Matthew J. Cressler
@mjcressler.bsky.social
🤖 chief of staff for CPIT: https://www.cpitpbc.com/
✍🏼 rogue scholar & writer 4 hire on Catholics + anti/racism, sex abuse, horror(s), pop culture, & more: https://matthewjcressler.com/
💥 comix creator: https://badcatholics-comics.org/
✍🏼 rogue scholar & writer 4 hire on Catholics + anti/racism, sex abuse, horror(s), pop culture, & more: https://matthewjcressler.com/
💥 comix creator: https://badcatholics-comics.org/
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BAD CATHOLICS | GOOD TROUBLE
badcatholics-comics.org
Allow me to reintroduce myself! I'm a scholar, writer, & comics creator. I write on Catholics, racism, racial justice, and, increasingly, horror(s). And, I'm chief of staff for a public interest tech start up. But if Imma pin something, it's gotta be #BadCatholicsGoodTrouble: badcatholics-comics.org
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Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Please enjoy listening to three religious studies types - me, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and the great @mjcressler.bsky.social - talk about THE EXORCIST in nerdy and religiony ways!
Please enjoy listening to three religious studies types - me, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and the great @mjcressler.bsky.social - talk about THE EXORCIST in nerdy and religiony ways!
#057 – THE EXORCIST with Matthew J. Cressler by Pod Only Knows
Our friend and Catholic horror expert joins us for Halloween to talk about his favorite movie, 1973's The Exorcist!
cms.megaphone.fm
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Please enjoy listening to three religious studies types - me, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and the great @mjcressler.bsky.social - talk about THE EXORCIST in nerdy and religiony ways!
Please enjoy listening to three religious studies types - me, @kellyjbaker.bsky.social, and the great @mjcressler.bsky.social - talk about THE EXORCIST in nerdy and religiony ways!
Friend of the @podonlyknows.bsky.social pod here, hyping this fun convo. I could talk #TheExorcist for days, especially with these two brilliant and beautiful humans. 😈🖤
Happy Halloween! Our old friend @mjcressler.bsky.social joins us as @johnbrooks.bsky.social finally gets @kellyjbaker.bsky.social to watch THE EXORCIST. We talk Catholics, horror, demons, and curses in history's weirdest Christmas release!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
Pod Only Knows #057 – THE EXORCIST with Matthew J. Cressler
Our friend and Catholic horror expert joins us for Halloween to talk about his favorite movie, 1973's The Exorcist!
www.cageclub.me
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Friend of the @podonlyknows.bsky.social pod here, hyping this fun convo. I could talk #TheExorcist for days, especially with these two brilliant and beautiful humans. 😈🖤
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We're back tomorrow with more spookiness as we talk to @mjcressler.bsky.social about THE EXORCIST!
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We're back tomorrow with more spookiness as we talk to @mjcressler.bsky.social about THE EXORCIST!
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I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings
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“I hope that if anyone sees this video and is disturbed by it, that what they think about is that if they are willing to do that to a clergy in broad daylight, imagine what they are doing to detainees in the dark.” Grateful for the prophetic witnesses in our midst.
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
United Methodist pastor violently arrested in Chicago – Baptist News Global
Pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility
baptistnews.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“I hope that if anyone sees this video and is disturbed by it, that what they think about is that if they are willing to do that to a clergy in broad daylight, imagine what they are doing to detainees in the dark.” Grateful for the prophetic witnesses in our midst.
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
“I hope that if anyone sees this video and is disturbed by it, that what they think about is that if they are willing to do that to a clergy in broad daylight, imagine what they are doing to detainees in the dark.” Grateful for the prophetic witnesses in our midst.
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
United Methodist pastor violently arrested in Chicago – Baptist News Global
Pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility
baptistnews.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“I hope that if anyone sees this video and is disturbed by it, that what they think about is that if they are willing to do that to a clergy in broad daylight, imagine what they are doing to detainees in the dark.” Grateful for the prophetic witnesses in our midst.
