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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I hate Illinois Nazis. And all the rest of them. Absolutely the fuck not with this KKK bullshit no. The white supremacists do not get to win this time / any time.

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 21/05/2026

goddammit i hope so. the 2026 version of me who's spent almost a decade beating this drum needs to be able to tell the 1999 version of me working in a Christian bookstore where we played this for customers that things have improved. #exvangelical

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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Please join journalist Gareth Gore, researcher Rachel Tabachnick, professor Julie Ingersoll and me. Thursday, May 14 at 1pm EDT for a groundbreaking conversation about rifts on the Christian Right and how opposing groups can strategically respond. Register here politicalresearch.org/2026/04/28/c...

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Challenging the Christian Right: Rifts & Strategies

The Christian Right is far from monolithic.In this multipart political education series, we aim to advance our understanding of the Christian Right, its weaknesses more than its strengths. We highligh...

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 14/04/2026

If I lived in Kansas City I'd start a Spanish-language learning group for gringos just so I could call it Claro KC

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 13/04/2026

hello Europe and Oz, thanks for listening

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I do think it’s very funny how much of the church was like “suck it up. He’s not Christian but he can’t be that bad” and now he does at least one blatant heresy a day

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Is America contagious?

Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 10/04/2026

New interview is up with B.K. O'Connor, author of Eve: A Novel. Here is a snippet. youtube.com/shorts/0BdwD...

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BK O'Connor on the Divine Feminine #booktube #podcast #exvangelical

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 03/04/2026

The shows on TV at the gym today: NCIS, a history channel show about exorcism, GMA, and ads for the gym I’m already in.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 25/03/2026

I'm just messing around with this, to see if it's a good tool for this sort of thing (and I'm a sucker for new web tools in general).

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 24/03/2026

why do we even need AI at all when base-level reality is so absurd that the conspiracy theories for a real headline like "Charlie Kirk's mentor dies in freak pickleball accident" write themselves

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It was such a delight and honor to be with the fantastic @brchastain.social again! We talked, whew, Israel/Palestine, antisemitism, what it means to live like your life is a sacred text, the philosopher that makes me think this gif all the time, and much more...

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a man in a cowboy hat and jacket says i wish i knew how to quit you

Alt: a man in a cowboy hat and jacket says i wish i knew how to quit you

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 20/03/2026

New episode, with @theradr.bsky.social, on YouTube and hitting podcast feeds: youtu.be/3eSVZ16ezoY (I made a n00b mistake and my audio recorded from the wrong device, but the conversation remains great!)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Returns

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

$200 billion could entirely repeal the SNAP cuts with money leftover $200 billion could fund the ACA Premium Tax Credits and help lower health care costs for 6 years with money leftover $200 billion could permanently expand Medicaid coverage to people in states that have refused to expand coverage

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 19/03/2026

I swear, the people with control over Real Money never act as if money is real

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18/03/2026

they literally renamed the entire company after this

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/03/2026

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The guy pardoned from a 22 year sentence for sedition. The coup succeeded.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/03/2026

For several days in a row, the White House has posted videos on X of the U.S.’s strikes on Iran spliced with footage taken from video games and action movies, in a dystopic form of propaganda that treats the war like a game or like social media content to be mined.

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White House Propaganda Videos Splice Horrific Iran War Footage With Video Games

One clip shows the US strike on an Iranian warship after which the military left 180 crew members to die.

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Word&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Check out the first episode of “A Trick of State,” a new occasional series from Dangerous Dogma investigating underexplored issues at the intersection of church and state that expose the false promises of Christian Nationalism.

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Rewriting the Ten Commandments

Lawmakers in more than 20 states have proposed bills over the last couple of years that purport to mandate the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools. But there’s a problem: you will not find that...

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 03/03/2026

When I beat WordleBot I consider that a win for all humanity against AI. anyway, the horrors

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 01/03/2026

My gallows humor contribution: if I were a headline editor/Onion writer yesterday, I’d have been tempted to use the title ‘79-Year-Old Man Kills 86-Year-Old Man In Most Destructive Way Possible’

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

You can just say things.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 27/02/2026

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center

EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

NEW Reign of Error. You don't want to miss this one. I talk with @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social about how Trump's top evangelical advisors are activating voters for the midterms around voter suppression, Iran, immigration, and literally casting out demons redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

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Trump, the New Apostolic Reformation & the Battle for the Midterms

Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

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Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior

Netflix is ditching a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount to be superior.

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 27/02/2026

“Jack Dorsey Thinks It’s A Good Idea” is basically the kiss of death. You had a good run, AI bubble www.theverge.com/tech/885710/...

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Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble

Dorsey says that Block is going to be an “intelligence-native company.”

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 25/02/2026

Sing it with me: 5G & honor Glory, cell towers Be unto the Ancient of Days Cov'ring the nation, All of Creation, 5G is a form of praise Every tongue in heaven & earth Crystal clear reception Apps that need all 5 bars to work Shall have them You will be exalted oh God & T-Mobile shall not pass..

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 25/02/2026

I wonder if it will have Covenant Eyes built-in

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 25/02/2026

I'm sure that when Jesus was cleansing the temple of merchants he was secretly hoping that in 2000 years his followers would launch a "Christian wireless service" in partnership with T-Mobile

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Just saying: if, to create the appearance of engagement of X, a genuine celebrity needs both (a) the algorithmic boost for pro-MAGA content plus (b) a huge bot farm, then what chance do non-celebrity non-MAGA posters have? X has less genuine "reach" than holding up a poster on a sidewalk.

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Nicki Minaj’s social media propped up by thousands of bots, analysis finds

An analysis shared with POLITICO reveals the rap sensation’s advocacy for conservative causes has been amplified by an army of bots and coordinated activity.

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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

As a talking head in a streaming documentary series in 2024, I wasn’t allowed (by the streamer; director similarly constrained) to mention Trump. Back in 2019, Netflix PR told me to avoid politics & religion in interviews about THE FAMILY, which is about politics & religion.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The life of this 59yo Cambodian refugee whose circumstances of death have *not been disclosed* matters.

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This seems like an important part of the story that isn’t getting much coverage rn. I’m sure there were some kind of behind the scenes negotiations but my take is not exactly that that King is strong/good but rather that the King is weak and British institutions are starting to respond accordingly.

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Blake Chastain @brchastain.social · 19/02/2026

You have been lied to: a watched pot totally boils

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

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