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Liberation Theology @liberationtheology.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An alternative to the diatribes being flung over the Ed Sheeran-Robert Kraft-Macklemore controversy.

I respect Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as faiths that have given millions of people meaning, community, moral purpose, and hope. I also believe that beliefs and movements within every religion can and should be criticized when they cause harm.

I oppose religious nationalism—Christian, Jewish, or Islamic—when it uses religion or ethnicity to give one group greater rights, political power, protection, or human worth than another. That does not mean denying any people’s history, faith, culture, security, or right to self-determination. No people’s rights should depend on denying the equal dignity and basic rights of another.

Criticism of a government or nationalist movement is not an attack on the religion or ethnicity associated with it. Christians are not Christian nationalism. Jews are not the Israeli government or Jewish nationalism. Muslims are not Islamic nationalism. People should not be held collectively responsible for what governments or political movements do in their name.

I stand with Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and against hatred toward any of them. I also stand against any political movement that makes citizenship, equality, dignity, or basic human rights depend on having the right religion or ancestry.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They would not be treated like New Yorkers. There was no one to kill in the name of their trauma. Instead, they would be hunted, a hunt fueled by the weaponized trauma of their neighbors. Kicking off 9/11 Week at FOREVER WARS, we return, again, to Little Pakistan.

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Return To Little Pakistan: The Reign of Terror in Brooklyn after 9/11 (Reprise)

Pundits and politicians declared America united while "unity” preyed upon New York City’s Muslim communities. We must never forget. Part 1 in a series

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was on NPR’s Morning Edition today, talking about Rubio’s trip to Latin America, the boat strikes, and how some of the US’s main partners in the war on drugs in the region are tied to the drug trade themselves.

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Rubio to visit 3 Latin American countries this week

Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as President Trump hails a shift to the right in regional politics and a new era of U.S. dominance.

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 07/09/2026

The folks who pass themselves off as American conservatives today, sadly, are outraged because Fox News fired someone for repeatedly lying. The viewers want to be lied to. That's what American conservatism has become today. It's also what confederate values were, all along.

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 07/09/2026

People often wonder when MAGA will come to its senses, and I don't understand that question. Why would people change their minds? 🧵 1/10

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 07/09/2026

Five ways people abuse and lie about 9/11 to divide Americans: 1. “Sharia tells Muslims to lie.” Taqiyya permits concealing faith under persecution, not routinely deceiving non-Muslims. The Bible likewise praises protective deception: Exodus 1:15–21; Joshua 2. yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/p...

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Playing the Taqiyya Card: Evading Intelligent Debate by Calling all Muslims Liars

A concise rebuttal to the Taqiyya argument by Dr. Omar Suleiman and Dr. Nazir Khan.

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Stop Conversion Therapy / Sogice / Ecosig @conversiontherapy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why do some ex-gay / conversion therapy activists eventually say “I was wrong,” while others keep revising the explanation so the underlying belief never has to be wrong?

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Part 1: Why Some Ex-Gay Leaders Change Their Minds — and Others Double Down - Ex-Gay Watch

For decades, the ex-gay movement has produced a striking number of former leaders who eventually repudiated some or all of what they once taught. John...

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 31/07/2026

Boy George's public contempt for Muslims is no more appropriate than so many antisemites' contempt for Jews. "Jesus Christ Superstar" performers should be free to speak, but they should think carefully about how their bigotries affect the production and its audiences.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/06/2026

“vote blue no matter who” taking a real beating today

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I am tired of Democrats conceding that the only answer for racist laws is that we have to vote more and harder and better. That basically means Black Democrats, as well as Democrats of other races who live in multicultural districts. But mainly Black Democrats. 1/2 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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On Redistricting, Will Virginia Democrats Surrender, or Get Creative?

Democrats must stop conceding that the only answer for various racist voting laws is that Democrats just have to vote more and harder and better.

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 06/05/2026

25 years later, Trump's FBI is still covering up key details about the Saudi 9/11 hijackers. Trump and his "deep state" are forgetting 9/11 and protecting a terror network. Why? Meanwhile, United Airlines punished its employee witnesses to the hijack attempt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BmL...

