One thing I think may happen, if there’s a blue sweep in the midterms, is that the admin will spin their loss of power as a threat (“the left! the left!”). This has already been a motive for adopting strongman politics by many of extreme voices on the right. “Crush the left,” etc. If so, it >

Yall. Ella Fitzgerald. Mercy.

Really fascinating stuff here.

Reflecting this morning on Isa 13, God's judgment of the nations. Do we think that God will spare our nation because we have “in God we trust” on our money? Do we think that God will spare the United States because we like to say we were founded as a Christian nation?

I recently asked ChatGPT to explain something to me simply, just to see how it distilled a complex subject. Then I asked it to dumb it down. And dumb it down again. And again. It ended up with one word: "try" lol So then I did nuclear fission. Here's the result.

I’ve scoffed at the “deport 100M” because it’s stupid and racist, but if you actually do the math it’s even stupider. Stephen Miller wants to deport 3,000 people per day, clocking in around 1M per year. At this rate, it would take a CENTURY to accomplish this very dumb idea.

So, I think Sargent makes a really good case here. I also know that if Trump and Miller back off right now, there are a whole group of hardline supporters who are going to lose it over this. If Trump loses them, he’s going to have very little left. When you deal with the devil you always lose.

As a Christian, I’ve always been a little uncomfortable with the American don’t-tread-on-me- resistance to authority so pervasive in our culture. Now I’m counting on that same unruly spirit to say heck no to authoritarian goobers.

What is this, a fascist government? www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-...

Correct

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

I just used the word "steady-state exasperation" to describe how I'm feeling about *waves arms* and I think that's my new go-to

It's a problem, I admit.

I want to tell people to not look away from the authoritarian violence, but there’s a whole propaganda mill devoted to telling people to not believe their eyes. It’s maddening, really.

Sharp, to the point, and extraordinarily dark. I can't believe we're even talking about this right now, but here we are. We're playing with fire folks.

today's a good day to email your congresspeople!

I'm taking solace in this dark word from the Lord in Isaiah 13:11: "I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless."

If that's the case, then its design is perverse.

So now the feds are asking people to inform on their neighbors? Why does this all sound so familiar?

Imagine being so cooked by partisanship, all you’re left with is this level of cynicism

Important reporting here.

lol kids these days

Good morning! My final post on Christian nationalism is now live. open.substack.com/pub/bobsteve...

“Honorably” www.startribune.com/target-emplo...

Really hard to take this kind of pastoral prayer seriously when the evidence is so contrary. Nationalism really cooks your brain man centerforbaptistleadership.org/im-a-pastor-...

Watching videos of feds asking citizens “where were you born” is pushing my bp to dangerous limits.

If news broke that a killer asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, this market would rally on hopes that it would be good for AI.

I still believe peace is possible. But there are so many who resist peace. Who love hostility. May we not be those people.

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

The Afghan refugee family that I work with who was terrorized just a few months ago by ice sitting in an unmarked pickup truck in their backyard has now been ravaged by their apartment complex. The Arcadian apartments in Winston-Salem. Share this please for exposure:

This officer and his actions are not an outlier. They are a policy. A policy intended to terrorize and intimidate anyone who isn’t what MAGA considers a “real American”.

THREAD 🧵 After years of agents stepping into the path of cars and then claiming the car was a deadly weapon, CBP rewrote its rules: * don’t block vehicles with your body, * and don’t fire just to stop someone fleeing. Those changes didn’t come out of nowhere. 👇👇👇

This is a huge deal. @alexreisner.bsky.social’s latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Reminder that part of this admin’s strategy is basically creating a DDOS attack on public attention, meant to freeze us into inaction.

lol wut everything about this is ick

The same folks who criticized the left for the way they treated Charlie Kirk’s death are pretty dang glib about Ms. Good’s killing. I think we have a consistency problem here Houston

More interesting stuff here www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul...

Very interesting stuff here. www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

You’ve got to be kidding me

Quite the slip lol

chat is this good? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

If this is the golden age, then take me back to the bleh age

I've been thinking about yesterday's shooting, social media, and tribalism. When the video was released, I exercised initial caution, but from what I could tell, it was fairly cut-and-dried, and deserved the opprobrium blasting all over bsky. Then I went to X. And let me tell you. 1/16

Switching between far-right Twitter and Bsky rn, re the MN shooting, and you guys were living in different epistemological universes. It’s not great.

These goobers really are gassing themselves up for a civil war

Truth doesn’t bow before (D) or (R).