David Schell
@davidms.bsky.social
Storyteller. Writer. Blogger. Lover. #PCUSA Pastor in Jackson, Michigan. He/him. M.Div,
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. davidmschell.com.
I don't believe in automatic follow-backs.
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. davidmschell.com.
I don't believe in automatic follow-backs.
Ah yes, arresting journalists for journalism always goes so well and is never a sign of increasing authoritarianism...
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
January 30, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Ah yes, arresting journalists for journalism always goes so well and is never a sign of increasing authoritarianism...
In context, this verse is about how to treat people who lie about other people to try to cause them harm. Like he's doing.
He's said elsewhere that his bachelor's in biblical studies was a big waste of time, and based on this post I'm inclined to agree with him.
He's said elsewhere that his bachelor's in biblical studies was a big waste of time, and based on this post I'm inclined to agree with him.
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 PM
In context, this verse is about how to treat people who lie about other people to try to cause them harm. Like he's doing.
He's said elsewhere that his bachelor's in biblical studies was a big waste of time, and based on this post I'm inclined to agree with him.
He's said elsewhere that his bachelor's in biblical studies was a big waste of time, and based on this post I'm inclined to agree with him.
It's ironic to see the same people justifying the regime deporting migrants because a few people who have the same immigration status killed people, while giving ICE agents who themselves shot and killed people in broad daylight in front of witnesses with cameras the benefit of the doubt.
January 28, 2026 at 12:20 PM
It's ironic to see the same people justifying the regime deporting migrants because a few people who have the same immigration status killed people, while giving ICE agents who themselves shot and killed people in broad daylight in front of witnesses with cameras the benefit of the doubt.
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The Minnesota Star Tribune is following reports of individual ICE incidents as we learn of them. Find updates here. Tips can be emailed to [email protected].
New bursts of ICE activity as Minnesota surge spreads beyond Minneapolis, St. Paul
As the Department of Homeland Security undertakes stepped-up immigration enforcement in Minnesota, arrests and other confrontations have been popping up in more locations.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Minnesota Star Tribune is following reports of individual ICE incidents as we learn of them. Find updates here. Tips can be emailed to [email protected].
There's been a lot of concern about polarization but what's not being taken into account is how much more and more extreme the right keeps getting. At this point a moderate position from fifteen years ago would be considered polarized vs the modern right, who are defending kidnappers.
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 AM
There's been a lot of concern about polarization but what's not being taken into account is how much more and more extreme the right keeps getting. At this point a moderate position from fifteen years ago would be considered polarized vs the modern right, who are defending kidnappers.
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In a way sure, but while the US kept Hollywood style Nazis alive and made Germany look bad, we here in Europe have moved on and we respect Germans. I am a neighbor of them.
Germans have dealt with their past and educated their youth, US not so much about their racist past.
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Germans have dealt with their past and educated their youth, US not so much about their racist past.
bsky.app/profile/13bu...
Oh another wake up call for my American audience, since you forgot history.
"America First" is a KKK reference from the 1920s march.
The Nazies liked the KKK so much, they took their ideology of white supremacy, but changed it so it would it would be more adopted widely.
"America First" is a KKK reference from the 1920s march.
The Nazies liked the KKK so much, they took their ideology of white supremacy, but changed it so it would it would be more adopted widely.
January 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
In a way sure, but while the US kept Hollywood style Nazis alive and made Germany look bad, we here in Europe have moved on and we respect Germans. I am a neighbor of them.
Germans have dealt with their past and educated their youth, US not so much about their racist past.
bsky.app/profile/13bu...
Germans have dealt with their past and educated their youth, US not so much about their racist past.
bsky.app/profile/13bu...
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Last week's episode of "The USA" felt a little over the top. I mean, having the Gestapo analogues kill a woman named "Renee Good" feels kinda on the nose, don't you think? Are the writers getting lazier this season? And what happened to the Venezuela plotline they introduced the week before???
January 11, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Last week's episode of "The USA" felt a little over the top. I mean, having the Gestapo analogues kill a woman named "Renee Good" feels kinda on the nose, don't you think? Are the writers getting lazier this season? And what happened to the Venezuela plotline they introduced the week before???
Making America whiter again won't make America great.
