A prediction of rapture in the 1840s led to the creation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and of the seventh day Adventists. Americans have a long history of being captured by the raptured.

Where have you gone, Mr Jack Paar, the nation turns its lonely eyes to you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhQ...

White Christo-Fascism, in brief.

So, it has nothing to do with NY City, but we dare not name the 94%-white suburb wherein the crime was perped. Stony Point, NY. 40 miles north of Times Square NYC.

The ACLU of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit against a state university president, alleging he unconstitutionally fired an employee over her private social media post. @bsuaaup.bsky.social #academicfreedom #academicsky #freespeech

On this day in 1906, mobs of angry white men gathered in the streets of Atlanta to attack and kill dozens of innocent Black men on sight.

Yes, what is the legal argument strong enough to persuade officers and sailors to attack and kill on the high seas? Just following orders? The threat of the brig and a court martial?

The bombing is becoming numbing and soon will be banal.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

Nobody does White Calvinism like the slice of true believers in Britain, except for their brethren in South Africa and the Ne Plus Ultra in the USA

I love a sartorial sarcasm disguised as a scarf.

Oh yes, thank you Mr Douthit, I see now that the two eras were really alike, except for their methods and their imposed consequences😒

This is good. However, this was on the stretch of the Chicago River closest to Lake Michigan; I can say from kayaking that stretch 3 weeks ago that you are kayaking on & swimming in clean L. Michigan water flowing from the lake west into the city. Try this 3 miles into the South branch & call me

Public service is a good idea. Compulsory public service is anathema to liberty and flatly contrary to the 13th Amendment

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Cacophony is a choice. Symphony is another

Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel was also in deep Doodoo, but was saved by the terrorist attacks two years ago. It has crossed my mind that it may have crossed Trump’s mind that a genuine national crisis would likewise be his administration’s salvation.

This is good news. On less happy note, I am reminded that the anti-VAX movement was inexplicably strong in Marin County, California just north of San Francisco and Berkeley and Stanford, home to three of the brightest jewels in the national Crown of science

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

As I have said repeatedly: Donald Trump is dead set on turning the United States into a Russia style mafia state. Surrounding himself with deeply corrupt officials furthers that goal.

Be nice to gorillas.

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

We all watched January 6 unfold.

Those of us who said Trump was a fascist got scolded for overreacting, catastrophizing, exaggerating, taking him too seriously. But we were right. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...

He has the long steel rod of the Presidency in his hand. He searches til he finds a pivot point and voila! He has a nutcracker

What has taken the judges so long??

The fact that he laid so much of the foundation with his “war on terror,” Patriot Act excesses, Guantanamo Bay etc. means he has even more responsibility for speaking up and saying, enough! And if he is good with what’s happening then we need to hear that too. 2/

Yes. Alas, the anti-vaccine movement is long been here, at least back to the competition between variolation and vaccination, and was strong during World War I against the typhus vaccine. The exceptional pro vaccine phase may be from polio to the turn of the 21st-century.

On Disney: No Mickeyland Trips No Cruise Ships No TV Subscrips

As Karen Carpenter sang, “We’ve Only Just Begun”

The Xenophobia Is Strong — And Wrong

Yet another thing that will completely destroy the actual existing model of 🇺🇸 higher education. The lack of loud, urgent collective action by university leaders to educate the public & generate pushback on all of these awful policies continues to be glaring.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

So “Show Boat” and its anti-miscegenation theme actually was launched in Chesapeake Bay…

“Send the interns” was a battlecry during the Bush 43 years - have college kids record the briefings and maybe challenge the podium lies but experienced investigative reporters stay away and work sources Any serious newsroom should do this with Hegseth’s Pentagon

In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders." We're about to find out whether that's true.

I am so glad that @jimmykimmel.com is getting the attention and outrage he deserves, but where was this support for @matthewjdowd.bsky.social last week? His MSNBC colleagues said nothing everyone is standing up for Jimmy Kimmel and Dowd’s colleagues said nothing. So can we lift him up too?

Yes, but authoritarian violence is ok.

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The public’s capacity to hold the military & its civilian ldrs accountable is a core principle of democratic control of the military. If Pentagon reporters can’t do their jobs, citizens won‘t have info they need to do their part Which may be the point here. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The 97% threshold is right there in the Constitution this guy has twice sworn to uphold and defend

OK. Then don't break the oath to defend the Constitution.

Chilling the public speech of scholars at public universities robs us all of one of the foremost values of public universities: the voice of independent expertise in alerting us all to conditions that threaten the common weal.

I’m done with Disney. No trips, No cruise ships, No TV subscrips.

If you've just now become ashamed of being American, what have you been waiting for? The complete failure to hold Trump accountable for January 6 sufficed for me. Then, his re-election. Then, his despicable weaponization of ICE and his deployment of US soldiers to US cities. My standards are lower.