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Thomas Lecaque

@tlecaque.bsky.social

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Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · May 22

Hi followers. In case you thought I was JUST a shitposter, I'm a historian, trained as a medievalist and working on the long eighteenth century, a college professor, and also for the last six years I've been writing about the far right. Primarily the religious far right, but not exclusively.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12m

Absolutely--I prefer the memoir to the novel but both should be read more widely than they are!

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15m

Posobiec's book "Unhumans" says Fracisco Franco was a great man of history. Of course he thinks antifascism is bad.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16m

"Anti fascists are bad and come from shooting fascists in Spain during the Civil War and we hate that because I'm a fascist" he's just a Nazi, babe, he's not very complicated.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14m

That book could be Homage to Catalonia, if you wanted to pick one.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15m

I'm sure sometimes he fantasizes that he's Unity Mitford and Hitler slipped him the little corporal. I don't really care. The people who are saying antifa are bad are fascists. They know what they're doing. Sad the media seems confused, they could try reading a fucking book.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16m

"Anti fascists are bad and come from shooting fascists in Spain during the Civil War and we hate that because I'm a fascist" he's just a Nazi, babe, he's not very complicated.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17m

Jack Posobiec is on TV saying antifa comes from the 1930s and is bad because he's a Nazi. It's real simple.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30m

Ahhhh thank you!!!!!

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 34m

Would have bought this, played this, assigned it to classes, written about it. We could have had something incredible.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2h

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

For people who dream of living a century ago they sure don't recognize that would have gotten swirlied every single day.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

Had to happen once.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway. I should be a better person. But the throwback 20th century douchebro that dwells in the back of my brain agrees these people are fucking losers.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot imagine how anyone could survive being at the gym nodding along that singing in Spanish made the NFL gay commies and not throw themselves into traffic in shame afterwards.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

Singing in Spanish and you're shitting yourself in terror? Crying like a little bitch because the road had a rainbow on it? Screaming hysterically that Portland has been invaded because the wizard frog gyrates at you? This is what the manosphere votes for? You mewling little fuckweasels.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sorry to put this in the framework of toxic masculine ideology and languages but I cannot help, in the most 90s way possible, but notice that everyone in this administration is such a fucking pussy that it's embarassing for everyone.

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Michael Iantorno 🍂🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 3h

I'm once again sharing my starter pack of Canadian Game Studies Folks!

Follow and let me know if you, or someone you know, might be a good fit. 🕹️✨

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

I appreciate an article that justifies every time an academic ever called Vermeule a Nazi, at least.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

Chat, is it good that all the world's most powerful people are obsessed with the nazi jurist, Carl Schmitt?

Screenshot of a WIRED article titled “The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession” by Laura Bullard, published on September 30, 2025, at 12:05 PM. The subheading reads: “Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.”

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Screenshot of a text excerpt discussing legal scholars’ research on Carl Schmitt. The highlighted section reads: “But over time, Vermeule’s fascination grew. ‘I noticed that Adrian had moved away from just being interested in Schmitt to actually embracing all dimensions of Schmitt’s theory: both the political dimension and the legal dimension,’ Dyzenhaus says.”

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, actually.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 4h

Question for c-18 theater people (paging @emmcgirr.bsky.social) -- what did women performing in breeches wear for their tops? Did they use stays or jumps? Did they hang loose, so to speak? I feel like I should know this but I have no idea.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 4h

(I will say, thank God for therapy!)

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 4h

I appreciate you, friend.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 4h

Finally discovering the limits to my ability to just keep working through unending fatigue and too much load (academic, emotional, mental, etc.) is... humbling. Don't love it. Doesn't feel like growth, kinda feels like a Wiley Coyote into a wall moment.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 7h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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