The issue is Consultant Dems are reading the word "weak" in crosstabs and have figured out an answer: "pander to racists, but more thuggishly." They are not reading "strength" as "actually believe in human rights and make decisions based on that core tenet." The good news is the latter is winning.

Seriously this Bible exchange goes on even longer than I'm able to clip here.

warnock opening a random book of the bible and getting us to the midterms

I'm 60-something. Each day, the world's richest man threatens to take away Social Security that I earned AND a cruel president wipes out more of my 401K savings. Destroying both public and private income at the same time. Trump's Golden Age is a nightmare for those in their Golden Years.

If you're rich, we've got great news for you! If you're not, fuck you!

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Bless "THE Philadelphia Eagles plan to snub an invitation to the White House after winning the Super Bowl, The U.S. Sun has learned."

Best I can tell, about half of the current backers have come from Bluesky. More, if there are people who signed up for updates and got to the page through an email. Thanks for the support so far! Come dig with us. #ZineQuest #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/arc...

I fully expect Christians themselves to be targeted by this “anti-Christian bias” task force—the wrong kind of Christians who don’t support the agenda of right-wing Christian supremacy.

Every time the rage starts to settle, I’m reminded how grim our outlook is. This sucks.

You think you've reached the point where no new headline about this administration can shock you anymore. Then they prove you wrong. The gulag is for everyone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Bible says nothing about trans people playing sports, but it says a lot about not being an asshole to immigrants. Evangelicals have totally lost the plot.

Starting trade wars to make it easier to take over the government was literally the plot to the Star Wars prequels.

What a bizarre idea they’re starting to land on: that Christian communities are corrupt, not when they protect abusers, or when they spend money on private jets, or when they make sketchy land deals and go on trial at the Vatican about it (whaaat that’s so specific), but when they serve the poor.

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I’m credentialed by two different ecclesial organizations. Before I accepted either, I reckoned with what I’d be willing to lose those credentials over. I literally cannot imagine “doing a Nazi salute in solidarity with the dude who spent $44 billion on Twitter” making the cut.

On January 22 Trump gutted a key aviation safety committee. Today we saw one of the most shocking aviation disasters to ever occur in the airspace of our nation’s capital (second, obviously, to the Pentagon attack on 9/11). There will be no committee in place to determine how to avoid the next one.

Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.

Pritzker is the GOAT.

In this moment when antisemitism has reached a new high, this is outrageous behavior. At a Presidential rally no less. Donald Trump should condemn it. And Elon Musk owes our country an apology.

The perfect thread

My youth group leader died yesterday. He was one of the first people who encouraged my curiosity with the Bible. There’s a straight line connecting his influence and my attending seminary. His health was in steep decline, so I hadn’t seen him in years.

What seems abundantly clear *to me* is that, this go round, Donald Trump is here to serve as a mascot. His social media feeds are here for the exact purpose of captivating us with absurdity while his crew runs around Washington with scissors. Not even safety scissors. These kind:

I got my first ever “I’m concerned about you exploring this theological position” yesterday. While I appreciate the sentiment, it’s discouraging that curiosity and inquiry are frowned upon.

People of Bluesky! Let's get to know each other better. What is your favorite movie? Quote share your answer only in GIF form.

I’ve set out to read the entire Horus Heresy and archive my thoughts in a thread. Book 1: Horus Rising Horus seems like a great guy— I hope nothing bad happens to him. Abnett is considered the best Black Library author for a reason. Good book to start the saga.

Here’s something that everyone needs to know - the evangelical support that put DJT in the White House was the result of at least 40 years of hard core back door political networking & campaigning by leaders who saw the church as an army of foot soldiers to lead, not as souls to shepherd.

I walk past one of the schools that rejected my PhD application every day. I love my career path and I like the reminder that I dodged a bullet. But I’ve never fully dealt with how the biblical studies nerd in me died and is probably not coming back. Strange feeling.

Oklahoma putting Bibles back in public schools is a brilliant maneuver. The Bible clearly delineates the wickedness of GOP policy, but HS students would never read it because they are so adverse to doing assigned work.

I don't know what it means to be Christian when it looks like Christianity and moral discernment are basically opposites in my country.

A new place for me to scream into the void? Excellent.