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Pod Only Knows: https://t.co/trNqc2taVI 1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql Religious studies person I once worked for RFK Jr (derogatory) BLM Anti-fascism forever Trans rights are human rights Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard He/Him

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

It's Taylor Swift Album Week! (Or so I'm told)

This week, Kelly and I talk about the Christian right's obsession with Taylor-as-TradWife, Pete Hegseth's love of massacres, and bid a sad farewell to recurring character Ryan Walters!

Here or wherever you get podcasts!

#055 – Taylor Swift: Christian TradWife Extraor... by Pod Only Knows

Kelly and John talk about the right's obsession with the idea that Taylor Swift is secretly, deep down one of them!

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 9m

The journey from the transformational horror of processing Columbine 25 years ago to just being like "Oh, good, only four people died" after every mass shooting today sure has been wild.

4 Dead In Shooting After Homecoming Football Game In Mississippi, Official Says

“People were just congregating and having a good time in the downtown of Leland,” said Mississippi state Sen. Derrick Simmons.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 6h

Alex Jones's agonizing attempts to land on a reason why Trump's betrayal on the Epstein files weren't enough to justify abandoning him nearly broke him.

This could well be the death blow.

The only way Alex gets around this is to pretend it never happened.

Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 18h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve said this on here before but my “reformed” church brining this guy (Wilson) to speak in 1997 was the first massive red flag telling me I’d gotten myself into a situation I needed to get out of.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 16h

Here's how the "peace deal" is going to go:

-Hamas releases the hostages
-Trump and Republicans demand Trump be endlessly praised for the peace deal
-Israel violates the deal
-Hamas abandons the deal in response
-Netanyahu declares he is done with trying, levels Gaza, turns it into a Trump resort

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 17h

Now do his brain age, ask about his brain age!

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 17h

Paychecks are not Warrior Mentality

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 17h

President bravely exposes himself to autism in effort to demonstrate dangers of vaccines.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 17h

Also fuck FIFA for sportswashing Qatar with the World Cup

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

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MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Qatar would build an Air Force base in Idaho.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

I really need to know why every single conservative in America has such a strong working knowledge of what's going on with young college women.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

Well he is...

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

Doing an Aung San Suu Kyi in record time

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

I mean I'm glad Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize but I am not super excited that the person who did win it has been going "Mr Trump please murder more Venezuelan fishermen with American missiles" since it was announced

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

Wheels

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

Famously people who don't want a king hate America

Republicans Call 'No Kings' Protest A 'Hate America' Rally, Suggest Terror Link

"The Antifa crowd and the pro-Hamas crowd and the Marxists, they're all going to gather on the Mall," Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said of pro-democracy groups.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 20h

They’ve long had it out for Portland.

This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA

And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.

youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...

medium.com/@philmandelb...

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18h

AJ Pierzynski is the most loveable unlikable person who ever lived

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 19h

Oh interesting has anything like this ever happened and been diaried about anywhere at any point in history?

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, you can't talk less your way to ABUNDANCE!

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously?

Jesus Christ what a fucking dork.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

It's gonna be really fun dismantling all this fucking bullshit after the 2nd American Revolution

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

we should come up with a word for people who are anti-antifascism

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

I prevented World War III as evidenced by the fact that there is no World War III currently happening and yet they gave it to some lady who's not even from here because of woke.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Your jokes about Trump are extremely insensitive to those of us who are also bereft that we didn’t get the Nobel peace prize

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Yay!

But also, no, he's not a communist.

He's taking pages from the playbooks people like Stalin and CCP used to do things like consolidate their own power and enrich themselves by using the power of the state to reap a share of corporate profits but, uh, that's not what communism is

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, The Las Vegas Sun newspaper, @lasvegassun.bsky.social, is calling it like it is:

🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Technically this is true of anyone who goes on the Haunted Mansion ride

Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 1d

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Disneyland Guest Dies After Haunted Mansion Ride

A woman in her 60s experienced a health issue after riding Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in California. She required CPR and was soon pronounced dead.

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but what role did she play in ending the Albania-Azerbaijan war?

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump