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David M. Luebke

@davidmluebke.bsky.social

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Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · Nov 21

For new friends: I'm a historian who writes about the religious cultures and social movements of early modern Europe, mainly, 1500-1800, especially the Holy Roman Empire. Co-PI in the "Shared Churches Project." Faculty union activist. My latest:

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The Empire’s Reformations

The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 13h

So of course the BBC reporter seeks out and finds a Tr•mpy oldster who lives close enough to the ICE detention center to smell the tear gas, now and then.

#ParachuteJournalism

David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 13h

Move more than a block or two from the ICE facility, and you'd never guess that Portland is under federal occupation. Every morning, hundreds of thousands of commuters zoom past on their way downtown without smelling so much as a whiff of grapeshot.

David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 13h

The South Waterfront is a former warehouse and light-industry district turned high-rise residential, packed with oldsters who like it there because the South Waterfront neighborhood is connected by suspended air tram to the Oregon Health Sciences University, high up on the bluffs above.

#OHSU

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 13h

Parachute journalism at its worst. Reading this story, you'd never guess that the disturbance, such as it is, is confined to the South Waterfront, a narrow slice of Portland that is sandwiched between a spur of I-5 and the Willamette River.

#ICE
#Portland

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How Portland is wrestling with Trump protests, National Guard threat

As Trump threatens military action, residents in Portland tell the BBC about life amid the protests.

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 22h

Oh darn! Who's gonna weigh down the average now?!

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Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

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DianneSpiritlight @dpfrazier22.bsky.social · 23h

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 22h

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Ms. Good Trouble @boldsea.bsky.social · 2d

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Roland Freisler would be so proud

#IYKYK
#PamBondi

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LIVE REACTION: AG Pam Bondi Faces the Senate in Chaotic Hearing

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Who knew? By detaining prisoners/abductees overnight at their Portland facility, ICE has been violating local zoning laws. Send in the 82nd Airborne!

#ice
#portland

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Portland threatens to evict Ice from Oregon facility over permit violations

Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land-use permit to detain people overnight

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Well, not without violating laws and the constitution

#Tyranny
#StopTheCoup
#NoKings

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Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

I think Marge should learn Spanish AND a foreign language.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, Kash Patel has decided that right-wing terrorism is not a thing and has broken ties with the Anti-Defamation League.

#WhatMoreDoYouNeedToKnow

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1d

So right-wingers are having a civil war over Charlie Kirk and whether Israel had him killed. And here you were worried about left-wing antisemitism?

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Opinion | Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 2d

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

And that's the way it is

#IYKYK
#FascistTakeover

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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News

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Kev - Just don't call me late for dinner. Stronger Together! @57kev.bsky.social · 2d

They are even attacking local police and they appear to cowardly to fight back. But this is no surprise did you seriously not expect this shit? If you are surprised then you are not a very good journalist.

Trump Troops ‘Deliberately Attacking Peaceful Protesters’ in US Cities, Senator Says | Common Dreams

"The goal is to generate riots to justify the expansion of authoritarian measures and to strengthen the case for the troop deployments," said Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 2d

Alas, she's quite right-wing

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 4d

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 5d

The FBI has broken off ties with the Anti-Defamation League because it is too far to the "left." Yes, you read that right. "Left."
The ADL.

#bonkers
#Patel

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FBI cuts ties with two advocacy groups that track US extremism after rightwing backlash

FBI director Kash Patel said agency would sever ties with Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 5d

Portland braces for a long siege

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Emergency naked bike ride planned amid Portland troop deployment

After President Donald Trump announced plans to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland, the Portland World Naked Bike Ride said Wednesday the group is planning an emergency ride in protest.