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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

There is a residue of virtue (and the friend I remember) in his clarity and unwillingness to lie about what he thinks. It’s just that what he thinks is horrifying.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

Anyway, I think I am going to buy an inflatable frog suit so that I don’t buy a firearm

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

I told her that it sounds like he might have some trouble fulfilling his oath to the US Constitution and should maybe resign from govt service.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

I cling to Lonergan’s definition of authority: the legitimate exercise of a community’s delegated power

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t want to make this about how Catholicism is very cool so I’ll start by admitting other communities have organs of judgment and intellectual norming. I can’t help but notice how useful it is to slow down a family member’s rant by gently citing bishops and Rome and other judgments.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 1h

Reminds me of a church dad who got radicalized into some double-predestination theology & kept sending me emails to try to persuade me to share his view.

But, like, my brother in Christ, isn’t it obvious I’m already among the reprobate if you have to send this email?

Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 2h

You shouldn’t vote now please agree with me — such a thing to say to your mom.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

Evil, stupid, etc.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

It’s a good question tho

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

Or anyway it meant to tell the church something about how to behave, rather than the state.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

My friend served in Iraq with the US Army before going into special forces and then to Afghanistan, and in many ways I think the person I grew up with died in those wars.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

When I was a young Hauerwas-ian post-liberal, at least I knew my views were un-American.

And, of course, I was a pacifist.

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

A childhood friend sent this to my *mom*:

“I’m a Christian Nationalist, rooted in God’s Word. I demand all illegal immigrants & H1B visa holders be removed to protect our nation’s sovereignty & biblical order. Secular, progressive, & communist ideologies must be eradicated, as…”

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

“…they defy God’s truth. I seek a unified Christian society where families thrive under God’s values. The 19th Amendment should be repealed. My identity is in Christ. I urge you to repent.”

So that’s… cool.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 2h

A childhood friend sent this to my *mom*:

“I’m a Christian Nationalist, rooted in God’s Word. I demand all illegal immigrants & H1B visa holders be removed to protect our nation’s sovereignty & biblical order. Secular, progressive, & communist ideologies must be eradicated, as…”

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 12h

this is the vibe I imagine for Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Roman soldiers trying to look tough and the city residents ostentatiously having a good time

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 12h

I think Portland has figured out how to make these guys look like complete idiots and I want all the cities to do this. Not telling you what to do… but. Everybody act like it’s the best wedding reception ever and/or a Thanksgiving Day parade.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 12h

this is the vibe I imagine for Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Roman soldiers trying to look tough and the city residents ostentatiously having a good time

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 13h

that must have been… an experience

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 13h

Me, losing an argument at Faculty Senate: “I don’t care if they are marketing majors; they should be required to take a metaphysics class!”

A medical technology ad & the copy reads “from improbable to possible”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

The issue is important not only to Abrego's case, but also in the context of expected vindictive prosecution motions from James Comey and Letitia James.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

Leftover university dining services baklava for dessert, btw.

Probably doesn’t even have real honey in it

🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, so I’m stirring some left over baked sweet potato into some left over chili bc in this house we Kill It With Calories™️

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, so I’m stirring some left over baked sweet potato into some left over chili bc in this house we Kill It With Calories™️

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone is an ultramontanist until the pope is bothering them about stuff and then it’s gallicanism all day.

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

In retrospect, the capitalization in that post is load bearing

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🎃👻 Jonathan Creeps 💀🎃 @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 16h

I try not to afflict the timeline with it, but just know I’m never beating the Wife Guy™️ allegations

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