Chris Schelin

There are 11 Arab Nobel laureates! The most recent was last year!

Tampa fans right now

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

And so trying to separate the Affordability Agenda from the Accountability Agenda is dumb. Our economy is being wrecked by the Unitary Executive.

Me: "It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim. We are helping our actual enemies" www.aei.org/foreign-and-...

Ukraine’s children are not “conscripted to die”. Kids aren’t in the army. Even young adults aren’t. Putin is killing them from hundreds of miles with drones and missiles. This is all complete nonsense unless words lack all meaning.

My review of Nicholas Norman-Krause, *Political Theology and the Conflicts of Democracy*, is out. I share this to encourage those interested in questions of pluralism, conflict, and theology to read this book, an important contribution to the conversation between theology and radical-democracy.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

"So the guy called himself a king" *muffled gasps from the panel* "and he sent thousands of soldiers to quarter in my city" *Washington audibly whispers "what the f-"* "and so we, like, formed this system where we'd call up people within a minute or two if they showed up" Paul Revere: hell yes

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

Every social survey is basically like "Most Americans think torturing puppies is bad, but white evangelicals will do it if it makes you read the Bible more."

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We are sensing a pattern

Vance: "I think Ukrainians should stop bombing Russian energy... I don't think that Ukraine should be in NATO." NO ONE WAS TOUCHING THEIR PRECIOUS ENERGY UNTIL THEY INVADED US! And maybe, just maybe, Russia should stop murdering Ukrainian civilians on a daily basis, JD?

“Trump and Putin have teamed up to murder Ukrainians” is a better headline. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Unprovoked invasion is fine. Bombing civilians is fine. Rape and torture is fine. War crimes? That's not doing much.

An American president would tell Putin to fuck off. An American president would tell Putin to get the fuck out of Ukraine. An American president would stand with Ukraine. Trump however is not an American president. He works for Putin. So he’ll do what Putin tells him to do.👇

The United States government is now explicitly helping Putin kill Ukrainian civilians in the hopes of doing business. From USAID to Renee Good to Kyiv, the policy of this administration has been death. Donald Trump is a murderer.

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Yesterday, Christianity Today published a piece on the late purity culture matriarch Elisabeth Elliot, with newly discovered private correspondence suggesting she may have been bisexual. Today, the article has disappeared without a trace.

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Trump could not defeat Iran. But with Russia’s help, he may yet defeat Ukraine.

"Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed. They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them. And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you."

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

American inventory: / 200+ killings of people on boats / 100+ Iranian schoolgirls massacred / ICE's street executions / Helping Russia finance its war / Targeting Somali Americans as “garbage” / Stealing Venezuela's oil / Inflation up / Hidden Epstein files Wake up. Vote against all Republicans.

My latest for BNG is a reflection on Rubio's Western Civ speech in Athens. Spoiler alert: not a fan.

I'm no constitutional scholar, but I will go ahead and say that inciting violence against citizens and lawful residents is one of those high crimes, making this the umpteenth impeachable offense by the unfortunately-disordered personality currently holding the highest elected office.

The announcement that the Pentagon is going to live stream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan needs to be understood in the context of the state-sponsored bloodlust for their chief enemies: Muslims and alleged socialists.

in humanoid robot movies the dilemma is always "the robot is programmed to perform humanity's grimmest tasks, but cannot love or be loved and will never feel the joy of holding a baby in its arms" but tech bros are like "great news, I just coded BabyHoldr 4.1 so I don't have to hold my baby anymore"

An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will

God everything is so DUMB.

the tech industry is about to invent books

"In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies." JRR Tolkien

yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good.

The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.

Conversation with my almost-10 year old - Isaac: Daddy, I’ve decided I want to read your book Me: Wow, that might be challenging. Isaac: Why? Me: Well, there are some words in there that are not part of your vocabulary. Isaac: Oh…you put bad words in there?

The Pope is coming out swinging against AI while some nondenom megachurch pastor is trying to figure out how to make his congregation not notice the AI-written sermon

This would a real-life manifestation of Patrick Deneen's hypothesized post liberal aristopopulism. A new counter-elite enforces a paternalistic vision of the common good.

When Matthew Soerens of World Relief tells Christians the Trump administration has banned persecuted Christians, many don't believe him. We talked about why. Listen to the whole conversation: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social