Kathleen B. Hudson

This kind of logic would have sidelined MLK and, more recently, Sen Warnock. People can and should talk about what values inform their politics. It’s important to know.

Maxine Waters really did a number on that guy huh

Thanks for this. I haven’t given a cent since 2024 to any of the big groups bc I have zero confidence they won’t use it to shore up washy incumbents against better primary options.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

Love these!

These dudes not understanding the most basic concept of natural selection is comical

Their popular support is collapsing and they know it.

The other big thing WRT to Andor compared to where we are is that the Trump admin is not even a fraction as powerful as the Empire. They’d like to be, but we shouldn’t grant them even that illusion. Apart some some propagandized 20-25% or so, most of the country doesn’t like what they’re seeing

Good to know. That’s been since I cancelled as well, wasn’t aware of it

I saw it in a response to a QT but wanted to bring it to their attention in case it was a typo rather some will lewis-ordained MAGA stylistic shift

Are we capitalizing “white” now lol

Great work on the alt text 🫡

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social

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I had a dream that Ryan Coogler directed a John Brown biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Michael B. Jordan and man, I wish I could magically make that one a reality

Ha I like this read! And given his experience at the Battle of the Somme, I imagine it felt more straightforward to paint enemies in a more simplistic and totalizing way.

Agreed. I imagine Tolkien would have written things a little differently in the modern era in any case

Honestly the plot makes much more sense in that light than in the “nostalgia for the better blood of our ancestors” stuff that does crop up in the musings of Theoden and Denethor. Although those two are not designed to be reliable narrators at all!

…which is still very much about finding strength in unexpected places, the proud being humbled, and sacrificial love overcoming the cruel weight of power

Doing a listen with the excellent Andy Serkis-narrated audiobooks and all the stuff of blood and race is sticking out more than I remember from a couple decades ago when I last read them. I can see why it appeals to the white nationalist bros but their ethos is so at odds with the heart of the story

It’s pathetic folks like this can’t conceive of people acting bravely or generously out of care, no transactional element involved at all.

I’ve lost count of how many glossy magazine pieces I’ve seen like this. God forbid anyone else was right *too early*. “Listen to me, a brave truth teller, who is seeing the light at exactly the right time. Now….where’s my check?”

Thank you! Yes, oil on linen.

Yep, and the reason people buy it is that a ton of famous comedians and podcasters and oped columnists reinforce it constantly. These rest of us remember normies and even conservatives horrified at the manner of George Floyd’s death and businesses cancelling events in NC over the bathroom bill.

We’re with you!! Hoping our state doesn’t get a turn in the barrel too, but if it does, you all have given everyone a courageous example to follow

It’s fine! Changing rapidly and the military contingent is fairly ethnically diverse. I grew up in evangelicalism so the orgs headquartered here aren’t operating in a foreign language ha

With hope that this represents the turning of the tide

Candle amid snow and prairie grasses in suburban Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, CO

Courage in Minnesota is a North Star for all of us.

100%. One of my close friends died of a heart condition brought on by a treatable childhood illness. Her mother was in a cult that shunned medicine. That woman should never have been allowed to abuse her daughter by withholding vaccinations and standard care.

Thank you!! Hold fast!

I initially read it as a short story too. Wasn’t until some random details and repetition that i started to wonder