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@maria "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -- James Baldwin

@MotherJones he was just grifting the extreme Christians for a livelihood, telling them what they want to hear. Hey, it was a living. Now he’s trapped in all kinds of statements he made. Tough luck, pal. Selling your soul…
Or he actually does believe this crap.

When your Dalek wants to dress up as something scarry for Halloween.

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mast

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

@dnc Bake them in brownies, and leave them in the office where people are stealing your food. @Chalkllate

@barney@mas.to So it’s just another name for Hamas and cannot be believed. Ok. @Nonilex

Steven Beschloss asks readers what they hear when Mike Johnson tells us he has been "ordained" by God to be House Speaker — and what this portends for the future. Johnson announced in his first statements after being made Speaker that God had "ordained" him for this office.

I hear theocracy. And hubris. And self-righteous arrogance. And total lack of respect for democracy and the vibrant pluralism of American democracy.

#MikeJohnson #theocracy #ChristianNationalism

america.substack.com/p/what-do

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

— James Baldwin

#quotes #politics

Best of all: occupation of #Waterloo station by #BlackJewishAlliance and comrades to match yesterday in New York at Grand Central.

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