By age 30, you should have at least (2) original characters, (3) pieces of media you love apologetically despite obvious flaws, and (1) kink that takes at least thirty seconds to explain

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

I just want to know if the Pop-Reformed crowd is going to hold the 2025 Charlie Kirk Memorial "revival" to the same standards they wanted to hold the 2023 Asbury revival to.

MULLED GOURDBREW

i made a helpful reference

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

The bees have discovered Brutalism

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

Mornin’!

I don’t know what it’s like to eat breakfast inside a lampshade, but maybe it’s kind of cool. A peaceful Sunday to all of you. 🌱🐝

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:

Said it before but it's amazing how the Christian right ditched Jesus for a discount antichrist at the first opportunity.

veggie tales guy is a moderate who cares about racism and poverty which, in his religious circles, makes him a radical on the level of the V for Vendetta guy.

Social media name-calling and barbs don't usually get to me, but tonight they have. I'm logging off for a bit. It probably won't be for long, but I'm gonna try to take my own advice (see pinned tweet). I love you guys. Until the next time I see you, don't stay out of trouble. 😈

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

"Half the people boycotting Cracker Barrel weren't actually people. They were bots." See also many other weird "culture war" pile-ons. We, the media, the gov... are all being wholesale manipulated by bots. We are responding to and promoting the views of...bots. gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

Is this “American Exceptionalism?”

I'm really surprised KPop Demon Hunters was a movie and not a series. There's so much story potential there, and it feels like one film wasn't enough to flesh out all the plotlines.

The module "Die Vecna Die" came out in the year 2000, for D&D's 2nd edition. How has nobody made any decent digital battlemaps for it?

I’m marching. Screw Trump and his army.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

I wish that Bluesky could come up with a simple tag I could add to certain posts that means “Hi! I am critiquing certain Christian traditions, but I’m still a Christian myself, so please don’t flood the comment section with statements about how all religion is bullshit. Thanks, much appreciated.”

I was once at an evangelical Bible trivia. One question was “how long was Jesus‘s earthly ministry?“ and the “right answer” was 3 1/2 years, but that’s tradition. The Bible doesn’t say. It’s got me thinking about how much evangelicals read/hear *about* Scripture, and how little we actually know it.

Seth Gruber of Turning Point claims “Jesus has never been lifted higher in America” than he was at the Kirk Memorial (MAGA campaign rally). When Jesus was “lifted up” on earth, it was on the cross, where we denied who he was, ignored his teaching, and tried to silence him for good. So, yeah. /1

Monty Python responses to the troops patrolling our streets are the best responses to the troops patrolling our streets

I expect we'll get this announcement next week from failson, RFK jr.

I just want to know where Daniel was when his friends were getting chucked in a furnace. He's like their ringleader in the previous chapter, and he's there in the subsequent chapters, but he just goes on a long vacation while the king he works for is building a statue.

You, you, you otter know… 🎶

Welp.

I feel like we are living in the "ten years before the setting of a Cormac McCarthy novel."

"Charlie Kirk was martyred. You say, 'Well I thought he was a political activist?' When your worldview is informed by the Word of God, those who would oppose you... do not oppose your view, they oppose your God." --Pastor Scott Grimm, preaching at Lamb's Chapel, Alamance County

The thing about elon going to epstein island in 2014 is that Epstein very publicly became a registered convicted sex offender in 2008, 6 years earlier. Note: Epstein set up Elon's brother Kimbal with a girlfriend in 2011, 3 years after Epstein became a registered convicted sex offender.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say.

All those white evangelical leaders, those pastors of death-dealing white supremacist Christendom, from Falwell to Jeffress to MacArthur, have led their flocks to the wolf's den and told them the Shepherd was a friend of the wolf. God, save your followers from the false shepherds they've followed.

Socially conservative Christianity used to sound like: churches should care for the poor, not the government. Socially conservative Christianity today sounds like: screw the poor, they did it to themselves.

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

Musk, Bannon and Thiel were all named in new files turned over to congressional investigators from the Epstein estate.

A local church has this on their website. I’m assuming it’s for a men’s ministry. You know what I don’t see? Any dang mention of Jesus.

reads Wild at Heart once

After this high school in Kentucky banned cellphones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books. Kentucky joins a growing number of states, schools and districts that have been implementing new phone bans.

Wikipedia article of the day

she's been doing so much of this it's almost become part of the everyday background noise here on bluesky but it's basically impossible to overstate how important and courageous this work is.

Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.

I get very frustrated when Christians complain that they don’t feel at home in our culture. You’re not supposed to feel at home, in any culture. If you’re doing it right and taking it seriously, you’re 100% supposed to feel like a fish out of water.

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you. Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

I honestly can't tell if anyone honestly believed the Rapture was going to happen this week, or if it was all parody, commentary, and snark, snark at the parodies, commentary about the parodies, parodies of the commentary, etc. None of my algorithms brought me any genuine Rapture-goers, at least.