Eric the Red 🌹✝️
@eric13red.bsky.social
Autistic Episcopalian Marxist Mystic Geek. Member of DSA 🖖 (He/Him/His)
Pinned
Eric the Red 🌹✝️
@eric13red.bsky.social
· Mar 25
“In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall.”
Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...
Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...
THE EARTHLY CITY ON A HILL — Earth and Altar
In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall. All great nations go through the entropy of history. We are not immune to th...
earthandaltarmag.com
My latest on reflecting like Augustine on our current Imperial collapse, discussing Christian nationalism, bad theology, and our Lenten journey towards making and building a better world on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
any "via media" that is compromise for the sake of peace rather than comprehension for the sake of truth, any via media that makes peace with oppression rather than fearlessly contending against evil, such a "via media" should burn in the fires of gehenna
January 18, 2026 at 1:22 PM
any "via media" that is compromise for the sake of peace rather than comprehension for the sake of truth, any via media that makes peace with oppression rather than fearlessly contending against evil, such a "via media" should burn in the fires of gehenna
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
can u imagine being not only a baptized christian but an ordained priest and then, when NPR asks you about the Bishop of New Hampshire's comments last week, what you find to say is "I didn't sign up to be a martyr"??
January 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
can u imagine being not only a baptized christian but an ordained priest and then, when NPR asks you about the Bishop of New Hampshire's comments last week, what you find to say is "I didn't sign up to be a martyr"??
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
I'm so impressed how Minnesotans are mobilizing against ICE and for each other
January 18, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I'm so impressed how Minnesotans are mobilizing against ICE and for each other
Honestly an underrated gem....one of the best trek games we've ever gotten
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity (1995)
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Honestly an underrated gem....one of the best trek games we've ever gotten
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Libertarians in the Arctic would survive for about a week
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
> As the Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire Greenland from Denmark—or take it by force—some Silicon Valley tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation
> As the Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire Greenland from Denmark—or take it by force—some Silicon Valley tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation
Exclusive: Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north
It is described as 'a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation.'
www.reuters.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Libertarians in the Arctic would survive for about a week
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.
January 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM
ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.
There's a better version of this story with Batman when two sex workers in Gotham are quarreling of custody of the baby and Batman decides since both care that much about the child, that both of them should parent the child working together
Not to question the Wisdom of Solomon, but I've never been entirely clear why chopping the baby in half was supposed to work to root out the faker.
The whole point of them arguing was that they both wanted the baby, and half a baby is not really something anyone wants extant of the other half.
The whole point of them arguing was that they both wanted the baby, and half a baby is not really something anyone wants extant of the other half.
Tfw you somewhat miss King Solomon's point
January 18, 2026 at 12:32 PM
There's a better version of this story with Batman when two sex workers in Gotham are quarreling of custody of the baby and Batman decides since both care that much about the child, that both of them should parent the child working together
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
ICE is now very much In The Way of normal people (not usually the targets of immigration enforcement) living their lives.
January 18, 2026 at 5:33 AM
ICE is now very much In The Way of normal people (not usually the targets of immigration enforcement) living their lives.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
The big difference has been how obnoxiously visible ICE has been. If ICE had taken one person here, another there, and done it quietly, no one would have known or cared—because that’s how it has always been.
This administration’s thirst for arrest porn will prove its undoing, I think
This administration’s thirst for arrest porn will prove its undoing, I think
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 5:31 AM
The big difference has been how obnoxiously visible ICE has been. If ICE had taken one person here, another there, and done it quietly, no one would have known or cared—because that’s how it has always been.
This administration’s thirst for arrest porn will prove its undoing, I think
This administration’s thirst for arrest porn will prove its undoing, I think
Literally Michael Corleone says the same thing about the Cuban Government soldiers aganist the Cuban Revolutionaries in Godfather Part 2
ICE is just doing a job. my neighbors are driven by a cause. there’s no way they can win
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Literally Michael Corleone says the same thing about the Cuban Government soldiers aganist the Cuban Revolutionaries in Godfather Part 2
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Illegal orders incoming. Trump about to offer bonuses for anyone willing to execute those orders. He won't pay up but he will offer.
