Brandon Rhodes

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

Tell me there is a version of this photo that extends the cover’s pattern to you.

Happy Labor Day everybody.

In a capitalist society, unions are very necessary.

*Except police unions. Which is why union busters don’t go after those. Ron DeSantis is going to the bad place. 🙃

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If you only want something to be done after this school shooting because the shooter was trans, please kindly go to hell – or better yet, to church, and learn that scapegoating and bullying is antichrist.

The Return of the King.

Internalizing Aragorn’s “I give hope to men, but keep none for myself” kept me in some religious spaces as a somber reformer, to my agony, for far too long.

Recovering from that has taught me a lot, and helped me better identify harmful religious mantras.

Gavin’s PR person better be teeing things up to work for someone better when the 2028 campaign comes around, cuz she’s the only thing he’s got going.

He is a loser fascist who will fail to get elected nationally. He is an empty man who believes in nothing but his own power. And he will stop at nothing to obtain it.

I feel like a dispensationalist that’s awaiting the rapture: “Perhaps today, Lord.”

iOS 26 dock: Safari, Messages, ChatGPT, Signal

I just changed my iPhone dock for the first time in a decade. #ChatGPT replaced Camera. @signal.org replaced Maps.

The very obvious point here is to have a more pliant and compliant “national police force.” It’s going to become the Stasi/FSB (but dumber and more trigger-happy)

It's OK to hold multiple things with Newsom.

What he's doing w/ redistricting is really important. He's using the power he has in a blue state to try & push back fascism.

He's also shitty (see tearing down homeless encampments with his own hands) & shouldn't have a national future in the party.

Church takes many shapes.

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society

There’s a theme here, between Miller and Vermeule, which is that the authoritarian right has a view of “order” which has nothing to do with actual crime and has everything to do with violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies.

If church is supposed to be a communion of the crucified many bound together by the Crucified One, the lynched with the Lynched God, then this effort to “violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies” is pure antichrist.

FBI and Border Patrol patrolling the streets of Washington DC after Trump’s federal takeover of the city.

They return at evening,
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.

See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, “Who can hear us?”

…For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride.

—Psalm 59

Every protest sign in #DC this summer needs to be "Don't Tread on Me" on one side, and the American flag on the other. When #Trump sics his stormtroopers on American citizens exercising their #firstamendment rights, them holding those signs is the optic that everyone's inner antifascist needs.

Martial law is bad, right?

Type amen? 😂

My morning prayer is “fuck this orange pharaoh bullshit.”

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”

This isn’t new, though; this has been a major strain in American Reformed Christianity for decades. It’s nonetheless abhorrent and opposed to THE single distinctive theological claim of Christianity (kenosis).

Thanks for joining us to talk @litbible.net in the context of authoritarianism. You brought levity and honesty to exploring a grave text.

What Was Jesus' Atonement Theory? – Matthew 27 with Mae Forrest Barnes Found in Translation · Episode

I had a blast with the @litbible.net team talking about a HEAVY text. Go ahead and enjoy!

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely

it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society

fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

Hitler Youth got knives, too.

Wildly fucking antichrist behavior.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."

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We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs