Leavitt’s claim that “shots will be fired” before they actually were is the perfect double meaning—is the (expected?) assassination attempt very serious or merely a joke? Is it a real danger or a hoax? Is government serious business or a joke? We no longer know and must live in both spaces.

Belief is a choice to make the world in your own image. Trump isn’t just a bullshitter; he and his posse are attempting to remake reality on their own terms. Christianity’s American legacy makes the altar call easy to translate into politics. Believe, and it is so. Pronounce it good.

The president is crying lone wolf.

I wonder if there are people in the administration who prefer that Trump go out in a blaze of indignation. I wonder if some of them hoped the assassin would get through. I sure hope not. But when everything is spin it’s impossible to know.

In the multiverse, do we have zillions of souls or one soul each that is shattered? (Problem solved if we have zero souls or one cosmic shattered soul).

I made a meme.

Only a shiny golden ballroom can defeat a bad guy with a gun.

A ballroom for every school! That should take care of the gun problem in America.

I don’t buy any of this at all.

Tell me again that shit wasn’t staged.

Update: Gunfire and explosions rocked Mali's capital and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups exploited worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

In America, when guns are aimed at the people who insist guns be as common as candy, we get to see them grin unharmed and spin a tale of being ‘victims.’ Guns are props (as I argue in my book) for white supremacy. Sometimes, they are only props in white elitist cosplay.

If Trump were an abusive partner, I’d leave him and get an order of protection. This is what fascism feels like—an abusive husband that you cannot divorce so he just keeps pummeling you and everyone unaffected by the damage just nods along.

Shooting in Bloomington.

So the Justice Department, in an attempt to be as darkly dystopic as possible, is advocating for firing squads.

The defense: a right to bear arms.

One of the biggest problems with evangelical fundamentalists is the way they lie, i.e. claiming that they care about LGBTQ people so they want to fix them—when they do all that hateful damage to other people just to protect their own belief in an angry, vengeful God & His ‘heaven.’

The proliferation of AI images for political joke memes seems so nihilistic to me, especially those coming from supposed progressives. Yes, it’s amusing. Yes, it can feel like puppetry of asshats. But it is also polluting our lakes and hastening climate collapse.

They’re remaking Little House on the Prairie? Please no.

The last three weeks or so of a semester are almost unbearably depressing for me most semesters, as I imagine I’ve done a horrible job for my students in every way. This is never true, at least from their reports, but I feel it all the same. I imagine all the additional things I could have done.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Let’s remember today that political protest can involve saying no, uttering complaints out loud, and being slow or even late with tasks. Be a wonky cog in out-of-control capitalism.

I’ve begun just telling my students directly that when things are later getting back to them than they would like, it’s because faculty workload has increased substantially without our consent or compensation, so yeah—things will take longer now. (Take it up with the admin for overloading us).

I’m at a sweet undergraduate student conference and I learned today that middle aged people are “elders.”

I love that students are creating this alternative.

I hate living in one man’s massive tantrum gifted him by other men who think they deserve the same: the right to steal & kill & lie. Why? Because men used to have this unopposed. For you to be visible, to speak & love & sing as any other is to refuse him, them. So please my friend, be here, be big.

In 2016 I had a (non-white) student going into officer training. She said she feared serving under Trump and what should she do? I said she may be forced to choose between her moral convictions and her job. I wonder every day how she’s doing.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Never mind genocide. White Jesus wants to cuddle with you.

Every time I drive by my gas station the price has just gone up ten cents a gallon.

Our president is trying to murder an entire country. Rep. Carlos Giménez called all of Iran a “cancer.” We’ve seen this kind of viciousness before. If history is an indication, he won’t stop himself. Others must stop him.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

Humility. This is something the current US government does not know. Pride and arrogance always fail in the end because humans must live in community to survive.

In case you need to yell at someone (bc they deserve it or bc our country is a piece of shit right now) you can use voice to text and yell as loud as you want. Your spouse or friend or parent will never know.

I want to be a writer but I can’t be the kind of writer who posts blogs every single day. My family needs me more. Can you still be a writer and not also be a content generator?

I don’t know how to live in a world where such men are allowed to do as they please and the people who swore to protect the vulnerable don’t give a damn.

Today we celebrate Prometheus.

Easter morning: “Are you sure you wrote down the right address?”

Iranians don’t deserve to be bombed. Palestinians don’t deserve to be bombed. Israelis don’t deserve to be bombed. Children don’t deserve to be bombed. Tired of being asked to ‘choose sides’ and say who really deserves to be bombed. Nobody.

“Say, Mary. What are the chances you wrote down the wrong address?”

“Say, Mary. What are the chances you wrote down the wrong address?”

I bought a 2019 CRV today and after driving only older cars I’m just now seeing how cars have been shaped by new technology. My car is a computer! Wishing for a basic, analog, reliable car I could fix on my own like the purple VW bug I owned thirty years ago. Someone should make them.

“Colorado Overrun With Flamboyant Children After Camp Director Notices Conversion Therapy Device Set To Reverse” —Not to minimize the danger and trauma of conversion therapy, but to expose the hateful sycophants who refuse to see the glory of queerness

Sometimes I remind myself that we are living through a slow burn global emergency with multiple layers and that anyone not struggling with the day-to-day is just refusing to see it.

Validation that I’ve broken a cycle: I can’t watch Hell’s Kitchen because the yelling is trauma-triggering, but my ten-year-old thinks it’s hilarious just *because* of the drama (which I guess it mainly is bc they are acting).

AI slop in right wing evangelical spaces can be outright horrifying. Look what happens when they externalize their fantasies.

If they made this guy Trump, everyone would play and everyone would lose on purpose.

So many (white) men of a certain age continue to bellow out their emotional state expecting everyone around them to modulate, to coddle or pacify or be afraid of them. I grew up with this and men still do it and it’s so damned exhausting.

It seems so obvious, but Trump is a man of bad faith. To idolize him gives certain Christians permission to practice bad faith, to be cruel and violent like him. Surely there is no other antichrist than a man who hates while claiming to follow a god of love.