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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Democrats who want to abolish ice should start introducing legislation to roll back the creation of DHS. It was a specific post 9/11 law that combined previously extant functions into a single new department. Let’s start getting that model legislation out there. (Is it already?)
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Democrats who want to abolish ice should start introducing legislation to roll back the creation of DHS. It was a specific post 9/11 law that combined previously extant functions into a single new department. Let’s start getting that model legislation out there. (Is it already?)
We're rapidly running out of options that allow the US to ever return to even a semblance of what was.
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
We're rapidly running out of options that allow the US to ever return to even a semblance of what was.
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For some context: Jonathan Myrick Daniels was from NH. Episcopal seminarian in the 1960s, he decided to join the Freedom Riders in AL. He was killed by a shopkeeper when he stepped between him and a little Black girl. Shopkeeper was aiming a shotgun at the girl, and shot him instead.
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM
For some context: Jonathan Myrick Daniels was from NH. Episcopal seminarian in the 1960s, he decided to join the Freedom Riders in AL. He was killed by a shopkeeper when he stepped between him and a little Black girl. Shopkeeper was aiming a shotgun at the girl, and shot him instead.
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your holiness mr chicago pope, you must excommunicate the heretic jd vance
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
your holiness mr chicago pope, you must excommunicate the heretic jd vance
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This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
sounds like david f’ing brooks
Brooks and Capehart on the response to the Minnesota ICE shooting
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 10, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!
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Episcopalians going *hard*
“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Episcopalians going *hard*
Taking my kids to see Labyrinth in the theater tonight, super excited.
January 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Taking my kids to see Labyrinth in the theater tonight, super excited.
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"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at.
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
January 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at.
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
There's no both sides when someone murders another person, who was harming no one, threatening no one, and then denigrates them immediately after killing them.
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
There's no both sides when someone murders another person, who was harming no one, threatening no one, and then denigrates them immediately after killing them.
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Despite our record of excellence managing browns for the last 54 years, our reliability working in the trenches, and decades of experience building systems from the ground up, no, we are not in the running for Cleveland's next head coach.
Thank you.
Thank you.
January 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Despite our record of excellence managing browns for the last 54 years, our reliability working in the trenches, and decades of experience building systems from the ground up, no, we are not in the running for Cleveland's next head coach.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Renee Good committed gender insubordination: she didn't cower & grovel to male authority. Many women are killed for the very same reason all over the world. We just call it by the euphemism "domestic violence" instead of what it is: a campaign of political terrorism in which any man can participate.
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."
That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
January 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Renee Good committed gender insubordination: she didn't cower & grovel to male authority. Many women are killed for the very same reason all over the world. We just call it by the euphemism "domestic violence" instead of what it is: a campaign of political terrorism in which any man can participate.
I will campaign for any Democratic candidate whose platform is Reconstruction 2.0.
January 10, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I will campaign for any Democratic candidate whose platform is Reconstruction 2.0.
They're wrong. Next question.
Researchers and artists at Sorbonne University trained an artificial intelligence to emulate Molière's themes, structures and humor, producing a new play.
Can A.I. Match Molière’s Wit? These Researchers Think So.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM
They're wrong. Next question.
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i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
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I don't think their policy of murdering innocent mothers in the street is having the intended effect.
January 10, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I don't think their policy of murdering innocent mothers in the street is having the intended effect.
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“I’m so proud, by the way, of so many people throughout our city who have united around—yes, getting justice; yes, First Amendment speech; yes, peaceful protest; and also, importantly, not taking the bait.”
Minneapolis @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on the importance of not taking the bait.
Minneapolis @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on the importance of not taking the bait.
January 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
“I’m so proud, by the way, of so many people throughout our city who have united around—yes, getting justice; yes, First Amendment speech; yes, peaceful protest; and also, importantly, not taking the bait.”
Minneapolis @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on the importance of not taking the bait.
Minneapolis @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on the importance of not taking the bait.
Trump wants Greenland for whatever batshit reasons he's been fed but he thinks he deserves Greenland because he hates and denigrates and despises Native peoples, and he has been incredibly clear about this.
January 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Trump wants Greenland for whatever batshit reasons he's been fed but he thinks he deserves Greenland because he hates and denigrates and despises Native peoples, and he has been incredibly clear about this.
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My native ass out here like
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
My native ass out here like
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
When I say Mad King, the King part is self explanatory, the Mad is problematic as fuck but also, genuinely, with sadness that his family are such bad people too that none of them took care of him, this is a divorce from reality to the point of being a problem.
Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."
January 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
When I say Mad King, the King part is self explanatory, the Mad is problematic as fuck but also, genuinely, with sadness that his family are such bad people too that none of them took care of him, this is a divorce from reality to the point of being a problem.
If not Gestapo why Gestapo shaped?
January 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
If not Gestapo why Gestapo shaped?
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So like, the drumbeat here this time is 100x louder than it’s ever been before and he just abducted a head of state last week and got away with it, and he told the Times on the record that nothing under heaven can stop him, so yeah, I feel like he means to do it.
*TRUMP: WILL DO SOMETHING ON GREENLAND WHETHER THEY LIKE OR NOT
January 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
So like, the drumbeat here this time is 100x louder than it’s ever been before and he just abducted a head of state last week and got away with it, and he told the Times on the record that nothing under heaven can stop him, so yeah, I feel like he means to do it.
You can't appease the Mad King, not even by dying.
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
You can't appease the Mad King, not even by dying.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.