Be the White Jesus™️you want to see in the world 🫠

hateful business

can't see the damage but ya can't walk like 😭

Pinky toes and sharp corners exist to keep us humble.

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito:

If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons.

Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

"There is a robust and fast-growing body of interdisciplinary research that comprehensively debunks the claims that tech companies — and those who shill for them — make about these products, and exposes the global corporate power grab that these claims are being used to enable."

Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.

This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
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Poor octopus is in the upper room, catching strays 😭

Michael B Jordan in Sinners

A still from sinners, a lone house on farm land.

Michael B Jordan as Smoke and Stack in Sinners

A still from Sinners, Miles Caton at a church.

SINNERS stats:

• 4 Oscars
• 3 BAFTAs
• 2 Grammys
• 2 Actor Awards
• 2 Golden Globes
• A on CinemaScore
• $370M+ worldwide
• 4 Critics Choice Awards
• 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
• One of the best reviewed wide-release films of the decade

Sunrise in the mtns

Woman with peak sign

Woman on the edge of a rock, LA in the distance

Book: do the work, by Steven Pressfield

See now, this is why I forget all about that 5:15 AM wake up call

#blackskyoutdoors

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Imma look directly at it because EYE find it pleasurable

Now… i hope you find it pleasurable as well…

But if you don’t … i pray you decolonize your desirability matrix

I hope some psychologists are in the mix, too! The denial of death, especially in SV, is wild.

I often wonder what folks like her are thinking when they put a crucifix on a chain and wear it around their necks.

Seems to me that he likes “the idea of saving babies,” but changes his mind when faced with praxis. 🫠

Indeed, you do. Can you remind me how you arrived at your definition of religion?

The history of hijackings isn't in my wheelhouse, but it does seem as though humans are rather adept at finding justifications for doing pretty much anything. Would it be fair to say that using religion in this way might be the longest running con in history?

Too right, @daviddark.bsky.social. That is an important distinction to make.

"Jesus wasn't a Christian" shouldn't be a controversial statement to make.

Yes. Lemme note..the author's a lil out over his skis. To speak of "Christ" as *teaching* Christianity is weird. There's is no indication I know of that Jesus of Nazareth imagined his gospel (good news) was anything other than an extension of the gospel of Isaiah. But yes, Christian Zionism's wild.

Relatedly, this is one reason why religious studies is important...

@daviddark.bsky.social have you seen this?

Our ‘Judeo-Christian’ Holy War The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran has less to do with national security or even geopolitics. Rather, it has to do with religion. The War in Iran is a Judeo-Christian holy war.

If you want to understand why this war with Iran is actually happening, one must understand the weird, pseudo-relgious reasoning upon which U.S. foreign policy rests.
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This is the correct take (begins humming theme song).

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

Timothée Chalamet dragged by opera and ballet worlds after he said 'no one cares' about them The LA Opera, Metropolitan Opera and Royal Ballet and Opera shaded Chalamet following his comments during a live conversation with Variety magazine.

Timothée Chalamet:
“I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera…Things where it’s like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.'”

Speaking as if he could work in either discipline? 🙄

Being loud and wrong is a choice.

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"And here's how this is Joe Biden's fault." -NYT, probably.

💯

This screams “former white evangelical youth group kids.” 😑

A lack of Christians isn’t the problem.
The lack of morally serious, decent human beings is. The people in this photo are neither of those things.
The Faith Cartel has had its agents in “the halls of power“ for decades. They’re the reason why all of this insane shit *gestures broadly* is happening.