What really gives the game away is how the “return America to its glorious past” crowd never suggests reforming immigration to the beautiful 19th-century system of Ellis Island, before the modernist Immigration Act destroyed it in the decadent Roaring 20s.
Immigration is good, actually.
Pass it on.
Immigration is good, actually.
Pass it on.
Immigration is good, actually.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Making America whiter again won't make America great.
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Thank you @r-emrys.bsky.social for writing /A Half-Built Garden/. I very much enjoyed reading it and your vision of the future. I keep thinking we have to imagine better and you and your network did that so well!
January 11, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Thank you @r-emrys.bsky.social for writing /A Half-Built Garden/. I very much enjoyed reading it and your vision of the future. I keep thinking we have to imagine better and you and your network did that so well!
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Her name was Renee Good. She was only 37. She was a mother of a 6 year old child. And today in Minneapolis, MN, an ICE fascist shot her dead point blank.
Sending all my love to her child and her family.
Abolish ICE. Abolish fascism. Abolish tyranny.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
Sending all my love to her child and her family.
Abolish ICE. Abolish fascism. Abolish tyranny.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
January 8, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Her name was Renee Good. She was only 37. She was a mother of a 6 year old child. And today in Minneapolis, MN, an ICE fascist shot her dead point blank.
Sending all my love to her child and her family.
Abolish ICE. Abolish fascism. Abolish tyranny.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
Sending all my love to her child and her family.
Abolish ICE. Abolish fascism. Abolish tyranny.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
My dear Wormwood,
It is imperative that you keep the patient away from doing anything to improving the material conditions of his neighbors, by any means necessary. Call it socialism, call it woke, call it politics, whatever is needful. (1/6)
It is imperative that you keep the patient away from doing anything to improving the material conditions of his neighbors, by any means necessary. Call it socialism, call it woke, call it politics, whatever is needful. (1/6)
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My dear Wormwood,
It is imperative that you keep the patient away from doing anything to improving the material conditions of his neighbors, by any means necessary. Call it socialism, call it woke, call it politics, whatever is needful. (1/6)
It is imperative that you keep the patient away from doing anything to improving the material conditions of his neighbors, by any means necessary. Call it socialism, call it woke, call it politics, whatever is needful. (1/6)
The unmitigated irony of DHS buying ads against human trafficking WHILE DOING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The unmitigated irony of DHS buying ads against human trafficking WHILE DOING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
I love that Cuomo is calling Sliwa a spoiler. Does he not understand how ranked choice voting works?
...or is he just hoping NYC Republicans don't understand how it works?
...or is he just hoping NYC Republicans don't understand how it works?
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I love that Cuomo is calling Sliwa a spoiler. Does he not understand how ranked choice voting works?
...or is he just hoping NYC Republicans don't understand how it works?
...or is he just hoping NYC Republicans don't understand how it works?
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"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked."
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You know who had a secret Police?
Who also spied
and kidnapped people
The Queen of Narnia
She was evil
and didn't like humans either
I'm on the side of the Beavers
And welcome back any Fauns
who change their minds
Who also spied
and kidnapped people
The Queen of Narnia
She was evil
and didn't like humans either
I'm on the side of the Beavers
And welcome back any Fauns
who change their minds
June 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
You know who had a secret Police?
Who also spied
and kidnapped people
The Queen of Narnia
She was evil
and didn't like humans either
I'm on the side of the Beavers
And welcome back any Fauns
who change their minds
Who also spied
and kidnapped people
The Queen of Narnia
She was evil
and didn't like humans either
I'm on the side of the Beavers
And welcome back any Fauns
who change their minds
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Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.
Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.
Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
June 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.
Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.
Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
If the daily show is correct, it's footage of a very obscure transgender athlete who plays a very obscure sport in a foreign country.
My... unfortunate first and immediate grim thought was: "... What's exactly on Fox News rn for him saying this at 6:30PM"
solely b/c of how often this has happened before
:/
solely b/c of how often this has happened before
:/
June 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If the daily show is correct, it's footage of a very obscure transgender athlete who plays a very obscure sport in a foreign country.
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Important thread:
May 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Important thread:
If boredom not hunger then why hunger shaped?
May 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If boredom not hunger then why hunger shaped?