“She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community.”

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, I didn't know what I was doing in New York, and congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Bearing a cross on wheels is a great metaphor for Christian oppression

PCU2

Today, 95 House Democrats voted with Republicans to honor Charlie Kirk.   My opponent, Nikki Budzinski, sided with Republicans, which she’s done over 42% of the time, during her tenure in Congress.   Mainstream media and democrats continue to white wash his legacy.   youtube.com/shorts/vU1H6...

Also worth emphasizing that this ruling is a license for the state to harass and abuse latinos & others *for their entire lives.* It's not like you get checked off after one encounter with ICE and never bothered after that, it means that you will be perpetually hounded by the state until you die

Reasonable Expectations

If you can’t be safe might as well be brave

I told my wife on Tuesday I had a weirdly unshakable feeling that Trump was about to die. I’m posting this here because if I’m right I’d like her to buy me very nice cocktails the second they are available tomorrow.

It is bananas that we use a framework for understanding “free speech” that was defined by people who owned people and who communicated political ideas mostly through pamphlets and not bitchy makeup tutorials and memes. What more evidence do we need that it doesn’t work in this info environment?

We have two jowly, jovial midwestern uncles who have what appear to be sincerely held values about their pretty decent politics, but no you ding dongs want us to offer up our votes to Kim Guilfoyle’s sweaty Temu Daddy Warbucks-ass ex.

I promised to never campaign again after just so many heartbreaking experiences. I’m doing it again because this guy makes me think someone I actually trust can represent me.

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

Well doesn’t this just sum up the DNC perfectly- “holding space” and “housing insecurity” are in the same category of social justice jargon only if you think progressive politics is a matter of language and signaling, not actual policy let alone deeply held values.

I hope James Dobson will be remembered for his many accomplishments in life, such as beating a 12-pound dog with a belt and recommending parents do the same to their children

I’m not sure we’ll ever know now that Christopher Lee is dead.

I literally brought this article up in therapy today. The validation I got from the reminder that being this stuck isn’t a personal or moral failure gave me relief I haven’t felt in a while.

This piece on fewer people moving around is a must-read (gift link), as it has implications for higher education and economic mobility more broadly. Housing policy and interest rates affect nearly everyone.

Modern T-Ball

Arby’s: She has the meats

Free Palestine

Ditto, 80% of all pumpkin consumed in the US is produced in one county in Illinois

Nowadays because of woke it’s Renewable Energy Light Orchestra

The entire Trek fandom should be pro-Palestine because it’s literally Bajor

Saving this in my phone under favorites to pull up whenever people ask me what I’m earth we’d do without the police to save us if we abolished the system

As soon as Roe was thrown out I got my tubes tied. As my doctor said, you can still get pregnant, just not by accident.

People so unable to even conceive of solidarity that it looks to them like being a traitor.

Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

Watching the Democratic Party distance themselves from the most popular candidate in 15 years: proof they can in fact stand on principles despite how the principles poll, but it turns out the principles fucking suck.

This Fourth of July I’m declaring my independence from giving a shit about the New York Times

Forever

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Passion of the Christ, his choice, not kidding.

I AM NOT OPEN TO THE IDEA OF ATTACKING IRAN

This is the worst fucking group project I've ever been involved with.

Maybe all the very apt comparisons between the 2003 buildup to the war in Iraq and the current preparations for a war with Iran means maybe we can finally stop fucking rehabilitating W for his war crimes.

This is the second colleague this year with whom I’ve had to cancel a meeting because the Israeli government bombed their family. Hell isn’t hot enough.

This is pure and simple the cover up of a murder employing the time-honored tradition of framing brown people

The vaaaast majority of college courses aren’t taught by tenure-track research faculty, but part-timers making very very little money to do it.

I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”

My sister tripped Huey Lewis and I helped him up.

the decision to "be safe" is no longer yours to make. the state has decided to make us unsafe. but you can make informed choices, take calculated risks, and you can decide to be powerful.

Lotta big L Liberals on here willing to be the “all lives matter” people as soon as we’re talking about trans people.

They’ll say “If you want to fight fascism, go and win elections” and then they lose the elections

Happy Pride to everyone, even the haters and those with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis

Our shame is an ocean we will drown in.