It should not be a moral priority to appear “reasonable” in this morally insane moment. Protecting the people and our neighbors and ourselves at all costs and in any way we can is the only moral imperative Missed the target again completely Chuck.

Harness your wolf, and know when to release the harness

Grief is the process of recovery from psychic trauma. Grief heals when it is received by a caring other. Receiving the grief of others is also restorative of secondary trauma.

Etsy just kicked witches off their platform. What could possibly go wrong. www.vice.com/en/article/e...

NEW: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to dramatically restrict mail-in voting nationwide and asking the justices to rule that ballots arriving after Election Day — even if mailed on time under state law — should not be counted.

I hate to say this but I think things are just going to keep getting increasingly chaotic and morally shocking before this tidal wave of sadism finally recedes Its important to identify for yourself what moral injury (as witnesses & those coerced) feels like and how to recognize its after effects

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

As a friend once said: "There must be easier and more affordable ways to kill scientists"

“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

Epstein’s friend RFK Jr faced many sexual harassment allegations—he apologized to 1 woman & said: “I’m not a church boy” RFK Jr’s fat-shaming Super Bowl ad featured convicted rapist Mike Tyson It was directed by Epstein associate Brett Ratner—who faces multiple sexual harassment allegations 1/2

Pls destroy them, NM. We’re all rooting for you.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

(A reference to this—I actually think it’s also Puritans and purity in general as you say but the no caffeine thing makes me think.) bsky.app/profile/brid...

crumbling empire, degenerate elite, weird superposition between total moral license and intense puritanistic lifestyle hygeine... yeah, I guess you could say there are parallels!

MAHA is built on the second point here. But the you-do-you approach to Covid was also constructed out of this moral framing.

I think this is a purity culture and MAHA cocktail - it all goes hand in hand with excessive faith in "Natural" solutions and suspicions about "chemicals", anti-vax nonsense

It helps 1) companies sell you shit you don’t need 2) undermine public health interventions bc it reframes any illness as a lack of purity or discipline

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Watch them dominos fall

"The GOP is just going to do what they've always done." No. They're not. What they're doing now is not what they've always done, and what they will be doing next year is not what they're doing today. The old world is dead and the new world—for better or worse—is being born.

Adoption -- the promise of a *different* (not Better) life... Pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! 🥚

Had a dream that involved showing younger John Travolta the hidden & unbuilt rooms in my house, searching for a script of The Robber Bridegroom in a huge library, suggesting to Barry Bostwick that he should read the script before I headed out with Travolta who was trying to get to the Oscars on time

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

great reporting from @citizencohn.bsky.social on Haitian caregivers and what happens if the Trump administration is allowed to end their temporary protected status. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...

I know I shouldn't swear, being a university professor blah blah blah, but fucking hell these concentration camps where kids are being tortured must be shut down now

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

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‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests: Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resources On an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the f...

So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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

The end of January is the first time I’ve missed publishing a post to this subscription series -- which I’ve offered for like 7 years now, for a kind handful of subscribers. But I’m sufficiently recovering to start sorting one for the 15th More Otto Rank:

Hey, honey, wake up. The predations are merging!

Inflammation as a proxy for weathering.

Concentration camps: "I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."

I am really sick to death of having to think about the most evil, greedy, hateful and perverse men on this planet every single fucking day.

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Here are some affordable subscriptions I offer - again, the very small income from these helps me offer more pro bono and by donation support to folks in hardship The Lectio essay subscription: two essays a month exploring psycho-spiritual theme and a monthly drop in discussion group

given the recent installation of the former president of this lobbying group as the head of the Children’s Bureau in Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services, i think you should look at this ad as a straightforward expression of Project 2025. 🥚 imprintnews.org/child-welfar...

After demanding ICE and other federal agents be banned from wearing face coverings, Schumer and Jeffries added caveats: "no masks, except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.” trib.al/tP1jIiF

I’ll try to reach @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social @elienyc.bsky.social more formally, but maybe folks here could boost our invitation. 5/