UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
07.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 8063 🔁 2792 💬 66 📌 86
Pop Culture is Soft Power. It's especially dangerous when it is misunderstood. Ignorance is weaponized. Satire is invisible. Irony is dead. There is no such thing as subtext in an anti- intellectual administration.
05.12.2025 03:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After 2025, I'm considering replacing my Spring 2026 Social Problems syllabus with a roulette wheel with interchangeable faces of current events.
"Step right up and spin the wheel to see what's the next hellscape we'll talk about!"
04.12.2025 23:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
According to @pcbryan.bsky.social @pcsj.bsky.social and myself, they are indeed wrong.
www.youtube.com/live/fawC2EM...
03.12.2025 00:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Disagree.
02.12.2025 22:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today's the day! POPCORN DISABILITIES is out. Due to a variety of factors reviews are in short supply so if you see it out in the wild this week and/or have a review PLEASE post it online (Goodreads, Amazon, etc.) and I'll be sharing them all week!
27.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 110 🔁 61 💬 7 📌 4
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
30.11.2025 21:37 — 👍 2508 🔁 732 💬 80 📌 52
Four films listed: Night Always Comes (2 1/2 stars) Cloud (3 1/2 stars) Hedda (2 stars) Running Man (2 Stars)
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
29.11.2025 06:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I know, right!
28.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A movie poster for the Nicolas Cage film Mandy in Psychedelic purple, pink and dark blue colors. The name of the film at the top and the characters displayed in a pyramid shape with decending levels of importance. Key scenes depicted in the lower right and left corners
Just got this framed. Read my Mandy review here:
thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com/2018/10/mand...
@courtenaycal.bsky.social
28.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
28.11.2025 04:12 — 👍 660 🔁 204 💬 18 📌 57
Episode 59: The Dojo's Top Ten Films of 2025 Dropping 12/22.
Stay Tuned.
The Blog's final essay of the year: "The Dojo's Top Ten Film's that Encapsulate 2025" will be published Monday, Dec 1st.
27.11.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Final Essay of the year finished, edited, and set to be published Dec 1st. Look for it soon. Now on to recording the final episode of the Podcast this weekend, to be released the week of Christmas.
Stay Tuned.
20.11.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The discourse I see around the Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of the Dune series really highlights the current state of media illiteracy. Herbert designed Paul Atreides to be an intergalactic genocidal warlord. To speak against colonialism and anti-evironmentalism Yet, people think Paul is the hero.
16.11.2025 05:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
Apologies. Here it is again with the alt text.
15.11.2025 18:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alice Wong's last public statement. #disability #activism
15.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Watch all of Pakula's "Paranoid Trilogy, then read this.
14.11.2025 03:44 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Like the Colaboration. Not sure about the material.
13.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In sociology, we teach that the building of social networks helps to foster communities that can provide support and protection.
As evidenced here, there is no specific moral or ethical requirement to its formation. In fact, whole subcultures of 'scum and villainy' rely on such social entanglements
13.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)
11.11.2025 05:25 — 👍 823 🔁 298 💬 10 📌 84
Cruelty is the point on both sides. While one side sociopathically weaponizes compassion and revels in hurting people. The other side feigns compassion while weaponizing people's pain to gain power. It's the political difference between overt and covert racism. It's bombings vs. Austerity measures
10.11.2025 03:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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