Note: McBride is actually an ordained Presbyterian elder in the same denomination as Talarico.
Talarico is in seminary. But unless he is also an elder like McBride (more common than you'd think), she's currently in a higher office than him in local church polity. religionnews.com/2024/11/25/b...
Also…
:: sighs ::
…this opening line is wildly untrue, although it is true that they've gotten less *attention,* which may be why they aren't *known* for discussing their faith.
To name a few:
· Pete Buttigieg
· Chris Coons (who NYTimes quotes after this)
· Elizabeth Warren
· Sarah McBride
True! I made this point forever ago: if spicy autocorrect is conscious then we have to reckon with how we’ve condemned them to slavey and forced them to engage with a wide range of depravities. And this is before we get to the AI sex of it all.
Gonna double down with a reminder that if you post a screenshot of text from an article you should alt text it & link to the fucking article!!!! If you found it on the internet you should share the link!!! Do not force me to Nancy Drew my way back to the source by triangulating fonts w/news outlets.
I dont know that people realize that most beauty standards pushing women to look as young as possible for as long as possible is part of the systematic sexualization of younger and younger women.
Reposting with alt text.
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
Reminder here that if the President doesn’t take action on a bill for 10 days (by either signing it or vetoing it) while Congress is in session, that bill automatically becomes law.
The moral majority.
Good on you sir, add some new skills on!
CNN gas tracker: $3.41
vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page
the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings
this made me cackle all the way through
Are using out of date and useless talking points?
Are completely ignorant of what we need as a nation?
Are avoiding the calls for accountability amid the fascist violence?
...where is the rest of the headline?
Rural broadband was one of the biggest government infrastructure investments since the interstate highways system and it didn’t do shit lol
Explained here bsky.app/profile/zete...
But has JD Vance even said thanks to Zelenskyy once?
Iran’s counterattack has exposed a vulnerability that’s left the Pentagon asking Ukraine for help.
okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate
In conclusion, Black people are the main characters. 🤫
Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here:
"I guess."
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.
None of this is new, none of this is different from what we have had in the past. It is worse that the era of "civility" produced this mess.
Maybe we can use this as a starting place to make some needed changes.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
FIRST THINGS SUBSCRIBE ames Talarico wants to "reclaim Christianity for the left." That's the title of the New York Times interview with Talarico—currently running for Senate in Texas-and the phrasing is revealing. One does not reclaim what one currently possesses. The progressive mainline, whatever else may be said of it, has not possessed a vibrant, living Christianity in a very long time. That the New York Times would frame the question this way is, at least, an honest, if ironic, admission of defeat. That said,
My favorite piece of historical context for this argument is that conservative Christians (particularly, but not exclusively, evangelicals) have made almost this exact argument — verbatim — for more than a century* and it just never lands outside their own circles.
This is coming from an administration of the same party that worked so hard to spike Chevron deference.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
@davekarpf.bsky.social says much better what I was trying to get at in my thread:
I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired
