the folks who somehow make it into a very small slice of the media/political elite sure do just live in a different reality

We didn't know it at the time, but this was his answer to a question on the job application for VP of the United States.

This is inexcusable. Allegations of abuse inside ICE Broadview facility but ICE destroyed the video evidence. Time to let everyone go -- and then lock up those who destroyed the evidence.

More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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They thought they were going to get pretext to throw a bunch of liberals in prison bsky.app/profile/maya...

yeah we couldn’t crack real-world immortality, but would you like to generate an NPC facsimile of your self? techcrunch.com/2025/11/1…

“I assure you I will — steal your lunch money again! Har-de-har-har!”

the entire universe is fed up with Senate Democrats (just thought I'd do the most American thing I could and make this all about 'Merica!) gizmodo.com/our-universe...

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

If the logic for these Senate Dems is that they’ll “get credit” for ending the shutdown, they aren’t even acknowledged in a *headline*

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

If I could tell my 20 year old self that I’d be at home reading Tillich’s Courage to Be at 7:30 on a Friday night, well, he’d probably be ok with it. That kid was a fucking nerd

Big Loser Energy: fake traffic from a guy who’s supposed to get a real trillion dollars for making fake promises about his fake robot strategy www.theverge.com/news/8164…

this is the guy so many people want to rule as a king.

well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

is the answer "i was really inspired by The Dark Knight Strikes Again, especially the actions of the villain that Hal Jordan completely undid, which was a real insult to all the capitalists who funded the space missiles"? techcrunch.com/podcast/from...

published 1 year ago, on election day. this is still quite relevant imo: religionnews.com/2024/11/05/e...

exhibit 12423590243 that being a billionaire breaks your brain and soul in a way that makes you think something like this would be remotely okay to do to your employees www.theverge.com/news/814168/...

How Christian Nationalist school board members in Texas campaigned vs. how they did

📚 Good news alert:

Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Just hallucinatory hatred at this point.

sad to see the changes at Teen Vogue. They published an excerpt of my book last fall, and their political coverage was far and away bolder than many other outlets. #exvangelical www.teenvogue.com/story/exvang...

“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”

sometimes my mind reels at how stupid our governance is and then i remember that one of the most influential people in both politics and business is peter thiel, who thinks 'AI regulation' is the antichrist, and things start to make more sense

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

“There’s too many Americans on SNAP!” Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage. Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive. The government encourages this & then blames the poor.

I do feel like there's a bit of deja vu going on here (for me, at least). I mean, my entire book is about how white evangelicals mobilized for Trump *despite* his overt embrace of Nazis, white supremacists, etc., covering it over because he was anointed and would deliver their Christian nation. 1/x

At least 2 people — both citizens — were detained by immigration agents in Albany Park Friday. blockclubchi.co/4hDz8Cu

oof. i will not be elaborating

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

"The Right Is Attacking a Franchise It Once Loved. The Reason Why Is Laughable. - Slate"

'self-made billionaire' is one of the dumbest phrases ever created by humanity

To my friends who live in other blue cities: This ICE madness is likely coming your way. Everything you'll read about in this story was a reaction. Get proactive. Learn from this, organize your neighborhood, and be ready for day 1.

The podcast in which I talk about how if you didn't go to church in the 1600s colonies, you would get fined 50 pounds of tobacco. (from reading Everyday Life in Early America by David Hawke). @brchastain.social @rsokamoto.bsky.social @micksilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/70UE...

i’ve been going through one of the longest creative droughts i can remember over the last several months, but i feel that things may be picking up again soon. i wrote my first post in a while yesterday. read it here: www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/no-king…

We're having an Exvangelical Meetup this Friday in Portland, OR, with @brchastain.social, host of the Exvangelical podcast and author of Exvangelical + Beyond. Come hang, meet new people, get your book signed 📚

how is this even a question. www.theverge.com/policy/80…

look here, new grist for the content mill. I was going through it while writing the show notes last night. but @rsokamoto.bsky.social & I had a great time with our guests as usual. open.spotify.com/episode/4dC3...

Pretty intolerable that the House Speaker tries to claim ignorance instead of actually trying to defend what POTUS does on any given day. Bro you can’t pretend to not be aware. We’re all aware.

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Hey NBC and/or ABC, I’ll sell you my Substack for the low low price of $100 million. While it’s just me, I promise there’s more factchecking than anything at The Free Press (if you care about that sort of thing).

Something fundamental has broken in the brains of elites. No matter how many op-eds they read, write and publish denouncing identity politics, they still think it's a heterodox viewpoint you can't find anywhere.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."