To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
Saw a Star Trek fan post this for welcoming in Black History month, and loved it, so I'm sharing it too.
The one lesson all should take from Black History is that no matter how bad the world gets we will *always* have time for jokes and looking fly af lol.
Gen Z friends,
What are 3 things about a church that would make you regulary attend and participate?
People being surprised Meg is with Klay cause he’s a nerd…. Ummmm she’s a nerd. She’s just fine
The point of integration wasnt to "be around white people". The point of integration was access to a long list of shit black people were paying taxes for but not getting which was only really possible with segregation. A lot of people get that twisted.
The funny thing about "integration was a mistake" takes is the assumption that "integration" actually occurred in the first place.
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
I ask for your prayers as I prepare to be confirmed into the Anglican church tomorrow. Thank you 🙏🏿🙏🏿
#LGBTQinChrist✝️❤️💚🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
"The Bible is best seen as a script that inspires faithful ab-lib among its readers, rather than a verbatim mindset that seeks to reproduce a blend of environment and original text cannot be recreated centuries later"
-- Rev Dr Andrew Wilkes
Reading for my Systematic Theology Class
Example: The German Christian Movement of the 1930s-40s.
You don’t need to have many Bibles. One Bible is ok too. The best Bible is the Bible you will read every day.
As the old socialist Catholic Dominican theologian put it:
"As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing."
-- Herbert McCabe, O. P.
This means shifting our focus away from quick electoral fixes & toward building the institutions that make electoral victories meaningful. It means rebuilding political homes where organizers, workers, tenants, students, & activists can encounter one another not only during campaigns but year-round.
"Canadian socialists should embrace what makes us Canadian as well as socialists... It also means generating ideas with Canadian historical and cultural salience rather than reflexively following the lead of the Left in the United States"
jacobin.com/2026/01/cana...
Good eats 😋
Good eats 😋
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
I'm glad people not getting married and not having kids is being normalized. In that group, there are a LOT of people who shouldn't have even considered doing either one of those things in the first place. Society shouldn't put one ounce of pressure on them to do so.
I see some responses here from yt people saying that so and so are “just as American as me.” And, while I appreciate that sentiment probably comes from a good place, I’d like to gently suggest changing your own orientation so that you recognize YOU do not represent the standard of “Americanness”
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
Excerpt from CBC article reads: "Jivani, 37, had already launched his "Restore the North" initiative last month, aimed at addressing policy gaps to help young men, a demographic that he says is overrepresented in crime, overdose and homelessness statistics. But following the assassination of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, his initiative expanded into campus tours, creating an event that is part rally, part recruitment drive, and part debate."
Quick question for Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, who has been on an anti-DEI tear lately:
Why is it you can understand the need for lawmakers to take positive action to address systemic inequalities -- but *only* when those systemic issues target "young men?"
Source: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
Category 5 coming to the island and the unseriousness is afoot 🇯🇲
The US poverty rate was *higher* in the 1950 and 1960s than it is even right now lol. Why the nostalgia for the economy of the 1950s? The creation of the middle class obscures the conditions of poor due to the cultural capital the former has compared to the latter....kind of like today.
