Kim Shively

Kim Shively

@kimlsh.bsky.social

Anthropologist of religion, book-lover, music-lover, traveler, activist, Moravian

190 Followers 657 Following 29 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 months ago
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Authoritarian playbook: Never let a good crisis go to waste A review of The Melancholy of Resistance by Lazlo Krasznahorkai

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Choose Love Not ICE YouTube video by Interfaith Alliance

This. A thousand times this.

"His law is love and His gospel is peace."

From my friends @interfaithalliance.org. #LovenotICE

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2 months ago
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If the Government can find $900 billion for the Pentagon, it can find $60 billion for universal healthcare Reading The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy, by Stephanie Kelton

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4 months ago
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The Bible is Not What White Christian Nationalists Think It Is Reading Walter Brueggeman’s The Prophetic Imagination

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4 months ago
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The Dangers of Zero-Sum Thinking Reading Juliet Hooker's Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss

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6 months ago
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UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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6 months ago
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At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

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6 months ago

Thoughts and prayers

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6 months ago

Yet, for all the other violence, we get thoughts and prayers. Not a goddamn thing changes.

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8 months ago

A reminder that we’re here because Trump pulled out of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal), allowing Iran to crank up its nuclear program, & then appointed a real estate investor with zero knowledge of the issue as his lead negotiator. The experienced Iranian negotiators apparently ran circles around him.

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9 months ago
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Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

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9 months ago

He wants unrest. He wants a civil war. He wants to be able to rule by military decree.

And he is arranging things to get it.

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9 months ago
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Excellent question.

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BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.

They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

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10 months ago

This is quite a story from @propublica.org about how the Trump VA is ignoring the PACT ACT & other life saving care for our veterans. There’s no question that DOGE cuts are putting veterans lives at risk. Shameful.

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10 months ago

The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far.

They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.

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11 months ago

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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11 months ago

this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff.

just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.

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11 months ago

— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually”

— Destroying universities

— “You don’t need so many things”

— Elites attacking elitism

— Hate/contempt for cities

— “Suck it up for the greater good”

Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?

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11 months ago

This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.

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11 months ago

Glad that our board was able to issue this statement.

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11 months ago

Americans wanting cheap consumer goods made in the United States by many workers getting paid high wages is similar to Americans wanting increased government benefits, decreased taxes, and a balanced federal budget all at the same time.

It doesn’t work that way, and can’t. You have to choose.

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11 months ago

The “immigrant crisis” is a ginned up “emergency” to provide this administration cover to carry out its anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional, racist final solution. Don’t buy into it!

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11 months ago

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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11 months ago

This is why I always talk about Trump administration foreign policy, not Trump's foreign policy. Trump often appeared to be rubber-stamping decisions made by others in term 1 and it was always wildly unlikely that in term 2 he would be working harder or have more understanding of the issues.

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11 months ago

How pervasive is this trend really? Is it just the elite tech bros?

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1 year ago
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
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