Muse With A Magnum
@musewithamagnum.bsky.social
Just a human with good editing skills trying to help nudge the world toward freedom one project at a time, while answering to my own multi-disciplinary Fight Club of Muses. (It's not easy living with Divine Fire in your head, but what ya gonna do?)
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For the record, I'll be blocking accounts that I either don't know or can't immediately tell that we have interests in common. I do not have time for bs and I'm not interested in whatever it is you're selling. I'll be reporting ones that look obviously fake, spammish, scammish.
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LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
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Every Sunday, the GOP posts a Bible verse on X. Today's is quite the self-own since the GOP is in power & people are hiding. Social media person didn't think this one through.
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Every Sunday, the GOP posts a Bible verse on X. Today's is quite the self-own since the GOP is in power & people are hiding. Social media person didn't think this one through.
This is exactly what is needed on so many fronts. We're too used to things being siloed by an infrastructure with some problematic roots. Find a place, gather the community, and share knowledge, skills, and energy. Throw in some food and music, and you have a good time while also meeting needs.
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is exactly what is needed on so many fronts. We're too used to things being siloed by an infrastructure with some problematic roots. Find a place, gather the community, and share knowledge, skills, and energy. Throw in some food and music, and you have a good time while also meeting needs.
We're going to move the business website over to a new hosting service - any thoughts on which one is best? It's going to be graphics heavy (as a photography service), but really only needs a contact page that works well...we don't do any orders through it.
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We're going to move the business website over to a new hosting service - any thoughts on which one is best? It's going to be graphics heavy (as a photography service), but really only needs a contact page that works well...we don't do any orders through it.
Come on, Missouri, do better! I've always claimed the KCMO side out of love for the Show-Me State, even though I was technically born in KCK. This is just heartbreaking and embarrassing.
My latest at @missouriindependent.com on efforts to depict partisan redistricting as a Christian effort:
"Missouri Republicans Invoke Christian Values to Gerrymander Out a Methodist Minister"
missouriindependent.com/2025/09/05/m...
"Missouri Republicans Invoke Christian Values to Gerrymander Out a Methodist Minister"
missouriindependent.com/2025/09/05/m...
Missouri Republicans invoke Christian values to gerrymander out a Methodist minister • Missouri Independent
The gerrymandering of Missouri's congressional map comes at the expense of one of only three Christian ministers in the House.
missouriindependent.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Come on, Missouri, do better! I've always claimed the KCMO side out of love for the Show-Me State, even though I was technically born in KCK. This is just heartbreaking and embarrassing.
Yes, I know who many of them voted for and agree this is the FO that naturally follows the FA. It's still heartbreaking when you see it happening to the families and communities around you,& to know how it is going to impact and reshape the region. Even if their savior/king comes through this time.
It’s worth watching this. Up to 1/3rd of Arkansas farmers will be bankrupt by the time new stimulus for them kicks in at the end of next year.
I don’t understand how they don’t understand that they are socialists.
I don’t understand how they don’t understand that they are socialists.
Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
YouTube video by KATVchannel7
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September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yes, I know who many of them voted for and agree this is the FO that naturally follows the FA. It's still heartbreaking when you see it happening to the families and communities around you,& to know how it is going to impact and reshape the region. Even if their savior/king comes through this time.
I ended up picking Church of Spiritual Humanism to get the ordination paper. I may still pursue AHA credentials down the road, but I have the prior EGC ordination, a nearly completed B.SW, 3 MAs & independent training & service in conflict mediation, community org & recovery as the base.
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I ended up picking Church of Spiritual Humanism to get the ordination paper. I may still pursue AHA credentials down the road, but I have the prior EGC ordination, a nearly completed B.SW, 3 MAs & independent training & service in conflict mediation, community org & recovery as the base.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
There's a clip going round using this speech, so like a good historian, I tracked down the citation for it: Obama, Barack, "Remarks by the President at Ohio Democratic Party Dinner," October 13, 2016, Greater Columbus Convention Centerm Columbus, Ohio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmf...
Obama Blasts Republicans Now Disavowing Trump
YouTube video by AP Archive
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August 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There's a clip going round using this speech, so like a good historian, I tracked down the citation for it: Obama, Barack, "Remarks by the President at Ohio Democratic Party Dinner," October 13, 2016, Greater Columbus Convention Centerm Columbus, Ohio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmf...
29th anniversary of the 0* day at Kali. One epic N'awlins trip, that was.
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
YouTube video by ConcreteBlondeVEVO
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August 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
29th anniversary of the 0* day at Kali. One epic N'awlins trip, that was.
