This is dark, but I think there's a darker twist to this: Schools, Foucault tells us, are always about making the kind of people that capital and state have uses for.
In his days, that meant a disciplinary schooling system. One that got kids used to rigidly timed days, synchronous movements, etc. 1/
“Abuser culture” is a powerful conceptual frame, & may be immediately understood across educational levels & class more effectively than “patriarchy” or “authoritarianism” etc as initial framing?
Whole globe of Earth over rolling gray lunar hills.
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Today, I posted my essay about how Republicans removed protections from the Boundary Waters while voting for pollution, and what you can do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/bryanhan...
Very famously in the history of the Church, when soldiers would come back from conflicts nevertheless judged to be just, they’d still have to do penance.
Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
It seems like it... doesn't get used often for genocide. No mention in the most obvious place in the world for it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
But the accountability was like a weak antibiotic so the virus came back a lot stronger
I think he’s saying there’s a lesson to be learned in the (very dumb) initial opposition/tepid support from people like Schumer & Jeffries. We are definitely going to see that kind of movie again.
When average people see that it seems fair to expect they’ll equate it w/ “the Dems”
text of 18 US Code 1091 on Genocide
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
Horrible to segregate out the Iranian death question and to ask it in a “both sides” way. That’s non-innocent. That’s a push poll for evil.
9 April 1945: Dietrich Bonhoeffer is murdered by the Nazis. Listen to Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bonhoeffer's ideas about Christian ethics, the role of the Church in a secular world, and his attempts to overthrow Hitler. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Imagining how many dudes would in fact respond to a personal ad seeking kink of “intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw”
And I'm not defending what Iran did or didn't do, but the story is a bit more complicated that "slaughtered protestors" as Trump is on record: “We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
Not sure if you were joking about Saturnalia too? In any case if people don’t know about the so-called quartodecimans, they’re increasingly viewed as having the earliest “Easter” tradition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartod...
Ha! That would be both St Lucy’s Day and Christmas :)
Literally it was Passover
That time of year again.🐝🕯️
you: here's evidence there are fewer likes, reasonably pointing to fewer users
you: here's no evidence but leftists are the problem, and the solution is more centrists
Tweet from Pope Leo's Maundy Thursday homily: "The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday"
Is he pissed at Pope Leo for last night's homily?
"trapped humanity" lol
Yes… and… approx 75% of readers only read the headline. We should critique those reading habits while also understanding why people get mad at the NYT’s non-innocent framing. www.psu.edu/news/researc...
Yes until your post I hadn’t really examined how binary this was for me in the US: little concern in areas with trail culture, even broadly construed, and something feeling like madness and terror to consider it elsewhere, haha.
Around trail towns, trail heads, outdoor rec regions, and national parks: lots of times, almost always with others.
Comes the same day US-Israeli strikes hit a 100-year-old medical research center known as a hub for vaccine research.
Also after strikes on the Iranian pharmaceutical sector. And an orphanage. And schools. And hospitals. And residential buildings. And thousands upon thousands of other targets.
ugh its real www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
"...this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war but rejects them, saying: 'Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.'"
He quotes Isaiah 1:15. Look it up.
It’s Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday. Here is a wheeled 15th century Palmesel or ‘palm-donkey’. (Met Museum)
For what it’s worth a lot of the people (normies) we spoke to today in St. Paul explicitly connected what trump has done to them and Minnesota with what the administration is doing to Iranians today