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Florida hill country son, Chesapeake roots. Administrator, old-school Episcopalian, Calvinist, Democrat, traditional liberal, Latin Americanist &c. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸🇲🇽
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I really do believe in God and that God has a purpose for the American story. I still have hope for the city on a hill, that somehow reconciliation and brotherhood will someday emerge from the original sin of racial enslavement. That we will be a righteous people and live in harmony.
Imagine they will find the excuse they tell themselves for constantly lying—oh, the Democrats are worse liars (another lie!)—falls short on that day.
OT is another thing but I think it’s fine and proper to use Jesus’ own imprecatory language where well-warranted. Those kinds of people in real earth life like ours made real earth Jesus real mad and now they’re makin us mad for the same damn reasons.
Ok and we’re ‘allowed’ all to go buy guns so
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
Nobody:

Me: well at the county courthouse where I grew up used to be they’d fly the Union Jack right up there w the American flag! 🤓🤭
I wonder if there’s an ethnography, or something, to read about different American regions’ contributions to populating early 20th c Los Angeles and particularly early to midcentury Hollywood filmmaking. Are midwesterners over-represented? Or is query naive
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I constantly draw strength from the fact that my parents grew up when it was worse than this. When white people were lynching people in the streets and bombing Black churches and integrated schools. And they still did not live in fear. My parents thrived, loved, and lived. And I can too.
I used to think bona fide spoken was “bonefied,” a folksy word for “for real” completely separate from bona fide written, just legalese Latin for good faith
Infernalism is BACK baby
‘Trump voters repent or burn in hell’ is a real sign I was pleased to see today
‘Trump voters repent or burn in hell’ is a real sign I was pleased to see today
1776 No Kings
1863 No Slaves
1944 No Fascists
2025 NO! FASCISTS!
Had a dream Kyrsten Sinema was my old boss and I ran into her at the Tokyo airport. And she was bald.
Global Englishism, England and all other wokes excluded
Assuming those unworthy goons larping as justices haven’t already booked a room in hell next to Taney, they surely will should they seize unto themselves the power to undo what war, amendments, popular mobilization and the blood of martyrs have purchased. May the Almighty soon take each from office.
It’s wild seeing the apprehension enter doctors’ eyes anytime they have to suggest treatment, people are so anti-medicine now. Even the vet. “Well we may need to use sedation if that’s okay…” yes pls sedate the sh*t out of my dog that’s precisely why we are here
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… [admitted unprompted on Facebook]
I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.
My three year old just asked me if overactive choirs/music do not effectively (mirror the Evangelical impulse to) treat music as the center of worship, rather than as an optional supplement to Word and Sacrament
Too bad it immediately fails the smell test here in the US/Canada.

What, are we expected to forget that y’all are the same people who’d destroy the republic and decency itself just to avoid GAFCON immigrants as neighbors? Gmafb.
Conservative schismatics really think they've got something on the rest of us with that whole "global" framing
“Doomscrolling” is to become an AP world history vocab term. Relates to consciousness of state collapse by the ordinary person. Compare/contrast w the peasant of late antiquity
Also, Hillary was telling the truth. Whereas these smears by the White House are flatly untrue and completely delusional
“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."