AR's Religious Rights at Public Schools Act starts today:
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
arkleg.state.ar.us
August 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AR's Religious Rights at Public Schools Act starts today:
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
In Citizens United, the Supreme Court predicted that super PACs wouldn’t lead to real or perceived corruption. But a record-breaking run for Trump’s super PAC casts doubt on that idea.
bit.ly/4olWjE6
bit.ly/4olWjE6
Unprecedented Big Money Surge for Super PAC Tied to Trump
Million-dollar donors fuel a nearly $200 million war chest to support a president who can’t run again.
www.brennancenter.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Project 2025’s roadmap for dismantling American government is 47% complete, according to the website Project 2025 Tracker.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass? https://youtu.be/XmZm3zeSSDc?feature=shared
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass? https://youtu.be/XmZm3zeSSDc?feature=shared
Project 2025: The MAGA Plan to Take Your Freedom | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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A pandemic just killed over 1 million Americans. And it would’ve killed even more without the extraordinary development of highly effective mRNA vaccines within a year of the virus emerging. It’s hard for me to overstate how monstrous, incomprehensible and foolhardy this is. RFKJ does it again.
Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A pandemic just killed over 1 million Americans. And it would’ve killed even more without the extraordinary development of highly effective mRNA vaccines within a year of the virus emerging. It’s hard for me to overstate how monstrous, incomprehensible and foolhardy this is. RFKJ does it again.
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Trump administration is targeting pastors & churches with immigration arrests. It's a disturbing pattern that's emerging:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/when-trump...
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/when-trump...
When Trump Deports Jesus (and Other Christians)
U.S.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Trump administration is targeting pastors & churches with immigration arrests. It's a disturbing pattern that's emerging:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/when-trump...
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/when-trump...
In the end, Initiation is just the means of working out a way of communicating with the Universe well enough to be able to know the hidden reality of things as needed. Whatever gets you to that point is what works - it's just a question of how much that journey costs.
Bravado (2004 Remaster)
YouTube video by Rush - Topic
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August 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In the end, Initiation is just the means of working out a way of communicating with the Universe well enough to be able to know the hidden reality of things as needed. Whatever gets you to that point is what works - it's just a question of how much that journey costs.
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Today’s issue of A Public Witness opens up DHS’s social media in one hand and an actual Bible in the other to consider the competing faiths.
The Bible According to the Department of Homeland Security
The social media feeds of the U.S.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today’s issue of A Public Witness opens up DHS’s social media in one hand and an actual Bible in the other to consider the competing faiths.
It turns out that Christian Nationalists don’t just mislead about what the Bible says; they also make up stories about history. And to create a better future, we must not cede the past to those who lie about it.
Challenging Jefferson Lies
In 2011, Warren Throckmorton was a professor at a conservative Christian college when he started writing blog posts about conservative pseudo-historian David Barton.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
July 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We also have a developer pushing for a new openly Whites-only enclave in Sharp County, Arkansas to add to the list of bad things happening in the mid-South.
Quick search says Marc Andreesen (one of the funders for this) is funding another Christian nationalist enclave in Kentucky. The tech bro/theocrat alliance is one of the weirder products of Trumpism.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee
For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.
www.newschannel5.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We also have a developer pushing for a new openly Whites-only enclave in Sharp County, Arkansas to add to the list of bad things happening in the mid-South.
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Nice to see a shout-out from @publisherswkly.bsky.social to 'The Bible According to Christian Nationalists': www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Pre-order your copy: bookshop.org/a/110819/978...
Pre-order your copy: bookshop.org/a/110819/978...
New Books Challenge Christian Nationalism
As Christian nationalism gains prominence in the U.S., new books from religion publishers warn of unprecedented threats to democracy and pluralism while shedding light on pathways for resistance.
www.publishersweekly.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nice to see a shout-out from @publisherswkly.bsky.social to 'The Bible According to Christian Nationalists': www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Pre-order your copy: bookshop.org/a/110819/978...
Pre-order your copy: bookshop.org/a/110819/978...
One my greatest joys during my SWVA days was our local pick-your-own blueberries farms in the rural area surrounding our university island; I'd just stop & listen to how many languages were being spoken around me. It was wonderful belonging to an international community in the heart of Appalachia.
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
One my greatest joys during my SWVA days was our local pick-your-own blueberries farms in the rural area surrounding our university island; I'd just stop & listen to how many languages were being spoken around me. It was wonderful belonging to an international community in the heart of Appalachia.
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Aide from Donald Trump’s marriage vows there is no oath so commonly broken as a state legislator’s oath to uphold the constitution.
I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night | Opinion
If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, this bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Aide from Donald Trump’s marriage vows there is no oath so commonly broken as a state legislator’s oath to uphold the constitution.
"Oh, for a voice like thunder..."
For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Oh, for a voice like thunder..."