The moderators weren’t the issue. Trump came off as unhinged and took the bait every. single. time. He bragged about crowd sizes, downplayed January 6, insisted the 2020 election was stolen, and let’s not forget “they’re eating the pets.” Harris cleaned his clock tonight.

I was on a call with community leaders in Springfield, OH last night. It is a very tense situation. Lots of online and in-person harassment and threats. Extremist groups are taking advantage of the moment. This type of environment often leads to tragedy. This is directly tied to

"If you look inside their own communities..." That's Kristin Du Mez framing the incoming data. Communities that normalize and lionize abusive men in private will do the same thing in public. It's no mystery. You'll know us by our fruit. Same as it ever was. youtube.com/watch?v=d5QrMe…

This morning at ND’s Center for the Philosophy of Religion Michael W. Austin draws on Niebuhr to discuss the spiritual malformation of culture wars politics: intellectual pride, moral pride, spiritual pride. What is lost when the ends justify the means?

Former Republican Congressman Jim Greenwood from PA on why he is voting for Harris over Trump: “I observed him to be a man who is not mentally fit for the job…He's a narcissist, and he's a pathological liar.”

The Holy Post Podcast is a refuge for those looking to untangle their faith from fear, dogmatism, and partisan politics while continuing to participate in the redemptive work of Jesus.

Trump: “We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations. We're gonna get these people out. We're bringing them back to Venezuela." (They are from Haiti, not Venezuela. And they are legal immigrants; you can't deport them.)

NEW: I watched a portion of the Trump press conference today--but it wasn't until I read his comments that I realized that just a day after New York's highest court upheld the gag order, he arguably violated it again. 1/

As someone who has poured myself into this struggle over the past 8 years, it’s hard to look at influential people who have stayed on the sidelines purely out of self interest and not feel a good deal of disgust. Your country is in danger. How can you justify doing nothing? 1/🧵

"and a regulatory environment that fails to hold tech companies accountable. The consequence is an intensification of an ongoing and ever-present low-grade information war playing out across social-media platforms." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"The Tenet situation reflects what national-security analysts call fourth-generation warfare, in which it is difficult to know the difference between citizens and combatants. At times, even the participants are unaware."

The thing about Christ’s call to love your neighbor is that you don’t get to choose who your neighbor is. It seems like a lot of resistance to immigration is about wanting to choose our neighbors.

Brown's work has been described as "a celebration of black culture & a repudiation of racism". 2 of Brown's 7 children asked Trump to stop using their late father's song ..."He's perversely using 'The Snake' to demonize immigrants"... Brown "never had anything against immigrants"

Trump abuses this work like everything else he touches. He’s been reading “The Snake” to his own supporters since 2016 to mock them as “suckers” that “let him do whatever,” in his brain the GOP letting Hannibal Lector eat their party. His own dysfunction is his only vision for US

If a candidate for president surrounds himself with lunatics, crooks, and agents of hostile foreign powers ... The patriotic response is NOT: "Oh no, he might cost himself the election!" The patriotic response is: "He damn well should lose the election."

This is a serious issue w/ automatic voter registration, user errors or potential exploitation of databases, a non-partisan reality that requires common sense transparency, redress, and process guardrails, not reactionary ideological overkill responses #democracy #civicvirtue 🗳️

Concepts of the week: >conspiracy lies >stochastic terrorism >motivated reasoning/confirmation bias

I’ve known many strong women & good guys throughout my life, which is how we all survived what we called “stuff” in unhealthy religious/political cultures we did not yet have words for. Few historians are better than Kristin Du Mez articulating the content & contexts of these dynamics