Charlie McCrary

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse

if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so. Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

happening at the same time

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Colonizing One’s Own | Political Theology Network The ongoing attempts to control both narrative and people after Renee Good’s killing are examples of what Paul Virilio describes as endo-colonization. It has very deep roots.

Helpful piece from Andrew Suderman, on "endo-colonization" (Virilio).
"If we are concerned about the current state of affairs, it is important to note that its roots reach back to the acceptance of and reliance on the military-industrial complex and its cultivation of a society shaped by pure war."

Trump’s national school voucher program could mean a boom in Christian education New Hampshire — where most voucher money has gone to Christian schools — may be a harbinger for ‘universal school choice.’

Thanks to @anya1anya.bsky.social @hechingerreport.org for keeping our focus on this huge school issue.

On Jan. 1, 2027, Trump's new private-school subsidy will go into effect. It could devastate our school landscape and whomp on public-school budgets.

New Hampshire gives a preview:

normal way to talk about booming industry

Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’”

Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:

I wrote about the slashing of the recommended vaccine schedule for children for @vanityfair.com because I think it's too tempting to read RFK as being off in his own wacky "wellness" world. In fact, his attacks on public health are an integral part of Trump's overall project.

You know, I just finished writing an article and the whole time I was thinking about how much better it would be if I were really a media theorist.

"Tragically, however, a straight line also runs from William Pelley’s Silver Shirts and Gerald L.K. Smith’s America Firsters to the ICE forces unleashed on Minneapolis by Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Kristi Noem." www.liberalcurrents.com/return-of-th...

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DHS Instagram post dhsgov e and icegov & Pine Tree Riots • We'll Have Our Home Again WE'LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN JOIN.ICE.GOV

“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.

Christian mission wins right to keep religious hiring exemption The Washington church is free to hire only those who agree with its religious beliefs — such as abstaining from

The Ninth Circuit today holds that religious organizations have a First Amendment right to discriminate based on religion in hiring/firing non-ministers. The panel grounds its decision in the “church autonomy doctrine,” which the Supreme Court recognized for the first time in 2020. /1

Empire of Vice In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."

latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social

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uh there's a lot going on in this one www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

It's nothing everyone doesn't already know, but ICE/CBP guys know they can do whatever they want. They're the absolute dregs of the Violence Worker Community, not trained for anything like what they're doing, out of their depth, all that. But it starts with them knowing they won't face consequences.

hard to understate how much of a disaster the entire post-9/11 government restructuring was. creation of dhs an absolute nightmare.

The Agriculture album has finally gotten a Pitchfork review, and it is a very good piece. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

A Year of Clean Energy Breakthroughs Even as the Trump administration rolled back support for renewable energy in the U.S., wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides globally in 2025. For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while plug-in vehicles accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides in 2025.

For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

The year politics became brainrot You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

Killing in the name of… nothing

official, from me:
Album of the Year: The Spiritual Sound by Agriculture
Song of the Year: Radioactive Dreams by Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo

Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? Party insiders are divided on how to channel Americans’ growing fear of AI.

The vast majority of Americans are opposed to AI and oligarchy, but both of our major political parties are too corrupted by billionaire control to stand up for the people.

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

Will the Pelicans make the play-in? What's Borrego doing to get them such a better shot diet, and what else is working there?

OK I read it now. Yeah, what a mess. With all due respect to MW, her point is very often just "You thought these people were bad and/or dumb, but have you considered that some of them are smart and, what's more, nice to me?"

Or, a simpler question - How does 10 hours of daily screen time, mostly on TikTok, affect religious practice and belief?