I think Sabrina Carpenter, like Gwen Stefani, is Japanese.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

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...

What an amazing group! Not everyone is on BlueSky but I’ll do my best to tag ✨ @justingentry.bsky.social @toriglass.bsky.social @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social @bv-pdx.bsky.social @rsokamoto.bsky.social @roscoejones.bsky.social @cortland.me @thesnarkygent.bsky.social

We should all be keeping tabs on people who aren't bothered by White supremacy, queerphobia, and patriarchy.

So Kirk was shot by another farther right Christian conservative who felt Kirk wasn't conservative enough? That's wild. The progressive world now awaits apologies for being blamed for this. I got time.

Wondering if tens of thousands of White dudes will be rounded up because they fit the description.

“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die” But he thought I did. This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it. I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.

I just heard Dr Obery Hendricks on Profane Faith refer to Stephen Miller as Pee Wee German. I can't stop laughing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Here’s the latest from @rsokamoto.bsky.social & me, talking about books and having a fun time with folks: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

The chicken feet are growing on me. Justin might be onto something.

...and through it all, no one brought up how hilariously satirical a name like Cracker Barrel is. It's right there. With an old man or without. Cracker. Barrel. Like a Barrel. Full of a specific kind of people. Eating unhealthy food. Just me? I ate at one in AZ and couldn't stop giggling.

A lot of people who don't think billionaires should exist sure do love one.

May all your deconstruction result in friends and community who have no idea who James Dobson is/was.

Bonus episode. Priska and Scott talk about the news of the day. Scott remembers growing up in Dobson's neighborhood. Things were not ok in the 70's.

I don't think I've ever seen a day when the entire deconstruction world agreed so wholeheartedly on something.

I feel like I'm doing something right because I haven't seen a single tribute to Dobson on any of my timelines.

...And there was much rejoicing.

A little break this week, so I can explain why I'll never ever be a Christian again. Won't go to a progressive church. It's just not for me. Never was. Like country music #chapelprobation

Thoughts on an emotional day for AAPI baseball fans open.substack.com/pub/rscottok...

I kind of convinced Geri to do a podcast. Her first. Probably last.

Everyone arguing about who is a "true" christian makes me feel like I made the right decision to leave it completely. All Christians have to define it for themselves, picking which parts of the Bible and which teachings of Jesus to follow. No one follows them all, not even the 10 or 12 Commandments.

One of my favorite things to do is bring people from different circles of my life together. Timo Chen, @gohnakamura.bsky.social , and @brchastain.social have influenced me and enhanced my life greatly, and all of us got together to talk about books and music. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

New episode! Now with video. @rsokamoto.bsky.social & I spoke to @emilymcclanathan.bsky.social & Betsy Tomszak! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG-J...

Imagine a government saying, "We're not at war with x country. We're at war with their tanks and guns." And imagine what you might think about such a government.

Trump is Trump. But the GOP, the entire administration, and Christians: This is the village it takes to raise up an idiot.

Trump has obviously never had a physical altercation. You don't punch someone 3 times and then tell them they can make peace now.

I know it takes some courage to clap back at the church for its racism, queerphobia, and patriarchy. I also think the bar is so low inside churches that we are applauding the equivalent of someone using chopsticks correctly. It's something, yes. Maybe not as impressive to those of us on the outside.

This could be disappointing or it could be huge. Hoping for huge www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

We already live in a country where most people don't even know about the Japanese Incarceration camps, and now MAGA is trying to erase the few resources to educate people.

I'm done with the Dodgers this year. Lifelong fan. Proud of them for going against traditional norms with Jackie, Fernando, and Nomo. Love for one's team runs deep, and I'm not telling anyone else what to do. But I'm out until they say something substantive about ICE.

Pres Taco says "horrific violence will not be tolerated." We really need to define "horrific." Obviously a lot of violence is not just tolerated but ordered by him.

Like with habeas corpus, Noem doesn't know what the first amendment is. If you ask her what the first amendment is, she'll likely tell you it allows the president to investigate anyone he wants for protesting.

So many emotions. We fully support the protests to get ICE out of LA, especially in our beloved Little Tokyo. Protestors need to know that this is sacred space. The US rounded up our families right there to send them to camps with no due process. So, for our ancestors, we want to keep it clean.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

it's tuesday and that means a new episode with @rsokamoto.bsky.social on Let's Talk About Text, featuring @thepursuinglife.bsky.social & @cortland.me: open.spotify.com/episode/7Mlf...

The sad irony of government-caused violence and destruction of property in Little Tokyo right next to the corner where Japanese Americans were loaded onto busses and sent to incarceration camps. #littletokyo #losangeles

ICE appears to be staying at the Doubletree hotel in Carson. Multiple ICE vehicles parked.

As entertaining as it might be to watch two billionaire manchildren engage in a verbal slap fight, I can't help but worry that people will suffer and die. Here's video of Musk setting Trump off on a path of destruction for context. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uuI...

The fact that I know nothing about Sean feucht's whatever today tells me I'm doing social media pretty darn well. I just read someone's post about something going on with that asshole. No idea. Don't care. Going about my day. I'll hear about it on Straight White American Jesus eventually.

When Christian worship music is treated the same way as porn, you might be in a weird-ass cult. We're back at Bob Jones U (BJU) this week with @rickpidcock.bsky.social

Sometimes lying is the best way forward for people who leave church and faith.

Making note of how people respond to a plantation burning down is a fun and easy way to tell who you should associate with.

An easy way to observe #AAPIHeritage month is to listen to two Asian guys talk shit about religion and deconstruction. Thanks to @rohadi.bsky.social for a great conversation.

This week! @rohadi.bsky.social does time on Chapel Probation. A rare podcast episode with 2 Asians talking about faith deconstruction and finding identity. Listen in observance of #aapiheritage even though Rohadi is Canadian. We'll count it.

The pope could be a conservative who kicks puppies for fun, and I wouldn't think of him any differently. I do not care that he is "woke," which he isn't. He's just the head of a historically harmful religion. Indigenous people around the world don't care about his opinion of Trump.

It's wild how many people don't have rampant abuse of children and systemic enabling and coverups of said abuses as a dealbreaker.