Katie McQuage-Loukas

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.

Out today: Feeding Texas estimates that its 20 member banks have lost a total of $57.6 million in federal funding cuts, and that’s only in immediate canceled funding. But this could actually be on the low end of the potential impact range.

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

No better illustration of a Christianity that worships power and hierarchies rather than seeks greater love and justice.

solution: we all become gay polyamorous agrarians who know how to blackmail the mayor (put his purple shorts in the festival soup)

irl employers wanna recreate the joja cola hellscape from the intro to stardew valley

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

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Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Neocities Create and surf awesome websites for free.

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

neocities.org/browse

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

I’m a bit over 40, but my youth group kiddos were in the musical at the high school a few years ago.

How Scholars Lost the Culture War over Texas History And how they could still start winning it.

This week's top story: The long game that research historians played depended on the impractical approach of waiting out the natural death of the traditional narrative, a creation story of frontier exceptionalism that was baked into the Texan identity.

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

The last Planned Parenthood clinics in Louisiana will close as of Wednesday. Read more in the @autonomynews.co weekly roundup:
www.autonomynews.co/abortion-cli...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation - Quest for Meaning Subscribe to updates Abolition is a holistic approach to systemic social change that includes, but is not limited to: the abolition of slavery; replacing

We just refreshed our online resources to study the Congregational Study Action Issue (CSAI): Abolition, Transformation, and Faith Formation. If you’re not sure where to start — we made it easy: start here!
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A good day to recall when Ron DeSantis was going around with such massive heel lifts that photos of him appeared to be taken mid-Rapture.

YouTube video by The Rapture - Topic Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks

youtu.be/T092lRzCejU?... what all the rapture talk on here reminded me of

everything about this is iconic, from the hair to the shoulder pads to the reveal that she addresses herself as “bitch” to the absolute murder in her eyes in that first shot. that is a woman who homophobes would cross the street to avoid for fear of their life. absolute ally goals

The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs “Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

By the wonderful @elongreen.bsky.social -- an incredible article about an incredible story about an incredible song.

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IN CASE OF METHODISTS HIDE DOWNSTAIRS

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Apologies for not adding alt text to all these photos. My cat is screaming her head off and if I don't let her outside right this instance, where I have to accompany her, I might die.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