Testudo Aubrei
@ritterteufeltod.bsky.social
Queer Episcopalian thirty something. History, theology, trees, heavy metal.
Soc-Dem Left-Lib I guess, with a soft spot for anarchist thought
Soc-Dem Left-Lib I guess, with a soft spot for anarchist thought
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
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Trump take good economy
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Trump take good economy
‘Turkey Isn’t bad if you cook it right’ okay sure but they is only relevant is Thanksgiving is a meal you are cooking yourself at your own home and not a hostage situation at your in laws where everyone performs familial warmth so 70 year old sentimentalists can feel warm and fuzzy.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
‘Turkey Isn’t bad if you cook it right’ okay sure but they is only relevant is Thanksgiving is a meal you are cooking yourself at your own home and not a hostage situation at your in laws where everyone performs familial warmth so 70 year old sentimentalists can feel warm and fuzzy.
Absolutely insane opinion.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Absolutely insane opinion.
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I'm hearing some people call this treason, and that's not fair.
I'm pretty sure treason requires overt acts; through speech, it's merely sedition.
I'm pretty sure treason requires overt acts; through speech, it's merely sedition.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'm hearing some people call this treason, and that's not fair.
I'm pretty sure treason requires overt acts; through speech, it's merely sedition.
I'm pretty sure treason requires overt acts; through speech, it's merely sedition.
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
But people like MRO are doing the whole "Listen 👏 to 👏 Palestinians" and presenting their most deranged poasters, kinda like the weird Hasbarah accounts who do the same thing with Jews, and the Jewish Voice you should Listen to ends up being Meir freaking Kahane ימ"ש
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
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Show up to the interview, take the names of every FBI employee there, and explain to them that every one of them will personally go on a “collaborator” list of people unfit for participation in a free society when the wheel turns
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Show up to the interview, take the names of every FBI employee there, and explain to them that every one of them will personally go on a “collaborator” list of people unfit for participation in a free society when the wheel turns
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"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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Every global election being an anti-incumbent wave because social media refuses to allow good news is an underrated outcome.
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Every global election being an anti-incumbent wave because social media refuses to allow good news is an underrated outcome.
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ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
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It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
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this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Pew notes that never in 20 years of polling have Latinos said their situation is worse than a year before
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Pew notes that never in 20 years of polling have Latinos said their situation is worse than a year before
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My three-year-old was reading MAGA Twitter when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why do the people in Pakistan love the nice orange man so much?" And when I told her "Because he's the only American president who never started any new wars," she started crying.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My three-year-old was reading MAGA Twitter when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why do the people in Pakistan love the nice orange man so much?" And when I told her "Because he's the only American president who never started any new wars," she started crying.
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one of the reasons that writing for liberal currents has been so meaningful to me? our country is overrun by Politics Commentators™️ who somehow manage to know nothing about politics. they watch politics like it's reality tv and imagine this gives them wisdom.
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
one of the reasons that writing for liberal currents has been so meaningful to me? our country is overrun by Politics Commentators™️ who somehow manage to know nothing about politics. they watch politics like it's reality tv and imagine this gives them wisdom.
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A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
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Senator Kelly & his fellow veterans are American patriots.
Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.
Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.
Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.
Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Senator Kelly & his fellow veterans are American patriots.
Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.
Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.
Their video simply reiterated the Uniform Code of Military Justice's requirement to only carry out LAWFUL orders.
Not surprising that Secretary Talk Show Host doesn't know that.
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the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
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there is something funny about how this is just a version of the broderite anti-partyism that used to dominate the nation’s
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
there is something funny about how this is just a version of the broderite anti-partyism that used to dominate the nation’s
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
op-ed pages and sunday panels and still, to an extent, shapes elite opinion
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Never forget how ass out Ben was to defend Nuzzi as news of her scandals broke.
Never forget who dove head first into defending this. Remember them every time we hear about a kid who dies of whooping cough.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Never forget how ass out Ben was to defend Nuzzi as news of her scandals broke.