EP21: A Critical Theory of Christianity? Julian & I talk Horkheimer’s 1940s close engagement with Neo-Thomism & church history given his anti-fascist 30s polemics & neo-con 60s retreat, asking: what might a critical theory of religion look like today? www.patreon.com/crittheorywo...

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The critique of the podcast form is tackling religion! @catholicclod.bsky.social and Crane have a wonderful conversation on how to understand religious traditions, particularly Christianity, and how CT can emerge not from without, but within!

James Crane@jamescrane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EP21: A Critical Theory of Christianity? Julian & I talk Horkheimer’s 1940s close engagement with Neo-Thomism & church history given his anti-fascist 30s polemics & neo-con 60s retreat, asking: what might a critical theory of religion look like today? www.patreon.com/crittheorywo...

Very interesting review that explores Muskism as a "global class project"

Jules@catholicclod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today I reviewed @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com's excellent *Muskism*, in which I argue that situating Elon Musk within the dynamics of class struggle transforms our approach to the international capitalist crisis and the imperial strategies to contain it cosmonautmag.com/2026/05/capi...

Today I reviewed @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com's excellent *Muskism*, in which I argue that situating Elon Musk within the dynamics of class struggle transforms our approach to the international capitalist crisis and the imperial strategies to contain it cosmonautmag.com/2026/05/capi...

Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile ...

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That milk has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · 3mo ago

Massie is now toasting the crowd with a glass of raw milk, which is a very Massie thing to do.

it’s like if netanyahu refused to free a palestinian prisoner and so you announced you’d be taking this to ben-gvir

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo ago

NEWS: Virginia Dems have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.

By popular demand, J. E. and Crane unite in a two-part episode to, uh... review? critique? lampoon? Gabriel Rockhill's book *Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism* www.patreon.com/posts/156140...

I like to remind my students that Jackie Robinson RE-broke the color barrier because >50 yrs previously there were Black players in the Majors, but the teams actively chose to segregate. Segregation & acts of racism are affirmative choices made by & for the benefit of White people & institutions.

Jonathan Shipley@shipleywriter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On this day, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

Something I wrote about my brother Camran Henry Fivek (1988–2026) medium.com/p/camran-hen...

Camran Henry Fivek (1988–2026)

What do we know about the morning my brother was killed? According to the Florida Highway Patrol: he left Jacksonville a little after…

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People seem to ignore that the student encampments were a culmination of decades worth of on campus pro-pal organizing. Leadership and organizations that have, in many cases, been hollowed out.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You can certainly argue that campus protesters are simply too terrified of reprisal to protest under Trump, and that fulfills the imperative to align with the protesters, but I do not for one minute think any of you have truly reflected on this and genuinely believe that’s what’s happening

We gotta bring back Catholic art that shows bishops on their way to Hell.

He's rotting, you know

Changing the 'days since pedocon theory vindicated' clock from one back to zero

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "What's gotta change is we have to lower the age of criminal responsibility ... I can't get my hands on these kids. They're not kids. I misspoke."

"Palestinians across the occupied West Bank observed a general strike on Wednesday in protest against a new Israeli law allowing the execution of prisoners, as international condemnation mounted." www.middleeasteye.net/news/general...

Palestinians in West Bank strike after Israel passes death penalty law

Families of detainees vow to resist, while human rights groups and multiple countries denounce the law

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Custom-built PCs are back on the menu 🙏

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 4mo ago

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars

Pope Leo said on Sunday that God rejects the ‌prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month.

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Dante Alighieri and Francis of Assisi, by the Polish Capuchin artist Friar Ephrem from Kcynia (Stanisław Klawitter), 1935.

Please contribute to this. I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Idris Robinson once and his work is amazing. He is being unjustly harassed by his university for his support of Palestinian resistance. www.givesendgo.com/GKRFR

Solidarity with Idris

Our dear friend and family member Idris is facing institutional repression for voicing his solidarity with Palestinian liberation. We are raising funds for h...

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He’s rotting, you know

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

It's been a little more than one year since Trump and Elon cut USAID funding and more than 500k children have likely died due to malnutrition and disease

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

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Nice to see Susannah just come out and say she has less imaginative capacity than Richard Scarry

Cai@annenotation.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why do people pretend to be stupid? I've never met someone whose job, generally and/or as intended, felt impossible to understand. This isn't a real thing.

The Spanish anarchist and personalist Catholic philosopher Carlos Diaz on Emmanuel Mounier's theory of destituent revolution.

New from @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social, J.E. Morain and I discuss play, games, and the like via Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga. The work is one of the more important historical touch-points in game studies, and we tried to take his work to task by thinking games as ideology! Plz have a listen

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