#Tim Alberta

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“There were some of these folks who didn’t see a grieving son,” Alberta said. “They saw a vulnerable adversary in that moment, someone who was on ‘the other side,’ and that’s heartbreaking. It’s not just heartbreaking because it was me and my dad’s funeral. It’s heartbreaking because this happened inside a sanctuary… It is a place set apart for the purpose of believers to come together and to worship and be one body in Christ. And this was not that.” [color emphasis added]

The sad thing is that many church sanctuaries in the evangelical community ARE places where pastors now push right-wing and pro-Trump political beliefs. To the "Christians" who attacked Alberta about his political beliefs, a church sanctuary was a perfectly normal place in which to do that.

Tim Alberta spoke in depth of how Donald Trump supporters accosted him during his father’s funeral over his various criticisms of the former president.

The Atlantic reporter joined NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday’s Meet The Press to talk about his new book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. In the book, Alberta speaks about the Christian values he held as the son of a pastor, Trump’s relationship with evangelicals, and how the Christian right has changed amid the former president’s political ascendance.

Alberta, in the book, wrote about his father’s death in 2019, and the memorial services his family held at the church where he grew up. In Alberta’s recollection, the remembrance took a turn for the worse when attendees repeatedly brought up Rush Limbaugh, who recently went after Alberta on his radio show over his “unflattering” Trump reporting.

From the book, via The Atlantic:

They kept on coming. More than I could count. People from the church—people I’d known my entire life—were greeting me, not primarily with condolences or encouragement or mourning, but with commentary about Limbaugh and Trump. Some of it was playful, guys remarking about how I was the same mischief-maker they’d known since kindergarten. But some of it wasn’t playful. Some of it was angry; some of it was cold and confrontational. One man questioned whether I was truly a Christian. Another asked if I was still on “the right side.” All while Dad was in a box a hundred feet away.

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Battle of Alberta: Rapid Fire Trivia

[kelticangel]

not an ask but i have a suggestion, i just learned there is a popular brand named 'no name' and if you can find one please make xar experience it and try these perfectly normal foods that look so different then what you would expect

Bwahaha!! I love this idea! 💜 No Name brand is such a thing

For the uninformed, my buddy Xarrior is coming to Canada to visit me in 10 days. I'm going to try and give them as many Canadian experiences as can be managed including:

- going to a rodeo

- trying Canadian foods and snacks

- going to the mountains

- axe throwing

We're gonna be livestreaming the Canadian foods one and they might make a tier list as we go (if I can figure out how to integrate it)

If you're at all curious, please come watch!! Streaming from YouTube on May 25 from 9am until noon MDT

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In total I've read 40 books this year: 4 re-reads and 36 new reads:

The Odyssey - Homer

Wellness - Nathan Hill

A Gift of Love - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Church Dogmatics II.2, §32 - 33 - Karl Barth

The Courage to Be - Paul Tillich

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor

Devotion - Patti Smith

White Evangelical Racism - Anthea Butler

Works of Love - Søren Kierkegaard

Encounters with Jesus - Timothy Keller

Genesis - Anonymous (reread)

Tom Lake - Ann Patchett

Modern Poetry - Dianne Seuss

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Jesus and John Wayne - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

St. Paul: A Screenplay - Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Death of Adam - Marilynne Robinson

One Way Back - Christine Blasey Ford

Till We Have Faces - CS Lewis (reread)

The Exvangelicals - Sarah McCammon

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory - Tim Alberta

Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges

Jack - Marilynne Robinson

Moral Man & Immoral Society - Reinhold Niebuhr

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

Proslogion - St. Anselm

Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte

Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond (reread)

Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler

A Boy and His Dog - Harlan Ellison

Exodus - Anonymous (reread)

Evangelical Anxiety - Charles Marsh

Silence - Shusaku Endo

Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen

That All Shall Be Saved - David Bentley Hart

Deliverance to the Captives - Karl Barth

top four reads of 2024

[thekanucklehead]

Canadians, remember those supremely shitty lids Tim’s used to have and how we all hated them? Isn’t it a cruel twist of fate they replaced them with even shittier ones?

