Todd Battistelli
@fromtherostra.com
How do our disagreements go? #rhetoric, #writing, and #education.
Viewpoints that I express are my own and do not represent the views of organizations with which I'm affiliated. Reposts are not endorsements.
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The ability of the tech bros to indoctrinate children while making them illiterate via genAI doesn't get enough discussion.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The ability of the tech bros to indoctrinate children while making them illiterate via genAI doesn't get enough discussion.
Take, for example, theologian Paul Tillich’s idea that everyone’s ultimate concern should be called god.
Choosing the term god for others is not engaging with the full range of religious and nonreligious vocabularies through which pluralism thrives.
Choosing the term god for others is not engaging with the full range of religious and nonreligious vocabularies through which pluralism thrives.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Take, for example, theologian Paul Tillich’s idea that everyone’s ultimate concern should be called god.
Choosing the term god for others is not engaging with the full range of religious and nonreligious vocabularies through which pluralism thrives.
Choosing the term god for others is not engaging with the full range of religious and nonreligious vocabularies through which pluralism thrives.
The various supremacies that suffuse our cultures—along lines of gender, race, sexuality, religion, class, and others—have a habit of sneaking in around the edges even when we want to disrupt them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The various supremacies that suffuse our cultures—along lines of gender, race, sexuality, religion, class, and others—have a habit of sneaking in around the edges even when we want to disrupt them.
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Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
Too many news outlets & pols framing Tuesday as affordability *Instead Of* "woke"/"DEI"/whatever the fuck when Mamdani & Sherrill both *explicitly* embraced trans & other LGBTQ+ rights, VA solidly rejected Republicans' virulent anti-trans attack adz, & a PA elected their 1st trans mayor. Be serious.
Pro-Equality Candidates Win, Anti-Trans Campaigns Lose Again, in Election 2025 | GLAAD
History was made, and repeated, in the 2025 election, with significant impacts for LGBTQ Americans and candidates who campaigned to support LGBTQ people. Virginia voters elected the Commonwealth’s fir...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.
These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.