” unequivocally. Their answers: tnholler.com/2026/01/shou...

Catch this @religiondispatches.org interview of LDB author Nia Chiaramonte by the intrepid Chrissy Stroop, @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social. Such a good conversation. Lessons for us all. You’ll definitely want to check out her book “I Hardly Knew Me”. religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...

This week's reprint from Bitch Media is a delightful read from @rjelevi.bsky.social on finding joy in fandom during the darkest days of the early pandemic—timely for the dark times we are living through now.

I was really glad to do this book interview, and you all should check out Nia’s book, I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/i-hard...

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

i know a lot of games journalists and critics follow me, and you'll notice that mothership.blog already has a "How to pitch" page live, along with a few other pages! so yes, please, go ahead and pitch. i'm so excited to announce this in part to get more of your voices out there.

Check out The Flytrap's own @nicolefroio.bsky.social in @conversationalist.org, writing about a UBI program for artists in Ireland! Funding the arts is good, actually.

DO IT. And Europe if you’re Iistening, pass sanctions NOW on Musk, Trump, all Trump cabinet officials and staffers, and everyone in their orbit

The cherry on top of this outstanding piece is this amazing illustration- zoom in for the goodness

TODAY on @theflytrapmedia.com, and unpaywalled for all, I'm talking about algospeak, cuteification, and the implications of softening language about hard things.

girl i wrote my signal wrong 😭 it's actually lex_mcmenamin.68! sorry!!!

~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump. organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

And again, yes, rule 34, I've got my own weird kinks, put boobs on whatever, just... Coexist with people who share many of your values? Please? America is doing terrible things and living here sucks for all marginalized people but please stop lashing out over nothing

We're witnessing people crashing out at scales previously unseen in human history

Getting back to work and being more online and Jesus tap-dancing drag brunch Christ I think I will continue to limit my engagement on social media--the only outlet for which I have left is this one btw. Put boobs on cutesy characters if you want. Think that's weird if you want. Coexist. Fuck

Like, this is a deeply fucking embarrassing thing to say over someone being nonplussed at a video game mod. Have some goddamn self-respect.

I think you're right about what he *means*, but I also oppose using the word "Christian" that way. It privileges the term "Christian," basically defining it as "good person." @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social has written about this. Don't know if there's a better link

Related: bsky.app/profile/theb...

Glad to hear 2026 #VA-01 candidate Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs saying in her Ins and Outs 2026 video, “out with Christian nationalism…in freedom of religion and freedom from religion.” More of this, please, Democrats! www.youtube.com/shorts/0HEu7...

Anti-intellectualism is a deep vein in US history. Ignorance, has also been associated w/"honesty," "common sense," & "authenticity," qualities completely unrelated to it. @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Hello. In evangelical dogma, is ignorance considered to bring a person closer to God?

Sometimes. There’s this idea of being a “fool for God,” of God laying “the worldly wise” low and raising up ordinary believers to accomplish his will/great things. There’s a major strain of anti-intellectualism even if many would not directly frame it as something akin to “ignorance = holiness”

Today with our last post of the year: @freeblackgirl.bsky.social on the fragility of body positivity, and what happens when a radical movement gets co-opted.

Looking forward to many cool things in 2026, including more big projects! Thanks to fans and readers, whether you've been with me since the ancient days of blogging or you just discovered me this year.

Also at @theflytrapmedia.com I looked into the debate over whether ASMR is a sex thing, and discovered along the way that the real conversation here is about labor rights and the way sex workers have been warning you FOR YEARS that conservatives are coming for your freedom of expression.

We are member-supported and clearly there's hunger for feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm at a moment when we very much need both independent media and quality cultural criticism. Here's a 7% discount (my lucky number!) you can use through the end of the year.

It was wonderful to watch @theflytrapmedia.com grow this year thanks to the incredible and hard work of my fellow worker-owners: @andreagrimes.com @katelynburns.com @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social @nicolefroio.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social @freeblackgirl.bsky.social and rommy torrico.

Starting off strong with the one thing I worked on this year that you can't actually read yet: My book on grief, mourning, and how both are deeply broken in the US. Pre-order All My Dead Cats as a present for July 28, 2026 you!

It is time for the traditional 'what I worked on this year' thread of things I particularly enjoyed; a very rough and weird year and I actually surprised myself with how many things I am proud of at the end of the year.

Too often 'respectable' conservative christianity provides the framework for out and out christofascism to arise.

My thoughts on how the Christian nationalism framework can be too limiting are relevant religiondispatches.org/seeking-broa... religiondispatches.org/good-enough-...

These articles are super helpful because I watched God & Country with my daughter a few days ago. I felt like the documentary was missing something but couldn’t put my finger on it (I’ve only read a few books on the topic). Chrissy Stroop’s expertise provided me with the insight I needed. 👍

Check out this author discussion I did on @religiondispatches.org with @niac.bsky.social about her gender transition memoir, I Hardly Knew Me. Very timely stuff here 👇🏻 religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...

Very interesting! Just thinking about Nia's construction of her own theology makes me think of Gordon Kaufman's work in trying to construct a naturalistic ecotheology that works pluralistically (along w the mid-20th century process theologians). Tell her to check out his work.

Check out this author discussion I did on @religiondispatches.org with @niac.bsky.social about her gender transition memoir, I Hardly Knew Me. Very timely stuff here 👇🏻 religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...

Whatever happened to bringing Bart Ehrman and shit to interviews for this? He's not even atheist, but the man's honest at least.

LMAO @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social you may appreciate the last comment

I personally don’t even think it’s ideology. The Dem establishment and its donors just do not understand the utility of media other than as a vehicle to make Dem consultants rich via shitty tv ads.

I'm not sharing it, go look it up for yourselves.this line really pissed me off "Journalists and scholars paid little attention to this movement until recently, when they realized that some of its members had rallied to President Trump " SMDH. Many of us were writing about this in Trumps 1st Term.

yep.She converted, and then joined a Southern BAPTIST CHURCH. I remember that ish well.

yes, and she is part of the rot by giving them a pass.

I have despised Molly Worthen for a long time. I haven’t read her latest (and probably won’t bother), but she’s always been more interested in whitewashing evangelicalism than criticizing it. Even that language you quoted—“some of its members”—downplays the extent of the rot

Personally I wouldn’t forgive Santa for interrupting the long winter’s nap, which tbh is the best part of that old poem

There is no reason to imagine any funny, lovingly watercolored Seuss doodle as a manic polyester plush come to life or a plastic claymation action figure, by cgi. His style was his medium. Nuke intellectual property from orbit and start over with respect

The cartoon was and is a thing of beauty and humor, narrated by Boris Karloff and with the best possible Grinch song. All the live action remakers have brains full of spiders and termites in their smiles. But not garlic in their souls. Garlic is much too good for them.

this is a big difference between adult and child readings of this poem

Along with the mystery of the kerchief and the cap