It isn’t news or a daring experiment to find out if people can listen to each other for an hour. The question is whether powerful people will call a lie a lie even if a powerful person says it.

This song has been rolling in my head for days since I heard it. Burn and balm all in one. “When Noah set to build his ark he cried a bunch and steeled his heart for a world that was falling apart and the shame of living through it” Thanks @nathanevansfox.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/adO6_...

Watching the power flick on and off in my office as trees down power lines during a huge windstorm and thinking about how many dimensions of chess you have to be playing on to think we need less weather and atmospheric research

I think it’s good and nice to be delighted in things

Wake Up Dead Man was so good. Really fun great acting and a thorough take down of Christian nationalism while being curious and generous toward faith. Also Jeremy Renner bouncing down the stairs is going to be the thing that makes me snort in a quiet room from now till forever.

The Left Hand of Darkness has entered the chat

@themountaingoats.bsky.social yall gave an incredible show in Missoula and on a Monday night no less thank you for the gift 🤟🏻

Increasing temperatures are already killing huge numbers of people. A ProPublica and @us.theguardian.com analysis found that Trump’s “America First” agenda is expected to add substantially to the toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the U.S. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Faith in Jesus means an unrelenting pursuit of the truth regardless of how it serves the purposes of power. People claiming Christ while equivocating about abusing children are failing. They should come correct or admit they worship power and not God.

Simultaneously furious and delighted that autocorrect absolutely insists that one of my favorite authors is Ursula K. Penguin

The Trump admin forcing SNAP recipients to reapply now on top of the recertifications they already have to make along with all of the other things that chew away poor people’s time is so infuriatingly petty and cruel while wearing the face of polite formality I’m going to scream in an airport.

Every time I manage to say goodbye and leave the Zoom before the host ends the meeting I grow more powerful, my time reclaimed, my mystique more mystifying. When the host ends it first I am dismissed—thrown into the cold and out of the grace of Zoom and discarded by colleague and friend alike.

Keep thinking I don’t write enough to be a writer while regularly writing more weekly than half the op ed writers at prestige newspapers

If your coworkers are using AI they should be treated like scabs at a strike

I have been getting unreal amounts of Greek posts in my feed and it’s really driving home the shame of not being very good at Greek in seminary

New argument for making puberty blockers accessible to everyone just dropped

If you’re a praying type I could use them as I preach against war this morning

No matter what you believe politically or theologically about the LGBTQ+ community, the elimination of this lifeline should infuriate all of us. It is discrimination. It is fearmongering. It is homophobia. It is hate. It is polarized partisanship. It is death-dealing action.

If Chuck Schumer could imagine a more influential, more powerful, perhaps a braver American to oppose ‘the rise of authoritarianism’ I wonder what that hypothetical person would be like and what they would do with the power of the minority leader.

I find it interesting that the conservative narrative around paid protestors (ex. Standing Rock) is always framed as if paid protestors are meant to legitimize a movement when the most cost efficient and historical reading is that paid protestors are deployed to undermine and delegitimize protests.

First one of the friend group to the theater and with every passing moment becoming more worried that my taste in seats is bad; harmful, even

Pontius Pilate was just doing his job

Really emotionally unsatisfying that my main contribution to fighting fascism on a daily basis is sending/answering emails in a timely manner, which I’m also not very good at.

If you live in a red state like me this is absolutely critical. I just got off a call with faith leaders in South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Botswana and they brought up the same points as @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Call your reps. Meet with them if you can. youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...

1st ep of Gamechanger this season was unmatched