[sonicmoremusic]

The 2023 Mariposa Folk Festival has Announced its Lineup

Tegan and Sara, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, The Wood Brothers, Rural Alberta Advantage, KT Tunstall, Wild Rivers, Judy Collins, Matt Andersen & the Big Bottle of Joy, Jeremy Dutcher, plus 39 more!  The Mariposa Folk Festival returns July 7 to 9 to Tudhope Park in Orillia with an amazing lineup.Nearly 50 acts were revealed today for the 2023 edition of the iconic music festival.Discover Your New…

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Why Alberta Is Bullying Its Cities

Progressive mayors in Edmonton and Calgary are being undermined for political gain

Punching at another government, party, or political opponent in response to criticism is standard fare in politics, especially in current times, where leaders like to zero in on people’s divisions. But what Alberta’s United Conservative Party government has taken to doing, unlike most other provincial governments, is punch downward at its big-city mayors as if they were opposition parties. Soon after the party’s 2019 provincial win, then justice minister Doug Schweitzer labelled Naheed Nenshi, who was mayor of Calgary at the time, as “Trudeau’s mayor.” In 2022, then premier Jason Kenney dismissed urbanites and city leaders who were vocally uncomfortable with his relaxed COVID-19 health measures as the “government-funded laptop class.”

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Jason Lin (@jasonlinillustration)

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Why Alberta Is Bullying Its Cities Progressive mayors in Edmonton and Calgary are being undermined for political gain The post Why Alberta Is Bullying Its Cities first appeared on The Walrus. https://thewalrus.ca/why-alberta-is-bullying-its-cities/

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snapshots from a campground near mystic peak, alberta - Chapter 2 - eyra - Harry Potter [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Harry Potter Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin Additional Tags: Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Modern Era, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Summer, Road Trips, Canada, Mountains, references to Tim Hortons, Friends to Lovers, There Was Only One Bed, There Was Only One Tent, Camping, Photography, Bears The campground was fantastic: a wide and sunny meadow dotted with a handful of tents and surrounded by knobbly pine trees, tall as houses, and with a sweeping view out over the valley and the jagged mountaintops beyond. That big blue sky, and everything painted in such golden sunlight that the whole place took on a warm and Kodaky sort of hue, like Sirius might’ve already photographed it on film with his grainy old second-hand lens. It's a Canadian roadtrip adventure! The perfect summer, apart from the way Remus is doing Sirius's head in, and the way Sirius can't figure out why.

more mountains, more bears, more teenage petulance. x

🐻 playlist here 🐻

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A former president of the Calgary Homeless Foundation says he is deeply concerned by the Alberta government’s recent decision to overhaul the funding scheme for organizations providing services to homeless people. Tim Richter, who served as the foundation’s president from 2008 to 2012 and who now leads the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, a national charity, says the change is dangerous and will lead to more people falling through the cracks. Under the current model, the foundation and six other non-profit and other organizations act as local hubs and receive a lump sum of government money, which they distribute to smaller organizations in their area.

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Election Day is Tuesday. And while plenty of politicos and pundits are out there predicting what will happen, the reality is that … nobody knows. The polls are super close, nationally and in the swing states. Forecasting models see the race as a coin flip.

But you can spot some clear storylines that say a lot about how the two presidential campaigns have unfolded so far, and that might even help explain the outcome after the fact. One of those storylines is the determination and enthusiasm of women who back Democrat Kamala Harris, including women who might be afraid to say so publicly because their husbands support Republican Donald Trump.

I first heard about this last week, in Michigan, while covering a campaign event for Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin. Slotkin said canvassers were reporting stops at houses with large Trump signs, where women would answer and ― when asked which candidate they were supporting ― would quietly point to a photo of Harris on the canvassers’ campaign literature.

Slotkin went on to say she’d been hearing of an organic campaign to put notes in bathroom stalls, reminding women that their votes are confidential and that they should vote like their daughters’ lives depend on it.

It all sounded a little apocryphal. But it turns out that there really is a sticker and sticky note campaign, and it has been underway for at least several weeks, as Ms. Magazine and then NBC News reported in September.

And though the movement appears to have started on its own and spread over social media, lately the underlying sentiment has been getting high-profile support from figures like former first lady Michelle Obama, who in a recent Harris campaign appearance said, “If you are a woman who lives in a household of men that don’t listen to you or value your opinion, just remember that your vote is a private matter.”

