the moon is cool as hell

Your moment of calm: Rabbit contemplates eternity on a quiet morning. (further calm: this bun sat there just observing the world, no cares in the world, for a good ten minutes)

Imagine telling someone in 2005 that Republicans would elect someone who praised allah on Easter morning and no one really cares

a brief reflection for Holy Saturday and grief deferred: linked below.

Current* conditions near St. Helena Island, MI:

A firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙

now in a state of grace and not because Bernie let me take the rest of the communion wine home

it was the Julien Baker citation on one side of the page and Lupe Fiasco on the other that is still getting me. i’ll go to bat for (most) any book written by anyone i am even vaguely connected to but it’s always great when it’s! a book like this!

Current* conditions near Mackinac Island, MI:

haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

yes ma’am! you look so good!!

if i ever get to do tent revival, Pontiac holiness church Hamlet, Joe Pera is my ideal choice for the titular role

Food is scarcer and more expensive every day in the ruins of Gaza. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a and her family. chuffed.org/project/157569

Palm Sunday sermon will either land or it won’t!

it is 64 degrees in hyde park and the frat by the church is testing out the speakers and the young men are fetching their racks of busch light from the liquor store. spring has arrived.

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

Knowing who to be mad at is praxis.

truth in providence

happy David Dault Day, if you’re celebrating along with us at the Co-op

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Current* conditions near Port Huron, MI:

gagged www.christiancentury.org/voices/why-i...

called into hr for pinching

General reminder that your local cops also do this to women they've arrested. Like, all the time, in fact! Turns out giving men a gun and a uniform and ultimate authority over others tends to enable bad behavior, who knew

lynchian

Still thinking about him

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

all good???

i feel fairly confident that i could get two white tailed deer out of the seminary co-op.

Chicago wind gauge

in job hell

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

all the clowning i do is truly hard but holy work

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

It's really incredible that this one fundraiser was able to get $50,000 to support displaced people in Lebanon. Lets keep this going cause the needs are huge and the government in Lebanon is non-existent. www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

the brief fever dream of remembering playing JFK opposite my seminary president’s MLK in a play we staged without rehearsing at all

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

can’t believe i’ve been a Wobbly for almost two years and only now found out about Jerusalem Slim

Bellingcat analysis makes a strong case that a US tomahawk hit that girl's school in Iran, contrary to U.S. government claims www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

they stole an hour from women

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

The only straight thing about me are my teeth

CBP kidnapped American citizen Sunny Naqvi from O'Hare due to "suspicious travel pattern" after having to take a circuitous route home from India BECAUSE TRUMP STARTED A WAR IN IRAN, and now she's been disappeared in ICE custody, there's a local manhunt underway to find her and maybe she's in WI now

UPDATE: An attorney I am in contact with, asked for her cell phone number to share with someone with the US Attorney General‘s office to try to find the phone in the facility, conveniently enough shortly after her phone unlocks she sends out this text message 1/3

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

find my blurb of this book in the ARC when it drops!!!! :—)

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

for the @chicagoreader.com's 2025 best of chicago issue, i wrote about cops! for the best conglomeration of local police to protect a murderous army of federal agents, look no further than the unified command of broadview, illinois.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...