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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · Jun 27

As I have time today, will share a little bit about some of the context and points in this piece. Started writing it aboit a year ago when writing another piece m on Christofascism but ended up putting it down. sojo.net/articles/opi...

The Confessing Church Failed. American Christians Can’t

What a failed resistance teaches us about true discipleship.

sojo.net

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 13h

Ran into ICE watch patrol at the corner of my kid’s school. She just found this in a little library on our walk home. Chicagoans are showing up

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 13h

When both-sides objective framing leads you down the infinite rabbit warren of fascist lies

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13h

as one party has become more and more untethered from the truth, the news media has become more and more circumspect in never admitting that truth exists.

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 13h

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 13h

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13h

Ellis highlights the attacks Reverend David Black has suffered at the Broadview facility, finding plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that the feds' use of force against praying people "substantially burdens their excercise of religion."

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 17h

Extremely noticeable who talks about politics without ever talking about politics

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21h

"When you utter words aloud but then act in opposition to the intent of those words, you are not, in fact, running or standing on anything. "

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21h

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

From here www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/fait...

Faithfulness amid the Culture War

‘Make disciples’ is the central thing Jesus commanded the church to be about, the verb around which all our other activities are organized.

www.thegospelcoalition.org

herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely exactly what many conservatives and Christian
Centrists get wrong here

change of politics is
downstream from discipleship; it shouldn't be the gateway to it.
One Important
Caveat
One of the questions I often ask myself is what exceptions there might be-instances where we should connect biblical values to specific candidates or parties.
If you lived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, for example, it seems faithfulness would require us to do more than simply say slavery was wrong; it would mean refusing

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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly if you’re a parent to a first approximation traffic injury is the *only* external threat you should be worried about.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d

this is the thing that worries me as a parent

rampant lawbreaking by motorists everywhere - enabled by feckless politicians who don't want to change a dangerous status quo, on roads engineered *explicitly to facilitate lawbreaking* (looking at you, SDOT) and leaving zero room for error.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

Tapping even more furiously

herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · Sep 6

Are people ready to protest a horrifying war against Venezuela?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

An enterprising journalist that could prove that his aides and advisors are showing Trump fake shit that led to him signing EOs and making policy decisions would be a huge deal. Maybe the biggest story in the history of the Presidency? Bigger than Nixon. Too bad the newspapers quit being newspapers

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

What radicalized this man? Was it Wheaton??

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told Mother Jones. “Pretty despicable.”

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

www.motherjones.com

herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

I hope Chicago winter arrives tomorrow

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

The Texas National Guard has arrived in the Chicago area despite the repeated objections of Illinois officials.

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area

Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

Oh your immediate boss at the Ministry of Fear isn’t a complete psychopath? Awesome, but here is this space wizard who can mind control, reports directly to the emperor, and chokes people out if they look at him wrong.

herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect analogy. Also a great point about how authoritarian institutions often need Vaders to add a comprehensive fear across the bureaucracy

David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 2d

That’s the core of the gospel man! Being nice to those who Love and sow death

herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 2d

I have friends who hate me and send me demonic missives

David French& @DavidAFrench
Congratulations, Bari!
Bari Weiss & @bariweiss • 10h From day one, the promise-and the business proposition-of @TheFP was simple: We would marry the quality of the old world to the freedom of the new. We would seek ...
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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t use lies to frame your story!

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 3d

Talking heads who complain about our post-truth politics almost never reference how almost every level of law enforcement is a lie factory

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