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3) Slow down and de-escalate (hyper-reactivity is the highway for disinformation, lies travel faster than truth. Learn to ask questions that serve as “brakes”)

Practices to counter disreality:

1) Get local, physical, and material (resist “algorithmic reality” by scaling down into your own community)

2) Cultivate good suspicion (relentlessly question content before sharing—consider images and text, A.I. renders, etc)

I keep saying it: conspiracy theory is mainstream. We aren’t dealing with one narrative here or there, we’re living through a default on “reality” — with terrible consequences.

Here is some advice:

Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.

I mostly avoid reposting propaganda. But if I do, it’s to name it as antichrist. This is the power to crucify and it belongs to hell. Churches that bless it are Babylonian shrines. Do not confuse the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One, who is peace.

Our elected leaders in the US executive branch are not departing from reality as much as they are creating one— a totality where their word is absolute and dissent is subversion.

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Proofs are here. Feeling the weight of this book; what it stands for—naming the authoritarian nexus of falsehood & violence at work in white evangelicalism— and what it hopes in—truth for a common world.

“The hardest work is contending against the disorienting and malformed Christianities which bring themselves to bear against the vulnerable, often in the name of freedom and faith. This is the necessary work, the one the demands the church be exactly what it is.”

Everyone Marveled And Followed The Beast Devoured By America First

On the Kirk memorial from the intersection of brutality and disreality…

So glad to hear. Thank you.

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The last week has only pressed me deeper into the message that led to this book—we are dealing not just with a war of facts, but the apocalypse (unveiling) of primal stories, of myths and their corruption. Here’s how we got here, and a way forward…

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A lot of talk about “authoritarianism” — and I’m here for it. But we need specificity: the contagion of authoritarian movements today spreads by a vision of capitalism without democracy.

When I was doing my PhD research on January 6, I began to feel the weight of documenting words and preserving actions that might one day be erased, revised, or mythologized.

I felt that weight all over again today reading how the DOJ is erasing studies on right wing political violence.

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website

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The Department of Justice has erased a study from its website; the study from the National Institute of Justice found far-right political violence & extremism outpaced all other ideological violence.

Absolutely 🎯

In the US, an information diet of conservative algorithms likely means rage at the nameless “left” has been nursed in no small part by Russian troll farms.

“The one who is beyond creation enters creation in order to change it, not to abandon it. Jesus broke the laws of this sinful age not by simple negation but by offering a new life to creatures in the middle of the lives they are already living. …

The authoritarian playbook is being run with precision across the United States. Much of our reliance on media obscures this pattern by reporting each play on its own without attention to the whole.

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Mercy on the children in Minnesota today. I believe their generation will grow up to condemn ours; we who collectively enable the terror and tyranny of gun violence in the name of “freedom”

Chris this is really kind, thanks so much!

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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

January 6 continues to be an apocalypse: unveiling the militant violence raging in the heart of MAGA that worships a rogue word, a paranoid Christ split between kingdom & country.

ICE is recruiting new agents by offering up to $60K in student loan forgiveness—a reminder that loan forgiveness by itself isn’t the issue, it’s who gets to wield it as a partisan weapon.

The invisible systems that organize our world (capitalism, nationalism, etc.) are *not* inevitable. It’s the task of the Christian to point to all the ways we’ve assumed they are “normal” or “ideal” and so perpetuate their own forms of injustice.

“You Feel Like Your Life is Over” The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...

“Between January and June 2025, thousands were held in immigration detention…in Florida, under conditions that flagrantly violate international human rights standards and the United States government’s own immigration detention standards.”

“Why do you boast, you tyrant, that you can do evil; Whereas the goodness of God endures all the day long?” Psalm 52.1-2

“How do you not see it?” Many people don’t see the shadow of authoritarianism because Prime still delivers and Netflix still streams. It’s not zeal. It’s apathy born of automated convenience—just as dangerous.