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Exposing The 9/11 Cover-Up | TMZ Investigates: The Fifth Plane

YouTube video by TMZ

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 05/05/2026

The Met Gala—funded by billionaires & trillion dollar corporations who pay the lowest tax rate of any demographic, even while 60% of Americans cannot afford to live—is yet another reminder that we do not lack the ability to help those in need, we lack the ability to satisfy billionaire greed.

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Liberation Theology @liberationtheology.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The political "left" and "right" are delusions at best, lies at worst. Here's what the U.S. political spectrum actually looks like.

A 3D political compass rendered as a translucent wireframe cube, viewed from above and to the right in isometric perspective. Three color-coded arrows extend outward from the cube along its edges, each labeling a political axis: a red horizontal arrow marks the left–right spectrum from Libertarian to Authoritarian (Political Authority); a blue vertical arrow marks top-to-bottom from Cosmopolitan to Nationalist (Global Orientation); a green diagonal arrow marks depth from Institutionalist at the back to Populist at the front (System Trust). The cube's faces are tinted with subtle color gradients reflecting the meeting of these axes.
Four real-world political groups are plotted inside the cube as emoji markers. 🔵 Biden/Clinton Democrats appear in the upper-left-back region — moderate authority, cosmopolitan, institutionalist. 🗽 Libertarians sit nearby but further from the center, at the extreme low-authority, cosmopolitan, institutionalist corner. ✊ Bernie-wing Progressives appear toward the upper-right-front — cosmopolitan like the Democrats, but significantly more populist and somewhat more authoritarian. 🔴 MAGA Republicans occupy the opposite extreme: lower-right-front — high authority, nationalist, and strongly populist. A key below the compass lists each group's name and precise X, Y, Z coordinates. The most striking insight the cube reveals: MAGA and Bernie both sit deep in the Populist (front) region of the cube, but at opposite ends of every other axis.

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Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Dave Mason has died at 79. A founding member of Traffic, the singer-songwriter and guitarist also played with Cass Elliott, George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix. Mason performing his “Only You Know and I Know” on The Midnight Special in 1975. #RIPDaveMason m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwG8...

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Only You Know And I Know - Dave Mason | The Midnight Special

YouTube video by The Midnight Special

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D'metri Kepi @dmetrikepi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Yup. And ultimately Bannon doesn't even want Catholicism or Christianity. Evola hated Christianity. In 2022 you had Bannon and Milo pulling this: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Every accusation is a confession, they want Catholicism to be a Apollonian cult. Diana being Apollo's sister.

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Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other militant right-wing activists are hellbent on transforming the Catholic Church

Starting with the pope.

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D'metri Kepi @dmetrikepi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bannon is doing something similar with Evola's traditionalism through both Catholicism and Orthodoxy, Vance is likely involved, and in general Bannon is trying to seed in Evola style trads into both churches. He's also trying to manipulate US based clergy into getting comfortable doing things that

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D'metri Kepi @dmetrikepi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Are outside church norms. For example this little event during the eclipse: www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon... Where in Catholic doctrine or tradition does it say that demons come out of the sun during an eclipse? Nowhere, it's just what you do when you want people comfortable praying to the sun.

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Steve Bannon to host eclipse prayer service to stop 'satanic forces that come through'

Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon revealed Monday that he would host Christian prayer services on his social media channels to stop "satanic forces that come through" during an eclipse. Bannon ann...

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 17/04/2026

Steve Bannon and J.D. Vance are not amateurs. Bannon, especially, has a long history of sabotaging Roman Catholicism and corrupting it with neo-Nazi causes.

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Sadly, in most of Latin America, among most of its people- & in most of the Global South- the U.S has never had the moral legitimacy that Fareed Zakaria & Ezra Klein are in mourning about here. The "road back" from Iran- & Gaza, among other moral stains on US honor- must reckon first w/history

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/04/2026

HOLY SHIT

The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump is threatening to eliminate the people of Iran overnight. Years of normalizing genocidal rhetoric and mass violence has brought us to this cataclysmic moment.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

As hopeless as it may seem right now, we have to start talking about how to stop him. presswatchers.org/2026/04/ackn...

It’s past time that our top news organizations overcame their aversion to stating blunt truths that might appear partisan to small slivers of their declining audiences.

This president is profoundly unwell and, therefore, must be stopped — somehow, no matter how unlikely it appears at this moment.

