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Boorke Gutslinger

@bleaktheology.bsky.social

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Finishing a book on Joy Division, lament, & God. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Anti-fascist. UT-Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Episcolutheran. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · Feb 6

A Bleak Theology Guide to Resistance

Everything is terrible everywhere all at once. What to do? How to respond? Here is a Guide of ten things to help weather this storm. I hope that you will find this Guide helpful. It is a longer read, but I believe it is worth it. Take your time. Ruminate on it.…

A Bleak Theology Guide to Resistance

Everything is terrible everywhere all at once. What to do? How to respond? Here is a Guide of ten things to help weather this storm. I hope that you will find this Guide helpful. It is a longer read, but I believe it is worth it. Take your time. Ruminate on it. Share it. Peace be with you. First, for those who don't know, bleak theology is an…

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 42m

Pretty sure my interview with Copeland revealed him for who he really is, but in case you haven’t seen it: youtu.be/9LtF34MrsfI

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O. Valvós 😇🧅 @ovalvos.bsky.social · 1h

Gente del medieval de mi TL.

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 1h

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 4h

From the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 1d

10/6/25
As seen this evening, from the Brooklyn-Queens Express Way: NY ❤️ZOHRAN!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 4h

Alte Geschichte, ancient history, late antiquity

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 5h

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 4h

Join @coldtapfilms.bsky.social in #Peckham later this month as he shares the amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain’s most beloved bands, including Pulp and The Human League.

25th October
Tickets still available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
#London

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 12h

October 7, 1955: Ella Fitzgerald, her assistant Georgina Henry, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie, and jazz impresario Norman Granz were arrested between sets of an integrated concert for “shooting dice” in Fitzgerald’s dressing room at the Music Hall in Houston, Texas

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

Wow 👇

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 12h

Former academic book editor here. I immediately noticed that book on his page, too. And he's getting this level of grant after that?!

Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, that's my senator! I wondered where he had gone.

New Yorkers can't ever forget our health workers after what they did for us during the worst of Covid. Good to see them represented here with their own voices.

(Nice shots of our part of Brooklyn, too.)

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 13h

I hadn't thought about it that way and you're absolutely right.

Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 13h

Has anyone just flat out ASKED Vance, VP what he thinks about Vatican II and its authority?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 17h

Looking forward to giving the keynote at this very cool conference in New York City next month along with so many other comrades-in-luddism — New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 17h

Has someone created a DHS tracker for its theocratic language? Seems significant to have one.

Please don't say "Why don't you create one?" because I am the person in the office who literally breaks the shared Excel sheets. I am NOT the person you want leading this project.

Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 18h

Department of Homeland Security recruiting people to join ICE & help "protect our sacred land." You don't get to claim you're protecting sacred land & show a church when you're arresting pastors & took away protection churches have from immigration raids!
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/when-trump...

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me again how American the immigrants from Germany were considered by nativists during WWI. Yeah, especially the ones that came over after 1848.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social.

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 20h

Theological outsider.

Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 20h

MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to American singer-songwriter Judee Sill

October 7, 1944 – November 23, 1979

❝On phosphorus wings the Phoenix floated, the fires froze and the sea was hushed.❞

Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 20h

Martyr language is always highly-charged, but the theology of Christian martyrdom does not strike back. The fascism of Christian Nationalism does.

"The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead." - Ken Paxton, TX AG.

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Thanks!

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Part of their plan to strip the federal government of their perceived enemies. Then they will fill vacancies with prosperity gospel adherents who think that God will pay them no matter what.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

This would be insanely stupid even if it were legal. "Come work for the federal government, where you randomly won't be paid whenever Congress is dysfunctional." What a recruiting poster.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 1d

He will burn the country down before we’ll take him alive for his crimes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 1d

I love the cover art. Who’s the artist?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 1d

Joy Division - even its very name - was about surviving in the midst of fascism.

This is the music for now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYkA...

Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Joy Division