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Duane Larson 💙

@duanelarson.bsky.social

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Seasoned (but not too old to laugh) blue theologian on Iowa's red east coast. I write on political theology, religion&science, #MoralInjury, more, sing Bach to Rock, & dote on my Westie. #EndALS. It killed my wife. DMing me not knowing me = blocked.

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 7h

Superb word choice! As if Johnson is both bloodless and sanguine.

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 8h

@magachurchpastor.bsky.social Where've you been? Need you back on the front line (so we with foot mildew don't have to go there).

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Good people cry.

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 1d

I guess she doesn't have any photo-taking drones in her fake beauty arsenal.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Much of the public, and apparently White House, doesn't know that many of the US military's general and flag officers are intellectuals. Study history and theory, get that war, politics, economics, and culture intertwine, etc.

Or maybe the White House does, and that's what they're trying to change.

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 10d

Quite the allusion to the first two American atom bombs!

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 10d

Hegseth today. All you who want a criminal military, say "sir, yes sir!"

"We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 10d

Yes indeed!

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 11d

I learned more from him than he intended. Best part of the class was that equally famed Hubert Dreyfus sat in all the time. The "lectures" were their conversations. 2/2

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 11d

RIP philosopher John Searle (1935-2025). I was much influenced by his Speech-Acts and philosophy of mind work. As a theologian lamb among budding philosophical wolves, I took a class with him in my grad years. He was brilliant and caustic, beyond self-confident to insouciant and inhumane. 1/2

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 12d

Well, Rand just recently weighed in on free speech. He opted here for so free it's worthless.

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Shama Lama Ding Bong @shamalamadingbong.bsky.social · 13d

Never forget!!

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 14d

Been there! But then it's good to recall Jonathan Swift. "Going too long is as effectual, though not so frequent, a cause of abortion as going too short, especially in labours of the mind."

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R.J. Gerber Jr. @fathitler.com · 16d

DoJ has removed this study from the website, but here it is from the wayback machine.
web.archive.org/web/20250911...

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

web.archive.org

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 19d

True. But not clear to me that the dominant side understands the danger presented by the 20%.

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 19d

"Only" 20% is a hell of a lot of American citizens; far more than enough to bring down democracy, as the enervation of our democratic institutions already is proving.

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Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 19d

I feel so much better now! 😁

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 19d

So, whoever you are who envision and organize our big resistance protests, since it is the Constitution that is threatened, how about planning the biggest protest ever at the Supreme Court *while it is in session*? Deliver a direct and very loud word to our purported "justices."

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 19d

In other words, speaker after speaker is committing blasphemy.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19d

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.)

Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.

Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 25d

The 44 cent part is also odd, don't you think?

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 25d

Customized thoughtfulness; very cool!

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · 27d

Can someone describe for me what moral difference there is between "just killing" a homeless person, severing a voice box from a Fox idiot, or just allowing said idiot to blather on? Looks to me that each and their repercussions are morally monstrous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · Sep 9

SCOTUS was 1st envisioned as an institution that aspired to a unity of moral and legal leadership. That is no longer so. It leads only in the devolution of legal judgement away from once cherished Higher Law to the divorce of legalia from morality. Indeed, SCOTUS is now ambitiously immoral.

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Prez Bonespurs thinks he's funny. The sociopathic kind of funny that also laughs off victims of pedophiles. He's no humorist. He's beyond warped. He's perverted. He's criminal. And he's evil.

Duane Larson 💙 @duanelarson.bsky.social · Sep 6

All about greasing the wheels of plutocracy.