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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

-- Keep rationalizing: Bad outcomes can be blamed on liberal obstruction, conservative leaders wimping out, hostile impersonal institutions, dishonest media, temporary downturns, or the myth that a harmful policy simply needs more time to destroy the things that believers want destroyed. 🧵 10/10

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

-- Protect previous commitments: Admitting that they and everyone around them have been wrong for decades carries enormous personal, emotional, and social costs. 🧵 9/10

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

-- Fear the alternative: As they project their own inner demons onto everyone who is different, populists need not think MAGA is making things better if they believe liberals or progressives would be substantially worse. 🧵 8/10

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

-- Feel resentment: Disrespect coming from cultural elites, the government, or mainstream media make supporting MAGA feel like defending oneself and one’s community. 🧵 7/10

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

-- Project their values onto the movement: They see themselves as patriotic, holy, hardworking, and opposed to corruption. So they assume their leaders share those qualities, more than the opposition. 🧵 6/10

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

-- Belong socially: Friends, family, churches, online communities, and political ties make right-wing populism a natural part of everyday life. 🧵 5/10

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

-- Have practical reasons to stay: They prefer partisan populist myths about taxes, immigration, regulation, religion, guns, abortion, sexuality, and the "war against men." 🧵 4/10

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

People have little rational or emotional reason to reject right-wing culture because they: 🧵 3/10

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

MAGA -- better known globally as "nationalist right-wing populism" -- is an old and long-lasting cultural movement, and it comprises a large percentage of Western society: it's not a cult. 🧵 2/10

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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

The common thread: collective guilt. Responsibility for 9/11 gets transferred from its actual perpetrators to entire religions, ethnicities, nationalities—or political opponents. “Never forget” shouldn’t mean forgetting who actually committed the crime.

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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: 5. Selective “Never Forget”: Americans forgot in 2003 and falsely blamed Iraq for 9/11. Then in 2026, Trump signed a nuclear-weapons agreement with Saudi Arabia, home of 15 of 19 hijackers. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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US reaches nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement on civil nuclear power, letting the kingdom enrich uranium and build nuclear reactors using U.S. technology, without requiring the snap UN inspections t...

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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: 4. “New York forgot 9/11 by electing Mamdani.” Electing a Muslim mayor isn’t sympathy for terrorism. Mamdani hasn’t advocated Sharia or jihadism and has formally recognized 9/11 remembrance. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

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No, Zohran Mamdani is not ‘bringing Sharia law to America’

After the election of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican running for South Carolina governor, said Mamdani “is bringing Sharia law to America.” There’s no evidence...

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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: 3. “Jews/Israel did it.” Claims that Jews were warned away from the World Trade Center or that Israel orchestrated 9/11 recycle antisemitic conspiracy theories and collective blame. 2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/10...

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Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism:A Report Provided to the United States Congress

Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism A Report Provided to the United States Congress

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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: 2. “Muslims celebrated 9/11.” The recurring claim that thousands of Muslims celebrated in New Jersey has never been substantiated. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

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From the archives: What Trump said about some cheering 9/11

"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.

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

If you or any Democrat really cared, you would be flying to D.C. right now and demanding an emergency session of Congress. Instead, you all are posting talking points. You are all CYA. You want this holocaust, you just don't want your fingerprints on it.

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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

Democrats must make the case that they are indeed less evil. And yet they don't. Instead, they mock anyone who might need convincing, and anyone who feels left behind by the party.

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

I get why Democrats might still support Mills. But I don't get why they think independent voters would accept their "lesser evil" rhetoric when they have never been given clear reasons to see Democrats as less evil.

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

I would vote for him without hesitation, despite his queerphobias. I would never vote for Mills. Corrupt cowards like Mills aren't the lesser evil, they are destroying the Democratic Party.

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

The Democratic leadership supports the war, just as they supported the extermination of Gaza. They just don't want their fingerprints on it. They will do nothing meaningful to stop this.

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

American conservative Christian embrace of the Antichrist is nothing new. They have always worshipped it. They have always remade God as a mirror image of their own inner demons, so that they could bless themselves without any personal reform or sacrifice. 🧵5/5

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