Caleb Henry

I'm so sorry Jeff. I remember meeting Benny so many years ago and he was such a joy. Grace and peace to you all as you mourn such a wonderful companion

Because of the music video I second this...you get him singing in front of the bat-signal lol

YouTube video by Jesse Welles - Topic No Kings

🎶 No hatred, no violence
No starvation, and no greed
And no kings, no kings, no kings music 🎶

#NoKings

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YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right

'The thing is, some leaders are players
And players sometimes can be clowns
And clowns then sometimes can be dangerous
When they’re there and yet they can’t be found
The Big Mac
The big man
The big bomb
The power of money and lies
The power of fear in the people
The wind doesn’t blow this far right'

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

"We now live in something closer to what we would call a state of generalized psychosis: a social landscape where symbolic authority has fractured, shared reality is unstable, and appeals to common norms routinely fail to hold any weight."

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At some level, I understand that Pat McAfee, Clay Travis and Dave Portnoy are all different people, but I steadfastly refuse to tell them apart because that would involve having to don a welder's mask and sit through some White Hot Sports Takes.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

When this all ends, and it will, there can’t be any olive branches extended, especially for ICE. Accountability, punishment, defunding, and ridicule are the only things that need to be on the menu.

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

"This is the thing: dooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices... Dooming is another escape from the burden of war mindset."

The Albanian Prime Minister picked up on the theme of "ending the war between 'Aber-Baijan' and Albania." Edi Rama joked while greeting French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

'The risk is that ever-more elaborate explanations for stupid actions end up wrongly according those actions a kind of intelligence – rather confirming the insight of the political scientist Robyn Marasco that “conspiracy theory is a love affair with power that poses as its critique”.

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

Looking forward to this one

#booksky

On Tylenol and Toughing It Out Some thoughts and prayers for the men in Washington.

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This is 🔥

What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

If you want to oppose “political violence,” then demand the abolition of ICE, the end of an ongoing genocide, and insist Congress stop killing people by forcing for-profit healthcare exclusion on us. If you’re not doing that, spare me the sanctimonious speeches.
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White supremacy means excluding African Americans from public universities (funded in part by their own taxes), forcing them to build up their own institutions (with less public support in every way), and then forcing your way into that space as well, so they can't escape Your Important Questions.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Rapture, again: Why the end times never end (RNS) — We need theologies that bring us deeper into the society’s pain, not dreams of an escape hatch.

OPINION: Rapture theology is racist theology. It upholds some of the worst injustices of human history. It’s time we left it behind.
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A representative for GWAR told The Post, "Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."

LOL

Oh my god lol

This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

You almost certainly aren’t going to get out of the war crimes tribunal by producing a letter that you solicited because you were aware that the legality of your orders was questionable.

Source: Ignite Peace

Just got the news that Imam Ayman is free today. More work to be done for sure but we celebrate his release from the ICE Facility here in Butler County

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Picture of Imam Ayman walking free from an ICE detainment facility

Some great news today. Imam Ayman is free!

Still so much work to be done in Butler County and the ICE facility but we celebrate this wonderful news.

#ICE #AbolishICE