If I lived in Kansas City I'd start a Spanish-language learning group for gringos just so I could call it Claro KC

hello Europe and Oz, thanks for listening

I do think it’s very funny how much of the church was like “suck it up. He’s not Christian but he can’t be that bad” and now he does at least one blatant heresy a day

Is America contagious? Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BK O'Connor on the Divine Feminine #booktube #podcast #exvangelical YouTube video by Blake Chastain

New interview is up with B.K. O'Connor, author of Eve: A Novel. Here is a snippet. youtube.com/shorts/0BdwD...

The shows on TV at the gym today: NCIS, a history channel show about exorcism, GMA, and ads for the gym I’m already in.

First stop NYC, next stop Racine?

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever.

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Here are a few stories from the collection:

The 33 Data Brokers Selling US Data to Foreign Actors, According to California <p>On March 24, California released an updated registry of data brokers—companies in the business of collecting, inferring, aggregating, and selling people’s data</p>

Data brokers should not exist.

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

I'm just messing around with this, to see if it's a good tool for this sort of thing (and I'm a sucker for new web tools in general).

why do we even need AI at all when base-level reality is so absurd that the conspiracy theories for a real headline like "Charlie Kirk's mentor dies in freak pickleball accident" write themselves

It was such a delight and honor to be with the fantastic @brchastain.social again!

We talked, whew, Israel/Palestine, antisemitism, what it means to live like your life is a sacred text, the philosopher that makes me think this gif all the time, and much more...

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Returns YouTube video by Blake Chastain

New episode, with @theradr.bsky.social, on YouTube and hitting podcast feeds: youtu.be/3eSVZ16ezoY (I made a n00b mistake and my audio recorded from the wrong device, but the conversation remains great!)

$200 billion could entirely repeal the SNAP cuts with money leftover
$200 billion could fund the ACA Premium Tax Credits and help lower health care costs for 6 years with money leftover
$200 billion could permanently expand Medicaid coverage to people in states that have refused to expand coverage

What state or sovereign wealth fund is going to buy this debt? What motivates people to accrue power to simply do awful things at larger scales?

All these ludicrous numbers. Hundreds of billions allocated here to for “security,” billions in aid and funding cut because “woke.” So much capital, for so much destruction.

I swear, the people with control over Real Money never act as if money is real

they literally renamed the entire company after this

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

The guy pardoned from a 22 year sentence for sedition. The coup succeeded.

White House Propaganda Videos Splice Horrific Iran War Footage With Video Games One clip shows the US strike on an Iranian warship after which the military left 180 crew members to die.

For several days in a row, the White House has posted videos on X of the U.S.’s strikes on Iran spliced with footage taken from video games and action movies, in a dystopic form of propaganda that treats the war like a game or like social media content to be mined.

The lead track on that album will make you a vibraphone believer. And also anyone who makes such a silly goose/egomaniacal album cover has my attention

Big Bear by Stan Getz & Cal Tjader on Apple Music Song · 1958 · Duration 4:35

How about some jazz vibraphone music.apple.com/us/album/big...

From Pews to Prose | The Urbane Join us for a panel discussion from authors of the “Exvangelical” movement: Blake Chastain, Mattie Jo Cowsert, Josiah Hesse, and B.K. O'Connor. Free with RSVP.

NY area folks: come see me and three other authors, Josiah Hesse, Mattie Jo Cowsert, and B.K. O'Connor, in Brooklyn this Sunday: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail... #exvangelical

Rewriting the Ten Commandments Lawmakers in more than 20 states have proposed bills over the last couple of years that purport to mandate the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools. But there’s a problem: you will not find that...

Check out the first episode of “A Trick of State,” a new occasional series from Dangerous Dogma investigating underexplored issues at the intersection of church and state that expose the false promises of Christian Nationalism.