Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
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Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
· May 22
Hi followers. In case you thought I was JUST a shitposter, I'm a historian, trained as a medievalist and working on the long eighteenth century, a college professor, and also for the last six years I've been writing about the far right. Primarily the religious far right, but not exclusively.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
God I am just exhausted.
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
God I am just exhausted.
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
buttondown.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
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Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
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We're at the Middle Earth map.
We're at the subway map.
We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map!
And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others!
#LOTR #maps #subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
We're at the subway map.
We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map!
And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others!
#LOTR #maps #subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We're at the Middle Earth map.
We're at the subway map.
We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map!
And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others!
#LOTR #maps #subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
We're at the subway map.
We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map!
And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others!
#LOTR #maps #subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Watching Man on Fire with my oldest. One of my favorite movies.
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Watching Man on Fire with my oldest. One of my favorite movies.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Let the dan dan begin.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Let the dan dan begin.
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My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH
September 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH
You should pitch an article about the Communist Education Bill the House just passed and fascism. You know you should. Do it.
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You should pitch an article about the Communist Education Bill the House just passed and fascism. You know you should. Do it.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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hey guys, bolsonaro is currently in prison 🥰
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
hey guys, bolsonaro is currently in prison 🥰
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The key with turkey is that it is relatively cheap and feels festive to have a big bird. That is not nothing. My understanding is that from egg to table, it’s much cheaper per pound than chicken.
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The key with turkey is that it is relatively cheap and feels festive to have a big bird. That is not nothing. My understanding is that from egg to table, it’s much cheaper per pound than chicken.
Three grants I'm looking at applying for in the spring, all of which I already know what manuscripts I'd look at. Probably apply for three reach ones in the fall? Maybe 4?
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Three grants I'm looking at applying for in the spring, all of which I already know what manuscripts I'd look at. Probably apply for three reach ones in the fall? Maybe 4?
Going to try making Dandan noodles post-children's-basketball, should I document the disaster of the attempt?
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Going to try making Dandan noodles post-children's-basketball, should I document the disaster of the attempt?
Bought @kawulf.bsky.social 's new book as a treat.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bought @kawulf.bsky.social 's new book as a treat.
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To be honest, I’m not sure if we’ll be able to recover from it all. For example, the full frontal attack on foreign languages will be hard to correct. The elimination of language departments and instruction demonstrates a myopic disregard for humanities that is rooted in a fixation on STEM…
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
To be honest, I’m not sure if we’ll be able to recover from it all. For example, the full frontal attack on foreign languages will be hard to correct. The elimination of language departments and instruction demonstrates a myopic disregard for humanities that is rooted in a fixation on STEM…
My parents lived in Eastern Europe for decades, so, I have some real feelings about the things we call communism, but thisnis sending the fire department to spray down the pond while the city is in fire. Tge abject fuckery.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My parents lived in Eastern Europe for decades, so, I have some real feelings about the things we call communism, but thisnis sending the fire department to spray down the pond while the city is in fire. Tge abject fuckery.
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This video is so overwhelming I had to sit down & stare at the wall awhile. I was physically shaking.
I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…
I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This video is so overwhelming I had to sit down & stare at the wall awhile. I was physically shaking.
I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…
I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…
That bullshit commie bill would have been a great time for a Democrat with a spine to say this is pure fascist playbook nonsense before voting no.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
That bullshit commie bill would have been a great time for a Democrat with a spine to say this is pure fascist playbook nonsense before voting no.
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This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
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“How to Monetize Your Own Failures Through the Magic of Bigotry”
As first reported by @msjpauly.bsky.social and @pablo.show, the Harris County GOP gave Riley Gaines $25,000 to speak at the 2025 Lincoln Reagan Dinner with Gov. Greg Abbott. Here's a little more context on that, plus Gaines' relationship with the Texas GOP: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Harris County GOP paid anti-trans activist Riley Gaines $25K to speak
Business is booming for Riley Gaines.
www.chron.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“How to Monetize Your Own Failures Through the Magic of Bigotry”
5 more days of classes until fall 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
5 more days of classes until fall 2026.