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Boorke Gutslinger

@bleaktheology.bsky.social

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Finishing a book on Joy Division, lament, & God. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Anti-fascist. UT-Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Episcolutheran. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · Feb 6

A Bleak Theology Guide to Resistance

Everything is terrible everywhere all at once. What to do? How to respond? Here is a Guide of ten things to help weather this storm. I hope that you will find this Guide helpful. It is a longer read, but I believe it is worth it. Take your time. Ruminate on it.…

A Bleak Theology Guide to Resistance

Everything is terrible everywhere all at once. What to do? How to respond? Here is a Guide of ten things to help weather this storm. I hope that you will find this Guide helpful. It is a longer read, but I believe it is worth it. Take your time. Ruminate on it. Share it. Peace be with you. First, for those who don't know, bleak theology is an…

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 3h

Our anniversary is 10/10/10, too. An excellent day eloping in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Congrats!

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 3h

Welcome to what disabled people have been saying for years.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

They want to kill us

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 4h

Well done, whoever created this.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

They're doing it in the most incompetent possible way, and I firmly believe that if we fight them we'll win. However, it really is a huge bummer that every Republican currently in power is openly trying to do Nazi Germany here

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Note: This isn't the first time the Trump admin has used an apparent AI-generated image prominently on a govt website.

They also appear to have done it on the "America Prays" website, which initially had an image of George Washington praying that differed oddly from the original painting (right).

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 6h

Glad to see the Senate could agree on ending the Iraq War this week....

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 6h

True intelligence gathering.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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."

Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 9h

I'm waiting for all the GOP Islamophobes to react.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

Quid Pro Qatar Quo

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 9h

I get the feeling that the progressive church is finally finding its theopolitical bearings after many decades of conceding Christianity to the evangelicals out of embarrassment and an inability to effectively respond to their bombastic claims and assertions.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

it'd be funny if Trump II gave us the rebirth of the social gospel and a woke Great Awakening

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11h

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

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Fortress Press @fortresspress.bsky.social · 10h

We're hiring! Are you passionate about books that inspire and empower others? Augsburg Fortress Publishers is seeking a dynamic Publicity Associate to join our collaborative team.

Apply here: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

Augsburg Fortress Publishers - Publicity Associate

Publicity Associate, Augsburg Fortress Publishers (Hybrid Work Model)Are you passionate about books that inspire and empower others? Augsburg Fortress Publishers is seeking a dynamic Publicity Associa...

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 9h

If it's baby blue, it's Metaxas.
If it's white, it's Marsh.
If it's grey, it's most likely Bethke.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 10h

The church in action.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Some clergy are begging to be allowed closer to the detention center to perform communion.

"You are preventing our religious freedom," someone in the crowd shouts.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Mark my words, "Toward an Inflatable Liberationist Theology" is gonna fill an auditorium at AAR.*

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 14h

Religion/politics/health people, NB.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

NEW: Florida's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo isn't just guided by science—his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

The latest from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 15h

I’m old enough to remember when they put Klan in Wolfenstein and no one batted an eye

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 17h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

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The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

".. World leaders seemingly caught on to Trump’s yearning for a Nobel as a way to the president’s heart, with the rulers of .. Pakistan, .. Azerbaijan, and Armenia, scoring points with him by stating publicly that he deserves it."

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White House Flips Out After Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump didn’t win the peace prize he so desperately wanted.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 16h

In 2017, antifa protected clergy at Charlottesville.

@cornelwest.bsky.social: The anti-fascists, and then, crucial, the anarchists, because they saved our lives, actually. We would have been completely crushed, and I’ll never forget that.

@democracynow.org

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Cornel West & Rev. Traci Blackmon: Clergy in Charlottesville Were Trapped by Torch-Wielding Nazis

We continue our roundtable discussion on violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend as thousands of neo-Nazis, KKK members and other white nationalists began descending on th...

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 17h

Large things in Lund:

Candelabra

Me standing next to a giant candelabra in Lund Cathedral

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 19h

If you do a keyword search in the ebook version of his Bonhoeffer "biography", you'll discover that he never uses the words "anti-fascist". He uses "anti-Nazi" and only uses the word "fascism" once, in a footnote.

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