That much-complained-of DHS policy requiring Noem’s personal sign-off on expenses over $100K may serve purposes other than thrift.

the second thing here is exactly what I've been wondering about, like, seriously

just gonna point out yet again that Fairuz turned down millions to perform in Riyadh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Rz...

I'm definitely the person on the left whenever people bring up "Celtic Christianity." Although as someone who'd like to be young but isn't, I should also emphsasize that the Celtic thing is less Boomer than it is Xers who grew up on Mists of Avalon-type stuff.

running the navy likes it’s a mcdolanlds

Same playbook that the Chinese Communist Party has been using to disrupt any constructive academic discussion of its human rights abuses on American campuses: sending provocateurs with party or military backgrounds to disrupt class or event proceedings and recording the faces of every attendee.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

I have my voice lesson tomorrow for a song we're working on the day after in that class and I feel like I'm in over my head for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hj4...

people should be safe in churches and schools and grocery stores and bars. they should be safe where they live and where they work and where they learn and where they worship. our society is sick; it is death-loving and death-dealing. god help us. help us turn from our evil ways and live

Having unhealthy nostalgia for the time in my life when a ceiling leak was my landlord's problem and not mine to pay to fix.

Old enough to remember when Bernie Sanders showed up and talked to Liberty University students 10 years ago. This did some times happen but after the election, the administration was arresting the likes of Shane Clairborne for even being on campus property.

Waking up after a nice late night out to see Elvis Costello in Akron with a friend and finding out that the Guardians are going to the playoffs and there was a shooting at the bar down the street which was why there were sirens everywhere and a helicopter buzzing around the neighborhood all night.

Imagine having the confidence of this author that Neolithic Lithuanians worshipped the female Moose of All Moose

Seeing this at places where friends work too.

It’s almost like the podcast grifters exploiting lonely, bitter, excessively online men have a vested interest in keeping them that way.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

Fun article about my beloved @oaklandballers.bsky.social! Apparently Warren G is part of a group working to bring a Pioneer League team to Long Beach. Independent, community powered baseball is alive and it is awesome! www.latimes.com/california/n...

I was just having this conversation with one of the students the other day because we feel it a lot here in flyover country hearing people in bigger cities / either coast talk about our home states (in this case Texas and Ohio).

it has been a day but it was good to bag groceries with the ladies and finish off the night listening to this baseball game that feels like a playoff game.

Thinking about a thing a friend said once about how he didn't want to sell a deceased family member's guns to a pawnshop or whatever because he didn't know what the future owner would do with them.

would appreciate prayers / good vibes / best wishes because some kind of explosion happened at the site where the dude is working and he's okay but he's a bit shellshocked but one of the guys he's working with got hurt very badly.

Today I learned that if you live in Arizona you can get an Alice Cooper state-issued license plate for your car. azdot.gov/license-plat...

These are so wonderful.

There’s a longstanding campaign for Turkmenistan’s political prisoners called “Prove They Are Alive” so can use the branding from that

this seems like something people with authority should be screaming about, maybe louder than they screamed for jimmy kimmel

Don’t mourn for imaginary people. Love and support the real folks and let’s make a better world.

imagine your current stress levels. bills, job, health troubles, life troubles. now imagine that exact same stress level, but with a hangover. why people don't drink as much

Literally saw a white lady explain to a black dude (both of whom went to the same church as me back in a different life) that she didn't have to care about the racism or hypocrisy of certain folks or be empathetic about immigrants because "we're all covered by the blood of Jesus anyway."

I still think about the time I ended up at a GWAR show with one of my college friends and I saw a David Foster Wallace doppelganger covered in fake blood living his best life in the mosh pit.

WUNDR / BIAFRA

This is a great thread. I grew up in a moderately conservative evangelical denomination where the common practice was that most churches had an American congregation & a recent immigrant congregation sharing the same building so it was incredible whiplash to see so many people go the way they did.

When I say I have less Catholic baggage than I do evangelical baggage, it's being really happy to be in a religious setting where being middle-aged and not married isn't a big deal compared to constant "well God will find you someone someday" or "oh that must be HARD" or "maybe you're not straight."

If you are cancelling streaming services it's worth noting that we are currently living in a golden age of thrift store DVDs. Lot's of people have liquidated their collections because of streaming or because of the switch to bluray...

"There is nothing more frightening and hopeless than Christian politics carried out by pagan hands in the name of Christian norms, laws, and programs." Fedor Stepun (1884–1965): Khristianskaia politika, 1933

got the wrong color porch paint and used it anyway to seal up the bare wood for the winter. I feel like every other year until I have my act together in the spring, the paint job looks like a slumlord's friend did the work.

Between that Polish history class I took ten years ago and getting immersed in local Lithuanian history for work reasons, this kind of thing just kind of happens. In the 1930s, Lithuanian teams were coming to Cleveland to play diaspora teams at the local high school.

No, I don't want to download another app or order off a screen or check out myself. I want to talk with a person.

the dude is sending me late night texts about the greatest televangelist-themed instrumental band to ever come out of Cleveland and if there was ever a time for them to get back together... megachurch.bandcamp.com/track/exorcism

Learn a fascinating story of how Ukrainian artists brought color to gray Soviet apartment blocks and kept the culture alive through mosaics, and see a mesmerizing collection of unique mosaics that don’t exist anywhere else! daryazorka.substack.com/p/the-overlo...

I was telling the dude about the part in the book where Montag's wife is too busy interacting with the people in the walls to have a relationship with him and how I think a whole generation of people feel that with their families who are drinking the podcast/cable news firehose of koolaid.

I wish one of my old Methodist Twitter buddies was on here because he'd love this.

#BREAKING: Former Cincinnati Children's Hospital Chaplain Ayman Soliman has been released from the Butler County Jail's ICE detainment center. Here's what we know >> https://www.fox19.com/2025/09/19/cincinnati-imam-released-ice-detainment-3-months-later/ 

There are so many ways to love God.

Trying to square "yeah my folks raised 3 kids on less than what I make in a year" with "but adjusted for inflation, what I've got isn't going nearly as far."

I respect it.

the arc of history is long and bends towards weird

Had my first ever voice lesson and had no idea how much tension I carry in my neck, shoulders, and jaw, and I can't help but wonder how long it's been that way and if the past few years have made it worse.

they’re coming