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These self-identified Jesus-followers are celebrating the separation of parents from their children and spouses from one another; cheering families torn apart, lives violently uprooted, and human beings being terrorized at school and at work and at church. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-youre-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 318 comments

Now, more than ever, we need a leader like Gov. Pritzker, not the clown currently in the White House.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Children. Children.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Those new VW commercials with Elaine Stritch singing "Are You Having Any Fun?" are so catchy and wonderful—it's a shame that they launched during what's turning out to be one of the least fun moments of the past 200 years.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The passive authoritarian tense

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

The ridiculous number of times I’ve been told wording changes like this DONT MATTER because obviously it includes all people not just men…and yet at the absolute first chance they change them all back.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Congratulations, America. He spent 18 million dollars of YOUR money to take a nap at the Super Bowl.

submitted 13 days ago • 883 comments

Popularists in shambles.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

submitted 14 days ago • 3064 comments

Just in case you thought the 🍊💩’s cruelty came with his decreased mental capacity

submitted 15 days ago • 532 comments

The country's burning to the ground and we have tornado warnings in Knoxville, but the Lady Vols beat UConn so I've found a thread of joy.

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This !!

submitted 17 days ago • 1536 comments

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. — that we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. “Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks #everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

I'm trying to trust the arc of the moral universe here, but when I think of one of the wealthiest people on earth gleefully keeping food from famine victims and refugees, I really wish my theology could include the hell I learned about growing up, all lakes of fire and devils with pitchforks.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't done many knitted stripes and this is pretty basic (Purl Soho's Super Easy Baby Blanket), but I love the colors. #showmeyourknits

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 19 days ago • 1694 comments

If Congress was fulfilling its Article I purpose it would pass a bill tomorrow by a veto proof majority to shut down “DOGE”, instanter.

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

Happy Black History Month ! The Nicholas Brothers youtu.be/zBb9hTyLjfM

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

Dems should call for immediate hearings on what caused tonight’s plane crash, including the impact of the removal of FAA safety protocols and personnel.

submitted 24 days ago • 334 comments

Marching orders from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny.

submitted 25 days ago • 45 comments

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

submitted 25 days ago • 46 comments

Excellent post

submitted 27 days ago • 2082 comments

What is this, day 3? I'm already exhausted.

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#Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

Americans aren't aware how much the illusion of normalcy persists under an authoritarian regime. There's no washed-out camera filter that kicks in. Everyone's not goosestepping everywhere they go. You can have a radically unfree society while most people, most of the time, just go about their lives.

submitted 35 days ago • 35 comments

Started //// going (Democracy dies in capitalism)

submitted 39 days ago • 558 comments

I just want to thank the democratic senators on the armed services committee who stood up and fought, despite the odds, for the American people today.

submitted 39 days ago • 531 comments

Yeah, this is "Daddy 47 wants whining on his side now" by "Democracy Dies in Darkness".

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submitted 44 days ago • 269 comments

Welcome and hello to @bobirwin.bsky.social!

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment