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David M. Luebke

@davidmluebke.bsky.social

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Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · Nov 21

For new friends: I'm a historian who writes about the religious cultures and social movements of early modern Europe, mainly, 1500-1800, especially the Holy Roman Empire. Co-PI in the "Shared Churches Project." Faculty union activist. My latest:

www.bloomsbury.com/us/empires-r...

The Empire’s Reformations

The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 9h

Our very own Heydrich

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Stephen Miller Has ‘Central Role’ Probing Liberal Groups

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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Anne Golden @annegolden.bsky.social · 4d

The lawyers whom Tr*mp has forced into court to prosecute Comey, in violation of law, facts, and ethics, will be destroyed. He ruins the people who refuse to obey him, and he is ruining the people who do obey him. The only answer is to join the resistance.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 20h

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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 1d

go.bsky.app/GdCBou3

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Following! 💙💙💙

David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Our Dale is very much not into STFU

David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

At least he's honest about it.

David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Here's how one pastor celebrated the Gaza ceasefire.

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, Monty Hall was really good at what he was really good at...

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

Good thing he's not immune from prosecution

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that the last few months have done is shown us with clarity is who among us would have hidden Anne Frank & her family and who would have turned them in to the Nazis

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 3d

"BREAKING: A librarian fired by in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.
"-op unknown

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

Proudboys

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

TikTok video by Ms RK

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

Baghdad Bob would be so proud

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d

The propaganda is strong.

Antifa is a made-up name for anyone that isn’t republican, strives for true freedom, democracy, equal rights & inclusion for all.

Unfortunately, when you keep repeating a lie, people believe it.

Via The Elephant Journal on FB

#Pinks

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

Evidently, the Epstein Files are so damaging that the regime and its minions are willing to provoke a constitutional crisis to prevent their release.

#EpsteinFiles

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Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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Muddy Waters @muddywater1.bsky.social · 3d

They have no fucking clue! The attacks on our democracy are bad enough but it is fucking humiliating that the attacker are so damned stupid!

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

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“Suspending who?”

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 3d

Can't ignore the historic irony of his destination

a man in a tuxedo is giving a speech in front of microphones with the word rtve on them .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is giving a speech in front of microphones with the word rtve on them .

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Rita Moore @ritamoore.bsky.social · 3d

If the Oregon case is going to hinge on whether protests satisfy the definition of "rebellion" as a predicate for federalizing the NG, why can't the plaintiffs reference Trump's refusal to call in the NG on Jan 6 despite a seizure of the Capitol by thousands vs Wizard Frog & Chicken Man?

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 3d

If you're wondering whether the Tr•mp regime's rule-by-extortion plan for higher education is even legal, please this analysis by constitutional scholars Amanda Shanor and Serena Mayeri. Shared with permission.

#Tyranny
#edusky
#WarOnEducation

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7yvlz...

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 3d

We are all Mark Bray. If this can happen to him, it can happen to you.

#Solidarity

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 3d

His life turned upside down, Bray no longer felt safe in the United States and attempted to fly with his family to Spain. After checking his bags through security, he was informed before boarding that his reservation had been canceled. By whom, you ask? No one is saying.

#Fascism

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 3d

He was denounced by those nice kids over at TPUSA, who circulated a petition to get him fired from Rutgers University. FOX picked up on the story and Bray became the target of doxxing and death threats.

#TPUSA
#FOX

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