Kristel Clayville

I laughed out loud at “no more copy-pasting.”

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

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A particularly urgent episode of @llassabe.bsky.social’s reliably good pod, featuring @profferguson.bsky.social.

Unconscionable. EBV and Shingles have wrecked my health for the past couple of years and they are very hard to keep in remission with conventional tools.

The year is 2034. 98% of the population of the planet is employed as a life coach. All the life coaches have life coaches. Life coaches decide to redouble their efforts, going in hard to all the last remaining outposts where people exist simply as people rather than life coaches or people striving to live their best life via life coaches. “Can I be your companion on your journey to yourself and give you the life advice that will make you a proper person?” ask the life coaches. “Can you get out of my kitchen, please?” say the people. “I’ve already had six of you in here this morning, trying to tell me how I can be the ultimate version of me and unlock my true potential. I never asked for this. I just want to be able to live my most average, flawed life in peace and finish cleaning the oven.”

An extremely short horror story I wrote, set in the future.

Reminder, your personal data can be weaponized against you — even by companies you may typically trust.

...original sin complicates the idea of innocence for babies. It rarely comes up in abortion conversations.

More importantly for our current political context, emphasizing innocence is to argue that some people do deserve to be killed. It's a form of justification hiding in a pro-life position.

Opinion | Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

My enemies are theologically anemic, but speak loudly, often, and on a large stage.

The word "innocent" is doing a lot of work in this conversation with Ross Douthat.

First, it skirts around the Christian idea of original sin. Love it or hate it...

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Probably. But I bet he did know the Bible well; had even read it. I have less faith that my newer theological enemies have ever read it.

It does seem like he tasked interns with finding specific passages and they used the internet and got a variety of translations. Which might also mean that there wasn't a Bible to be found anywhere nearby.

Yup!

The post I cited added screenshots of the rest of the talk, but yeah, I agree.

Much of biblical interpretation is theologically driven--like Mike Johnson telling us that the Bible says what he already believes. It's eisegesis.

Also of note that Leviticus is trotted out as being about individual morality on the right all of the time with regard to sex and sexuality.

A multimillionaire thinks that paying down the national debt is so important that all the poors should get into the workforce earlier, work in it harder, and stay in it later to help pay it off.

It's the only possible way to do it!

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I always like to think about my own health in terms of the national economy.

Because when it comes to life and death decisions, I want my primary identity to be "consumer."

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

Genetics of Cancer
History of the English Language
Anthropology: Folklore
Sociological Theory
Art History: Cathedrals of Western Europe

This hero's journey: constantly teaching Deontology to committed Utilitarians. Sysiphus weeps.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We've been selected as a 2026 Report for America newsroom partner.

We'll hire a reporter to investigate the effects of modern industry in Appalachia across environmental, economic and other systemic impacts that make up our region’s current dystopian landscape.

A day after masked, militarized government agents executed a disarmed nurse who was trying to save a woman being attacked, some pastors who claim to worship a man executed by the state will instead bless ICE. Such damned imperial theology is what protesters challenged at a church last week.

It's like the worst version of Utilitarianism got some Glamour Shots.

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

The Hospice benefit through Medicare is 6 months with renewal required at intervals during that 6 months and possible extension beyond 6 months. The average Hospice patient is in Hospice for less than one month. So Dr. Oz is complaining that people in CA actually use the benefit as it is designed.

When Trump dies we get Vance. Thiel’s pet.

They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism.

We must prept for this now & organize accordingly.
Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes.

Every angle.

My latest comic breaking down the “generosity” of billionaires is live! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-genero...

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.

Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.