Prof. Anthea Butler

Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote * Sign up for This week in Trumpland, a free newsletter on the latest from the Trump administration Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in what for him is a rare public address. Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran. Continue reading...

Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections

Lots of people seem to forget: It is Ramadan, which would affect the pattern of life of everyone in Iran.

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

One year to the day after Pam Bondi promised the full Epstein files, we got war with Iran instead

for those fixated on congressional authorization, i get it. this is a massive violation of our constitutional order.

even so, congress *cannot* legitimize an illegal war. there is nothing congress can do to make it legal under int'l law.

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

Text of the introductory allegations of the indictment against 39 alleged Cities Church protestors

Text of the introductory allegations of the indictment against 39 alleged Cities Church protestors

Text enumerating the first count all 39 defendants face; "Conspiracy against right of religious freedom at place of worship"

Text listing the sharing of a flyer advertising the Cities Church protest as constituting "overt acts" of the alleged conspiracy.

New: per an indictment unsealed today, 39 people are facing federal conspiracy charges stemming from a Jan. 18 protest against an ICE-affiliated pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul, MN.

5 people sharing flyers advertising the protest on social media are listed as "overt acts" of the conspiracy.

exactly.Probably ran it through Chat GPT

they can't even get the book right that they want us all to read

And in the world of Christian Nationalism, it looks like they've reached the "Farewell John Piper" stage.

(15 years later...the original Farewell RB was on 2/26/2011!)

LET THEM. About time they read some scripture for a change. A

Sean Feucht: Never imagined a theologian I once looked up to would became (sic) so unblievably WOKE while weaponizing scripture to justify the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation. He's QT'ing John Piper, who's quoting Leviticus 19:34: "You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God."

Dale Partridge: "I love Dr. Piper, but this folly must stop. To correlate these instructions to Israel with the circumstances facing America is simply irresponsibile theology. Israel was never expected to allow such a number of foreigners that" blah blah blah

Jamie Bambrick: "Me lookfor where this verse says we need to lose billions in welfare fraud and let" blah blah blah

Brandon Lansdown: blah blah blah, who cares.

right wing pastors are screaming, crying, throwing up because John Piper posted a Bible verse on the everything app.

yes!

I feel like I could fight a Dalek. Cylons, nope.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

All I see looking at this is Cylons

This week's cover @thelancet.com

stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Today @marthasjones.bsky.social & Historians Council Member @katemasur.bsky.social filed a brief in the SCOTUS case challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship order. Jones and Masur debunk the claim the 14th Amendment applies only to “newly freed slaves.”

Really disgusting that DHS implies the building manager and roommate "let" them into the building when it was done under false pretenses, and most certainly under duress.

This is not to say coverage is perfect here but SKY and BBC have talked about it openly.

I think it's fascinating how Epstein and Trump are being covered over here in the UK vs US. The allegations about the 13 yrs old and her interviews are being talked about openly on the news here..

wow thanks for pointing this out...

They’re scared of children with crayons.

"Three years from now there may well be tens or hundreds of thousands of real humans in camps scattered across the country."

More on mass deportations as "Forever War" from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: www.offmessage.net/p/dismantlin...

Years ago, First Things published an utterly deranged defense of the covert baptism and abduction of Edgardo Mortara. Reno then insisted that he wouldn't have published the article if he thought such things were likely; now he's advocating for a legal order to enable those Catholic extremists.

Trump, the New Apostolic Reformation & the Battle for the Midterms Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle

NEW Reign of Error. You don't want to miss this one. I talk with @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social about how Trump's top evangelical advisors are activating voters for the midterms around voter suppression, Iran, immigration, and literally casting out demons

redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

that article is also a warning about what happens if you don't have friends or loved ones to check on you. I hate bugs but that would be worse.