Are there enough hidden votes to change who wins a state? Probably not. But the emotional fuel for it, the determination of so many women to elect Harris over Trump, absolutely could prove decisive.

If that happens, it would be one of the more ironic twists in modern political history ― and one of the more fitting ones, too ― because a campaign pitting men against women is exactly the campaign Trump and his advisers wanted.

The Boys vs. Girls Election

It’s no secret that this year’s gender gap is shaping up to be the largest in memory, with polls showing men favoring Trump by double digits, and women favoring Harris by a similar margin. In many ways, that gap was preordained not because of who’s on the ballot, but what’s at stake ― the future of reproductive freedom, and one side that’s actively pushing to regress back toward restrictive gender roles and limited rights.

But instead of trying to counter that, Trump has leaned in.

On the eve of this summer’s Republican National Convention, even before President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and Harris became their party’s nominee, Trump campaign officials boasted about how they were hoping to create what Axios called a “boys vs. girls election,” with ”Donald Trump’s chest-beating macho appeals vs. Joe Biden’s softer, reproductive-rights-dominated, all-gender inclusivity.”

So powerful was this appeal, Trump’s campaign managers told The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, that Trump would manage to peel off some of the Black and Hispanic men who would traditionally vote Democratic, enough to offset losses among women. “For every Karen we lose, we’re going to win a Jamal and an Enrique,” one Trump ally had previously told Alberta.

The Trump campaign has unfolded just as his team promised ― which helps explain why, for example, Trump has spent the final weeks before the election appearing alongside former Fox News host Tucker Carlson (who recently suggested that the country needed Trump to be a “dad” who would deliver a “spanking”) while sidelining former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (who has been popular with independent female voters).

And the strategy may very well work. Polls have shown Harris struggling to hit the margins among Black and (especially) Hispanic men that previous Democrats have.

But the Trump gambit depends on winning over more men faster than he alienates women. And that’s hardly a safe bet. In just the last few years, the gender gap has been increasing at a faster pace than before, as my colleague Lilli Petersen explained recently.

Part of the reason for this shift is the Republican Party’s assault on reproductive freedom, culminating in the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling striking down its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and the enactment of abortion bans in multiple states. Trump has bragged about appointing the justices who made that ruling possible.

Trump, by all accounts, has come to understand that abortion is a political liability. That’s why over the past year he has, on occasion, suggested that some of the state bans go too far — or promised to protect access to in vitro fertilization, something at risk under abortion bans because it can involve the destruction of embryos. But with Trump being Trump, he’s been inconsistent and vague about what he would or wouldn’t support when it comes to reproductive rights.

And that’s not to mention the message his campaign has been sending about forcing adherence to traditional gender roles, in part with Trump’s selection of Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate. Vance’s past includes statements that women without children are “childless cat ladies” who have too much influence in politics, as well as suggestions that the sexual revolution made it too easy for women to leave bad marriages. After these comments came to light, Vance doubled down — essentially apologizing to cats, but not women.

A campaign determined to win over more women would have made a serious effort to walk back these statements, starting with an apology. Vance never offered one, and neither did Trump.

The Backlash And Its Potential

How is this all shaking out?

Overall, according to a recent Politico analysis, women are accounting for 55% of the early vote across battleground states. And in Pennsylvania, a state that many strategists consider the most important for each candidate, data suggests that early voting includes a relatively high proportion of Democratic women who did not vote there in 2020.

Early voting is a notoriously unreliable predictor of outcomes, for the simple reason that the data about who is voting doesn’t say that much about how they are voting, especially in an environment without solid baselines for comparison. Early voting did not become particularly widespread until 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with Trump advising his supporters not to vote by mail. (This year, he’s generally encouraged them to vote early if they can.)

But women are a larger proportion of the population and, historically, they have voted at higher rates too. Last month, political scientist and Brookings senior fellow Elaine Kamarck ran the numbers on different scenarios to see what would happen if women came out to vote in the same proportion as in 2020, given the latest polling numbers available. She found Harris would win Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — enough to win the election.

The underlying polling numbers are now a month old, plus there’s no way to know how accurate they were. And a significant increase in turnout among men could easily elect Trump, Kamarck went out of her way to note. But, she concluded, “if women’s turnout stays the same as in 2020, it could be a good year for Harris; if it increases, it could be a very good year for her.”

