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Brent S. Sirota

@brentsirota.bsky.social
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Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 3h
Folks, the Adam Hamilton candidacy has revealed the esoteric secrets of the second-largest Protestant denomination in America. We will never recover
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/10/2026
The Sagegazers is an ongoing project devoted to the strange and beautiful world of privately released ambient, electronic, and New Age cassette music of the 1980s and ’90s. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/02/t... This mix offers a journey through that world, bringing together 15 recordings.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 1st is also known as the Negroni/Boulevardier line
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The death penalty is an obscenity.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The convention where Trump kept talking about physically unappealing he was? Huh.
nytimes.com
Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
.Vril does not fucking miss.
.Vril, Krux (2026) https://vrilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/krux
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We do need a clear moral and ethical story about how we can all live together but it is by crushing fascists beneath the heels of a multi-racial Democratic Republic.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unreasonable amount of matzo ball soup at Perly's in RVA.
Giant bowl of matzo ball soup
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In North Carolina late August turns into early October in a matter of hours.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was literally an Onion bit from 26 years ago.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last year @aquariumdrunkard.com I compiled a mixtape of songs about John Coltrane. Obviously, you should spend today listening to the man himself. But after that, here's a sound register of his impact on modern music.
aquariumdrunkard.com
Lamentations: Twenty-Two Songs about John Coltrane - Aquarium Drunkard
In the nearly six decades since his untimely passing, musicians from all over the world have never stopped honoring John Coltrane. And not just artists in the jazz tradition, those in rock, funk, prog...
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nothing quite conveys the incomprehensible power of Coltrane's quartet like the "Afro-Blue" on this album. It is apocalyptic but somehow threaded with gossamer. It is heavy as judgment but somehow never touches the earth. It remains one of the most staggering things I have ever heard in my life.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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John Coltrane
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This extraordinary deep dive into the "medbed" mythos is a good reminder that much of contemporary American conspiracy theory amounts to new age notions of healing and spiritual wellbeing awkwardly grafted onto evangelical Protestant eschatology.
slate.com
Trump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.
An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
A mocked up FBI wanted poster with six variations of Bugs Bunny dressed as hilarious women

Left to right:
Classic housewife bugs bunny in a peach dress with French curls and a blue bonnet 

Sexy snow bunny bugs bunny in a form fitting yellow ski suit & red lipstick 

Classy rocket bra bugs bunny in a pink blouse and a choker and red heels and a blue skirt 

Green nightgown bugs bunny looking alluring 

Cavewoman bugs bunny in an orange tattered one piece slip making a come hither expression 

Flapper bugs bunny in a red dance outfit and a big bowler hat
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
William of Normandy says triumphal tower will be military complex.
bbc.com
Trump says triumphal arch will be military complex
Trump said the updated plans were at the request of the US military and for national security purposes.
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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026
John Zorn's Cobra but entirely with smooth jazz guys.
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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did not expect to wake up to an article in the NYT putting the spiritual jazz industrial complex on blast 😅
nytimes.com
‘Spiritual Jazz’ Has Turned Cozy. John Coltrane Demanded More. (Gift Article)
The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Punishing news outlets by not subjecting them to the tsunami of bullshit that is the daily White House press briefing.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finally.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026
lol they're running this playbook in florida, they're beyond fucked
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cackalack
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
James II, the deposed king of England and Scotland, died in exile on this day 325 years ago in 1701. Louis XIV's recognition of his son James Francis Edward Stuart as rightful king of England made another European-wide conflagration--the War of the Spanish Succession--more or less inevitable.
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The two warring sex cults that rule America are fighting
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Research Triangle: Next Generation Fayetteville: Deep Space Nine
Screenshot from tumblr. Username "greatmountainfloofsquatch" posts "To quote @somekindaspacecadet:

tng: welcome aboard the starship enterprise, a luxury cruise ship drifting among the stars. our crew contains notable elements of Diversity and our captain gets pegged by an omniscient being from another dimension. enjoy the soft jazz concerts, shakespeare performances, and infinitely powerful holodecks at you leisure

ds9: hop aboard Station On Fire Trash Can bitch. does our shit work? no. is this a safe place to live? fuck no. senior officers include Space Dad, Lesbian Terrorist, Trans Worm Goo, Dr. Twink, and Perpetually Confused White Guy. If you want to be dragged into an elaborate crime syndicate, contract a deadly space disease, or get stabbed in a barfight, you've come to the right place. also, holosuites are for fucking. yeehaw
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Need this set to end.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Shana tovah, y'all. Hope you all find your way into the book of life.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just a brutal day. Time for a negroni and some Foat.
 Greg Foat, Jihad Darwish & Moses Boyd, Opening Time on LP
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trumps ability to corrupt every institution, virtue, and tradition we supposedly hold dear remains his superpower
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
trump hit 'em with the gen X professor syllabus format
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fascism entails an endless stress-testing of reality, to find all the places it can be bent and all the places it can be broken entirely.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 07/09/2026
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Every news story is now "State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under
12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were 'blindsided.""
11:33 PM • Feb 19, 2026 2 Some people can reply v
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wouldn't a "New America" have to be somewhere other than the Americas? There are no doubt more important things to worry about but this is what my brain is getting stuck on.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/09/2026
they did too much. there’s too much fucking shit on him.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It should almost go without saying, but the new Steven R. Smith (@worstwardrecording.bsky.social) album on @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social is absolutely exquisite
Steven R. Smith, Half-Light Unfolding (2026)
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I mean yeah
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
how am I just learning that there is a German producer who performs under the name Umberto Echo? That's incredible.
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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Durham, it's September, and we did it!!!!!!
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I first moved down south, I asked my NC born and bred colleague how to deal with the heat. She told me to just "lean into it." I am happy to report that Babka has figured out how to lean into it.
Babka lounging on the patio in 97 degree heat
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ok kids, pop quiz
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles
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People are what they appear to be. Beyond that, unless they can cite specific ACT sequences for their cell or mitochondrial DNA that somehow defy appearances, it's all in their mind.
I've met so many people who look extremely European in every way and tell me they're Jewish. Well, maybe there are a few OG "Jewish ACT" sequences in there somewhere, but clearly not many!
Where is the list of these ACT sequences?
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
First of all, Markey has swag. Secondly, he takes your call. Same reason he beat that Kennedy twerp.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
All I would do with a time machine is go back and tell historical personages to knock this shit off.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's been almost four decades since I had to think about how stupid the name Cole Trickle is.
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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering. It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What stage of counter-revolution are we in?
cnn.com
Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE | CNN
Controversial British figure Milo Yiannopoulos, who gained a reputation as a right-wing provocateur more than a decade ago, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of ...
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
jesus what are we even doing here
Acyn tweet: "Gowdy: That's what bothers me about changing the name from Ontario to America, is how close that acronym is to hamas. It will confuse a lot of kids. That's why I haven't made up my mind on it yet."
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's really impressive how the GOP staffer class keeps getting worse and weirder
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
No one is coming to save us.
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