January 18, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Illegal orders incoming. Trump about to offer bonuses for anyone willing to execute those orders. He won't pay up but he will offer.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Lol here we go
January 18, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Lol here we go
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
The provisional government wants a word with you.
January 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM
The provisional government wants a word with you.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
"Last summer, the city of Portland paid millions to descendants of Black families forced from their homes by racist urban renewal projects."
"It was an effort decades in the making."
"And one of the driving forces was a local librarian."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Courts #Slavery
"It was an effort decades in the making."
"And one of the driving forces was a local librarian."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Courts #Slavery
A local librarian's research helped secure a settlement for descendants of displaced Black Portlanders
Byrd took her research and family history and created 'wearable history.'
www.streetroots.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
I keep thinking to myself: They murdered a woman and the response was not fear, or cowering, but rather, a burning desire to fight back.
January 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I keep thinking to myself: They murdered a woman and the response was not fear, or cowering, but rather, a burning desire to fight back.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Make America White Again is very clearly the slogan, the movement, and philosophy at work here and the press is still shy about asking about it
“a pair of asylum-seekers from Angola who handed over the keys to their apartment Wednesday and said they planned to head for the Canadian border.”
“a pair of asylum-seekers from Angola who handed over the keys to their apartment Wednesday and said they planned to head for the Canadian border.”
Immigrants prepare for their arrests and leave Lewiston ahead of ICE action
One property manager showed a reporter a form being passed around so undocumented parents could designate temporary guardians for their children in the event of their arrest.
www.bangordailynews.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Make America White Again is very clearly the slogan, the movement, and philosophy at work here and the press is still shy about asking about it
“a pair of asylum-seekers from Angola who handed over the keys to their apartment Wednesday and said they planned to head for the Canadian border.”
“a pair of asylum-seekers from Angola who handed over the keys to their apartment Wednesday and said they planned to head for the Canadian border.”
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
A quick book preview: we talk about this trend to financialize and commodify nature in *Enough Is Enough.* As Leonardo Boff told us, "Green growth could be capitalism's final assault on nature." Creation shouldn't and doesn't have to be translated into a spreadsheet for us to care about it.
January 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
A quick book preview: we talk about this trend to financialize and commodify nature in *Enough Is Enough.* As Leonardo Boff told us, "Green growth could be capitalism's final assault on nature." Creation shouldn't and doesn't have to be translated into a spreadsheet for us to care about it.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
I’m mentioned in this article. I’ll also be appearing in a podcast episode about it next week. www.salon.com/2026/01/16/h...
How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys
Footage shows the right-wing group’s founder developing the “recruit giant losers” strategy
www.salon.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I’m mentioned in this article. I’ll also be appearing in a podcast episode about it next week. www.salon.com/2026/01/16/h...
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
So many Christians love to contrast "Old Testament justice" with "New Testament love," but it's worth noting that this act by ICE would have been a gross violation of hospitality rites in ancient Israel. Families would have been cursed for doing this.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 AM
So many Christians love to contrast "Old Testament justice" with "New Testament love," but it's worth noting that this act by ICE would have been a gross violation of hospitality rites in ancient Israel. Families would have been cursed for doing this.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Not too hard to read between the lines here www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Not too hard to read between the lines here www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
i want to thank this spineless consultant not only for the enjoyment i got from reading the replies ripping him apart for this bizarre & inappropriate cash grab, but for reminding me to put my money where my mouth is & donate to organizations in MN that are actually supporting minnesotans right now.
I've launched a campaign to raise money for the Democratic Party of Minnesota (@dfl.org) to help them combat ICE's lawless assault. MN Dem Chair Richard Carlbom joined me for the kickoff. Learn more, donate, and let's rally for the courageous people of Minnesota, together! 👇
bsky.app/profile/simo...
bsky.app/profile/simo...
We launched a new campaign to help the courageous people of Minnesota. Learn more and join us 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-new-camp...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-new-camp...
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
i want to thank this spineless consultant not only for the enjoyment i got from reading the replies ripping him apart for this bizarre & inappropriate cash grab, but for reminding me to put my money where my mouth is & donate to organizations in MN that are actually supporting minnesotans right now.
Reposted by Eric the Red 🌹✝️
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality