Charlie Collier
@charliecollier.bsky.social
Editor, theology and ethics, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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They’ve lost the plot on tradition and therefore what is “traditional,” it’s very frustrating. Read ANY pope discussing THE POOR.
As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”
As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’
Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
They’ve lost the plot on tradition and therefore what is “traditional,” it’s very frustrating. Read ANY pope discussing THE POOR.
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"Pam Bondi doesn't think she's in an oversight hearing. She believes that she' the personal lawyer to the president."
And that's OK with all the GOP senators—who overlook not oversee—as well elite media & culture in general.
It's MASS public opinion, MASS MOBILIZED that will save us. #NoKings
And that's OK with all the GOP senators—who overlook not oversee—as well elite media & culture in general.
It's MASS public opinion, MASS MOBILIZED that will save us. #NoKings
"Where's everyone else?"
Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.
Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Pam Bondi doesn't think she's in an oversight hearing. She believes that she' the personal lawyer to the president."
And that's OK with all the GOP senators—who overlook not oversee—as well elite media & culture in general.
It's MASS public opinion, MASS MOBILIZED that will save us. #NoKings
And that's OK with all the GOP senators—who overlook not oversee—as well elite media & culture in general.
It's MASS public opinion, MASS MOBILIZED that will save us. #NoKings
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France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there
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What a perfect formulation:
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What a perfect formulation:
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.
OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
September 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
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Absolute fucking hysteria from the free speech guys.
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Absolute fucking hysteria from the free speech guys.
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No FBI director has ever behaved like this.
Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA) asks Kash Patel if Patel told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump's name was in the Epstein files
This was what happened next =====>
This was what happened next =====>
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
No FBI director has ever behaved like this.
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“None of us should celebrate political violence, because it’s a threat to all of us,” says Mehdi Hasan following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Mehdi Hasan: Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left
President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established, Trump has escalated his attacks ...
www.democracynow.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“None of us should celebrate political violence, because it’s a threat to all of us,” says Mehdi Hasan following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
But don’t call them Nazis.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
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“I say I’m a pacifist because I am a violent son of a bitch.”
I think about this Stanley Hauerwas quote a lot. I'm not a pacifist because I hate violence. I'm a pacifist because I can feel what a stranglehold violence has on me, and I need to fight against it with everything in me
I think about this Stanley Hauerwas quote a lot. I'm not a pacifist because I hate violence. I'm a pacifist because I can feel what a stranglehold violence has on me, and I need to fight against it with everything in me
September 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“I say I’m a pacifist because I am a violent son of a bitch.”
I think about this Stanley Hauerwas quote a lot. I'm not a pacifist because I hate violence. I'm a pacifist because I can feel what a stranglehold violence has on me, and I need to fight against it with everything in me
I think about this Stanley Hauerwas quote a lot. I'm not a pacifist because I hate violence. I'm a pacifist because I can feel what a stranglehold violence has on me, and I need to fight against it with everything in me
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The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom
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Exactly. Conservative attacked critical race theorists not because said theorists were wrong but because their scholarship showed exactly how racist and classist the Court has tended.
In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Exactly. Conservative attacked critical race theorists not because said theorists were wrong but because their scholarship showed exactly how racist and classist the Court has tended.
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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The law, in its majestic equality…
So whether you're mowing lawns, repairing roofs or mopping floors, just carry your passport and visa in your locked Gucci briefcase or Kate Spade purse, like the rest of us do.
Among myriad problems with this ruling, can we pause to appreciate the childlike naïveté exhibited by Cavanaugh on the barely-worth-mentioning inconvenience of being detained and interogated by ICE? We are approaching Plessy levels of obtuseness, or feigned obtuseness.
September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The law, in its majestic equality…
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Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.
on.wsj.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
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"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say 'this was a crime, see,' so now I can't claim 100%..."
not that there's any additional context needed to make this sound bad, but Donald Trump's first wife is among those who have accused him of rape
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
not that there's any additional context needed to make this sound bad, but Donald Trump's first wife is among those who have accused him of rape
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump questions whether 'lesser' crimes such as domestic violence should count toward DC crime statistics
Trump said "things that take place in the home" prevent crime from going down.
abcnews.go.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say 'this was a crime, see,' so now I can't claim 100%..."
not that there's any additional context needed to make this sound bad, but Donald Trump's first wife is among those who have accused him of rape
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
not that there's any additional context needed to make this sound bad, but Donald Trump's first wife is among those who have accused him of rape
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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got to hand a stranger some cop-demoralizing business cards yesterday after I gave a nearby cop one and told him to quit his job. cop-demoralizing business cards are for everyone!
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www.katiemcvay.com/s/Quit-your-...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
got to hand a stranger some cop-demoralizing business cards yesterday after I gave a nearby cop one and told him to quit his job. cop-demoralizing business cards are for everyone!
www.katiemcvay.com/s/Quit-your-...
www.katiemcvay.com/s/Quit-your-...
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An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...
“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years
As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of
boltsmag.org
July 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...