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When our worship has been corrupted, disruption might be the most Christlike thing we can do.
Holy Disruption
On Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., and Twin Cities Worship Services
pastortrey05.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
When our worship has been corrupted, disruption might be the most Christlike thing we can do.
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Important to understand the law, how it works, and why…in order to resist effectively.
June 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Important to understand the law, how it works, and why…in order to resist effectively.
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Just finished up at the Evanston No Kings rally. It was safe, peaceful, and a show of solidarity by *at least* 1,000 people.
Go to your local protest. Don’t let this administration scare you. Stand with your community when our leaders won’t.
Go to your local protest. Don’t let this administration scare you. Stand with your community when our leaders won’t.
June 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Just finished up at the Evanston No Kings rally. It was safe, peaceful, and a show of solidarity by *at least* 1,000 people.
Go to your local protest. Don’t let this administration scare you. Stand with your community when our leaders won’t.
Go to your local protest. Don’t let this administration scare you. Stand with your community when our leaders won’t.
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The median number of Measles deaths among children in the US for the last 50 years has been 0.
That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary.
You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.
That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary.
You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The median number of Measles deaths among children in the US for the last 50 years has been 0.
That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary.
You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.
That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary.
You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.
Due process is the process through which you are determined to be guilty of a crime. Not advocating for due process is to love injustice. Loving injustice is evil.
April 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Due process is the process through which you are determined to be guilty of a crime. Not advocating for due process is to love injustice. Loving injustice is evil.
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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Folks, a lot of you are making predictions that assume that nothing ever happens or changes, it's all ceritus paribus even if the President goes insane and declares a trade war on the whole wide world at once.
Meanwhile, all the actual barometric readings are weird.
Meanwhile, all the actual barometric readings are weird.
April 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Folks, a lot of you are making predictions that assume that nothing ever happens or changes, it's all ceritus paribus even if the President goes insane and declares a trade war on the whole wide world at once.
Meanwhile, all the actual barometric readings are weird.
Meanwhile, all the actual barometric readings are weird.
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Having exausted all other options — having seen all other defenses fail — all our hopes for being rescued from one of the most deranged and stupid national leaders in history now rest with the highest and final authority in this country: the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
April 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Having exausted all other options — having seen all other defenses fail — all our hopes for being rescued from one of the most deranged and stupid national leaders in history now rest with the highest and final authority in this country: the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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Abolish ICE.
What they are doing is evil.
What they are doing is evil.
March 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Abolish ICE.
What they are doing is evil.
What they are doing is evil.
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The American Evangelical church is nothing like the way of Jesus.
& that’s becoming more & more clear to more & more people.
Let the dead bury the dead:
We’re resurrection people.
& I see the new life of the Kingdom sprouting up all around us. 🌱 🕊️ 🙏
& that’s becoming more & more clear to more & more people.
Let the dead bury the dead:
We’re resurrection people.
& I see the new life of the Kingdom sprouting up all around us. 🌱 🕊️ 🙏
March 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The American Evangelical church is nothing like the way of Jesus.
& that’s becoming more & more clear to more & more people.
Let the dead bury the dead:
We’re resurrection people.
& I see the new life of the Kingdom sprouting up all around us. 🌱 🕊️ 🙏
& that’s becoming more & more clear to more & more people.
Let the dead bury the dead:
We’re resurrection people.
& I see the new life of the Kingdom sprouting up all around us. 🌱 🕊️ 🙏
I wonder if that creates a disadvantage…they are so cartoonishly evil it is almost hard to believe.
Def indicative of my US enculturation, but when it came time to oppose fascists I was hoping they’d be badass intimidating villains, but instead it’s adult dweebs cosplaying at what their malformed perpetually fermented teenaged brains think is “cool” & “manly” in hopes of finally being respected.+
March 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I wonder if that creates a disadvantage…they are so cartoonishly evil it is almost hard to believe.
Not a dispensationalist but growing up in that stream…I am dismayed at how many who are do not see the parallels in this hour of how Trump embodies everything they said the Anti-Christ would be.
March 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Not a dispensationalist but growing up in that stream…I am dismayed at how many who are do not see the parallels in this hour of how Trump embodies everything they said the Anti-Christ would be.
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“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
Macbeth
Macbeth
March 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
Macbeth
Macbeth
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If I could make a Star Wars it’d be straight up taking Vietnam war battles and putting them in space and they’d all be set in the period between a new hope and ESB
The overarching plot is that vaders obsession with Luke is blinding him the the fact the rebels are wrecking logistics
The overarching plot is that vaders obsession with Luke is blinding him the the fact the rebels are wrecking logistics
March 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If I could make a Star Wars it’d be straight up taking Vietnam war battles and putting them in space and they’d all be set in the period between a new hope and ESB
The overarching plot is that vaders obsession with Luke is blinding him the the fact the rebels are wrecking logistics
The overarching plot is that vaders obsession with Luke is blinding him the the fact the rebels are wrecking logistics
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If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—And It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid
Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African-born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.
www.thenation.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.
February 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.
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I'm going to do my best to live virtuously and encourage my kids to live that way too, no matter how many powerful people or their enablers act like virtue is for fools. /
February 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I'm going to do my best to live virtuously and encourage my kids to live that way too, no matter how many powerful people or their enablers act like virtue is for fools. /
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“The Sermon on the Mount has a strange way of making us better people or better liars.”
Dean Smith
Dean Smith
January 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The Sermon on the Mount has a strange way of making us better people or better liars.”
Dean Smith
Dean Smith
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This is not political. This is Kingdom business.
If as a church leaders, we have told ourselves that we would have been brave enough to hold the Gospel cleanly though at the edge of the sword at pivotal points in history, now is our time to prove it.
If as a church leaders, we have told ourselves that we would have been brave enough to hold the Gospel cleanly though at the edge of the sword at pivotal points in history, now is our time to prove it.
December 12, 2024 at 9:04 PM
This is not political. This is Kingdom business.
If as a church leaders, we have told ourselves that we would have been brave enough to hold the Gospel cleanly though at the edge of the sword at pivotal points in history, now is our time to prove it.
If as a church leaders, we have told ourselves that we would have been brave enough to hold the Gospel cleanly though at the edge of the sword at pivotal points in history, now is our time to prove it.
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Indeed, I wrote a whole article about how the abject incompetence of "AI" that exists in the real world means the "AI" of fiction and film has been revealed as optimistic at best, even the murdery ones:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
November 25, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Indeed, I wrote a whole article about how the abject incompetence of "AI" that exists in the real world means the "AI" of fiction and film has been revealed as optimistic at best, even the murdery ones:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
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these sorts of laws are almost always being pushed by guys who can't be bothered to crack the spine of a Bible themselves. not to sound overly cringe or lib, but actually reading the Bible radicalizes you into the kind of person the Texas State Board of Education wants driven from society.
The ruling class knows their survival depends on indoctrinating the next generation, which is why they're forcing archaic religious texts like the Bible into classrooms to suppress any critical thought and reinforce obedience.
November 25, 2024 at 1:33 PM
these sorts of laws are almost always being pushed by guys who can't be bothered to crack the spine of a Bible themselves. not to sound overly cringe or lib, but actually reading the Bible radicalizes you into the kind of person the Texas State Board of Education wants driven from society.
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When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
~Thomas Merton
~Thomas Merton
November 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
~Thomas Merton
~Thomas Merton
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1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is.
2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here.
3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.
2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here.
3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.
November 20, 2024 at 3:17 PM
1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is.
2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here.
3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.
2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here.
3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.
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I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.
I like this version of social media, and the world.
Thanks, folks.