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Willpower is not an inborn virtue. It’s a muscle that can be stretched & strengthened by dedicated exercise—or worn out through overuse. Let those with ears to hear listen

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Some ~personal news:~ My first chapbook with Pastitch Press is coming in November! “Coal of Fire” includes translations from the Hebrew Bible, as well as poems and two essays exploring translation, identity, and the sacred. I’m so excited and proud of this little book.

rapture jr. ass monday

turns out we can do Mourning from the paranoid schizoid position

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

A turning point for me in thinking about art & its purpose was hearing Chris Wiman say something like, a truly great poet writes 4-5 really good poems in their life. That’s the goal. That’s the life’s work. Anyway. Marian Burros’s plum torte recipe changed my life.

Man oh man it’s been a surprisingly affirming day in the middle of this ongoing personal and societal trash fire

it rules

The truth will set you free, but not until it is done with you.

Learn how to set boundaries for yourself, including enforcing them. You will benefit from it, and others will benefit from that in the long term, but other people will not enforce them for you

since i’m publishing this book, i’ve had the opportunity to read it a few times. every time i read it i cry. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. i can’t wait to share it with you all!!!

Some ~personal news:~ My first chapbook with Pastitch Press is coming in November! “Coal of Fire” includes translations from the Hebrew Bible, as well as poems and two essays exploring translation, identity, and the sacred. I’m so excited and proud of this little book.

Having a PCP who *actually* specializes in working with traumatized populations is such a game-changer. It leaves me deeply furious at the clinicians, chaplains, & clergy I’ve worked with who claimed to offer “trauma-informed care” without understanding what that entails & thereby caused real harm.

TRY NOT TO BE NEAR ANY BODY OF WATER WITH A KENNEDY DO NOT BABYSIT THEIR KIDS JUST SMILE, THANK TED FOR HIS HARD WORK, AND MOVE ON.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

It never wriggles.

If this surprises you in the slightest, idk maybe go sit in a dark closest and take a moment

I don’t like watching videos to learn things. I would like the Written Tutorial Internet back, please and thank you

Too close to home

The nice thing about being really interested in the intersection of liturgical Christianity and queer flourishing is that pretty much everyone you meet with the same interests already shares 3-5 mutual friends (“I work for the Jesuits” GO ON DO TELL)

Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

When the world feels dark, just remember: we are capable of creating Gandalf Big Naturals.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

shouldn't have named juice, beloved and oft-spoken-of drink of toddlers, a word that probably 80% of toddlers pronounce as "douche" should have called it something with less tricky consonants

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

"steelman" culture is just dishonesty. there is no one who holds the reasonable views which media liberals propose conservatives believe in. they are wholly a rhetorical construct of the center-left. a figment we can shadowbox to avoid confronting what conservatives actually believe.

i found a red faux-leather jacket in size 4t for 5 bucks at the thrift store, so i decorated it for my 4-year-old

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Look how dirty the courtroom sketch artist did him 😭

"Sometimes, social justice Christians—specifically in the United States—make the politics of solidarity too cheap. We think that if we verbally affirm our solidarity with 'the oppressed,' it will somehow negate the fact that the bombs being dropped on Gazans have been paid for by us."

I can't remember the details, and can't find them now, for my favorite Robert Redford anecdote, but: When Indecent Proposal was being discussed, someone asked a film critic if she would sleep with Robert Redford for $1 million, and she replied, "Yes, but where would I get the money?"

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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

This morning, masked and menacing Homeland Security agents abducted one of my East Somerville constituents. Thankfully another constituent captured this video to document the presumed kidnapping. I’m in touch with colleagues at all levels of government as we work to gather more information.

they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy

There is so much bad stuff going on, but you are still someone worth taking care of.

The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.

so I'm learning it's a Monday

Why aren't we looking for commonalities amongst those who ARE being radicalized instead of blaming the device that 90% of us use without being radicalized?

ok but see the thing you have to remember about "come and take it" is that the persians very much did come and take it

Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit

This is T4T

In the United States Constitution the president's power is limited. Some things the government cannot do at all, others the president cannot do himself as those powers are reserved to the other branches. The Trump administration is testing a theory: what if it's not?

One of my earnest regrets in life is that I didn’t take that AP Latin class in high school. I didn’t think I was smart enough, alas but now I know that I would’ve LOVED it. Always bet of yourself, kids.

I know how "I have trans friends" sounds but sometimes I wonder how different things would look if more people did.

HELL YEAH translation is the juice English literature desperately needs

Calls to tolerate social conservatism are asinine because they're not calls to tolerate social conservative views, they're calls to tolerate socially conservative violence. And that's the rub. These are people who can't leave other people alone, and demand to be coddled for it.