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Holly Berkley Fletcher

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Ex-CIA. Author of The Missionary Kids (Aug 2025) PW starred review! Kid of missionaries 🇰🇪 Exvangelical. PhD historian. https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com @TheBulwark @Lawfare @liberalcurrents Co-Host @DogShirtTV Art For Democracy @ Etsy #OneThing

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · Aug 7

You might be wondering...Why should you read my book about a narrow subset of white evangelicals? Well, because it's about so much more than that, and it is kind of insane, too. Poisonwood Bible? BORING #TheMissionaryKids @broadleafbooks.bsky.social #WhiteEvangelicalism

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks to all who followed our coverage of Comey’s arraignment.

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If you appreciate our work, please consider supporting it!

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 4h

I’m in there somewhere

Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 6h

Great turnout here in DC for @thebulwark.com

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 13h

I have one of those. Hard to arrest a t rex

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 13h

I think a lot of us are! who needs the gatekeepers? Get it!

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 19h

Gotta say--dressing up in costumes is the kind of creatively brilliant resistance we all need. It brings joy and humor to things while vividly painting the authoritarian as foolish and absurd. Hats off Portlanders! @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I think this counts as the sprite of mischief.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 19h

Wow! that's really cool.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 1d

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & @hollybfletcher.bsky.social welcome Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social to discuss deployment of the #NationalGuard in US cities, the difference between grassroots & elite political participation, & the importance of just showing up.

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Dan @dkbuddychrist.bsky.social · Jan 18

Remember when COVID hit & some experts warned that 100k could die, and most people, including other experts said that was alarmist…then a million died and we shrugged?

When I tell you the US mil will be shooting Americans in the street it sounds alarmist; in 3 yrs we’ll shrug and say “of course.”

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

It's only a matter of time, I fear.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

'Judge April M. Perry of Federal District Court in Northern Illinois, a Biden appointee, pressed Trump administration lawyers for more information about National Guard assignments in the, describing herself as “very troubled by the lack of answers.”'

{ gift link } www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Pritzker: “The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

This is so Bizarre. I’ve had multiple conversations this week with several people about Ellis. He’s the guy that stashed the perfect phone call transcript in a code word classified system. And took over prepub review of Bolton’s book. Now this. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Good God, the fundamentalists on all sides are exhausting. I hope they all end up in the afterlife together.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Rofl

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

I’m guessing they also advised you not to live through an authoritarian takeover

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

Bfd! Congratulations @thebulwark.com friends

Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah. @crampell.bsky.social

Former Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark | Semafor www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark

Catherine Rampell will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter for the anti-Trump media brand.

www.semafor.com

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

WOAH

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

It’s the warrior ethos

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

I like Wood musically but TMI Taylor
Only definite skip is cancelled
Others are fine
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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

Ok i have now listened to new #TaylorSwift album several times. Not my favorite album but good. Fav songs
Father figure
Ophelia
Ruin the friendship

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

These tech bros are just terrifying.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

A populace that is agitated without being informed. A leader who encourages the worst suspicions, fuels the most dangerous lies, and mocks compromise and tolerance. It is getting close to being too late. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social:

Everything Is Awful. And It’s Changing Us.

It’s great that Disney is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back—but is it too late?

www.thebulwark.com

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Nancy French @nancyfrench.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago Police are having a hard time doing their jobs, because of ICE agents overloading the 911 system with fake calls.

"It's actually a violation of law. It would be classified under disorderly conduct, filing a false official report," he said.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

The Church of Starbucks has absolved me of all sin.
Thanks be to Coffee.

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