I think it's important for the "all government people are corrupt crowd" to really hear this. No. No, they're not. This is why I'm excited to see some of the laid-off federal employees start to run for office. Americans need to hear from those who've actually done the work of governing.

Important reflection from @sarahstankorb.bsky.social, who knows the danger of Doug Wilson & has been trying to warn people for years: sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/doug-wilso...

The fact that we effectively ended Howard Dean's publicife because he made a weird little yeehaw noise on TV one time is my Roman Empire.

Ever report a story about shocking claims of abuse normalized and mishandled, fostered by a theology survivors call toxic... and then a few years later, the voice behind that faith guest preaches at the Pentagon? Yep, it's that kind of day. substack.com/app-link/pos...

Oh that our institutions would have half the courage of Minnesota moms rushing out to the street in their bathrobes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As corporations shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many have said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

Mike Tyson as a health ambassador makes about as much sense as MAHA in general.

the set design and choreography was so beautiful that it was irrelevant that I’m a dummy who can’t understand Spanish

What a gorgeous and fun halftime show. A wonderful reminder of what is great about America.

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

Friends. This! @booker.senate.gov please do this again, Epstein edition.

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

"The news business is hard, but we simply cannot keep relying on the idea that journalism can be funded by billionaires whose personal interests are at direct odds with accountability work." www.404media.co/r/b10f2556?m...

Good @newrepublic.com piece by @sarahstankorb.bsky.social on "How Polarization Tore a Hole in America’s Mainline Churches." She mostly covers Ryan Burge's new book, but I appreciate being able to offer some thoughts in it: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I keep thinking back to when I interviewed a co-creator of Captain Planet who likened Trump to all the eco-villains. (Remember how that show warned about pollution, but also the ills of hatred and destruction.)

"That is why it is so vital right now that clergy are showing up as part of the resistance. Their congregations might not number in the hundreds (or even dozens) anymore, but by aligning with secular activists and other believers of all sorts who defend human rights... substack.com/app-link/pos...

On American religious, political and economic polarization. My latest for @newrepublic. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

No agency or government that uses children as bait is pro-life.

My latest, for @damemagazine.bsky.social, in which I contemplate whether "Donald Trump’s appetites are so extreme, likening them to cartoons might be the only way for those of us with more typical palates to grasp the Leviathan’s hunger that motivates him." share.google/BVBsoeUPu2Pj...

Memo leaked to me reveals shortly before the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, homeland security was worried about officer confrontations with vehicles - foreshadowing the exact circumstances of Good's death: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-mem...

Also worth checking out this article by @sarahstankorb.bsky.social. I think she was the 1st journalist to report on abuse at Doug Wilson’s church. www.vice.com/en/article/i...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

I have an idea and party Dems feel free to steal: stop sending constant texts begging for money for campaigns that are a year+ away, use those lists to organize people NOW w/ daily steps to save democracy so we can have those elections. Quit asking for a thimble of water when the house is on fire.

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” - Justice Robert Jackson

Why is Christian patriarchy gaining ground in America? @sarahstankorb.bsky.social unpacks Doug Wilson’s influence—from Moscow, Idaho to the national stage—and what it reveals about power, abuse, and faith. Watch: youtu.be/1bJeerWhY9U

"Those folks who already lived the microcosm version [of Christian patriarchy] can clue us into how that can be nationalized." - @sarahstankorb.bsky.social A conversation on how evangelicalism's theologies of hierarchy & submission are a harmful model for our nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJe...

I really, really hope we all start to appreciate the almost always combined dangers of Christian patriarchy and Christian nationallism, personified by Wilson.

My latest, for @thecut: if you are gobsmacked by the Doug Wilson sound bites, imagine living this, and hope you never have to. Heed the warning from those who have. www.thecut.com/article/pete...

www.thecut.com/article/pete... Always read @sarahstankorb.bsky.social

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

I will have more to share once I sleep, but some of you are just hearing about Doug Wilson (founder of Hegseth's denomination, who said on CNN that women are the kind of people who come out of, and another of his underlings argued for repeal of the 19th amendment). 1/

As someone who has covered Wilson and the impact of his teachings for years, I would have hoped @cnn.com would have questioned Wilson's assertion that sometimes the way to deal with abuse is going to the authorities, sometimes church elders, sometimes family...

Nothing is disqualifying? Former Jan. 6 defendant who called cops “Nazis” gets DOJ job www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Tickets are AVAILABLE for our LIVE recording and Q+A at the Kenworthy Theater in Downtown Moscow, Idaho from 4-6 PM! (We'll likely hit full capacity by the end of today - so if you live in the area, get your tickets soon) @sarahstankorb.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/live-recor...

Is the Democratic Party's entire plan for dealing with fascism to send endless texts requesting urgent $2 or $50 donations?

We are doing a LIVE recording and Q+A in Moscow, Idaho on August 8 from 4-6 PM with @sarahstankorb.bsky.social. Moscow is Christian Nationalist HQ, it's the "belly of the beast." We intend on disrupting it. EventBrite/ticket information for any interested: www.eventbrite.com/e/live-recor...

You know you are done for when the AC repair guy spends an hour on the phone, sitting on the floor of your basement, because he doesn't know what is wrong, then goes out to his van 'to make a few calls' ... but really because he is overheated and wants his van AC.

I have been running on the elliptical most days for over a decade. It used to be a way to push my weaker muscles and allow myself to rely on my stronger ones to keep going. I run half an hour exactly.

What a weird old man.

Hey @404media.co is the EndDEI website down??? I was going back to it for a story and now get an error that my browser detects a potential security threat and it won't load. I'd be curious if you can find out if someone took it down or what is going on. Might this be a clever hack or just accurate?

I just heard from my editor at Elle that my recent story has nearly a million engaged minutes (of reading and listening) on Apple News! If you haven't read it yet, here it is! www.elle.com/life-love/op...

I just received a note saying thanks for my interest in a position, but some publication (I never heard of) is pursuing other candidates. I never applied. I haven't applied for a non-freelance job in a long time. I guess, agreed, bad match??

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. And I've never seen evidence of racial discrimination like this." "How can this be? I don't see anyone pushing back against it??" Calls out doctors and other senior administration officials as named defendants for not standing up to racial discrimination.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

I'm reviewing old school board meeting videos from 2021, and heard one anti-masker draw a contrast between the freedoms we have in the U.S. vs. countries where 'women have to wear a mask and cannot drive a car.' I wonder how often did you hear anti-mask rhetoric wound up with Islamophobia?

I recently learned in 2017 there was a mass hexing of DJT. Wondering now, where are the witches and are they organizing?

(sidenote: is there a good thread of people from LA just posting photos showing how regular and calm things are in the vast majority of the city?)