That’s why the intensity of Harris’ support among women is so important, and why I reached out to Nikki Sapiro Vinckier, a Democratic activist in the northern Detroit suburbs.

Sapiro Vinckier, 36, is an OB-GYN physician’s assistant and abortion-rights advocate. She’d volunteered for Democratic campaigns before, but after watching Trump’s 2024 campaign unfold ― and then seeing Harris become the Democratic nominee ― she started making her own lawn signs and, more recently, stickers that she’s distributing locally and through social media.

The stickers say: “Ladies, no one will know who you vote for. Vote for your daughters, your sisters, yourself. Vote Kamala.” Sapiro Vinckier told me she has already ordered more than 30,000 stickers and is on her way to distributing all of them.

Sapiro Vinckier said she knows she’s not the only one getting so involved. “You have women who are coming out in tremendous numbers to vote, but you also have women coming out in incredible numbers to organize,” she said.

There’s no way to know if Harris will end up prevailing. But if she does, stories like Sapiro Vinckier’s will probably be a big reason why.

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Jonathan Cohn at HuffPost:

Election Day is Tuesday. And while plenty of politicos and pundits are out there predicting what will happen, the reality is that … nobody knows. The polls are super close, nationally and in the swing states. Forecasting models see the race as a coin flip. But you can spot some clear storylines that say a lot about how the two presidential campaigns have unfolded so far, and that might even help explain the outcome after the fact. One of those storylines is the determination and enthusiasm of women who back Democrat Kamala Harris, including women who might be afraid to say so publicly because their husbands support Republican Donald Trump.

I first heard about this last week, in Michigan, while covering a campaign event for Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin. Slotkin said canvassers were reporting stops at houses with large Trump signs, where women would answer and ― when asked which candidate they were supporting ― would quietly point to a photo of Harris on the canvassers’ campaign literature. [...]

And though the movement appears to have started on its own and spread over social media, lately the underlying sentiment has been getting high-profile support from figures like former first lady Michelle Obama, who in a recent Harris campaign appearance said, “If you are a woman who lives in a household of men that don’t listen to you or value your opinion, just remember that your vote is a private matter.” Are there enough hidden votes to change who wins a state? Probably not. But the emotional fuel for it, the determination of so many women to elect Harris over Trump, absolutely could prove decisive. If that happens, it would be one of the more ironic twists in modern political history ― and one of the more fitting ones, too ― because a campaign pitting men against women is exactly the campaign Trump and his advisers wanted.

The Boys vs. Girls Election

It’s no secret that this year’s gender gap is shaping up to be the largest in memory, with polls showing men favoring Trump by double digits, and women favoring Harris by a similar margin. In many ways, that gap was preordained not because of who’s on the ballot, but what’s at stake ― the future of reproductive freedom, and one side that’s actively pushing to regress back toward restrictive gender roles and limited rights. But instead of trying to counter that, Trump has leaned in. On the eve of this summer’s Republican National Convention, even before President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and Harris became their party’s nominee, Trump campaign officials boasted about how they were hoping to create what Axios called a “boys vs. girls election,” with ”Donald Trump’s chest-beating macho appeals vs. Joe Biden’s softer, reproductive-rights-dominated, all-gender inclusivity.”

So powerful was this appeal, Trump’s campaign managers told The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, that Trump would manage to peel off some of the Black and Hispanic men who would traditionally vote Democratic, enough to offset losses among women. “For every Karen we lose, we’re going to win a Jamal and an Enrique,” one Trump ally had previously told Alberta. The Trump campaign has unfolded just as his team promised ― which helps explain why, for example, Trump has spent the final weeks before the election appearing alongside former Fox News host Tucker Carlson (who recently suggested that the country needed Trump to be a “dad” who would deliver a “spanking”) while sidelining former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (who has been popular with independent female voters). And the strategy may very well work. Polls have shown Harris struggling to hit the margins among Black and (especially) Hispanic men that previous Democrats have.

But the Trump gambit depends on winning over more men faster than he alienates women. And that’s hardly a safe bet. In just the last few years, the gender gap has been increasing at a faster pace than before, as my colleague Lilli Petersen explained recently.

[...]

The Backlash And Its Potential

How is this all shaking out?

