Didn’t Spielberg film a series of cautionary tales about this kind of thing?

As much as I wish Christianity wasn't so prominent in partisan politics, I do love to see progressive Christians push back on the narrative that bigoted conservative Evangelicals speak for the entire faith. I just hope Talarico remembers keep a firm floor and a strong bouncer in his "big tent."

"And you, sir, are no Roosevelt."

Rapture "doctrine" is an antisemitic heresy used by Christian Zionists to justify war crimes and genocide. Hegseth, Rubio, Johnson, et al. are religious extremists, not military or foreign policy strategists. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

“Wars do not usually result from just causes, but from pretexts. There probably never was a just cause why men should slaughter each other by wholesale, but there are such things as ambition, selfishness, folly, madness,…”

they (Loomer, Walsh and their ilk) do openly talk about trans people this way too, all the time, but yeah you *shouldnt* be able to speak this way about a minority and you shouldn’t be able to enact policy to this effect either

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Wanted: healthcare, housing, food, education, childcare, livable wages, renewable energy, environmental protections. Received: pollution, famine, war, pestilence, subjugation, neglect, and death in the name of bigotry and the protection of white male power.

A local evangelical church has named their latest sermon series "The Supremacy of Christ." There are dog whistles, and then there are air horns.

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

Dear Straight Women: Pedro Pascal is still just as sexy now as he was before you found out he’s queer. If you’re disappointed he’s dating a man, that’s homophobia, not heartbreak. Your chances with him were realistically always zero.

You know what? No. I don't just want my money back. I want my rights back. I want my country back. I want the promise of a stable, equitable, and prosperous future back, to know that my students and my students' students will not be punished for standing up, speaking out, and daring to strive…

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

What I learned at the aquarium this weekend: Piranha scales sparkle in direct light. What I very nearly said out loud in front of fiftyleven people at the aquarium upon learning this fact: “This is the skin of a killer, Bella.”

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

You gotta keep ‘em (mostly) separated.

Inject this directly into my veins, sincerely, as soon as practically possible.

The bar really is in a hell-trench when King Charles has the moral high ground in a news cycle.

There’s a local MAGA guy with a criminal record and a known history of armed provocation who is following & filming students on the surrounding streets. He had also trespassed on school property with anti-immigrant signs & flags. How has the school administration responded, you might ask? ⬇️

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

I was trying to explain to Eldest Child that my cold meds are making me loopy. What I said out loud was “My brain is not firing on all syllables.” “Wow. You don’t say.”🤦🏻‍♀️

Transcript of a Peak Wisconsin Religious Experience™️ Random Dude: “Hey, where’s your ash?” Me, mishearing him: “Pretty sure it’s still back there.” ⤵️

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

My teenager, who is too young to remember landline telephones, still laughs when I pick a banana, hold it up to my ear, say “Hello?”, and then tell her “It’s for you” while handing it to her like a phone receiver. A.I. will never replicate that.

I’m tempted to order a supply of theatrical blood capsules to bite down on when random men tell me to smile. Hissing at them like a feral cat works fine for shock value, but lacks a certain visual impact.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

My February wedding anniversary is intentionally NOT on Valentine’s Day, and this fine specimen of bronze and alumin(i)um is not a statue of Cupid. What does one have to do with the other? I'm so glad you asked. Meet Anteros, the forgotten (and canonically queer) god of reciprocated love.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

how we got here

Why am I awake, you didn’t ask? Because *somebody* had a Stage 5 Clinger in her pantaloons and decided to scream about it while booty scootin’ across the bathmat at Lord Jesus, Make It Stop o’Clock. Yes, Pippin. The wet washcloth was, in fact, quite necessary. #CatsOfBluesky

I can’t decide whether nobody should tell him, or how much money I’d pay to be a fly on the wall when they do.

He might have been aiming for a Keith Richards vibe with this, but he landed on “rabid sewer rat.”

"You're being alarmist" says someone who hasn't read anything besides the headline and maybe a pull quote since 2014 and whose vote counts as much as mine.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

What kind of Faustian bargain did @governorwalz.mn.gov make with Tom Homan to (allegedly) get ICE to promise to leave Minnesota? And where are all those ICE agents headed now instead?

Your writing is great and your thoughts are valuable and whatever you’re reporting is insightful and will illuminate my thoughts, but I won’t read it because you posted it on the transphobic Nazi blog network

Next she gonna tell us about how much she likes beer while making face like an angry trout.

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

There is absolutely no joy in saying “we told you so,” but we did, and we were right. Erasing and persecuting trans folks was the beginning step, not the end game. No amount of palatability or respectability politics ever appeases fascism for long.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Republicans getting destroyed by a bunny at halftime

The same people who listen to Italian and German opera and who are willing to condemn the Pope himself in their pursuit of Latin-only Catholic Mass have their knickers in a twist about a pop music artist who performs in Spanish.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

i’m not sure if i believe there’s such a thing as justice, but i do believe that you will be remembered for how you made people feel.

In the Guardian’s style book, “revealed” is evidently a synonym for “established fact that has been known for several years and previously covered by multiple journalists, writers, and media outlets.”

I’m glad bi athletes have Olympic representation in shooting and skiing, but I don’t think they should restrict sports by sexual orientation.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

The Office Assistant, putting the casual in her Friday. #CatsOfBluesky #BlackCatBluesky