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@mcprando.bsky.social
House-husband of @marypezzulo.bsky.social (who has more interesting things to say than I do.)
Not quite an academic.
Latin Catholic/internal critic of that tradition.
Congenital Tee-totaler.
Possibly (?) a Skeksis.
Hatred of neighbor is hatred of Christ
Not quite an academic.
Latin Catholic/internal critic of that tradition.
Congenital Tee-totaler.
Possibly (?) a Skeksis.
Hatred of neighbor is hatred of Christ
Pinned
SOME D*MN RANDO
@mcprando.bsky.social
· Dec 5
What @katelynburns.com said but since I do so much of my work with Christian folx I would love to hear from cis Christians.
Why do you support trans people and what are you willing to do to support us if the government comes for us?
Why do you support trans people and what are you willing to do to support us if the government comes for us?
I support because it is right (secular) & because hatred of neighbor is hatred of Christ (theological convergence w above).
I actually adopted that 2nd slogan *specifically* in reaction to Christian trans hate, although it applies more broadly.
Anything I can do.
I actually adopted that 2nd slogan *specifically* in reaction to Christian trans hate, although it applies more broadly.
Anything I can do.
"Rubio’s version of history echoes that of the Nazis during World War II and ignores the strength of the real multicultural history of the United States. European leaders wanted no part of it."
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"Rubio’s version of history echoes that of the Nazis during World War II and ignores the strength of the real multicultural history of the United States. European leaders wanted no part of it."
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I think the idea is to get everyone to hate us so that we can complain that we are the victims.
During her 11 months as the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has wasted millions of dollars and done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters, and to America’s ability to communicate with the world
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.
www.theatlantic.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
I think the idea is to get everyone to hate us so that we can complain that we are the victims.
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I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
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To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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Munich, Kaufinger Straße, today.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Munich, Kaufinger Straße, today.
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Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
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Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
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If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
February 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
Waterboarding a minor should get a speedy trial, but be considered too violent for a pre-trial bond
UTAH - Wasatch County Republican Party Chair David Johnson arrested for allegedly “waterboarding” a teen girl for not cleaning her room.
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
February 16, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Waterboarding a minor should get a speedy trial, but be considered too violent for a pre-trial bond
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
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Put most bluntly:
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Put most bluntly:
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to
𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋.
There is simply no alternative.
(7/7)
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It can be done.
And it 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 be done.
Because our constitutional system can’t and won’t survive three more years of Trump and Trumpist corruption and depravity.
(6/7)
And it 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 be done.
Because our constitutional system can’t and won’t survive three more years of Trump and Trumpist corruption and depravity.
(6/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
It can be done.
And it 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 be done.
Because our constitutional system can’t and won’t survive three more years of Trump and Trumpist corruption and depravity.
(6/7)
And it 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 be done.
Because our constitutional system can’t and won’t survive three more years of Trump and Trumpist corruption and depravity.
(6/7)
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Which means that we need a Congress that can step up and show historic courage by executing the power and the 𝙙𝙪𝙩𝙮 that the Constitution has given it to address lawless presidents and miscreant executive officials:
To impeach and to remove them. All of them.
(5/7)
To impeach and to remove them. All of them.
(5/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Which means that we need a Congress that can step up and show historic courage by executing the power and the 𝙙𝙪𝙩𝙮 that the Constitution has given it to address lawless presidents and miscreant executive officials:
To impeach and to remove them. All of them.
(5/7)
To impeach and to remove them. All of them.
(5/7)
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… if we could trick him into signing them by convincing him they are personal crypto deals!), such as laws on lowering health-care costs and abolishing ICE and much more, we could never get this criminally lawless administration to reliably enforce those laws.
(4/7)
(4/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
… if we could trick him into signing them by convincing him they are personal crypto deals!), such as laws on lowering health-care costs and abolishing ICE and much more, we could never get this criminally lawless administration to reliably enforce those laws.
(4/7)
(4/7)
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… who follow the law and the Constitution and not the whims and diktats of our criminal-idiot-in-chief.
Even if we could pass needed reforms (which we can’t because the maniac in the White House would veto them unless he thought they would enrich him—like
(3/7)
Even if we could pass needed reforms (which we can’t because the maniac in the White House would veto them unless he thought they would enrich him—like
(3/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
… who follow the law and the Constitution and not the whims and diktats of our criminal-idiot-in-chief.
Even if we could pass needed reforms (which we can’t because the maniac in the White House would veto them unless he thought they would enrich him—like
(3/7)
Even if we could pass needed reforms (which we can’t because the maniac in the White House would veto them unless he thought they would enrich him—like
(3/7)
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… have an executive branch that obeys the law—until we have a president who obeys his oath to pursue the national interest instead of his own, and until we have cabinet and other executive officials …
(2/7)
(2/7)
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
… have an executive branch that obeys the law—until we have a president who obeys his oath to pursue the national interest instead of his own, and until we have cabinet and other executive officials …
(2/7)
(2/7)
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My point—the singular theme of my campaign for Congress—is this:
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
"Some of the sharpest applause came when Conway warned that legislation alone would not constrain Trump. 'We can pass the ‘Everything is Better’ bill… And he’s going to ignore it... He is not going to obey the law, because he doesn’t. He’s a criminal, and we have to put an end to [his presidency]."
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
My point—the singular theme of my campaign for Congress—is this:
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we …
(1/7)
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There’s nothing grassroots about the American Right.
It’s a top-down, money-driven model of social and political change:
Seize power, then build—or at least mimic—legitimacy later
It’s a top-down, money-driven model of social and political change:
Seize power, then build—or at least mimic—legitimacy later
February 15, 2026 at 3:37 PM
There’s nothing grassroots about the American Right.
It’s a top-down, money-driven model of social and political change:
Seize power, then build—or at least mimic—legitimacy later
It’s a top-down, money-driven model of social and political change:
Seize power, then build—or at least mimic—legitimacy later
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The pro-life movement, everyone.
February 15, 2026 at 6:41 PM
The pro-life movement, everyone.
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"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
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Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.
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Mother: so you run a school?
Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy
Mother: but it’s a real school right?
Xavier: oh my yes
Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy
Mother: but it’s a real school right?
Xavier: oh my yes
Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
February 15, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Mother: so you run a school?
Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy
Mother: but it’s a real school right?
Xavier: oh my yes
Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy
Mother: but it’s a real school right?
Xavier: oh my yes
Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill
Xavier: oh no he certainly will
Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it
Xavier: oh no he certainly will