Overall, according to a recent Politico analysis, women are accounting for 55% of the early vote across battleground states. And in Pennsylvania, a state that many strategists consider the most important for each candidate, data suggests that early voting includes a relatively high proportion of Democratic women who did not vote there in 2020. Early voting is a notoriously unreliable predictor of outcomes, for the simple reason that the data about who is voting doesn’t say that much about how they are voting, especially in an environment without solid baselines for comparison. Early voting did not become particularly widespread until 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with Trump advising his supporters not to vote by mail. (This year, he’s generally encouraged them to vote early if they can.) But women are a larger proportion of the population and, historically, they have voted at higher rates too. Last month, political scientist and Brookings senior fellow Elaine Kamarck ran the numbers on different scenarios to see what would happen if women came out to vote in the same proportion as in 2020, given the latest polling numbers available. She found Harris would win Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — enough to win the election.

Donald Trump got his wish of this election being fought on gender roles and reproductive freedom... but it won't turn out like how he wanted it to go.

Read the full story at HuffPost.

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Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

Here are three birds engraved in wood by members of the Wood Engravers Network (WEN): Spokane, Washington artist Gale Mueller; Cape Cod, Massachusetts printmaker Evan Charney; and Alberta, Canada engraver Jim Westergaard. These images are included in A Calendar of Days, 2011, published in Erin, Ontario by The Porcupine's Quill in 2011 in collaboration with WEN. The calendar includes fifteen reproductions of prints of wood engravings contributed by a variety of artists. The images were proofed letterpress in the traditional manner, then digitized and printed offset on a Heidelberg KORD by Tim Inkster at The Porcupine's Quill, noted for its expertise in using 20th-century offset technology to replicate the appearance of a 19th-century letterpress product.

View more engravings by members of the Wood Engraver’s Network.

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How I think characters from ghosts would vote in the US 2024 presidential election

- Sam & Jay vote for Kamala. They, along with June and Ally, are the only ones in the neighborhood to do so

- Alberta is 100% for Kamala. She loves the Jamaican rep and uses her TV time on interviews with her

- Hetty is still appalled by the fact that Sam *can* vote, but she has long-standing beef with the Trump family and she’s in her feminist era so she approves of Kamala (though it takes her a second and a *very* long conversation with Alberta to get there)

- Pete loves Tim Walz. Enough said

- Thorfinn doesn’t believe in democracy, so he really doesn’t care. Whoever’s not Danish has his vote

- Flower is for Kamala for obvious reasons, but she also remembers meeting a very snobby young adult Trump in New York in the 60s. She would somehow accidentally vote for Patience, the worm, though

- Isaac is thrilled every time an election rolls around. Watches every debate and televised rally. Hosts his own stump speeches to weigh the options out. He thinks anyone who votes red is for the redcoats and tries to get everyone to vote blue for the patriots. Though, when it comes down to it, he would write his name on the ballot if he could

- Sasappis doesn’t really care (since he can’t vote, because, dead) and often points out how flawed each candidate is. He would quietly vote for Kamala and watch the election drama unfold in the house

- Trevor initially remembers Trump as being cool in the 90s, but the second Sam catches him up to speed, he switches. He ends up voting somehow on the ipad & sells political merch for stocks

- Nigel is just annoyed by the "yankee" antics. And that the British elections don’t reach America. So Sam makes him some tea & promises to tell him when the UK elections are and he feels better

- Jenkins & Baxter literally have no clue what’s going on until Carol tells them. Carol strikes me as a Trumper

- Stephanie wouldn’t be old enough to vote. She would turn everyone against each other by telling them that someone in the house is against their vote, when, in fact, they’re not and go back to sleep before the results are even out

- Crash is missing for the entirety of the election

- Elias would vote for Trump and sends campaign emails out of Hell

- Patience thinks the election process is sinful and just prays the entire time

- Nancy & Stuart get into a fight & divide the cholera ghosts. They don’t even know who’s running

- Mark & his wife vote for Kamala. They're the only ones that are pretty normal about all this

- The Farnsbys own MAGA merch and donate to Trump’s campaign. They don’t understand the voting technology and just don’t vote. They play pickleball instead

- Randy (yes, the pickle guy) is surprisingly voting for Kamala. His pickle business wasn’t doing well under Trump and he blames the government for it. He also hears Jay is voting for her and he *has* to support his best friend