Ian Campbell

Dad to Mateo & Luca, Husband to Katherine. Vermonter in the Old North State. 82nd ABN / Mason alum. Fan of economics and the Red Sox.

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

2 yrs with the woman who chairs my board of life advisors. Thanks for all the love, kindness, and guidance. Here's to many more years, Kitty

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

Evil.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report."

https://t.co/kcYOKjvA2H

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@DouthatNYT Was a tough listen. I really tried to listen to understand. But came away frustrated and upset with this constrained understanding of God’s love. Kudos for trying to highlight some important frictions.

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

JD Vance said *this* when the Access Hollywood Tape came out in which Trump bragged about groping women.

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

Big Dumper destiny.

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."

Lev 19:33-34

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Advancing a politics of abundance will require Democrats to have more conflicts with labor unions

[Holy Post Media @HolyPost_Media]

An empire built on fear - of immigrants, of losing control, of scarcity - is not part of the Kingdom of God. @shaneclaiborne at An Evening with the Holy Post: Philadelphia

[Megan K. Stack @Megankstack]

Details of El Salvador’s black box prison from Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

This is where our government sends people with no due process.

Social media influencers and US politicians get staged tours of CECOT and rave about how great it is.

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Anti-immigration sentiment, much more than anything else, is what unifies the modern Republican coalition

So when they have to defend their unpopular policies (kicking millions of *Americans* off Medicaid) they have to lie like this and pretend it’s actually about immigration

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New post: MAGA energy policy means raising electricity prices to own the libs

Sacrificing material prosperity for post-material politics used to be what I thought the far right called "woke." But this is exactly what the Big Beautiful Bill does on energy policy.

It singles out solar, storage, wind, etc for onerous punishment because these energy sources carry the whiff of Biden and climate change hippies, even as experts scream that BBB's policies will raise electricity prices at a time when electricity demand is surging.

If anything screams "sacrificing material wellbeing for post-material weirdness" it's forcing Americans to pay more for electricity because you're so blinded by hatred of any technology that codes as progressive. (And solar isn't even progressive! The Texas energy grid is adding renewables like crazy, because it's economical!)

I've seen @EricLevitz on this beat, as well, and I think it's remarkable. Some folks think about the GOP being too obsessed with economic efficiency and the Democratic Party as being too obsessed with identity. But on energy, GOP lawmakers have assigned solar the identity of "lib" and so they're willing to make our grids less efficient as long as they can own the libs.

[Andy Olsen @AndyROlsen]

An pastor filmed as ICE agents arrested two of his church members. He told the agents that the Iranian couple was fleeing religious persecution. They're asylum-seekers, he said. "It doesn't matter," one of the agents replied. My latest for @CTmagazine https://t.co/mUDctHgvdY

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

What are we doing??? Purple Heart veteran, living in the US since 7, joined army at 19, served honorably, a life not without blemishes but an American in all but papers, now pushed out to live in Korea which is not his home. Evil.
https://t.co/F9NDM3GZHw via @GoogleNews

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@nascarcasm My 3rd old is usually scared of mascots, but he walked up and gave you a hi-five. He must have sensed the chill casm vibes

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@nascarcasm @CLTMotorSpdwy Better pack a camelback in that nutsuit

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

Pure evil.

[Travis Fain @TravisFain]

“The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show.” https://t.co/qSRXJZDK1v

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@CampbellforNC I think you may be in the minority, unfortunately. I saw statewide candidates talk about killing/executing people in public forums the past cycle. And the party fervently supported them. We’re not having graceful conversations because we’re allowing the worst to represent us.

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@andrew_dunn Yes, but as a voter, I would love to have vis on that (like who is fuming at comment xyz vs who actually thinks it’s great). That’s information I’d like to have.

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@andrew_dunn I’m an unaffiliated voter. the Dems might have been baiting NC GOP when they ask them to denounce Morrow and Robinson, and it’s a political play. But for me, it reinforced the notion that most of the GOP have minimal moral backbone in the face of party politics. So baiting works.

[Ian Campbell @campbellGian]

@andrew_dunn I think that would let the GOP in NC off the hook a bit too easy. Barely anyone in leadership rebuked Michelle Morrow and Mark Robinson when they made vile comments. And these were statewide candidates. I think these are outputs of Trumps politics.