Northern Michigan is the south of the north. I love it

Let’s go! @devintoshea.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

Goffman’s “On Cooling the Mark Out” is good on this. Like con artists, if Republicans take money/rights/lives, Democrats pacify the mark after loss. To pacify them, you need to resonate with the mark and treat the con as legitimate or accidental, not intentional fraud. gwern.net/doc/crime/19...

The Works List for the Anthropic case includes the Communist Manifesto, entitling our boys to $3,000 (you know Marx could always use the extra cash)

I’ve read the Odyssey, the Iliad, Aenied, and Metamorphoses, but my head cannon is basically whatever was in this film I watched when I was twelve, a classic!

I often think of this question on the Yale climate survey. 47% of people believe they’ve experienced global warming. When actually 100% have. I wouldn’t be surprised if belief drops as the crises worsen. Seeing it with your eyes or feeling it in your throat or lungs builds the dissonance

In elementary grades they had us do all three pledges each morning (I grew up in Arkansas). “Uniting all mankind” on the Christian flag pledge was switched with “uniting all Christians” though

Writing weekend on a beach in northern Michigan. My body is a machine that turns other people’s books into my books.

Weekend on Lake Michigan

50 years for showing up to a protest and complying when told to leave. Got to protect the sanctity of concentration camps

Monsters. ICE arrested parents during pre-k graduation. This is where my kid went to pre-k last year and where my spouse taught. Imagine a bunch of elementary kids watching this and wondering if they’re next

Ah this image is before they stopped adding a penis on the goddess yaweh is with

Talarico v. Paxton fight on god’s gender has me thinking of the Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions. Yahweh has such an impressive penis. Look at that thing! Past his knees. Plus a pet cow. Republicans don’t want this taught in schools

Part of this was a search of all J.N. Darby’s works where he discusses the rapture. He clearly has a nascent idea of it discussed in 1828 and 1830 lectures, but doesn’t mention it by name until 1839, the speeds up after the 1848 split in the Brethren. (Contact me if you want the doc with links)

Starting this one. Few contemporaries have shaped my thinking, and made me feel less alone, like this particular Marxist humanist over the last decade

The section from Reich I was thinking of: “Any kind of mysticism is reactionary, and the reactionary individual is a mystic.”

Incredible. Reminds me of Wilhelm Reich’s axiom that mysticism always ends up being reactionary

They want to use accreditation to get colleges hiring more conservatives and say it’s for academic freedom

The world he’s pushing for is more like SSP3 with an RCP7. It’s lower temperature than RCP8.5 but even worse for human suffering (he’d likely be proud of that since the plan is a mass die off). From Future of Denial:

Getting into this routine in the evenings, semester is done, and I’m on summer break

It’s that time again

I’ve been looking forward to this new one from @patrickwyman.bsky.social for a while!

This one arrived today! I wrote a blurb and loved it! Congratulations @deandettloff.bsky.social and @mattbernico.bsky.social

This is an insane method to try to wave away party’s choice to lose the election over Gaza. The IMEU/YouGov survey already gave a pretty good picture of what happened, and word is the Dem autopsy is being held because it says the same

The three theologies. With an insane harvard salary

read this little book for more

I wrote on it here too, where we see some non-Christian Republican Jews, Muslims, atheists, and agnostics identify as “born again” or “evangelical”. What’s more important than substitutionary atonement is like: do you accept this stupid pedophile as lord? processthis.substack.com/p/not-perfec...

I wrote a whole book on white evangelicalism arguing trumpism is it’s perfected form, where every doctrine other than chosenness (even Christ’s divinity) is disposable, and he posts this!

Today is the second publication anniversary for my climate book Future of Denial. I’m still so proud of it, thankful for everyone that read it, unsure what I’m working on next, but very grateful!