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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 16h

I think I can reduce Christianity to a simple rule. It holds true from Genesis to Revelation: God is God and Man is Man; Man shouldn't take what belongs to God. ofc, since time memorial, Man can't help taking what's not his, having what he wants, and justifying it.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 16h

New day, Republicans calling for removal of socialists, "mass removal" of desi (I learned that term today) people, and being incensed at an ad that had the effrontery to use a young white male as a type for "welfare queen" I just wonder, do you still deny systemic racism is real? What will it take

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 19h

He represents the antithesis of conservatism; inclusion vs exclusion, a hand that invites participation in ownership vs a hand that denies ownership. What people enjoy living in a police state?

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know how a person who voted for Zero Tolerance can legitimately call themselves a christian; or why those christians who didn't resist expelling them. It's the evilest spirit I've ever felt. And non-christians are repelled by it. It goes to how we define christian.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry, I see 4000 white moderates who vote with the prevailing winds. Politics is about harnessing the winds which yesterday came from the Right.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's undeniable that the religion was racialized when whites controlled where and what Blacks could sit or do in Church. But then the last 50 years has seen race religionized as the GOP internalized race and God. There are a hundred things more important rn in faith&politics, but they do this.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"As far as the faith is concerned, faith in Hitler is the same as faith in Jesus Christ; yet the life springing from it is utterly different." ~ Jacques Ellul "what I do is not who I am" ~ Trump voters

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'CHRISTIANITY AT A CROSSROADS is a four hour television series on PBS. Through stories filmed on location across the country and insightful commentary from a range of accomplished speakers, it explores as never before the changing face of Christianity in American life today.' www.journeyfilms.com

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The power is not in Trump, nor the Ultra Right; but in the Christian Right and the white moderate who as MLK Jr wrote prefer a negative peace to a positive peace of justice and mercy. They could end maga today if they decided racism violated, offended their values.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The next democratic president should create a cabinet position of religious affairs; and their role will be to ensure religion is apolitical.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you've ever asked yourself how can these "christians" call themselves christian when they reject what Christ taught? Let me translate Hegseth: 'we will be blessed when our beliefs is Lord' He uses the word "God"; but it means themselves. When they are Lord, they will have power.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Roosevelt Forest, local forest tonight

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Smith published Black and white writers, a rare feat in those days, and herself wrote articles instructing white Southerners on why they shouldn’t support segregation—Smith firmly believed racism hurt white Americans, too. In 1944 she published a bestselling novel, Strange Fruit..."

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the big ideas I learned over the last ten years is that inspirational documents come from a need to bring order to lawlessness; and it only works when everyone approaches it with good faith. The group who can leverage their beliefs into the Inspiration enforce an opposing reality.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since he-who-must-not-be-named is riffing about "morally binding" restrictions on AI development I think it's time to mention that morality is based in human interactions. Whether you should buy a Pickup or a Prius isn't a moral question until you factor in how it affects people. +

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are no words available, irony, sarcasm, expletives, even cynicism cannot do justice to the post truth mind calling for policing and moral gaurd rails. If you ever voted for this, check **yourself**.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

such has white christian nationalism broken me that I can't read scripture without turning it around to find the chink they would exploit to undermine it; or white authors without thinking culturally they can't help but present a moderate view. I know its wrong, but positive trust has been lost.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"She's new, a young christian, idealistic, full of new found Virtue, in time she'll settle down" ~ the christian church "christian" is racialized in America, to nonwhites and progressives it's associated with Christ, to conservatives it's ideologically a synonym for "white."

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bernie Sanders in 2003 explaining how republicans will vote against their own interest [and it's not white supremacy]. youtu.be/aHTeMTC4aTg?...

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"How does the Republican Party do so good?" Bernie Sanders Explains to High Schoolers in 2003

YouTube video by Joshua Small

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I cringe when I hear someone stumping for voted and quoting Jesus; it's just wrong. Douglass famously contrasted the slaveholding religion as the Christianity of the Land and its opposite as the Christianity of Christ. To love one he said is to hate the other. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Democrats are running pastors for office. Republicans are attacking their religious comments.

Democratic Senate nominees James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas, as well as two key Iowa House nominees, are seeing their remarks on Christianity picked over by the GOP.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus never endorsed political activism, he never endorsed institutionalizing God's will; he said "love others as I have loved you" That was enough for Jesus—just do that The perverted reality is that white evangelicals won't, so they need to justify themselves www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.

How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where did white power start in America: with Trump with broken windows with separate but equal with internment camps with SW border gasoline baths with lynchings with trafficking people with disappearing people And the white moderate's eyes don't flinch as he says "it's always been this way."

