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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer

@drdominee.bsky.social
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Reformation historian. Translator of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion.

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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week has been a blur, but I wanted to take a moment to celebrate LIVE LAUGH LOVE debuting at #5 on the NYT Best Seller list! Thank you to my incredible readers for making this happen, and to W. W. Norton’s Liveright Publishing for supporting this book in every possible way. ❤️❤️❤️
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Want to talk about LIVE LAUGH LOVE with friends? Here’s a book club discussion guide that might be helpful: share.google/b5Ym5rfCcmqO...
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Live Laugh Love Book Club Discussion Guide - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Media kit for Kristin Kobes Du Mez including bio, headshot, and book cover images. Author of Jesus and John Wayne and Live Laugh Love.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Audible just announced LIVE LAUGH LOVE as one of its “most anticipated” fall books, and the wait is almost over… LLL releases THIS TUESDAY in bookstores everywhere, so pick up a book and a pumpkin spice latte and get ready to kick off Christian girl autumn!
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love history podcasts; I will have to check it out. Also: .”host of” auf Englisch
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I never noticed that the post is over 2 1/2 years old 😂
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Every bit of this 22 part post is worth reading!
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This was ridiculously long and utterly glorious. I read and enjoyed every one of its 22 parts. 🔥
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lying, thieving, grifting, law-breaking, constitution-shattering fascist murderers are furious that someone suggested the adjudicated rapist of a president who's been linked to a pedophile sex trafficking ring might be wasting too much time lounging about on his luxury plane with an aide.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Utter crackpot. No actual historical training, and real academic historians (even quite conservative ones) pretty uniformly regard him as a charlatan. But he’s become VERY popular with right-wing politicians for spinning a revisionist (and imaginary) version of US history they find appealing.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Did anyone smuggle in some capri pants and a blouse for him?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is just what Lutherans look like when giddily celebrating.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11/07/2026
IISSM, this is one of the better things I've ever written, speaking of errors.
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My Life in Error (Gift Article)
A copy editor recounts his obsession with perfection.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Kevin, I had not thought about Jon McNaughton for so long. Thanks a lot.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Respectfully remended. Thanks for the remender.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Bridgelady’s Jameson Blue
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@bocadelperro.bsky.social A corgi? Here’s mine
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
She’s still in Siena… I saw her head and her finger 😝
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I’ve been off of Bluesky for too long and I missed your posts… Missed them terrib-ly
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dislike!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This Guardian story from 2020 asked: "Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?" I think we know the answer. Release all the Epstein files. End the Trump cover-up.
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Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ok but what about Greek witches? Actually, I just came here looking for Sam Kennerley because I just found his book on the early modern reception of Chrysostom and I have a pile of questions for him.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
USA bomb… 😬
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Important article from @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social integrating research on how Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Check it out.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Historical methodology reflections by @ggangl.bsky.social gtw.hypotheses.org/9274 #presentism #historicism #anachronism #history #historiography
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History Now! On Presentism and a Strange Online Debate in American Historiography (Part 1)
Georg Gangl - James H. Sweet is the current president of the American Historical Association (AHA), the largest scholarly organization of historians worldwide, and he recently found himself in quite a situation. As part of his function as president of AHA, Sweet writes the monthly column From the President in the organization’s news magazine Perspectives on History. While I imagine the column is usually read with some interest by AHA members and other readers, the text in the September issue of this year entitled “IS HISTORY HISTORY? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present” garnered rather special and outsized attention.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"It is still a free country. You can still say what you want. So why are so many powerful institutions behaving like it isn’t and they can’t? If a few bratty cartoon kids can peel off the emperor’s clothes, what are the grown-ups so afraid of?" [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...
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Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance
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Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly
His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
zeus.atilf.fr/dmf/
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Dictionnaire du Moyen Français has been down for a few days. 😒 I use this resource daily. I hope they get the site back up and running soon.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
And importantly, he won the case in a landmark SCOTUS ruling that marked the start of the long erosion of affirmative action programs. One mediocre white guy's self-delusion has brought generations of lasting damage.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
There’s a tariff on root vegetables now?
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Florida’s Republican administration blocks Catholic priests from ministering to immigrants jailed at Everglades detention camp: migrantinsider.com/p/catholic-p...
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Catholic Priests Barred From Ministering to Detained Migrants in Florida
Miami Archbishop slams lack of access at so-called 'Alligator Alcatraz', calling it a denial of dignity and faith.
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
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Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It’s not even good blasphemy
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Utter corruption and malfeasance. It also opens them up to a potential lawsuit in the future.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
😠
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
@saracharles.bsky.social Loving this
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm sure a strongly-worded letter is in order.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
They always have :/
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Riding the frog in 1545. The Zurich-based printer Christoph Froschauer used this trademark frog on the title page of Conrad Gessner’s 'Bibliotheca Universalis'. #earlymodern #bookhistory The trademark frog derives from a translation of the printer’s last name: frog is in German “Frosch”.
A boy sitting on a frog is shown. This is sixteenth-century printer Christoph Froschauer's trademark. The German word for frog is "Frosch", so Froschauer had his trademark decision done.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.” Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The new one is even more so
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@microsoft.com Who thought that new Outlook was a good idea? 🤮 Seems like breaking what works is your MO. I’ve been using MS software since DOS, and you never fail to disappoint. Do better.
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
She’s one of my favorites
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
But they were driven not so much by their nature but because this was the only way to protect their power." 3/3
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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
and why they inflame every king and prince to violence, except that they see that, as soon as Christ’s gospel prevails, their entire kingdom will topple and fall into ruin. Leo X was cruel; Clement VII was bloodthirsty, Paul III is ferocious. 2/
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