Jesus Christ
Runner/soccer coach/pianist. Professor of Religion and Philosophy in my spare time. Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts. Occasional writings: https://thinkingwithreligion.wordpress.com/?_gl=1*78c915*_gcl_au*ODI0Njg3NzU0LjE3NTM0NDYwMzA.
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Jesus Christ
Ok, now we’re talking. Let’s go TCU!
I think they know.
Bublik knows he’s dead! He’s not giving up but he just looks helpless.
So many…
Many people who’ve told an axe murderer where their intended victim is hiding and now regret it are saying this
This is probably as close to saying RFK JR is lying as DJT will ever come.
I wonder to what degree this plays into the whole "Dems were in charge in 2020" retcon that we are living through. In a sense, as you're saying, they were in charge, because no one else was! (But the party in power was, ofc, Republicans/Trump)
One of the victories of the "AI" industry is that the use of the word "intelligence" for their product has led to people conflating a massive appropriation of intellectual property for an database sorted and outputted with algorithms, with what actually happens in human brain, one artwork at a time.
They feel the same when we swim.
Rope-a-doing Cuomo into a dance-off and then vaporizing him on stage.
This is right. To the extent Trump has gained power, it has been by breaking laws and institutions, and having such illegality allowed to stand. But the law can still constrain him, if we want it to.
Please, please read this and share it with everyone. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
lol.
evergreen post
If you were faster, they wouldn't hit you.
People should just throw hats at him wherever he goes.
nothing like a saturday of labor day weekend newsdump, but no time like the present: I wrote a book, and it’s available for pre-purchase! linktr.ee/artbutmakeit...
It feels odd shilling while so much is happening, but it’s #selfpromotionsaturday and I’m trying to promote my book, “Requiem for a College.” It tells the story of my surviving a small college closure, and provides research on a trend smashing into small colleges everywhere. #academicsky
A Senator of the United States of America says that he was refused the ability to see Gaza for himself as part of a Jordanian aerial mission over the occupied territory.
Body double
It would be funny if jd got the Nobel for making it happen.
Again, it must be asked, if this administration were trying to sabotage the country and intentionally screw over its own citizens, what would they do differently?
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
We have an anti-science eugenicist heroin addict with a brain worm running health policy in this country, and I don’t think enough people are talking about it!
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
Show some mercy. They're Rockies fans!
ESPN.com story on Mourinho getting sacked doesn't even mention him managing Spurs. Of course, maybe he didn't, really.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
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"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
“I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed” whew
six days, 8 weeks, I have bad news for them.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
Dawn Staley is so great. She would be just amazing as the first woman to be a head coach in the NBA. But it is likely the things that make her great that make her less likely to be hired.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
The extraordinary, truth-telling resignation letter from the CDC of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, head of infectious diseases there til this afternoon, longtime HIV warrior. He posted it on X. The text is 3x th length of the Image Alt space so I've reposted it to archive.ph: archive.today/JVZm9
It’s not actually about trans women playing sports. That’s just the talking point which landed with the most people, so they’ll ride it until they fully exile trans people from public life. Even the woman who links everything back to her own experience competing against a trans woman admits it
You know who else is old and outdated?
If you tell Trump, "you can touch any tree in the garden except the Fed tree," which one will he touch?
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
How many people of color and women does Trump have to fire or otherwise target before the racism and systematic discrimination within his administration is condemned by anyone of power in Washington? In either party? He's so despicable. Yet it seems business as usual in the mainstream media.
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
Wrongly deported migrant Abrego again detained by US immigration officials reut.rs/41Sn0GU
and today everyone is talking about Clemens’ longtime exploitation of late country singer Mindy McCready that began when he was 28 and married and she was just 15 so enjoy that spotlight Roger (backstory: pitcherlist.com/bbwaa-is-era...)
envy, with a side of jealousy, topped with insecurity.
I love this idea. Know your city!
America now
that's like half a Belichick. (Still bad!)
they'll just turn it around when they're done.
The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders.
What happened to the Rolaids award?
No “thank you for your attention “?
The agents in these cases need to be prosecuted when all of this is over. Deliberate, needless cruelty.
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
No, but it feels worse for him
You did beat city today
it's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for him.
18 minutes? That was the standard?
Reupping
Jesus.
How can she claim it was consensual when the girls are under the age of consent?
"Professional liar toadies" is my favorite line, but the whole thing is great.
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT OF MY COUNTRY HELLBENT ON TORTURING THIS MAN
Very sorry to hear that.
The President of the United States is a gangster shaking down anyone who won’t pay up
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Well put. Not so much a fan of the later comeback material?
James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...
University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
I thought the entire stated point of this was to keep dangerous criminals Off our streets
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What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
My favorite are the days that feel like bad hangovers when there was no drinking that preceded them. Welcome to the club.
MAGA, at its core, is a cult of abuse. The right to abuse, the justification for abuse, the dopamine rush they get from abusing others, is built into every policy, every program, every line of rhetoric. They identify with abusers because they want to abuse people.
Talking heads are missing the point on Gavin Newsom Trump parodies. Newsom isn't "taking on Trump's fighting style" or trying to appeal to a "Dem maga." This is just a better and funnier way to say "those guys are weird." It's not an imitation of Trump it's an effort to defang him. And it's great
Walz?
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Trump: It’s WOKE to discuss “how bad slavery was.” Lincoln: “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword…”
Yes, he’s an arsonist, he’s burning the fucking country down, we know.
much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
I’m a universalist but I don’t know on this one.
Look I dunno when was the last time a movie came out you could watch three times in like four months and it got better each time
4/ Ok, another "$500 million Harvard deal is imminent," with the same three bylines. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u... True this time? Who knows. Still no named Harvard sources. And the only linked reference is another NYT story by same reporters! NYT is quadrupling-down on this. We'll see.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
tour guide at Monticello literally took me aside to say he didn't disagree with me but please could I stop saying "rape" in the Sally Hemmings room bc I was going to get him fired
I'm a US History professor, not a Communications Professor, but aside from that, this 100% describes my state of mind in the week before classes start. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Somehow, as the American university system is reduced to rubble for supposedly harboring antisemitism, our cowed political media has never felt it necessary to raise the point that the VP himself follows some of the most virulent neo-Nazis on the internet and clearly draws inspiration from them.
ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS: