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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

Douthat is a great interviewer. He gives his subjects room to sound ridiculous without attempting to "gotcha."

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

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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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 2d

In fairness, Obama won the prize because of his campaign

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 3d

cc @epicciuto.bsky.social

Tweet about the third amendment allowing businesses to refuse to grant ICE access to bathrooms

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 4d

Tweets from the 2001 NFL draft

Pack2010 @pack2010.bsky.social · 4d

I think there's a reason why the cardinals chose Leo

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d

There are ways to challenge the design and funding burden of foreign aid that don’t involve suddenly pulling the rug out from under starving people.

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Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · Oct 26

What an amazing showcase for contemporary Major League Baseball, and here to tell you all about it is the man who hates it most, John Smoltz

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 4d

This doesn't mean that I was wrong about the left. It just means that everything totally sucks

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 4d

Kind of sucks tbh

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Saoirse Like Inaoirse @headasploding.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not sure what the objection is regarding Senators being part of a criminal investigation when there is reasonable cause. It speaks to the integrity of the investigation that, as far as I know, nothing politically damaging or materially irrelevant to the Jan 6 case was leaked about any Senator.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 7d

Baseball on the radio is still sublime, almost co-equal with television (in the right hands, er, voice), and almost every MLB team has a great radio booth

Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 7d

caught the end of the tigers win old-school style: on am radio on the way back from a wedding

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 9d

I have a solution

Winnie the Pooh meme. Slob Winnie is “Gifted and Talented”
Tuxedo Winnie is “Differentiated Instruction”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 9d

This whole aesthetic is disgusting and disturbing.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

Impeachment is the constitutional remedy, but strong party loyalty has destroyed it as a viable path.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

They're bulldozing through the Hatch Act. But they're doing that with a lot of laws. Because they know that no one will hold them accountable.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

At the end of the day, the voters are sovereign, and they tolerate this. They *should* be much more punitive, but they're not. It's a genuine problem.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

I appreciate how this article highlights this is illegal, that nobody is holding the administration accountable to the fact that it is committing crimes, and that in committing crimes they're lying in other people's names.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 10d

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

@natashakorecki.bsky.social + @aterkel.bsky.social + Monica Alba + Matt Dixon:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

And then it becomes, "Well, what autonomy *can* I give them, under the circumstances? Can they decide WHERE we cross the street? Or which way we go to a place?"

Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

Example: I won't let my kids cross the street by themselves, because they might get run over by a car. That's a strong basis.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

Strong party loyalty plus weak parties is the toxic sauce.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10d

Jesus Fucking Christ

This is the goddamn Senate Majority Republican Leader being like "please just give him what he wants we can't stop him from destroying everything"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

“.. This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

My baseline for parenting (and most interactions with children): if I treated a colleague or adult this way, would I be being fair to them? If I have to treat them differently, do I have a *really* strong basis for it?

Wasting 30 hours a week of a kid's time isn't something I would do to an adult.

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 10d

I don't care about studies on outcomes tbh (all studies are fake), the fact is that it's incredibly wasteful and disrespectful to everyone's time to force kids to sit in class and not learn anything.

There will always be *some* kids like that, but if it's more than one or two, let them run ahead.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 10d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 10d

I don't care about studies on outcomes tbh (all studies are fake), the fact is that it's incredibly wasteful and disrespectful to everyone's time to force kids to sit in class and not learn anything.

There will always be *some* kids like that, but if it's more than one or two, let them run ahead.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 10d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 10d

Not the worst sin of the Trump era, but certainly among them.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11d

Gift link wapo.st/46GSwcv

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 12d

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Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 12d

Trump chortling about poor fishermen not being able to make a living is just totally execrable. Biblical symbolism everywhere.

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