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Eric the Red 🌹✝️

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Autistic Episcopalian Marxist Mystic Geek. Member of DSA 🖖 (He/Him/His)

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · Mar 25

My latest on reflecting like Augustine on our current Imperial collapse, discussing Christian nationalism, bad theology, and our Lenten journey towards making and building a better world on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Earth & Altar @earthandaltarmag.com · Mar 25

“In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall.”

Today’s essay is by Eric Sommers.

earthandaltarmag.com/posts/the-ea...

THE EARTHLY CITY ON A HILL — Earth and Altar

In the course of human events, it becomes necessary to reiterate the historical reality that empires rise and empires fall. All great nations go through the entropy of history. We are not immune to th...

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triggeredbytrump.bsky.social @triggeredbytrump.bsky.social · 2h

He is probably the most effective grifter ever.
Sadly he’s grifting America with full immunity thanks to SCOTUS.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Tim Amor @timamor.bsky.social · 3h

For a “Christian” to join ICE, they would have to deny Jesus, take up their crucifying tools, and follow hateful men.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 3h

Our kids are invisible on our streets in more than one way

a kid in front of a truck with a red backpack
Invisible
The all-new 2026 child

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 3h

The drone is gonna be in the 21st century what the AK assault rifle was in the 20th

Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · 4h

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones.
The U.S. military had believed that drones would keep troops out of harm's way. Instead they are making war deadlier for everyone.
My story on how the Army is reckoning with this new kind of war.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 3h

Everything is weirdly coming back full circle to the Reformation isn't it

Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 3h

Woody Guthrie was right, if Jesus came back those same Christians would crucify him all over again because Jesus's actual teachings are inconvenient

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 3h

It is the fervently held belief of every Christian Nationalist that Jesus was a pussy

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3h

Listening and learning

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 3h

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the Church and for society, if we can only set ourselves free of our self-centeredness and open our ears to their cry." Pope Leo, Dilexi Te

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 3h

💔💔💔

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 16h

I really didn't need to see any more of his mustache

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 16h

Amphibious warfare

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly, people need to STOP claiming this is all about nullification.

These were people who were basically pushed, IDed their legal guns, and then arrested.

That's not an assault.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 16h

I have frogs everywhere

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Lol what the fuck could this *possibly* mean?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: How will you decide which workers get backpay and which do not?

TRUMP: Most of them are gonna get backpay. Some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they therefore won't qualify

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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 16h

The Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming. - Psalm 37:13

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 16h

My letter to the mainstream media:

We will get through this, eventually. But you will not. We will remember each and every sellout.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19h

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Although Jews were the main target of Nazi hatred, they were not the only group persecuted. Other individuals and groups were considered "undesirable" and "enemies of the state." Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists were among the first groups persecuted by the Nazis. Once the voices of political opponents were silenced, the Nazis stepped up their terror against other
"outsiders.'

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

Just split screen this nonsense with a live feed from the streets of Portland

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Eric the Red 🌹✝️ @eric13red.bsky.social · 16h

Living during the fall of an empire is never fun no matter how you feel about said empire

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe Pritzker can offer to send in the IL National Guard

Chron.com @chron.com · 17h

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

4 dead in Houston-area shooting rampage starting in Sugar Land

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 16h

Mandla is finally home! ✊❤️

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17h

Mandla Mandela, The grandson of late South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, arrived in Johannesburg on Wednesday after being detained and then deported by Israel, which prevented the flotilla he was part of from breaking the blockade in Gaza.

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