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Thomas Lecaque

@tlecaque.bsky.social

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Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · May 22

Hi followers. In case you thought I was JUST a shitposter, I'm a historian, trained as a medievalist and working on the long eighteenth century, a college professor, and also for the last six years I've been writing about the far right. Primarily the religious far right, but not exclusively.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 9h

In the kindest way I can say this: scolding someone for their coping mechanisms, even when meant with the utmost of care and correct thought and feelings, provokes wild emotional responses that are unfair to your intentions.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10h

And no offense to all of you but I can write this here because the internet isn't real and if I say it out loud or pick up the phone to tell me friends or do anything at all I will have to accept it and I will break into a million pieces and I don't know if I will ever pull myself back together.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10h

It's not real and I keep waiting for someone to tell me it's visiting hours at the hospital or wherever he is but also I cannot walk downstairs at my parents house right now because he's dead in his bed and I'm saying goodbye to him because he's gone and thirty hours later I am still in shock.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 11h

My father is gone and there is a hole in the world that cannot ever be filled. And I am so numb right now, but I know that the grief behind it wants to swallow me whole.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 2d

Rutgers TPUSA says they don't condone harassment of anyone who opposes them, but I hear from colleagues that people who signed the petition calling for them to be banned are receiving email threats to publicize their home addresses if they don't remove their name and apologize.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Douthat and Wilson together? I'm ready for the apocalypse so at least no one is printing papers so no one is writing something that stupid.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

The circumcision tylenol autism bullshit out of MAHA feels like we're a week away from yet another overt "it was secretly the Jews!" full blown Nazi moment that the media will pretend isn't that.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

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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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 3d

Today in @damemagazine.bsky.social, the great media critic @parkermolloy.com on CBS's huge mistake in hiring Bari Weiss

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

www.damemagazine.com

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 3d

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

I want an FPS video game where you play as George Orwell but you get to win the Spanish Civil War by shooting all the Falangists, level after level after level.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Writing a video game about how actually vengeance is awesome.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

French tanks invading Nationalist Spain 35 days after the civil war starts is my favorite way to go, but to each their own.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know if you play Hearts of Iron 4 enough times you can kill Hitler, Mussolini and Franco as pretty much every single country? I really enjoy letting Leon Blum kill them in order of Franco-Mussolini-Hitler, but there's no wrong way to end fascism.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

God I love feeling seen. You're welcome!

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

They want their AI to slop out a Guernica for Chicago or Portland or wherever else.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Posobiec, among others. And fairly constantly.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Every time they say "communists!" they picture an International Brigade that they get to put down with tanks and bombers.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

What they really want is the Nazis to help them shoot you in a civil war where they win and everyone they hate gets to be called a communist and they can dump their bodies in mass graves across the countryside.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

They say they love Franco because they are correctly convinced you don't know what that means.

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Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social · 3d

Haven’t been able to visit Sacred Rebellion yet? Live too far from Boston to make it to the exhibition in person? Then mark your calendar for our next virtual exhibition tour on November 13th from 5-6 pm EST.

Learn more and register at congregationallibrary.org/events/sacre...

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 3d

Editing is love and editors want your writing to do what you want it to do and we will help you! ❤️

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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