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
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229 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
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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
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Oh, I love the new site. Time to resubscribe because fuck AI.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Oh, I love the new site. Time to resubscribe because fuck AI.
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I don't know how to get people to read this article, but I really think many more should.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I don't know how to get people to read this article, but I really think many more should.
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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“The depredations of ICE, which has emerged as the president’s private masked army, have been so extreme that ‘abolish ICE’ is rapidly becoming the common-sense, middle-of-the-road, boring Democratic Party position.”
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/aboli...
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/aboli...
Tolerating ICE means tolerating tyranny
There is deep rot in our systems of punishment and control.
www.christiancentury.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“The depredations of ICE, which has emerged as the president’s private masked army, have been so extreme that ‘abolish ICE’ is rapidly becoming the common-sense, middle-of-the-road, boring Democratic Party position.”
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/aboli...
– @philipchristman.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/voices/aboli...
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More people need to understand that saying only “criminals” should be subjected to expanding state violence around us is what led to the broader public being targeted by it, too. Criminality is subjective, and power determines what it is or is not.
September 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
More people need to understand that saying only “criminals” should be subjected to expanding state violence around us is what led to the broader public being targeted by it, too. Criminality is subjective, and power determines what it is or is not.
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They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
I just accidentally heard that Lily Allen song about how she's being cheated on by secondary hellboy and I have to say, it's ... good!
never heard her before in my life
never heard her before in my life
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I just accidentally heard that Lily Allen song about how she's being cheated on by secondary hellboy and I have to say, it's ... good!
never heard her before in my life
never heard her before in my life
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“When Rose's teacher gave the word, the children were trained to stop reading and place their books inside their desks. They'd grab pencils and pretend to be engrossed in a packet of test prep.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“When Rose's teacher gave the word, the children were trained to stop reading and place their books inside their desks. They'd grab pencils and pretend to be engrossed in a packet of test prep.”
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“end of the english major”
do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners
First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“end of the english major”
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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New Hampshire, hit the phones! Virginia, make the calls! Nevada, you know how to do it!
#NewHampshire
#Virginia
#Nevada
#NewHampshire
#Virginia
#Nevada
Our calls & outrage are working! Sen Kaine, Rosen, Shaneen & Hassan said if they hear from more of their constituents, they could change their votes from a yes to a no. Rs may not be voting for this bill also, so call your R senators too. Keep the phone calls coming bc it’s working! 202-224-3121
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New Hampshire, hit the phones! Virginia, make the calls! Nevada, you know how to do it!
#NewHampshire
#Virginia
#Nevada
#NewHampshire
#Virginia
#Nevada
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John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
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I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
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Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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Very appropriate, given his pedigree as an editor at the Calvin University ‘Chimes’, that @philipchristman.bsky.social links one of its anthems, Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’, in this morning’s always-excellent newsletter: philipchristman.substack.com/p/responding...
Responding to My Critics, II
(Part I.)
philipchristman.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Very appropriate, given his pedigree as an editor at the Calvin University ‘Chimes’, that @philipchristman.bsky.social links one of its anthems, Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’, in this morning’s always-excellent newsletter: philipchristman.substack.com/p/responding...
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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The details of this article are pretty amazing. The "federal official" who made this announcement did so ANONYMOUSLY over the phone!
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The details of this article are pretty amazing. The "federal official" who made this announcement did so ANONYMOUSLY over the phone!
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I do slightly think that what is happening in Chicago could be the beginnings of a non-violent civil disobedience movement that goes way beyond just like, No Kings protests, and could grow quite a lot
This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I do slightly think that what is happening in Chicago could be the beginnings of a non-violent civil disobedience movement that goes way beyond just like, No Kings protests, and could grow quite a lot
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they can't let the priests in because then they will come back out and say what they saw
Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
they can't let the priests in because then they will come back out and say what they saw
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It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.
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What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...
Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)
Reading too widely and talking too seriously.
soundcloud.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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ANDREWS
But now with wokeness, what’s happening is, they’re saying girls get to go to college, okay, fine, we can all support that. But they still want to get more stupider.
DOUTHAT
Interesting.
ANDREWS
And so now you’ve got to make colleges have less knowledge due to the Civil Rights Act.
But now with wokeness, what’s happening is, they’re saying girls get to go to college, okay, fine, we can all support that. But they still want to get more stupider.
DOUTHAT
Interesting.
ANDREWS
And so now you’ve got to make colleges have less knowledge due to the Civil Rights Act.
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ANDREWS
But now with wokeness, what’s happening is, they’re saying girls get to go to college, okay, fine, we can all support that. But they still want to get more stupider.
DOUTHAT
Interesting.
ANDREWS
And so now you’ve got to make colleges have less knowledge due to the Civil Rights Act.
But now with wokeness, what’s happening is, they’re saying girls get to go to college, okay, fine, we can all support that. But they still want to get more stupider.
DOUTHAT
Interesting.
ANDREWS
And so now you’ve got to make colleges have less knowledge due to the Civil Rights Act.