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Lembas Eater
@waybread.bsky.social
Just a person trying to be pseudonymous on the internet. Sometime teacher of philosophy. Episcopal. Trying to love my crooked neighbor with my crooked heart.
[Me, the incredibly handsome chief inspector to my wife after almost getting her killed by a psycho with a knife because I decided to play a dangerous game of cat and mouse]:

"Aww, sorry honey. My beez."
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Why is the worker getting suspended? Trump's the one who flipped the bird.
President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward someone shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.

It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
We should outlaw crime.
Tricia McLaughlin on Renee Good: "I think if the individual was killed last week by an illegal alien, I don't think we would be seeing any protest."
January 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Literal vampires.
January 13, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Karl Barth undefeated
It’s really funny to me that the American Presbyterians solved Calvinism by just saying “Calvinism is correct in that God sovereignly decides who is elect and he sovereignly decided all of you are elect”
January 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The PC(USA) is great.
1. Per this, it appears Renee Good was raised in a Presbyterian congregation and was with Presbyterians when she did mission work in North Ireland.

Her home congregation is now PCA (very different than PCUSA), but her wedding with her wife was officiated by her uncle, a PC(USA) pastor.

Also…
Oh: Presbyterian Church (USA)'s OPW* on Renee Good:

"Ms. Good was one of us. She was a fellow Presbyterian. Edgewater Presbyterian Church in Illinois remembered her with these words … 'Her story is a testament to the power of the Presbyterian mission and a challenge to our conscience.'"
January 12, 2026 at 11:21 PM
You know, just masked Federal agents with no identification asking random people on the street for their papers. Just like the Founders drew it up!
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Every time I send an e-mail to more than 20 people I have to sit down for a while.
January 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Apparently I’ve been misreading Snyder. What me meant was “Don’t! Comply in advance!”
...I feared months ago when I suggested the Chair step down to protect the institution’s independence.
What is required now is that the person nominated to replace the Chair be committed to implementing the reforms necessary to restore the effectiveness of the world’s most powerful central bank....
January 12, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I’m not not licking toads.
WELKER: Where is that $50,000? Did you keep it?

HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.

WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?

HOMAN: I'm not addressing it

WELKER: But did you keep the money?

HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
January 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
As much as I adore Plato, Socratic questioning doesn’t work on the evil and the stupid.
TAPPER: But Minnesota officials are saying the DOJ isn't working with them. Should they?

KRISTI NOEM: If you look at what Walz and Frey have said, they've extremely politicized and inappropriately talked about the situation on the ground in their city. I would encourage them to grow up.
January 11, 2026 at 2:55 PM
For someone (me) who has been freaking out since Spring 2015 this is actually calming. Welcome, friends. Let the light of our hair on fire illuminate our path.
the fed posting levels i am seeing these days from my older friends and family is genuinely astonishing
Half of my 80+ year old, white suburban aunt's Facebook posts are things I'd be weary to write even on Signal, god bless her
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 AM
One maybe important, maybe not, distinction I'd draw is that a lot of Europe went into WWI like "yes! finally! we get to do the thing!" whereas if Trump invades Greenland pretty much everyone will be like "wtf! you stupid moron! what they hell are you doing!"
Is this what the world looked like to people on the eve of World War I? People who had lived their entire lives in a world dominated by European empires that divided most of the continent among themselves? Could they imagine a world without the Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Romanovs, and Ottomans?
i mean i think a world where the US genuinely break NATO and launch an invasion of Greenland looks so alien to us that we will not be able to understand it
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 AM
"Freedom Friendster". Is this anything?
The thing I think folks struggle to appreciate with this stuff tho is however hard it is to wean Europe off US tech is *at least as hard* as it will be for US tech to get back into Europe after that type of transition kicks into high gear
January 11, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This person shot a young dog because it embarrassed her. Also then a goat for some reason. She is completely deranged.
DHS has rolled out a new slogan;
"One of ours
All of yours"
On the heels of ICE agents threatening protesters and telling them they "should have learned a lesson"; this is your tax dollars paying for your government promising to kill you. This is why we must keep fighting. ~AdminMatt
January 11, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Indeed we do.
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
January 10, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Unironically we should have tournaments like this for baseball in the US. The opportunity for hijinks is large.
For people who aren't familiar with how the English football pyramid works, a 6th division team upsetting a premiere league team is the equivalent of like a community college baseball team beating the Chicago Cubs
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
It’s clear that fascists think “the government relies on the consent of the governed” is some sort of liberal aspiration.

Unfortunately for them, it’s an iron law of human society. And they are doing the opposite of cultivating consent.
Also, to spool this out a bit, what is their objective in Minneapolis? Eventually they will have to leave. So they grab some people. Kill some people, and then… what? Is ICE going to occupy Minneapolis for months and years? What will happen after their gone?
One thing I've been trying to keep in mind: What turns this around for the ICE/CPB/DHS Nazis? What do they do that makes people stop being angry to come out and yell at them in in the freezing cold, follow them around filming them, defending their neighbors? The answer is nothing. It will never stop
January 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Also, to spool this out a bit, what is their objective in Minneapolis? Eventually they will have to leave. So they grab some people. Kill some people, and then… what? Is ICE going to occupy Minneapolis for months and years? What will happen after their gone?
One thing I've been trying to keep in mind: What turns this around for the ICE/CPB/DHS Nazis? What do they do that makes people stop being angry to come out and yell at them in in the freezing cold, follow them around filming them, defending their neighbors? The answer is nothing. It will never stop
Protesters are keeping up the noise outside a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents in downtown Minneapolis.

Some protesters tried to get inside the building through the main entrance, where they were turned away by security.

📸: Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I genuinely don’t think Trump has a plan. He has a method: never apologize, ignore consistency, always attack. And it is an indictment of both elites and voters that it’s worked out so well for him, but theres no grand design beyond the constant gnawing need to fill the leaky bucket of his soul.
It’s amazing how little they seem to plan out even one chess move ahead.
He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them

And oil companies are like

Meh
January 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM