Sign in

Dan Reid

@danielgreid.bsky.social
369 followers 203 following 263 posts

Resident alien in the Central Oregon high desert, next door to the Cascades. My background is (PhD) in biblical studies, but interests run wide. Recently: The China We Never Knew: dgreid49.substack.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yesterday my four-year-old granddaughter helped pick the corn she had helped me plant in May. She took some home and will eat it with her family. Simple, right? But there is so much packed into this scene.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you want a taste of affordability c. 2000, have a Costco hotdog (and drink): $1.50. The rush of saving might even outrun the indigestion.
001
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
She'll recall the time her parents made her upbringing and her college options a public, performative display for the sake of a corrupt regime. She'll see it as a pattern. And she won't be happy about it.
130
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This should not be discussed while alcohol is being served.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's not anachronistic, it's utter rubbish. (Modern) Greek alphabet is an integral part of a living language.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Getting in your vegetable garden is always a trick in Central Oregon. It's June 7, and there is a freeze warning this morning. Not atypical. The temperature hovers just above freezing as I wonder about the tomato plants I just bought.
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Great idea for a course!
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Absolutely and richly!
000
Reposted by Dan Reid
IVP Academic @ivpacademic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Join the Reformation Commentary on Scripture Membership Program! As a member, you'll receive each new volume in this series at an unbeatable price, delivered straight to your door. Learn more and become a member: ivpress.com/reformation-commentary-…
021
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
At this point I'll take whatever carveout you can offer.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sir, the question is not political. The question is whether you are able to perceive reality, acknowledge it, and act on it. An important question for the position you hope to assume.
0110
Reposted by Dan Reid
jtrott.bsky.social @jtrott.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“Fascists always have Clergy somewhere in attendance.” That sentence should be on a continuous loop.
0354
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm awaiting the Sean Hannity Institute of Theology. (Snappy acronym.) Founding faculty: The Rev. Drs. J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth.
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A page from the new MAGA Sunday school curriculum.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
What will it take?
011
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Fantastic!
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really, really good, I thought.
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just so pathetic.
000
Reposted by Dan Reid
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/03/2026
Some people look to bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But David Brooks suggests a third way for better decision making:
bit.ly
How to Make Better Decisions
Some people look to bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But there’s a third alternative.
4193
Reposted by Dan Reid
Joel B. Green @joelbgreen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
joelbgreen.substack.com
Are the Poor "Blessed"? Rethinking a Standard Translation
μακάριος (makarios) under the Spotlight
021
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
John Alexander Dowie (an early Pentecostal, founder of Zion, IL) prescribed racial miscegenation to restore "primitive man." A New Adam for a New Israel/New Eden. Immigration fundamental to Manifest Destiny. Just reporting.
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"know" = no! (It was 4:00 a.m.)
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you're really fed up with Boomers and such, don't make us one of the last generations who can go back and read stuff we published 30+ years ago and say, with satisfaction, "Yeah, that was pretty good." Whereas you might end up saying, "Well, I really foxed 'em with that AI balderdash, didn't I?"
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Psalm 73 comes up in the morning prayer rota. Oh, and perhaps you have know idea how relevant it is: Its description of Trump and the oligarchy is spot-on.
110
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Spam, Velveeta, Cocoa Puffs.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's August 1975, outside Philadelphia. Police follow up a tip and investigate whether I have the body of Jimmy Hoffa. Srsly.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
And the chapter after this is titled "Chasing Sunk Costs."
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Lately I find myself turning to Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society. Frequently. It's a realist's reset of expectations.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
MENE MENE TEKEL PARSIN.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Two things were publicly undressed yesterday: crypto currency and Trumpian Christianity. One in the markets and one in the so-called National Prayer Breakfast. Mene Mene Tekel Parsin.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A bottomless pit of corruption.
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
With this, it seems to me, Trump-Miller-Noem have lost their narrative.
011
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Collecting myself with a walk along the Deschutes.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Is the GOP calliope of sycophants playing the full keyboard today or is it missing a few pipes?
011
Reposted by Dan Reid
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.
522888624
Reposted by Dan Reid
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
51166242077
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You are rightly encouraged!
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When you think about it, we shouldn't even have elected him.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Despite everything that's wrong in this country, grandma is still in the kitchen baking cookies with her granddaughters. And that's not nothing.
010
Reposted by Dan Reid
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Padilla: What they're doing is not law enforcement. It's intimidation. What they're doing isn't about safety. It's about scaring communities
9236711101
Reposted by Dan Reid
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/01/2026
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
35693172709
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I took extra measures to brace up and fortify mine--against their sagging under the collective weight of wisdom.
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
For this administration, the value of your life is the market rate of a political point on a Friday afternoon.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
What a vile man. (I've tried to fantasize what his repentance would look like, but my imagination fails me.)
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For this administration, the value of one person's life is the current exchange rate of a political point.
000
Reposted by Dan Reid
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/01/2026
With David Frum on Venezuela, spheres of influence, and the deeper implications of Trump's foreign policy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...
youtube.com
Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? (With Anne Applebaum) | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
44932319
Reposted by Dan Reid
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen. fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into... (First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
33713206
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
They should give him more airtime. He digs his credibility grave most efficiently.
000
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
If you gave DJT an enema, you could bury him in a golden thimble (or golf ball).
010
Dan Reid @danielgreid.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Blessings on you, Peter. We know you're the real thing.
000