listen to "the bible lore podcast" for "good knowledge"

Americans were cajoled and enticed into returning to church and synagogue and now some of the most insane rhetoric possible, completely detached from reality, is being used as cover for oil interests and a colonialist freak state that's still committing a genocide.

This is, to be clear, the result of 80 years of pro-religious US government (and corporate) propagandizing that started as a reaction to the USSR. It started with Truman and Ike, got put on the back burner in the 60s, and then came roaring to life with white backlash to the Civil Rights era.

peep this out buttigieg: we’re at burger king not because we want a big mac but because we want a new and improved whopper. a whopper not with a lovely onions situation but one with a little extra cheese action

Schumer’s statement isn’t “anti-this-war” at all, and claiming that it *was* is not reading what’s in the text, it’s wishcasting.

America and Israel must be dealt with. All love to the people of Iran.

They also have "purity tests" (can't be trans, have to support Israel, can't question the military budget, etc.) but they just lie about them.

you got up and clapped for him when he was saber-rattling about iran, what's up with that?

The Ezekiel diorama just came to life and now he’s shitting into his hands and putting it into the fire.

I think… I think I may have done something really bad

She pays lip service to that, then points to Goodman’s argument that Judea was renamed to Syria-Palestine explicitly to “deJudaize” it. It’s so vile but also incompetent and contradictory.

I really like studying biblical scholarship and there are tons of brilliant and decent scholars, and yet as far as I know, few (if any) of her colleagues took Fredriksen to task over this clear case of dehumanization, at least not in a forum with Wapo’s reach. Kind of sucks!

This immediately calls to mind Paula Fredriksen’s wretched WaPo piece from two years ago, at one of the most intense points of the Gaza Genocide, in which she engaged in historical obscurantism and attempted to recast the very term Palestine as nothing more than a colonialist marker.

steve winwood (but he's on the island):
♩ bring me a child's blood ♩

all of them, islam respects people of the book

Bart Ehrman’s new Bible course is being taught by a West Bank settler who works at an illegal West Bank settler university, and the announcement email not only fails to disclose that but also lists Qumran under locations in “Israel”. Not great, Bart!

A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME (Wayans, 1994)

From Axios: Reality check: Walz "does not currently have the legal authority to enact an eviction moratorium," the governor's office told Axios. • He would have to declare a "peacetime emergency" - a legally fraught maneuver.

What is a peacetime emergency? In Minnesota, a peacetime emergency is an executive order that can be called when cities and counties don't have the adequate resources to address an emergency, defined as "an act of nature, a technological failure or malfunction, a terrorist incident, an industrial accident, a hazardous materials accident or a civil disturbance [that] endangers life and property."

Axios reports @governorwalz.mn.gov won’t call an eviction moratorium because it is “legally fraught” yet the definition sure sounds like one. www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...

Could a GOP senator who recently decided against running for re-election say THIS??

This post has an agenda

Many videos demonstrate that cats will step on the Bible but not on the Koran, that’s enough evidence for me.

We are lucky as hell that we can depend on ICE to be honest about the seriousness of the circumstances

🔴 Farewell scenes from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City show a funeral procession for 14 Palestinians, including three children, killed in Israeli strikes on the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods east of the city.

Children are seen crying as they mourn their father, killed amid yet another day of...

This Saturday at 5pm pacific. I will be spending 2 hours making a worm as happy as possible. And then, The Fate will be decided and I will either release the worm or eat it. Cast your vote, make yourself heard. You will only have one chance!

shes right, it was my idea to have kamala enlist The Cheney Clan to go on a human entrail spreading spree

His goal is to make himself a national figure, he’s a narcissist. You can say that’s useful, but pretending the differences are merely ideological and not based on his actual behavior is dishonest.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.con... • 1h hey remember when dril tried to sabotage Harris's campaign? i'm utterly fine with him being banned 2 ¿ 5 18 Elle Bee @laurenbee.bsky.social • 1h ???? 1 2 • •• ••. ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact Harris's campaign used one of his tweets for marketing and he flipped his shit because she didn't agree with him on every position. and then, you know, we lost the election

oh that’s why she lost

After HRW Blocks Report on Right of Return, Group’s Israel-Palestine Team Quits “We have once again run into Human Rights Watch’s systemic ‘Israel Exception,’” said a former HRW employee.

Two Human Rights Watch employees — the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team — resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity.

“dunno what happened” is a pretty funny thing to say when you’re trying to pretend this site isn’t a slowly deteriorating mess