Pennsylvania Dems just won two special elections for the state House — keeping their majority intact — by massive margins. Democrat Ana Tiburcio won more than 67% of the vote to represent HD 22 in Lehigh Co. Democrat Jennifer Mazzocco won nearly 82% of the vote to represent HD 42 in Allegheny Co.

"It’s good to have a healthy body, but it’s not a moral requirement to be healthy" is such an important sentence

I’m just a dumb Protestant, and a liberal one at that! But dumb and liberal as I may be, “bringing the high low” is a pretty good encapsulation of ‘the Word made Flesh.’ Sounds great! Kinda sounds like the Gospel

All of them are batshit. Each and every one of them.

I regret to say this is relatable

every faction in politics will invent their own bespoke conspiracy theory to avoid confronting the inescapable truth that we just need to make it easier to build denser housing

"Becoming President to cover up raping children, but running on releasing the very files that expose you" has got to be one of the biggest self-own in history, right?

Only one of these has the potential to avert millions of preventable deaths, and it's the most negatively viewed.

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

I hope so, and I hope it ushers in a world where the state of the union is simply an email/letter/text/blog/fax from the executive to the speaker

I’m sympathetic to the idea too. From 1788-1965, conservatism was the dominant political ideology in America. In both major parties. And if we are talking about someone’s general disposition, than that mood-affiliation may have downstream political effects.

I spent way too much time putting together an oral history of “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from EUROTRIP that had been erased from the internet, but now it’s back, with some added commentary

These guys are losers

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

was listening to SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR this morning and it is totally wild how much that record is a no skips, banger after banger, stone cold classic. you’re telling me at least four of the best pop hits of the 80s are on one album?!?

NEW: Three Minnesota faith groups/leaders — local ELCA and UCC bodies, and a Jesuit priest — are suing DHS over its refusal to grant them access to immigrant detainees at a federal building. It's one of 2 related suits filed against the government in recent months. religionnews.com/2026/02/23/f...

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

One of the things I love about Gen Z is how they take all the little millennial snark sayings seriously. We said “hang it in the louvre” for two decades and they said “bet”

Looks like I picked the wrong day not to post about The Pitt

Re-readi ng Schleiermacher on the usage of “heterodox” and “orthodox” within Protestant churches, and why he doesn’t bother with deploying them as terms of art in his glaubenshlere:

it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity

"This is the keystone that holds together a political base defined by resentment over not being ‘allowed’ to say the n-word, that treats spewing rape threats on Xbox Live as an essential civil right, that demands speech for me but not for thee, that declares empathy itself a sin."

This is good, but I’m not sure I buy equating hope with “people just going about their lives while living under authoritarianism” (best recent portrayal in last year’s film “The Secret Agent”)

Unlike X and Twitter before it, this site isn’t designed to snowball posts towards virality. Thus it’s more welcome for slow thinkers like the kind @beijingpalmer.bsky.social names and less useful as a one-stop shop for Today’s Zeitgeist—which has become an indispensable crutch for journalists.

See, I thought this one was really good.

This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

X? The commons?

TIL that in 1980 Habermas predicted the alt-right as a product of fashionable cynicism toward modernism: “I fear that the ideas of anti-modernity, together with an additional touch of premodernity, are becoming popular in the circles of alternative culture. When one observes the transformations…

These people are sociopaths* *an on-going series

Once again Graham Platner gets the attention he wants because he matches the cartoon character in the journalist’s head of a rugged authentic all-American working-class man. Though they both come from the affluent background, the journalist cannot help but play along with Platner’s makebelieve.

Atheist-leftists and reactionaries, Protestant and Catholic alike, agree: no-one who studied at a liberal Protestant seminary should step foot in the United States Senate!

Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

Still sort of astonishing how the men of a political faction so obsessed with masculinity will dutifully debase themselves and betray their principles to adopt the biases and obsessions of an 79-year-old demented clown -- in this case by performatively smearing the U.S.'s closest ally.

Great game, Canada! It was an honor/honour to play against such fantastic neighbors/ neighbours.

I would like to replace our Secretary of Defense please 🇺🇸

[nods in Montesquieu and Shklar]

SCOTUS handed Trump a political win on tariffs. He could have ended an unpopular policy that is driving up inflation for the average American. Instead, he decided to double down, attacking the Court and announcing new import taxes. His new strategy: FAFO www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-deci...

These people are sociopaths

It was such a privilege to write this. The act of building solidarities across borders is never easy, and not always successful, but has always been deeply necessary.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The prisons are starting to get the same push back as the data center’s are

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

The students at Valparaiso University rejected TPUSA’s application for a chapter. Republicans threw a fit and it appears the Uni’s administration is caving. The student who filed the application said he “wanted to create a protected space to talk about conservative values and other issues”.