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David B. Gowler

@dgowler.bsky.social
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Pierce Chair of Religion, Oxford College/Emory University. Books: Howard Thurman & the Quest for Community; The Parables after Jesus; WATSA Parables?; WATSA Historical Jesus?; James Through the Centuries; & Howard Thurman, Sermons on the Parables. #COYS!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 13h
I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.
New York Times homepage link reading: 
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 8h
John Yoo is the legal architect of George Bush's Iraq War torture program. That UT Austin contracted this bloodthirsty freak to be part of the new right-wing Civitas Center is an inidication of the very dark path this university has started down.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good line from Frederick Douglass:
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/09/2026
Republicans are very upset about how many people obtained affordable health care through the ACA, and they are determined to do something about it.
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Nancy Gowler @revnancyg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think I need to go back to Portugal... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How a Blanket of Dough Becomes an Ethereal Pastry (Gift Article)
Generations of women from a single Portuguese village have kept this delicate tradition alive.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Schmitt is one “of those who worship dirty gods.” “Cymbeline”
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you imagine being represented by Ted Cruz AND Ken Paxton?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you park it outside the homes of the execs and pols authorizing them?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning...” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Doug Roberson @soccerwithdoug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meet Atlanta City Football Club, the new #NWSL team soccerwithdoug.substack.com/p/meet-atlan... #ATLCTY
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Meet Atlanta City Football Club, the new NWSL team
Crest and colors are also unveiled for team that will is scheduled to begin play in 2028
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The world should boycott the G-20 if Putin goes
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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David B. Gowler @dgowler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glad to see another Tottenham victory! www.fotmob.com/match/598165...
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Tottenham Hotspur (W) vs Aston Villa (W) - live score, predicted lineups and H2H stats
Tottenham Hotspur (W) vs Aston Villa (W) on Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 09:00 EDT. Check live results, H2H, match stats, lineups, player ratings, insights, team forms, shotmap, and highlights.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bill Mauldin's editorial cartoon commenting on the ongoing Watergate crisis and following the resignation of Nixon's VP Spiro T. Agnew, October 1973.
Cartoon shows the eagle symbol of the US with a cloud over it and hiding its eyes with its wing.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Prepare to meet thy oil shortage." Jim Berry, October 1973.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Positive Spurs @positivespurs.coys.social · 25/09/2026
After becoming the 2016/17 premier league champions recently spurs have now been announced 2021 Carabao cup winners* *not official but we all know its true #COYS #THFC
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Losing your license because you never got a ticket.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
actually its both you are a racist AND a nazi
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
U2 announce new album Carnaval de Luz, featuring final recording by Dolly Parton
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U2 announce new album Carnaval de Luz, featuring final recording by Dolly Parton
Irish rock legends’ 16th studio album, described by the Edge as ‘a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs’, to arrive in November U2 have officially announced their first album of new material in nearly a decade, entitled Carnaval de Luz, to be released on 13 November. Closing out the album’s 12 tracks is Torn, the final recorded performance by Dolly Parton, who duets with Bono on a song described in press materials as “a tender country song detailing broken family ties, that holds wider resonances”. Parton died aged 80 on 25 August. Continue reading...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
LAWYERS! Here are links to flight data you can put in your filings: Mesa-Ghana-Liberia plane: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a63864&... Alexandria-Gitmo-PR-airborne to Africa plane: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a3ec5c&... bsky.app/profile/dani...
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ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live
ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes feel like I don't really have imposter syndrome
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Food insecurity didn't go away just because they stopped collecting the data. (Our chart will not be going away, either.)
Chart showing the prevalence of food insecurity among all households and households with children over time, with no data shown for 2025. Title: Food Insecurity Data Not Released for 2025; USDA Canceled Data Collection After 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law's Historic SNAP Cuts
Subtitle: USDA canceled the nation's longest running and most consistent measure of food insecurity, taking away a crucial measure to track the mounting impacts of the harmful 2025 Republican reconciliation law
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The whole point of calling this agency the Office of "Remigration" is to deliberately signal to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US policy. Some thoughts on this whole worldview below. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really something that the U.S. not only permitted LeRoy Walker to go free after ordering the attack on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War, but allowed him to rewrite the Alabama State Constitution in 1875 to limit the influence of Black & working-class white voters. That something is racism.
Black and white photo of Leroy Pope Walker in a suit and vest with a gold watch chain, slicked back hair, and a chin beard. Looks like something out of a literal horror movie.
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David B. Gowler @dgowler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And a 99% shift on the economy.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly 2,400-year-old school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great discovered in Greece | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Nearly 2,400-year-old school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great discovered in Greece
A school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great has been found in northern Greece.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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David B. Gowler @dgowler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We should have hearings, indictments, and trials...of the people who are ordering and carrying out these atrocities/deportations.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Russell Vought wants to kill the NIH In case you didn't know this, Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis & has benefited from a combination drug treatment (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) that was developed by NIH-funded research By @juliametraux.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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