Ken Stone
@drkenstone1.bsky.social
Religious Studies, Hebrew Bible, Animal Studies, Queer Studies
Author of Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies
and Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex, and Bible in Queer Perspective
Author of Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies
and Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex, and Bible in Queer Perspective
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Long but worth a careful read (like most things McKibben writes).
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
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They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Long but worth a careful read (like most things McKibben writes).
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ProPublica & Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide as the earth heats in the 80 years after 2035.
ProPublica & Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide as the earth heats in the 80 years after 2035.
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
ProPublica & Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide as the earth heats in the 80 years after 2035.
ProPublica & Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide as the earth heats in the 80 years after 2035.
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If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
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Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
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Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now.
Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
@jamellebouie.net: "The results, then, are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands." [Gift Article]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion | Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross
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November 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@jamellebouie.net: "The results, then, are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands." [Gift Article]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Me too, Harrison Ford. Me too.
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Me too, Harrison Ford. Me too.
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SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
My partner and I watched A House of Dynamite on Friday night and I can’t stop thinking about it. Highly recommended. Bonus terror points: Watching it in Chicago.
October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My partner and I watched A House of Dynamite on Friday night and I can’t stop thinking about it. Highly recommended. Bonus terror points: Watching it in Chicago.
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The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.
Fifth National Climate Assessment
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…
nca5.climate.us
October 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.
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could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
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Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh
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Trump's thugs aren't just abducting undocumented immigrants.
More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.
No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.
No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainl
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump's thugs aren't just abducting undocumented immigrants.
More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.
No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.
No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
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This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.
Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.
Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Elon Musk is a mass murderer.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Elon Musk is a mass murderer.
"As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back with fury." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back with fury." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
This is dangerous and disgusting. Shame on those who continue to support this man.
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is dangerous and disgusting. Shame on those who continue to support this man.
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If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.
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Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
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Trump admin officials continue to call every criticism a “threat” and immediately go to federal law enforcement or the military as their first option to respond to it - suppressing the right to dissent against the government by threatening people with incarceration for speech.
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Trump admin officials continue to call every criticism a “threat” and immediately go to federal law enforcement or the military as their first option to respond to it - suppressing the right to dissent against the government by threatening people with incarceration for speech.
We're at “'children who were zip tied and held, some of them nearly naked' and 'elderly people being thrown into a U-Haul for three hours and detained.' Mr. Pritzker added he believed that some of the people were U.S. citizens."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We're at “'children who were zip tied and held, some of them nearly naked' and 'elderly people being thrown into a U-Haul for three hours and detained.' Mr. Pritzker added he believed that some of the people were U.S. citizens."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
Here in Chicago.
Governor JB Pritzker has ordered two state agencies to investigate the treatment of children during this week's immigration raid on a South Shore apartment building and hold federal agents accountable if abuse or neglect is found.
Pritzker calls on state agencies to investigate feds’ treatment of children at South Shore raid
The governor said Friday that two state agencies will contact families and children impacted by the raid to gather more information and hold federal agents accountable if allegations of abuse or neglect emerge.
trib.al
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Here in Chicago.
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ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
Note that the flag was displayed while Biden was still President: "FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year."
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Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag
The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Note that the flag was displayed while Biden was still President: "FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
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The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.