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Thomas Lecaque

@tlecaque.bsky.social

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 21h

Today in @damemagazine.bsky.social, the great media critic @parkermolloy.com on CBS's huge mistake in hiring Bari Weiss

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

www.damemagazine.com

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 21h

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

I want an FPS video game where you play as George Orwell but you get to win the Spanish Civil War by shooting all the Falangists, level after level after level.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

Writing a video game about how actually vengeance is awesome.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

French tanks invading Nationalist Spain 35 days after the civil war starts is my favorite way to go, but to each their own.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

Did you know if you play Hearts of Iron 4 enough times you can kill Hitler, Mussolini and Franco as pretty much every single country? I really enjoy letting Leon Blum kill them in order of Franco-Mussolini-Hitler, but there's no wrong way to end fascism.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

God I love feeling seen. You're welcome!

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

They want their AI to slop out a Guernica for Chicago or Portland or wherever else.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

Posobiec, among others. And fairly constantly.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

Every time they say "communists!" they picture an International Brigade that they get to put down with tanks and bombers.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

What they really want is the Nazis to help them shoot you in a civil war where they win and everyone they hate gets to be called a communist and they can dump their bodies in mass graves across the countryside.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 23h

They say they love Franco because they are correctly convinced you don't know what that means.

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Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social · 1d

Haven’t been able to visit Sacred Rebellion yet? Live too far from Boston to make it to the exhibition in person? Then mark your calendar for our next virtual exhibition tour on November 13th from 5-6 pm EST.

Learn more and register at congregationallibrary.org/events/sacre...

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Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com · 1d

Editing is love and editors want your writing to do what you want it to do and we will help you! ❤️

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway. It's late. Whatever happens with this version of the piece, I'll keep editing it--I think the point that fascism has a long American history and Posobiec shout-out of antifa's actual origins is meaningful. *shrugs*

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

beliefs and worldviews find solace in a shared Christofascist framework, regardless of denomination, and a shared hatred of Jews and Communists and anyone who supports either, or can be branded a supporter of either.

Humans don't change, even though technology does.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

It's also always more Franco because the Christian Nationalists still dream of a Christian prince directing violence against their opponents, and regardless of the flavor, they can exult in their vision of him. That's why Posobiec likes him as much as any of the other groups do--their disparate

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

It's always more Franco than Hitler, because we have so damn many flavors of fascist in America that it could only be a coalition proclaiming a vision of White Christianity against everyone else, reveling in its own White Terror, calling its enemies communists and gunning them down slowly. But.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Piece is too long, and too much time on history rather than the present, but I got to the end and realized that actually that past was important. Just because our fascists tend towards sloppiness and weird shit, and lost, doesn't mean they haven't always been here, doesn't mean they aren't here now.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, and also, you should read more interesting people than me (and also, thank you).

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, writing a piece for The Bulwark. I hate this timeline.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

I'm writing about Posobiec acknowledging that antifa started in the Weimar Republic and talking about Trump's fascism in the context of 1930s American fascism which is so sloppy and weird and stupid and fails here that time and is succeeding now... but I get that we sound nuts.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

...I get that we sound like crazy people to anyone not online enough to know who Posobiec is, to know what QAnon is, to know what Pizzagate is. People who don't watch press conferences and roundtable and the insane fucking fascist shit being spoken out loud across the internet. I get it.