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the fascists and moderates of whiteness are held accountable it will be the first time in American history No; on what basis do you think this time will be different? I can tell you what has happened before: moderates and liberals will want unity, they'll shake hands w/ the fascists & reconcile

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are so far beyond where we were in 2016. Back then Republicans openly questioned the possibility he could pivot and be 'presidential'. But you see this wasn't the beginning for the Republicans, they had been excusing bad behavior for decades to remain politically relevant; it was one of many.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something I've always thought about tradwife stuff is that the only possible men who could have the situation and make it work and not have it be hideously screwed up are basically the men who absolutely do not want it at all and think that it's horribly backwards.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think one the greatest theological ideas (which affects all theology downstream) the early church understood natively is that kingdom values were meant to be lived in the here and now Today, christians think Jesus shld give them things, while the early church thought they shld give people things

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you elect a pathologically amoral narcissist president; who has never accepted in his life that the buck stops with him; don't be surprised when he sells you for buck. www.ft.com/content/8b46...

ft.com

Donald Trump asked Xi Jinping if China wanted to buy American weapons, US envoy says

Administration denies delaying sale of a $14bn arms package to Taiwan to appease Beijing

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I asked my friends and family in 2016, where do you think this ends? They couldn't tell me. Likely because they knew how inhumane they could be to win. The scary answer is millions believe they're in an existential fight for their way of life...not because they're christian but white.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Neutrality is also complicit. When you know something is wrong, when it's your community which is doing it, hiding from it or denying it exists enables it to continue. There are no Switzerlands on Racism.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Leaf Pattern Franklin Carmichael 1922

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Other than ready access to hospitals, probably the only advantage to living in the West as opposed to where I grew up in sub Saharan Africa is a hot shower. Ofc, we didn't need it there, but on a cold drizzly day after cutting up a neighbors tree which fell across the road to step into a hot shower?

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

and conservative white evangelicals have & will give such hedonism (sex, money, power) mulligans.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's revealing first that a political party could reserve for themselves the title of true christian, and second, that their only tool is to raise the cost, inflict more pain; they actively reject the defining principle of Jesus to love your enemies. + www.npr.org/2026/09/27/n...

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Multiple arrests on suspicion of explosives offenses near U.K. base used by U.S. forces

Police evacuated homes Sunday near an air base in England used by the U.S. and arrested several men over suspected explosives offenses.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Steeling myself for another missionary from a closed access country speaking in church today. Wait, you don't know what "closed access" means? It means where there is a state religion and it's illegal to proselytize. They refer to their locations in code and use encrypted apps to communicate. +

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Woke up thinking how cool would it be to build a mosque in the form of a Shaker round barn, started humming 'tis a gift to be simple', and shook myself out of the fantasy world to the reality that it's nearly October and I need to complete a multi test certification by year end. Enter coffee & phone

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brilliant op-ed: Who goes Nazi? written in 1941 by Dorothy Thompson. I love this kind of writing – which pokes at people's character; who wouldn't go Nazi? Dehumanizing another person must be unnecessary, or an insurmountable shame.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I find myself thinking about this 1941 Harper's magazine article a lot. Point being, good, happy people don't turn into Nazis. Also, @cuny.edu (represent!) students seldom turn into Nazis. But the "scared spectator" and the "spoiled sons" often do. 🗃️ Archive Link below 👇

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.
Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.
Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t, whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the writings of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and MLK Jr. there is a broad and deep understanding of what Douglass described as 'the christianity of the Land vs the christianity of Christ' Which follows a God who has brought down rulers from their thrones and lifted up the humble.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish Mr. Orwell was right. Maybe theoretically he's correct, but practically speaking, Truth doesn't exist until it's accepted, acted on; so denial blocks it from being real. Logs show Trump made 345 flights to Epstein island...is that true if he can deny it?

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📷 Keepsake Photograph of an Ottoman Officer and His Wife in #Aleppo (Syria), June 15, 1915 (Colorized Photo)

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's not really funny but I see a connection. Idrc about you non-christians, you've got your act together and want to do right. It's the white christians who spiritualize everything who need to reify 'good', not 'thoughts and prayers' it. They will say "good" is an attitude and not practice it.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What white evangelicals don't get, because they are the in-group, is that if "christian" isn't defined by Jesus, then it can mean whatever the in-group wants it to mean. Untethered from Jesus, the in-group will grow by being known as a haven for un-christlike values: power, money, sex.

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Several years ago my oldest told me something which seems to grow truer every day. He said "I've noticed that it's okay now to be a little scummy to get ahead." Like the euphemism "if you aren't cheating, you aren't trying." Look at the Republican party, what message are it's christians sending??

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

White evangelicals are baptized into a faith which doesn't speak to the poor and marginalized but to the self important. If the Love God and Love Others as yourself is the byword of christianity, their politics is pro-God and anti-Others They can be very generous, provided it's on their conditions+

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Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Be careful what you call an illness. For years MAGA supporters engaged in culture warring attacked nonbinary genders and drug addictions as *choices*–and the response was the afflicted choose it because they can't change, it's who they are or a disease. Can maga choose to change? Is it clinical? +

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