The least of his worries. reuters.com/business/media…

I'm thinking the only reason the Trump admin would do this is if they had a pretty good case against him. I expect this to be an I-told-you-so parade: nytimes.com/live/2025/06/0…

My latest essay dives into YouTube theology, literary theory, and why Protestant and Catholic debates are really about how meaning works. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/benporterw… #SolaScriptura #Theology #ChristianTwitter #BibleStudy #CatholicTwitter #ProtestantTwitter #Philosophy

Brian Wilson was the closest thing we had to Mozart. God rest his soul.

“America…The ultimate test of your greatness in the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenceless ones.”

Tomorrow, fix yourself a lunch of frito pie and come hang out with #CaraMeredith and me while we talk all things church camp! Substack live at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET // #churchcamp #evangelical #exvangelical #summercamp #youthgrouptrip #youthgroup #churchkid

The disconnect here is the public-private difference was an invention of liberalism. So, you can't be for it and call yourself post-liberal. Also, it was by appeal to the private that Hayek and others wanted the public to be infused by the market. This is why I think the new

Nothing says stability like replacing an entire local construction industry, the income to their families and its cash flow to those communities, with a single consumer product made by corporations…

Grateful for this piece from Elizabeth Kaye Cook in Literary Hub today, and grateful to @clmporg for surfacing it. It’s a bleak time for small presses and lit mags—remember to support the ones you love. We really are all each other’s got. #litmags #funding lithub.com/on-the-future-…

The ecstatic suicide of avarice on a municipal scale.

How did I become an independent author after 20 years with traditional presses? Selling a book to Mysterious Press, revising it for 1.5 years to make them happy, only to have them cancel the contract. That’s how. It’s the anniversary of that sale. Link to my book is below. ✍️🙂

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination

I'm no Charlie Kirk fan. But what a terrible thing. God rest his soul.

I just wrote six pages its taken me a year to write. Damn.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life. A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation. No more political violence.

I think this is right: in a neoliberal scheme, that which is private is morally neutral. But this turns Catholics into hypocrites who practice vice online.

However you think about politics, it should be obvious that 50 years ago, both sides were much smarter and interesting. youtube.com/watch?v=vBpoZB…

Now that’s a tweet.

Its not a coincidence that you can see the exact configuration of fentanyl addicts stumbling across the road about a mile away.

Sad to hear D'Angelo is gone. Voodoo is such a great album. This is a fascinating interview of D'Angelo I've been listening to today:youtube.com/watch?v=3OEzt6…