go pre-order “the felicity complex” by august clarke if you enjoyed this article and want to read some totally bananas in the best way in a couple months

white Presbyterian rapping is my worst nightmare

“Talafreako” is going to end with the candidate doing a grocery bag rap spot and rhyming it with “the Velvet Underground & Nico.” I need you guys to be ready for this inevitability, to prepare psychically for it

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

i am ready and available for these religious accommodation claims

#BREAKING U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros annoucnes that charges against the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" will be dismissed with prejudice.

all of you want “main character energy” but none of you want to suffer like Christ. and that’s the problem.

“what can the church offer young people these days?” besides being able to email my 85-year-old socialist bestie who does not believe in God but loves his wife so has been a member at the Baptist church for fifty years and see when he’d be around to watch the Robert Reich documentary?

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I'm sorry but if you're not radically pro-trans then you're not pro-trans at all. And if you're not pro-trans then you're not pro-human. And if you're not pro-human then go take a long walk off a short pier and let the rest of us live lives of joy you miserable fucks

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

mental health tip: sometimes you can’t reparent-your-inner-child about it. sometimes you have to imagine yourself at age forty and let that broad tell you what you need to do. she knows what she’s doing and is also kind of scary in a hot way. you should listen to her.

Two bald eagle chicks have been spotted in nests on the South Side this spring. They are believed to be the first eaglets born in the city in more than a century. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/06/b...

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Oscar Neebe was the only haymarket defendant who wasn't sentenced to death for the crime of working for an anarchist newspaper. He was also one of the only American-born defendants. He said to the court that he wished to be hanged alongside his comrades.

Adolph Fischer was hanged for the crime of editing an anarchist newspaper. He told the court: "I was tried here in this room for murder, and I was convicted of Anarchy. I protest against being sentenced to death, because I have not been found guilty of murder.

Louis Lingg was the youngest haymarket defendant. He had a watertight alibi: he couldn't have thrown the bomb, because he'd been at home with his friends making bombs. He spoke to the court with nothing but contempt. He told them:

George Engel was the oldest of the Haymarket defendants, but one of the most radical. He wasn't on speaking terms with some of the moderate anarchists with whom he would soon share a gallows. He was a German immigrant toymaker, gentle and honest.

weeping

August Spies was one of the "moderate" anarchists, the editor of a newspaper whose title translated simply to Worker's Paper. He worked 12-16 hours a day on that newspaper, fighting for the eight hour day for everyone else. He kept a circle bomb on his desk in the office.

Albert Parsons stood out from his defenants. He was American born. At 13 he'd run away to join the Confederate army, and after the war he dedicated his life to undoing the evil he'd helped promote. He was shot for trying to register black voters in Texas.

The three siblings had fended for themselves for nearly four weeks on the Southwest Side. Isabel Conde, 27, couldn’t find adults in their lives to take them in. So she did it herself.

thinking about when i “did sound” for Isaiah Collier (ran the livestream at Timuel Black’s bday party) and he so very lowkey with his saxophone and his cool crochet sweater that i forgot i’d seen him play on my birthday the year before until he, of course, started to play Coltrane

writing something on penal substitutionary atonement theory, the youth group game called “the Iron Curtain,” and this exact thing for my next bit of gonzo theology

bookserf

have long needed a phrase to describe people who think the clerical collar is hot and the best i can come up with is chasuble chaser? not very accessible for us low church peons but… i’ll keep workshopping. and stay off these apps. fleabag has fucking rotted your brains. i’m tired.

Thursday! What a concept!

remembering i still have to work one of my two other jobs because the bookstore will not pay its employees a living wage and have all but entirely busted the union’s efforts to win one :/

how it feels to not work ibd this year

the man has TASTE!

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

kratom? nah that's not good enough. We gotta find a synthetic extract of it that fucks people up like oxy and sell it in gas stations. what if weed were a million times stronger and making it sometimes blew up trailers?

Salute to an all-time tweet

this is also confusing to folks who live in Chicago, IL with respect to the southerners i met this week

confused many a southerner who asked me where i’m from originally if not the South Side, to which i said Michigan and presented Lapeer on the natural map of my hand

it took less than five minutes of me talking about the general strike at the Alliance of Baptist gathering to get Pastor Comrade Brad fired up to get his Red Card….

Sourdough!

in a car going north on lsd and the clouds reflecting off the lake looks opalescent on the water God is alive magic is afoot

i wonder if i want to get ordained sometimes but then i remember doing shit like this and then presenting a feminist interpretation of galatians 3 for ap seminar junior year and it’s like…….. yeah… you do……….

can i mention Juggalos in my ordination paper if i am not citing a song but to talk about a stigmatized cultural character in the metro Detroit area that influenced a reading of 1 cor 9:19-23 i did sophomore year of high school in Sonshine Ministries?

we’re on better terms now

going to fistfight the sky

Thank you to It Could Happen Here and @miawong.bsky.social for talking to TNN's @davidforbes.bsky.social about this important issue. The Catholic Church's horrific trans healthcare ban threatens trans people around the country. It's an injustice that needs *a lot* more attention.

was prescient of me to say i was the last residential mdiv student at my alma mater, i guess…

the moon is cool as hell