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Tink Tinker’s got a good chapter on Whipple in “Missionary Conquest” that does problematize his work with the Ojibwe/Dakota people, for what that postcolonial offering might be worth to your sermon

Ofelia Torres, the teen with cancer who fought for her father’s freedom after ICE agents arrested him, has died. blockclubchi.co/3Zzncth

guess i gotta get ordained now

every time one of y’all walks up to the information desk at the seminary co-op and shoves your phone in my face — full brightness up — and says “THIS” without saying a greeting, please know i am but a breath away from just chomping on your wrist.

the holy trinity The Felt is not The Hand is not The Henson Spirit. But together...they are Muppet.

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

gorgeous gorgeous stunning

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i go work and send emails and stop and think cry about how the most powerful people in the country are the violent enablers of violent enablers — and that it’s just abusers all the way down. and then send another email.

to put it mildly, what a shitass fucking week for abuse survivors in this country.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martínez in Chicago, evidence shows A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…

Bovino praised the agent www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

Again it’s important to remember the context of these chats is that a woman was shot five times in her car as she was attempting to donate clothes at a church.

garden variety bad takes on cannabis but like……………. of course it’s completely divorced from the realities of people who actually use and benefit medically from cannabis! and a boring take still.

understanding what harm reduction principles might look like in cannabis use is something we also don’t talk about. do you weigh what you smoke? switch intake method? know your family’s history of mental illness? have supportive people in your life or other coping skills beyond cannabis?

furthermore! we don’t teach youth about cannabis hyperemesis syndrome - because our drug education sucks - and also do not want to address the reason why they’ll go through a 1g cart of resin in two days — being a young person staring down the barrel of…. uhh…. [gestures broadly]

my take: the increase in potency in cannabis product is absolutely a result of criminalization and charges based on weight. the editorial board said so little about the medical benefits of not just THC but CBD and other molecules in the plant.

if i had a nickel for every time a devoutly religious neurodivergent man took the time to gift me — whether in print or by song — a prayer he penned to Jesus Christ while i’m at the bookstore, i’d have two odd and transcendent nickels.

someone gift me that nyt pot article please because i have a take. i organize young people around cannabis policy, mental health, and mutual aid. please let me at this old man.

someone gift me that nyt pot article please because i have a take. i organize young people around cannabis policy, mental health, and mutual aid. please let me at this old man.

how much do you think anyone would pay to mosh in front of the front table at the seminary co-op for like an hour

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

only correct super bowl opinion is noname’s

she looks so good here

based

peter thiel is obsessed with the antichrist to obfuscate the fact that he knows it’s jd vance thank you for coming to my ted talk

in the timeline where i am able to take stimulants to treat my adhd without a facial tic popping up — instead of a regimen of contemplative prayer, six notebooks, and the highest dose of strattera — i think i became the lawyer my mother always said i should become when we’d have our discourses.

when i sell any copies of these editions we have, i foam at the mouth a little bit. it’s fair.

I do think a person who hurts another person can make sincere amends and change, but in concert with power, duplicity, and retaliatory social violence, there is no hope for someone like this.