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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah the dude worships death and I mean that extremely literally. He tells you as much, yeah it’s cloaked in Christian iconography but the main character is death. That’s where he identifies the power of his actions and it’s quite literally Antichrist behavior but what are ya gonna do.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 7h

Of course, Trump is the big cancer that needs to be excised, but we should practice with Hegseth. We'll learn in the process what the underlying realities of the Republican caucuses are in this regard, and know what approach will be most effective in impeaching Trump.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 7h

This is perhaps the most important reason to begin the impeachment of Pete Hegseth right away. He will only do worse things going forward, and he is someone who could be removed by impeachment proceedings. And even if not, it's the best way to pressure and contstrain this idiot.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah. People who live in the west Bronx are very aware of this anomaly with Marble Hill to the point that it's confusing when someone refers to it as the Bronx. It's not huge thing other than jurisdiction.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was in Marble Hill, which means likely in New York County rather than Bronx County

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's unclear whether we, corporately, learned a single thing from the experience of the GWOT.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In addition, the hearings leading up to it and the Senate trial would be truly devastating. It's hard to believe that Trump would let him stay through that, but with Trump you never know.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mikie Johnson had to adjourn the House until after the midterms because a REPUBLICAN had put forward a privileged motion to impeach Hegseth--there was a good chance it would pass. By January it's likely he'd be both impeached and removed. It's a great warm-up.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026

fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Beyond matters of taste and decency and whether or not you even believe in the death penalty due to moral reasons, livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan is a dumb idea because you're giving him his moment of public martyrdom.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Paul's saying exactly what isn't easy to say: the outcomes of our planning,won't be what we envision & our comfort may be intruded upon,but God remains present & his mercy is with us—encouraging us in our gentleness of spirit to rejoice rather than to worry.⚓ drewkadel.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/a...

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Again, I say Rejoice

A sermon for the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 11, 2026 St. John’s Episcopal Church, New City, New York Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Paul wrote this lett…

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My youngest is 43, so it was a while ago, but the connection with your children when you read with them is such a precious thing—it’s important to both the parent and child. It’s a human sort of thing.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Amazon. Uber. Air-BnB. All represent the use of technology to streamline the customer experience and, bluntly, reduce costs by dodging regulation or taxes. They weren't the PRODUCT. No consumer wants to BUY AI. It's not a product. Billy six-fingers has no value to them until he gets a job.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kinsley gaffe

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Or, as they say, “Suck it, Ken.”

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All of Trump’s supporters have always been that way. They choose to take literally those things they want to happen and regard everything else as just a goof. Almost always confusing his insincere pandering with his actual intent.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The irony of this being in Wired🥲 Good article, though I’m not sure I can fully trust its ultimate conclusion (not just because of the inbuilt bias but also because I worked with a grad student who researched this very question last year, and came to somewhat different conclusions)

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Except the American Pope, who shit-talked the Chicago Cubs in Latin in response to a Cubs fan heckling him from the crowd in Rome.

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember people being loudly insistent that Liberace, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury were _obviously_ straight men. David Bowie was explained as "Well, he is Australian." The hatred of disco was entirely about lascivious white people with too much money who danced too well.

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how important this is, but it seems like it might be relevant to the trans rights discussion: I think that a lot of people 50 and younger do not remember when no one was gay. I am 64, and I was raised in a conservative household, and I absolutely remember this.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who else in this day and age would know enough Latin to properly do the service?

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exactly. Though the time frame is a bit longer for countries. The UK was a leader ~80 years ago and was like an athlete playing their last season about a half century ago.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes. And the scale of investment in the AI bubble is MUCH larger than in the Dot.Com runup--the bursting of this bubble will be much bigger--even assuming there will be valuable surviving technologies and businesses on the other side.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do, at least take lunch. Relax for as long as possible, before considering clearly what the results would be from such an action.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/10/2026

I really think that if a therapist has a client who is presenting with new symptoms- grandiose/paranoid/agitated or with sudden loss of self-esteem, increased isolation Or with increased conflict/argumentativeness in their relationships or social transactions Assess their AI/LLM use:

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The story here seems to be that the management of a Tennessee university wants to shut down their successful, prestigious and highly endowed theology school merely for political reasons. This is the state of academic freedom, and religious freedom, in Trump's America. Ominous times

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Federal government is currently staffed like the graveyard shift at a 24 hour grocery store.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

January 21, 2029, 8 AM. Bulldozers push down Trump's ball room and decorators restore the Oval Office in accordance with EO 1 by President AOC. Ignoring all of Trump's landmarking & otherwise assertions. Fait accompli motherfucker

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Jason Voorhees Darr @jasondtx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love the idea of Paxton dragging down Republicans nationwide instead of just Texas.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, I looked up Rawls on Wikipedia, and his senior thesis was quite religious, and he considered studying for the Episcopal Priesthood, so I guess all four of them count as devout mainline proestants--at least in the ways I count devout.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The president would not only be likely committing a crime but inducing voters to commit a crime. "If payments were in fact made, voters who had made their decision 'in consideration' of receiving such funds might also face [criminal] exposure under Section 597."

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Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”

Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I knew a guy who regularly attended evensong at the Episcopalian seminary in NYC in the 1960s-70s who frequently found himself sitting next to W.H. Auden.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/10/2026

When i was in business school, one class I struggled to fully comprehend was finance, because equity pricing always just seemed like made up bullshit. Stories like this are part of the reason why I still think I was right and the professor was wrong.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all infrastructure erodes consent, sometimes it bypasses it completely this is uncomfortable (& often problematic), but it should not be controversial to point out this fact

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah. It seems like the absolute floor for the NYT to regard the midterms as a Democratic victory is FDR in 1932.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I get the worry that no matter how well Dems do, the media will paint it as a disappointment, and as a counterweight to that worry I suggest we all have some self respect and fight like hell and celebrate the wins where they come rather than letting someone else tell us what we’re allowed to do.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching a meltdown between some small business owners and local citizens on a community Facebook page and it's just fascinating to see that Zuck's creation is genuinely terrible not just at a macro scale, but also at micro. My social media = paperclip optimizer take remains undefeated.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation.

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Three of of those, at least, were notably devout Anglicans/Episcopalians or Presbyterians aka mainline prostestants. Not sure about Rawls, but he was definitely studied in seminary ethics classes. That’s a big part of Talarico’s identity. We have definitely faded from the prominence of mid-century.

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