Phil Christman
@philipchristman.bsky.social
pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
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Why Christians Should Be Leftists
by Phil Christman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
HARDCOVER
9780802884053
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
by Phil Christman
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
HARDCOVER
9780802884053
Publication Date: September 16, 2025
if you preorder now and send me a jpg of the receipt + your email address (dm is fine), you will get:
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
--a short piece of writing every Friday for the next month or so
--an invite to a everybody-vs.-Phil-at-Book-Trivial-Pursuit event on Friday, Aug 1 from 7-8:30 (yes this is real)
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A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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This is the result of the CIA using children to kill people and yet a whole lot of people don’t want to recognize *American* culture, and in particular the culture of the War on Terror, at work here.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is the result of the CIA using children to kill people and yet a whole lot of people don’t want to recognize *American* culture, and in particular the culture of the War on Terror, at work here.
Stephen Miller is not only stupid and barbarous but a cause of stupidity and barbarity in others
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Stephen Miller is not only stupid and barbarous but a cause of stupidity and barbarity in others
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
me most of the time: weber thesis kinda bullshit
me after spending five minutes among west Michigan Dutch Calvinists: max weber UNDEFEATED
me after spending five minutes among west Michigan Dutch Calvinists: max weber UNDEFEATED
my favorite part of the "the protestant reformation caused a work ethic that caused the industrial revolution and capitalism" theory is that england, the birthplace of capitalism, was not part of the protestant reformation and banned all properly protestant sects
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
me most of the time: weber thesis kinda bullshit
me after spending five minutes among west Michigan Dutch Calvinists: max weber UNDEFEATED
me after spending five minutes among west Michigan Dutch Calvinists: max weber UNDEFEATED
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Mine arrived today!
I’m really grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of Coal of Fire. They are starting to hit people’s mailboxes, and I kind of can’t describe what it’s like to have work that means so much to me out in the world & in people’s hands.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Mine arrived today!
camper van beethoven show from 1989 or so. god what a great band www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2l8...
Camper Van Beethoven Sept 13, 1989
YouTube video by Woody's Tapes
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
camper van beethoven show from 1989 or so. god what a great band www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2l8...
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.
I was feeling like "my job is pointless and no one cares" and then one of my students popped in to office hours just to ask for book recommendations
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I was feeling like "my job is pointless and no one cares" and then one of my students popped in to office hours just to ask for book recommendations
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
ok menswear guy is good now (this is one of my favorite passages in that book)
(menswear guy was always fine, I just have such a strong reflex against people being picky abt clothing, for Class Origins Reasons, that it’s been hard for me to appreciate him sometimes)
(menswear guy was always fine, I just have such a strong reflex against people being picky abt clothing, for Class Origins Reasons, that it’s been hard for me to appreciate him sometimes)
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ok menswear guy is good now (this is one of my favorite passages in that book)
(menswear guy was always fine, I just have such a strong reflex against people being picky abt clothing, for Class Origins Reasons, that it’s been hard for me to appreciate him sometimes)
(menswear guy was always fine, I just have such a strong reflex against people being picky abt clothing, for Class Origins Reasons, that it’s been hard for me to appreciate him sometimes)
timeline cleanse
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
timeline cleanse
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Re-upping for the UK and morning crowd. I enjoyed giving myself an excuse to think about The Disintegration Loops (and one of my Burts, and mid-century women’s hotels).
Issue 7 of This, Not That just hit the mail. This time I'm writing about Burt Lancaster in The Crimson Pirate, Daniel M. Lavery's Women's Hotel (and the Barbizon in general), and William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops. Hope you enjoy it.
this-not-that.ghost.io/issue-7-you-...
this-not-that.ghost.io/issue-7-you-...
Issue 7: “You don't waste twenty years all at once."
Film
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
“Nobody has ever looked like Burt Lancaster in The Crimson Pirate,” John Frankenheimer once noted in an interview. The most flat-out fun film of Lancaster’s muscles-an...
this-not-that.ghost.io
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Re-upping for the UK and morning crowd. I enjoyed giving myself an excuse to think about The Disintegration Loops (and one of my Burts, and mid-century women’s hotels).
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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just a perfect day
you make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
someone good
Oh it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spend it with you
oh such a perfect dayyou just keep me hangin on
you just keep me hangin on
you make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
someone good
Oh it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spend it with you
oh such a perfect dayyou just keep me hangin on
you just keep me hangin on
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
just a perfect day
you make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
someone good
Oh it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spend it with you
oh such a perfect dayyou just keep me hangin on
you just keep me hangin on
you make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
someone good
Oh it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spend it with you
oh such a perfect dayyou just keep me hangin on
you just keep me hangin on
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"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game