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speaking of empathy, my family and I could use some at the moment. please keep us in your thoughts if you’re so inclined

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Excellent analysis from @sarahjones.bsky.social for @nymag.com. A theology that rejects empathy is necessary for authoritarians, of the national and church-based varieties.

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I wrote about two recent books on the “sin of empathy” and the logic of authoritarianism. nymag.com/intelligence...

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This is a fascinating and depressing article by @sarahjones.bsky.social over at @nymag.com on the politics of empathy in Christianity. nymag.com/intelligence...

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NYT: American Men Are Sick And Tired Of Mother F*cking Teeny Bopper Music. If They Decide To Kill You That's On You. And Maybe Lower Income Girls Should Sexually Pleasure Our Teen Age Sons, As Punishment.

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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

submitted 8 days ago • 287 comments

Happy May Day

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

gonna hunt the street rats. with a spear

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

complete fantasy land. it must be nice to suffer only from fake problems

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I think it’s very cool that my plane has been delayed for three hours and that I live in LAX now

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

took a migraine nap and dreamed that I was writing a musical about youth group kids who were organizing a Hell House

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I’ll be at the LA Times Festival of Books this coming Sunday, if folks are around www.tixr.com/groups/latim...

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FWIW, we've been studying the nationalist pronatalism push for several years now. And it's powerfully driven by what you'd expect: patriarchal gender ideology, perceptions that Whites & Christians are under threat, & Christian nationalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

Video of unidentified men -- one wearing a balaclava -- handcuffing a man and taking him away from a courthouse. "Show us your warrant," said one woman, to no avail. "I've been here since 1999, and I have not seen anything like this before," said a lawyer. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

I feel like a terrier with a rat in its teeth whenever I write lately

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Jesus Christ. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 148 comments

the phrase “cozy fantasy retelling of Boccaccio’s Decameron” just crossed my Twitter timeline, which means I can no longer avoid my fate as the world’s biggest hater

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icymi, my very angry essay about why we do not need ‘pronatalism but vaguely left’ nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

basic hatred for bullies. also I met a trans person for the first time during my freshman year at Bible college and that put a crack in my fundamentalism. It’s not like I was magically enlightened, but it was the start of a process

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

This, by @sarahjones.bsky.social, is scalding hot and exactly right. "Women deserve more than rancid sentimentality at best and forced birth at worst, no matter how far our fertility rates fall." nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

We need repro justice and a conversation that’s much grounded and sophisticated than “having babies good” nymag.com/intelligence...

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thinking about Nuremberg. no reason, really

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Most prominent mainstream media libs—in my experience—are from backgrounds that have precluded them from interaction with evangelicals in any meaningful way, which means that the people who look to them for information and analysis are at a real disadvantage on this topic

submitted 24 days ago • 60 comments

I don’t believe in the apocalypse, but I also just saw an animated Louise Erdrich on a Facebook AI slop page, so maybe I should

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Good reporters are working on this issue. They read and talk to experts. Then there's this. What if someone told her the doomsday scenario they're projecting is global population increase till 2080, then decline back down to 6 billion in 180 years. This is not a crisis.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.

submitted 28 days ago • 53 comments

I obviously have a lot of issues with my evangelical upbringing but I am once again grateful for my mom, who used to joke that she’d never be on the cover of the homeschool magazines because she only wanted two kids

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t think the left needs its own ‘pronatalism.’ the concept of reproductive justice is right there!

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

does anyone have a cannon pointed at the sun I can borrow? need to shoot myself into the sun with a cannon

submitted 28 days ago • 359 comments

LIVE NOW! Disposable Join @sarahjones.bsky.social and @sarahlazare.bsky.social in conversation around Jones' new book Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass. Organized with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social and @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social Stream here:

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Minneapolis: I'll be chatting with @sarahjones.bsky.social about her book DISPOSABLE: AMERICA'S CONTEMPT FOR THE UNDERCLASS this afternoon. 6 PM at Milkweed Books / Open Book. Free and open to the public. I hope to see you there!

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The promotion of Lauren Sanchez’s vanity rocket trip while NASA fires its chief scientist, Katherine Calvin, and programs to encourage girls in STEM are decimated, is the nail in the coffin for celebrity feminism. Everyone involved in this stunt should be embarrassed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

I truly regret looking at the replies here

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

trying to understand the stock market

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

entomb him with the child

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“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

submitted 35 days ago • 48 comments

I’m ready

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