Would be nice if more leftists were actually materialists.

Appreciated this book. Curious what books people have felt are helpful in understanding how social movements/movements for justice WIN. Accounts of conditions and/strategies are both what I’m looking for.

Would be nice if more leftists were actually materialists.

Re-upping this question. Feel like this has been a subterranean thread within my own reading over the past few years.

Appreciated this book. Curious what books people have felt are helpful in understanding how social movements/movements for justice WIN. Accounts of conditions and/strategies are both what I’m looking for.

This ballroom, which I've been in too many times, has a distinct Overlook Hotel vibe to it

A master piece of grifting, evil, spot on camera work, appropriate interviewer silence.

Hell yeah ilwaukee

Hell yeah ilwaukee

Exactly one year ago today:

With things like Orban, its nice to see the worst people failing to come up with reasons why he lost

very random question but @sharonk.bsky.social you have any recs on this? Any thoughts appreciated

An under discussed element of our current moment is that it is fascism without mass politics. Toscano’s an exception to this but truly fascinating element

Being vaguely informed regarding the circles he used to run in around Imago Dei Church in Portland, this seems about right

Horrifying, but an excellent documentary

Abolish the Police except for the Tax Police

I still say if you must do a reboot of Escape from New York you flip it. Manhattan is fully a gated community for the rich now. Someone hires a mercenary to spirit away a relative from an abusive partner. And the chase is on to survive the night against several private security details.

An under discussed element of our current moment is that it is fascism without mass politics. Toscano’s an exception to this but truly fascinating element

BREAKING: Mr. Genocide is no longer working at Christianity Today

This true/false Christian framing he uses is exactly wrong

What’s good, is Trump and the conservative movement, have not only failing to keep their 2024 electoral coalition in tact, they are actively picking fights with institutions (and their affiliates) that they need to maintain some rapport with in order to remain viable.

BREAKING: Mr. Genocide is no longer working at Christianity Today

Between MAGA coming to the realization that Trump is a child rapist, his disastrous war of choice against Iran, his attack against Pope Leo, and his mocking of Jesus by insinuating that he is Christ... support for Trump has imploded. 😳👇

What’s good, is Trump and the conservative movement, have not only failing to keep their 2024 electoral coalition in tact, they are actively picking fights with institutions (and their affiliates) that they need to maintain some rapport with in order to remain viable.

Aaaaand @raygunsite.com has shirts. www.raygunsite.com/collections/...

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Impossible to not recognize that that American Christofascism is the most “successful” fascist movement since the Nazis

Honestly, with the whole Avignon pope thing. I hope he tries to make JD the rival pope. Only way this shit is a little more funny

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

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Impossible to not recognize that that American Christofascism is the most “successful” fascist movement since the Nazis

Taking that hilarious “the pope is weak on crime” line as Chicago slander

How to win an election and how to uproot a political project are separate questions.

Little known fact, but Dreher’s salary at the American conservative came from the same evangelical $ that funded a ton of the evangelical art world (e.g., Mako fujimura) and the faith and work movement

It really is a very very good thing that Trump anointed such an anticharismatic, untalented, drippy little weirdo as his heir.

Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Did all we could” by pressuring them to become Republican-lite

Portions of my lizard brain lighting up with glee

tripping over my own feet running to twitter to see how sad rod dreher is right now

Sadly, I did. Bags are packed and he is planning to move to Austria. He says the Institute that paid him for his propaganda was apolitical. If he gets booted, he will absolutely claim he is being censored. Orban gave Dreher a paycheck when he needed it. Now Bari Weiss is doing so.

Waiting for Rod Dreher to lose it all

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Waiting for Rod Dreher to lose it all

Thinking more about Christian anti-imperialism, historically situated, e.g., fall of Rome. I'm not a pacifist, but also extremely anti-war/violence. But seems like the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest hast more to do with Rome's fall than the "counter-culturalism" of Christian communities?

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed. Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children. www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...