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
baptistnews.com/article/unit...
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Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
Everything that needed saying, and then some. Thank you @jamellebouie.net 🙏🏼 | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Everything that needed saying, and then some. Thank you @jamellebouie.net 🙏🏼 | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
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"Unlike prominent right-wing influencers like Mr. Bannon, Charlie Kirk and Laura Loomer, he has no ties to the Trump White House."
Well, that's just flat out wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
Well, that's just flat out wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Unlike prominent right-wing influencers like Mr. Bannon, Charlie Kirk and Laura Loomer, he has no ties to the Trump White House."
Well, that's just flat out wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
Well, that's just flat out wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
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Guess I never announced this (rather exciting) news publicly. Along with my ongoing work for @cpitco.bsky.social, not to mention varied and sundry other projects, I'll now be working officially as a Writer™. 🥳🎉🤨
August 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Guess I never announced this (rather exciting) news publicly. Along with my ongoing work for @cpitco.bsky.social, not to mention varied and sundry other projects, I'll now be working officially as a Writer™. 🥳🎉🤨
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In Middleton, NY.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
August 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In Middleton, NY.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
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Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions:
"Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me."
"Do you have a badge? Show me."
"Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."
"Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me."
"Do you have a badge? Show me."
"Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."
In Middleton, NY.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
August 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions:
"Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me."
"Do you have a badge? Show me."
"Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."
"Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me."
"Do you have a badge? Show me."
"Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."
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DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
*whispers* I think the @historians.org "guiding principles for AI in history education" are actually pretty good (and I say this as an historian and a public interest tech professional). 🧵
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
*whispers* I think the @historians.org "guiding principles for AI in history education" are actually pretty good (and I say this as an historian and a public interest tech professional). 🧵
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
www.historians.org/resource/gui...
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From this month's edition of The Onion.
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
From this month's edition of The Onion.
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Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.
ENOUGH.
I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
ENOUGH.
I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve
Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.
www.cbsnews.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.
ENOUGH.
I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
ENOUGH.
I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
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Catholic institutions preach justice—but are they practicing it when it comes to workers’ rights? Ken Homan dives into the clash between faith values & labor organizing in Catholic spaces in her piece for @poweratwork.bsky.social. Read now at poweratwork.us/faith-labor-...!
July 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Catholic institutions preach justice—but are they practicing it when it comes to workers’ rights? Ken Homan dives into the clash between faith values & labor organizing in Catholic spaces in her piece for @poweratwork.bsky.social. Read now at poweratwork.us/faith-labor-...!
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Wait. Chloe Kelly has scored the winner in two Euro Finals. Has any footballer ever done that?
July 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wait. Chloe Kelly has scored the winner in two Euro Finals. Has any footballer ever done that?
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Good piece by @jamellebouie.net taking apart JD Vance's reprehensible immigration worldview on the substance. I'd add that JD seems to cast our admission of immigrants purely as an act of benevolence on our part, when of course that's not the story at all
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
July 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Good piece by @jamellebouie.net taking apart JD Vance's reprehensible immigration worldview on the substance. I'd add that JD seems to cast our admission of immigrants purely as an act of benevolence on our part, when of course that's not the story at all
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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2019 all over psmag.com/ideas/yes-tr...
Yes, Trump's Detention Centers Are Concentration Camps
These are concentration camps, and denying as much merely prepares the way for worse atrocities to come.
psmag.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
2019 all over psmag.com/ideas/yes-tr...
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I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
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let's just all ask ourselves very seriously where we think *this* is going and whether or not we'd like to go there
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
Republicans cheer for ‘mass deportation’ – a dark new chapter in America’s history of othering ‘them’
The convention celebrated Trump’s vision of immigration as a disease. The GOP idea of a cure would mean I, and millions of others, would not exist
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
let's just all ask ourselves very seriously where we think *this* is going and whether or not we'd like to go there
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...