Amy Laura Hall
@profligategrace.bsky.social
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Calling all former students acquainted with the Young Life/World Vision intersection. Also photojournalists asked to document. What Peter says about Enron also applies to you. You didn’t know this intersection was a scam . . . or what would you call this? A use of Jesus as a geopolitical lubricant?
If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 7h agoEpisode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.
Pleased to share that my first article--"Open Ecologies in The Evergreen"--is out in the world with @victorianreview.bsky.social! Darwinian sympathies and neopagan intimacies galore. And it turns out that decadence might not be soooo last season... Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
We have a lot of new followers lately so just a reminder that if you click on the yellow tab under each article on the main page - it will take you to all the others under that same theme. There are almost 900 articles on the site now. #museums #museumfromhome #museumlover
One classic of the genre seems to be AI generated home reno or DIY tips that are just total nonsense and the comments are full of people yelling NO NO THAT’S WRONG. My brothers and sisters in Christ they got your click and comment they don’t give a shit
It rules that everybody is learning that in a modern war if you don’t win right away you use up all the expensive equipment and then you’re in an interminable rock fight
our god king is raining hellfire on iranian schoolchildren because transgender for everyone came rampaging through women's sport and someone had to do something
Related, James Adomian's re-enactment of the Orson Welles' Paul Masson wine commercials is one of my favorite things ever. youtu.be/wFU7UDjcCAI
More Drunk Orson Welles Outtakes -- James Adomian
YouTube video by James Adomian
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At some level, each of us who writes things lives in fear that one day someone will read it back to us and ask, “do you really mean that?”
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · yesterdayTODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
“We’re going to do a genocide on TV, and you’re going to like it and vote for us” is not, it turns out, a winning proposition.
Ok, let’s try this again. I’m a grandmother who received a catalogue in my mailbox today. My granddaughter and I shopped the book and this contrast was stark.
@bsky.app I have tried to share 2 different notes about back to school shopping with my granddaughter and they seem to be completely not appearing?
Important to know/remember: States are generally terrible at notifying formerly disenfranchised people of their voting rights. Many have no idea they’re allowed to vote. Many more avoid voting because they’re not sure if they can. I wrote about this in Kentucky but it’s a problem all over.
Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration - Bolts
After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.
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The End of Sport — A podcast on the harms of capitalist sport for end time
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NYT continues to grossly misstate basic facts surrounding the Trump deal (which more accurately is a series of deals). bsky.app/profile/mart...
Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 2d agoThe @nytimes inexplicably continues to assert that "the Justice Department ... gave [Trump] the audit protection as part of a deal to end the lawsuit." Nope. It wasn't included in the "deal." It's a unilateral--and blatantly unlawful--decree by the Acting AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Y’all, there’s a sample of the @audible_com version of my book, read by the extraordinary Jennifer Woodward. Her voice is lovely, including her rendition of Sam the Eagle!
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
State legislature control is also more important now than ever for two reasons: 1. State legislatures control redistricting. Electing Dems can stop MAGA gerrymanders or even allow for new fairer maps (particularly in Wisconsin) 2. State legislatures can fight against MAGA election rigging in 2028
It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.
Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 3d agoAmerican Christianity in one social media post.
Nate Schatzline is a Christian nationalist who believes the 2020 election was stolen, and that he is at spiritual war with demonic "powers of darkness." Now, he's advising Governor Greg Abbott on "election integrity" issues.
He Sees Politics as a Spiritual Battle Against Demonic Forces. Now He’s Advising the Governor.
Meet Nate Schatzline, the Christian nationalist and former state representative who is helping Greg Abbott manage “election integrity.”
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Marco Rubio says that Cuba is an "espionage super power" which poses a grave threat to the national security of the US. Actually no rational national security analyst believes this, and I doubt Rubio does either.
Ha'aretz: With less than 3 months until the vote, Netanyahu is using the same political trick that put him in the Prime Minister's Office: Keeping the general public in a constant state of fear and anxiety. Netanyahu needs the panic of fear, because a rational Israeli voter would never support him.
Haaretz Today • Netanyahu needs Israelis to live in fear, lest they start thinking rationally
With less than three months until Israelis head to the polls, Netanyahu is using the same political trick that put him in the Prime Minister's Office in the first place: Keeping the general public in ...
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Friends, here is the official announcement of the memorial for my mom. This is a public memorial and all are invited. The Museum will open at noon so we will invite everyone to stay and gather in community, see art, and just enjoy the day. Doors will open at 9:30am.
It is a textbook example of sustained, targeted civil resistance that can undermine Trump administration policies. By chipping away at corporate supporters of programs like ICE, citizen activism can erode and stop these initiatives.
De-ICE Citizens Bank: A Model of a Successful Civil Resistance Campaign
The grassroots effort was a textbook example of sustained, targeted civil resistance that can undermine Trump administration policies; by chipping away at corporate supporters of programs like ICE, citizen activism can erode and stop these initiatives.
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Everyone arguing about Nolan’s film needs to watch this episode of Seinfeld. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eng...
The English Patient (Seinfeld) - Wikipedia
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Thinking a lot about the way that my skill set (and if you are a thinking human being, yours too) is basically anti AI. @olivia.science's remarks about "frictionless thinking" are really important here in that a lot of productive thought is wrestling with productive friction til you understand.
