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Eric the Red 🌹✝️

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Autistic Episcopalian Marxist Mystic Geek. Member of DSA 🖖 (He/Him/His)

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · Mar 25

My latest on reflecting like Augustine on our current Imperial collapse, discussing Christian nationalism, bad theology, and our Lenten journey towards making and building a better world on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Earth & Altar @earthandaltarmag.com · Mar 25

“In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall.”

Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.

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THE EARTHLY CITY ON A HILL — Earth and Altar

In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall. All great nations go through the entropy of history. We are not immune to th...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Good for you.

Everyone else: Watch DS9. Let the Bell Riots radicalize you.

countblanc @countblanc.bsky.social · 15h

i'm working my way through Deep Space 9 for the first time right now and just bumped into an episode that takes place in 2024 America where the boys participate in an armed civil uprising. lol.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 13h

When we live through difficult times it can be easy to succumb to despair, to see nothing but darkness on the horizon. But one day, in happier times, songs will be sung of those who persevered. Strive to be sung about as one who brought hope, as one who carried light over that horizon.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 14h

to be fair to Trump, the White House feed from Portland was accidentally mapped to the yule-log channel on the executive tv remote, hence the confusion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 14h

The Kingdom of God is like someone who owned a dog......

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Troy @troysnoise.bsky.social · 14h

It's hard to overstate how much the wealthy and the powerful hate Liberation Theology. Noam Chomsky gives a pretty great summary of its in place in the world in about 6 minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDG...

Chomsky on Religion

YouTube video by Travis Kitchens

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 14h

bender from futurama says " that 's right "

ALT: bender from futurama says " that 's right "

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 14h

Especially given that the word “robot” itself DERIVES FROM THE FUCKING CZECH TERM FOR “DRUDGERY” & “SERVITUDE”

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the...

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The Big Bad Wolf @tbbw1.bsky.social · 14h

"When you strike The Frog with pepper balls, it [splits into a swarm of frogs or calls up all the other frogs in the land]."

There's some debate over the text. 🤣🐺

The Portland frog standing defiant against tyranny.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 14h

"Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs." - Exodus 8:1b-2

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 14h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

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Troy @troysnoise.bsky.social · 14h

"'I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the Church and for society,' the pope wrote, echoing the language of Latin American liberation theologians who coined the term "preferential option for the poor."

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 23h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 14h

The fact that these goons - the footsoldiers of the counter revolution - are already at total apathy nine months in is a clear sign We Are Going To Win

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller's slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 16h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 15h

It's an absolute fourth quarter touchdown.

Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 15h

Trump finally got Loomered! lmao

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15h

Far-right influencer and informal Trump advisor Laura Loomer fired intense, damning criticism of the Trump administration for gifting Qatar an Air Force base in Idaho Friday afternoon.

Trump’s Biggest Ally Turns On Him Over Shocking Move

“I am not voting in 2026 and won’t be able to encourage others to vote either,” Laura Loomer said.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 15h

Portland Frog over Pepe the Frog, now and always

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

daylight terror by secret police, pogroms as state policy

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 18h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.