I’m not sure people realize how huge this problem is. During Trump 1.0, ~5,000 kids were separated from parents at the border. During Trump 2.0, the Brookings Institution estimates *145,000* US citizen kids have been separated, mostly in the country's interior www.brookings.edu/articles/how... 5/x

God damn America

Hmmmmmmm

This narration of American Christianity and its history (with media tech, preaching centric analysis, all prisimed via theology/ideology) was what I was given at Wheaton. It’s a common but confounding approach to the topic! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Feel like Andersonville has two sacred holidays, Pride and Halloween

Metaphor collapse b/c Mcconnell is both the dam and the engineers that diverted the river, enabling it to accumulate in this way at this point

Some big media outlets are blocking the Internet Archive from making backups of their sites. That's a serious problem. You can learn more—and sign a petition—here:

Going to a mainline regional conference will disabuse you of the notion their main issue as an institution is theology

This narration of American Christianity and its history (with media tech, preaching centric analysis, all prisimed via theology/ideology) was what I was given at Wheaton. It’s a common but confounding approach to the topic! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The entire Trump era is a Berlin Wall which much come down

Serious question on this. Which is the last mayor to seriously take on (willingly or unwillingly) police power in their city?

What an odd framing www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...

Sheep detective was a lie

Yup sojo.net/articles/opi...

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Yup sojo.net/articles/opi...

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

I don’t have bad fashion I’m just tick conscious

“If the US has a chance to recover?” What does that mean?

ICYMI: I strongly recommend reading Josiah's article. It's deeply compelling, heartfelt, and thought-provoking.

History is full of failed, defeated, or collapsed fascisms. This one is maybe acting like it has consolidated more power and support than it actually has, but overextensions only mean something if they lose some power as a result of them.

Train supremacy

Read the history of tear gas a few years ago by Anna Feigenbaum wonder if the history of bulldozers might also be revelatory for different reasons

the vision for positive masculinity is feminism.

This is such an important point: we rightly bemoan the ‘corporatization’ of higher ed but the irony is that many of the corporate managerial practices being imposed on us were discredited and abandoned by for-profit corporations long ago.

Mamdani erasing back rent owed for over 5000 tenants - saving them millions of dollars Showing how to use city power to force corporate landlords to fix unsafe apartments and end exploitative conditions gothamist.com/news/landlor...

What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

This is 100% pure Andersonville

“How would you respond to the rise of fascism? Each of us has our answer, and it is how we are responding now.”

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

This is 100% pure Andersonville

"The most visible manifestations of the problem might be epistemic, in other words, but its roots lie in social identity. And the most promising solutions will therefore tackle those roots."

Bomanville is hopping

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This seems true of the Bulwark writ large as well. An example of how you aren't actually about defeating fascism at home unless you are also about undoing the American empire abroad

Not just confined to Kristol though and I don't particularly care about him as an individual, the problem is structural and it's that nobody in the Western caches of elites actually care about the Mideast as a place full of people (outside of Israel) and so being repeatedly wrong means nothing.

The police are defunding us

The current situation at Foster Beach.

"There is no way to go to heaven except by the earth." - Pedro Casaldáliga

The current Soldier Field opened in 2003 and in 2025 taxpayers still owed $534 million in bond debt, $52 million paid by the city since 2022. The McCaskey's greed is the only issue, demanding yet more public loss to subsidize their profit. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

I am pleasantly surprised that neither Illinois nor Chicago gave the McCaskeys any money. This is a victory.

good riddance and please change your name

Feeling stupidly smug because I hated Donald Miller and Blue like Jazz for the Right reasons since the beginning

Tell them “hell no”

The fact that it is Kazin writing this theatln.tc/B5IGApQS

In the marketplace of ideas, conservative dunces are to not allowed to fail

Stranger Things guy with a Chicago ballad open.spotify.com/track/3qhlB3...