Rev. Max Blalock
@revmaxwb.bsky.social
I’m a person who believes the call to love our neighbors as ourselves means working for the full liberation of all people, especially the most marginalized. Housing, food, and healthcare are human rights.
Everything is for sale.
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Everything is for sale.
Nothing but pure evil. No due process, just kidnapping people and sending them to a foreign prison, simply because they’re Venezuelan. None of them deserve this. #Resist
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Nothing but pure evil. No due process, just kidnapping people and sending them to a foreign prison, simply because they’re Venezuelan. None of them deserve this. #Resist
April 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This thread. Shockingly enough accommodating far right hate doesn’t help your political party or anyone else, except the far right hate. #RESIST
Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally.
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This thread. Shockingly enough accommodating far right hate doesn’t help your political party or anyone else, except the far right hate. #RESIST
Here are some real life heroes! Wow! Way to go World Health Organization!! @who.int This is amazing work!
The Gaza Strip. The @who.int has managed to vaccinate against polio 586,000 Palestinian children under the age of 10 in their last campaign. Well done!
February 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Here are some real life heroes! Wow! Way to go World Health Organization!! @who.int This is amazing work!
This. “Having a president—or an unelected billionaire—hold direct, granular control of nearly seven trillion dollars is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams. And… finding ways to use government to defund the opposition has been an effective opening salvo in the expansion of authoritarian rule.”
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This. “Having a president—or an unelected billionaire—hold direct, granular control of nearly seven trillion dollars is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams. And… finding ways to use government to defund the opposition has been an effective opening salvo in the expansion of authoritarian rule.”
As Dr. Cornel West put it, “Justice is what love looks like in public.” This is love in action, working to protect families, children, and all people who need gender affirming care.
BREAKING: Federal lawsuit filed challenging Trump's executive order against gender-affirming medical care for those under 19, as well as the Jan. 20 EOs funding ban.
The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
The lawsuit is backed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, Jenner & Block, and Hogan Lovells.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
February 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
As Dr. Cornel West put it, “Justice is what love looks like in public.” This is love in action, working to protect families, children, and all people who need gender affirming care.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
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January 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
January 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
Our health care system is just fine…. #UnitedHealth
UnitedHealth has overcharged some cancer patients for medicine by over 1,000%.
An FTC report finds that OptumRx, United Health's pharmacy benefit manager, has made billions by charging patients a huge markup for life-saving drugs.
www.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...
An FTC report finds that OptumRx, United Health's pharmacy benefit manager, has made billions by charging patients a huge markup for life-saving drugs.
www.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
www.yahoo.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Our health care system is just fine…. #UnitedHealth
The #anti-abortion movement doesn’t care how many adults die as a result of their abortion bans. They don’t want any record of their deaths either. The #pro-life movement is just one more deadly branch of the white supremacist tree.
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 10:08 PM
The #anti-abortion movement doesn’t care how many adults die as a result of their abortion bans. They don’t want any record of their deaths either. The #pro-life movement is just one more deadly branch of the white supremacist tree.
An Alabama native and pastor who calls Virginia home. I believe: *healthcare, housing, and food are human rights
*in full access to abortion care
*full rights for all LGBTQIA+ folks
*systemic racism and white supremacy have to be fought at all levels.
Here’s my Avatar, the Last Airbender tattoo.
*in full access to abortion care
*full rights for all LGBTQIA+ folks
*systemic racism and white supremacy have to be fought at all levels.
Here’s my Avatar, the Last Airbender tattoo.
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
An Alabama native and pastor who calls Virginia home. I believe: *healthcare, housing, and food are human rights
*in full access to abortion care
*full rights for all LGBTQIA+ folks
*systemic racism and white supremacy have to be fought at all levels.
Here’s my Avatar, the Last Airbender tattoo.
*in full access to abortion care
*full rights for all LGBTQIA+ folks
*systemic racism and white supremacy have to be fought at all levels.
Here’s my Avatar, the Last Airbender tattoo.
This. All of this.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.
And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.
Spoke to ABC about Nancy Mace’s bathroom bigotry on the Hill.
When we’re talking about discrimination, some rules need to be broken.
Trans folks aren't the threat; we’re under threat.
When we’re talking about discrimination, some rules need to be broken.
Trans folks aren't the threat; we’re under threat.
November 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM
This. All of this.
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When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.
apnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM
When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
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Make sure you save this, it's going to be extremely useful in the fight against reaction
Thank you @juliaserano.bsky.social for your work!
Thank you @juliaserano.bsky.social for your work!
this essay is full of actual research showing trans women pose no threat to cis women in restrooms & other sex-segregated spaces. if you encounter any cis ppl discussing/debating the Mace/McBride/congressional restroom fuckery, pls share this link with them:
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say
Content Warning: while I will not be describing any actual instances of sexual violence or child sexual abuse, these issues (and false…
juliaserano.medium.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Make sure you save this, it's going to be extremely useful in the fight against reaction
Thank you @juliaserano.bsky.social for your work!
Thank you @juliaserano.bsky.social for your work!