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Bob Minor

@bobminor.bsky.social
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Professor emeritus, historian of world religions, advocate, speaker, author, grampa

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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Let’s find alternatives to gotcha questions, nobody’s-business questions, or questions meant to keep the questioner energized by not threatening their own prejudices and need to start thinking differently. “Never do [or say] anything that confuses your friends and inspires your enemies to act.”
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How James Talarico Fell Into the Most Common Trap of All on the Question of Trans Participation
Here's how to avoid the everyday human pitfall behind Texas senatorial candidate James Talarico's baffling answer to the question of trans sports participation.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#religion #NearEast #Palestine #conflict
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#media #FirstAmendment #MSNOW #CNN #Politico
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#war #disease #climatechange #inflation #Christianity #trade
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hope in spite of MAHA:Aggressive small cell cancers (lung, prostate, ovary) have seen few new treatment options in decades.Their cells are missing a gene that forces them to depend on a single protein to live.Remove it & the tumors stop growing & already drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases can.
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A hidden weakness in deadly cancers could lead to powerful new treatments
A UCLA study has identified a hidden Achilles' heel in aggressive small cell cancers that have resisted new treatments for decades. Scientists found that tumors lacking the RB gene become critica...
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The U.S. team as a whole was good enough to win without Fubar pressuring a well-known corrupt FIFA into cheating to win. As a former ref, I just have to remember that Fubar’s life story is that he only wins by cheating without even trying to cover it up - now the world sees him spoil any US win.
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How Trump Ruined the World Cup
As he has ruined much else
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The old argument from privileged gay people was pushed to the wider public and promoted on the last day of Pride Month by the privileged New York Times. Here's a good response.
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“The efforts of the ‘gay not queer’ contingent cling to a mythologized version of the past, longing for a future that provides them privilege and acceptance while setting back a large portion of the b...
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Labeling the #rightwing hypocrites is too easy. It actually lets the religious views, and most of the people who endorse them, off the hook.
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Why This Religion Prof Quit Calling Right-Wing Hypocrites "Hypocrites" Long Ago
Labeling them hypocrites is too easy. It actually lets the religious views, and most of the people who endorse them, off the hook.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
LGBTQ+ Pride# is a radical notion not because it expresses some twisted idea of humanity but because it confronts every human being to question the limitations of the straight role they're scared into growing up in the USA.
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It's the Pride Part of Pride That Still Drives Them Nuts
LGBTQ+ Pride is a radical notion not because it expresses some twisted idea of humanity but because it confronts every human being to question the limitations of the straight role they're scared into
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Healthy activism is something we do because it’s us holding onto and expressing what we value because it speaks to us. From our very being it’s what we must do. #pride #pridemonth
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Why Are We Marching, Anyway?
Healthy activism is something we do because it’s us holding onto and expressing what we value because it speaks to us. From our very being it’s what we must do.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Pride
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It’s the 'Pride' Part of LGBTQ Pride Celebrations That Still Drives Them Nuts
LGBTQ Pride is a radical notion because it confronts every human being, causing them to question the limitations of the straight role they’ve been scared into.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Bob Minor dropped by to share his experience with world religions and various subjects of interest.
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64 - Bob Minor - What Makes Us Human
YouTube video by The Unlearning Curve Podcast
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Time To Say It Again: It’s Looking Grim, But There’s Still a Place for Hope
An inability to be optimistic doesn’t mean pessimism is the only alternative either. No matter how we feel about the future, there’s a better, empowering, and realistic choice that can change things
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
#ANTIFA
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
From the resting place of Dwight David Eisenhower #MemorialDay
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The current U.S. administration has turned the use of #religion into an art form. Their modus operandi is to mainstream the idea that “Christianity” truly means doing ones best to destroy those over which they want to feel superior. #ChristianNationalism
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The U.S. Government Addiction That's More Powerful Than Oil
The U.S. government has a strong, blinding addiction more consuming than oil or debt, and second only to power itself. Maybe it's time we staged an intervention
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Can't you just hear the drunk in the bar bragging: "Them I'll sue the bastards.?
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, author, speaker, workshop leader, advocate, grampa
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
There are certainly places where further discussion is called for, necessary, and valuable, but that doesn’t get the attention needed in a time when pithy memes, short videos, and the limits of so much social media formats set the standard for so many of us.
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In Messages for Equality, Keep It Simple
Two examples of how in this day and political climate we need short, bumper-sticker size slogans to get our messages across hit me this past weekend.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It wasn’t the biggest #NoKings protest in the area but in Kansas City, Kansas it went and on with excitement
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The Fubar regime continues to cash in
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Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Any good historian or anthropologist knows this about a culture’s #religion #LGBTQ #transgender
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
How did I miss this story of resistance? #trans
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UK Trans Swimmer Races Topless to Protest Competing as Male
Anne Isabella Coombes says her topless protest highlights the flaws in Swim England’s transgender athlete ban.
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Speaker of the House: “We are not at war, we have no intention of being at war.” Imagine if another country bombed us and killed our President while saying they are not at war with us. This is insanity.
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Christian Finnegan @christianfinnegan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
No bullshit prediction: Within 18 months, Noem will be speaking at straight-up nazi rallies. Patriot Front, Atomwaffen, shit like that. She won't succeed at that either, but that's the route she'll go.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
One reason that people are overlooking when they try to figure out why Trump started this war: Because he could. Trump is a child, and he has a bunch of toy soldiers. He wants to make them fight before they're taken away in 2029. Don't give him credit for thinking beyond "I can do war so I will."
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We knew #Noem would be a fallguy. Now he appoints a more dangerous sycophant.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
What we're seeing with the treatment of the US #women'shockeyteam fits with how women who excel in sports are treated
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How Homophobia Gets Weaponized Against Female Athletes
If a culture considers it bad for a woman to be a lesbian, that accusation becomes an effective method of controlling women who don't conform to stereotypes.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
And people still believe anything they claim. Here again, it's a scam to make money for the Epstein class
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Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food
Experts say new labeling could deceive consumers as dangerous substances still allowed under new rules
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
On #ValentinesDay
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yes for #Minneapolis
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#HeatedRivalry had to be an imported series written by a woman and the demographic, not surprisingly, is women. That's why it stands out in the midst of US-style masculinity
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Why 'Heated Rivalry' Feels Like Such a Fever Dream of a World We Don't Quite Live In
How our money-driven sports culture, with its focus on winners and losers, trades actual play for a basket of phobias and encourages LGBTQ+ players to opt out.
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Bob Minor @bobminor.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Kansas City turns out in the below freezing temperatures for more than one anti-ICE thugs rally yesterday.
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See scenes from Kansas City’s protests against ICE as part of nationwide wave
Kansas Citians showed up at several protests, joining nationwide rallies against recent ICE tactics.
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