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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 1h

Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 3d

I mostly avoid reposting propaganda. But if I do, it’s to name it as antichrist. This is the power to crucify and it belongs to hell. Churches that bless it are Babylonian shrines. Do not confuse the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One, who is peace.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 11d

Our elected leaders in the US executive branch are not departing from reality as much as they are creating one— a totality where their word is absolute and dissent is subversion.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 12d

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Reality in Ruins

For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of ...

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 12d

Proofs are here. Feeling the weight of this book; what it stands for—naming the authoritarian nexus of falsehood & violence at work in white evangelicalism— and what it hopes in—truth for a common world.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 15d

“The hardest work is contending against the disorienting and malformed Christianities which bring themselves to bear against the vulnerable, often in the name of freedom and faith. This is the necessary work, the one the demands the church be exactly what it is.”

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 15d

On the Kirk memorial from the intersection of brutality and disreality…

Everyone Marveled And Followed The Beast

Devoured By America First

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20d

So glad to hear. Thank you.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20d

The last week has only pressed me deeper into the message that led to this book—we are dealing not just with a war of facts, but the apocalypse (unveiling) of primal stories, of myths and their corruption. Here’s how we got here, and a way forward…

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Reality in Ruins

For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of ...

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20d

A lot of talk about “authoritarianism” — and I’m here for it. But we need specificity: the contagion of authoritarian movements today spreads by a vision of capitalism without democracy.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 21d

When I was doing my PhD research on January 6, I began to feel the weight of documenting words and preserving actions that might one day be erased, revised, or mythologized.

I felt that weight all over again today reading how the DOJ is erasing studies on right wing political violence.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 21d

Source:

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website

www.theguardian.com

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 21d

The Department of Justice has erased a study from its website; the study from the National Institute of Justice found far-right political violence & extremism outpaced all other ideological violence.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely 🎯

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 22d

In the US, an information diet of conservative algorithms likely means rage at the nameless “left” has been nursed in no small part by Russian troll farms.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · Aug 29

“The one who is beyond creation enters creation in order to change it, not to abandon it. Jesus broke the laws of this sinful age not by simple negation but by offering a new life to creatures in the middle of the lives they are already living. …

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 29

The authoritarian playbook is being run with precision across the United States. Much of our reliance on media obscures this pattern by reporting each play on its own without attention to the whole.

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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · Aug 28

As Prof. Brock's new book has appeared recently, join him as he discusses things with @jaredstacy.bsky.social. Click through for more!

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Living As Creatures

A Conversation with Brian Brock

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 27

Mercy on the children in Minnesota today. I believe their generation will grow up to condemn ours; we who collectively enable the terror and tyranny of gun violence in the name of “freedom”

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chris this is really kind, thanks so much!

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 25

My book on conspiracism in American evangelicalism has a title, cover and release date. More info at the link.

Reality In Ruins: Book Title and Cover Reveal

Discover Jared Stacy’s new book, Reality in Ruins. Read the official announcement and see the cover reveal today.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 7

January 6 continues to be an apocalypse: unveiling the militant violence raging in the heart of MAGA that worships a rogue word, a paranoid Christ split between kingdom & country.

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Aug 4

ICE is recruiting new agents by offering up to $60K in student loan forgiveness—a reminder that loan forgiveness by itself isn’t the issue, it’s who gets to wield it as a partisan weapon.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Jul 31

The invisible systems that organize our world (capitalism, nationalism, etc.) are *not* inevitable. It’s the task of the Christian to point to all the ways we’ve assumed they are “normal” or “ideal” and so perpetuate their own forms of injustice.

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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · Jul 22

“Between January and June 2025, thousands were held in immigration detention…in Florida, under conditions that flagrantly violate international human rights standards and the United States government’s own immigration detention standards.”

“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”

The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...

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