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 07/04/2026

I fled American conservative Christianity in the mid-1980s because of my evangelical and conservative Catholic friends at the time. 🧵1/5

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Interesting to see who forcefully speaks out *now* against what could become a world catastrophe... and who does not. This is no game.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We are now seeing what non-hypocritical US foreign policy looks lIke. Behold unapologetic open imperial greed and deranged bloodlust!

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 16/03/2026

"MAGA nativists keep selling a fairy tale: that sameness creates strength. "It doesn’t. North Korea is homogeneous, its border is beyond secure. It’s also a disaster. "Prosperity is built by competent institutions and productive systems, not by ethnic vanity projects and border fetishism." 🧵1/2

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 16/03/2026

Source: Aaron Manley Smith (@motorphilia.bsky.social) via Facebook www.facebook.com/motorphilia/... 🧵2/2

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 27/02/2026

As lunatic billionaires take over CBS, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Fox, and most newspapers, it becomes easier to know which media to turn off. We can all go back to reading books.

A colorful, cartoon-style caricature fills the frame.

In the foreground, a bald man with large red-framed glasses and a short goatee smiles while holding an open, small hardbound book. His eyes are exaggeratedly wide, giving him a playful, slightly surprised look. He wears a maroon long-sleeve shirt, and one hand points at the page as if following the words.

Behind him are several old-fashioned CRT televisions with rounded screens and antennae.
• On the left TV is a black-and-white “PLEASE STAND BY” test-screen style image with circular calibration markings.
• On the upper-right TV is a propaganda-like image of a stern man pointing outward in front of an American flag, with bold text that reads: “TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT.”
• On the lower-right TV is another black-and-white test-screen style display with large text: “PLEASE STAND BY.”

To the right of the book, a stack of books sits on the table, suggesting studying or relearning. The background is warm-toned and textured, like an aged wall or paper, reinforcing a retro, slightly dystopian broadcast vibe.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 08/02/2026

For all of Biden's presidency, mainstream media tried to hold him accountable while he sought to conceal issues with his mental acuity. 2021: Vanity Fair wrote that reporters’ frustration was rising over limited access and lack of press conferences. www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03... 🧵1/8

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Reporters’ Frustration Is Building Over Lack of Biden Access

While the president regularly takes a handful of questions from the press, he has yet to hold a formal, solo news conference since taking office—a break from his White House predecessors.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 07/02/2026

Trump supporters: If we believe in freedom, let's apply it consistently. That means defending it for people we do not like, speech we do not agree with, and voters who do not vote our way. Character is what we do when we could choose resentment instead.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 07/02/2026

MAGA Trump supporters are not wrong to be tired of being talked down to. But if anyone wants a stronger country, we have to be strong enough to handle disagreement, different faiths, different languages, and other people’s freedoms…even when it annoys us. That is what real patriotism looks like.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 07/02/2026

Trump supporters are tired of liberal "noise." Their answer -- mocking, banning, and bullying -- makes the noise worse. The answer, if Trump supporters want it, is decency, self-control, and letting other Americans live their lives. That is the kind of strength worth admiring.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 07/02/2026

No one can force you to respect people … but you can choose it. Choose curiosity over contempt, facts over rumors, and strength over cruelty. If you want to be taken seriously, be the kind of person who can handle a free country that often disagrees with you.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 07/02/2026

Being a good American goes hand in hand with being a good neighbor. We do not have to approve of everyone…but we can still be fair, humble, and kind. Freedom is not just for “our side.” It is for all of us.

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D.C. Journalist in Exile @longingforethics.substack.com · 07/02/2026

If we want freedom, let's defend it for everyone. If we want respect, show it. If we want a better country, be better in how you treat people.

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 06/02/2026

This fact, along with Trump's meme monkifying the Obama family, show us who all your MAGA friends and family really are.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This, from @kenwhite.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net, is a genuine must-read. If the current state of free speech discourse interests you—and especially if it infuriates you—this is a critical reframe steering us away from the idea that bad-faith actors are actually our free speech heroes.

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The Fashionable Notion of 'Free Speech Culture' Is Justifying State Censorship, Ironically

It'll convince people that free speech is a sham

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Michael Airhart (عارف) (ميخائيل ) @airhart.me · 05/02/2026

"Free speech culture" crucially does not ask questions of the person who speaks first -- whether they support, for example, the free speech of others. Free speech culture only asks that of those who respond to the speaker. 🧵1/2

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

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