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Evan Derkacz

@evanderkacz.bsky.social
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Editor of @RDispatches.bsky.social (pitch me: evan@religiondispatches.org). Once mistaken for Harpo Marx at a bookshop. True story. He/Him

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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Originalism's history is intertwined with that of biblical literalism. Curious that. religiondispatches.org/2022/05/03/h...
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How Evangelicalism's Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe
According to a leaked draft opinion published by Politico, the Supreme Court’s five constitutional originalists have joined Justice Alito in overturning Roe v. Wade. Many evangelicals are unsurprising...
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social's observation that conspiracy theorists share a belief in an ever-elusive "next big report that's gonna blow this thing wide open"...seems very messianic. The absolute conviction you're THIS CLOSE to redemption...when all the fools & doubters will finally see.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Indeed. Shows how much infrastructure these people have laid over the past decades.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Drop everything and watch Colin From Accounts... In Season 3 the main character's mum runs an org called WAWAM -- Women Against Women Against Men -- a bootcamp forcing incel-adjacent men to repeatedly shout "I AM THE MAN OF THE HOUSE!" until it sounds convincing.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Unfortunately much of the chaplaincy was in this camp well before Hegseth and his clown car arrived. religiondispatches.org/2026/09/02/m...
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The Military Chaplaincy Was Already Captured, Well Before Hegseth's Arrival
Public concern over Christian nationalism in the armed forces has been almost entirely preoccupied with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth—and not without good reason. He invited his personal pastor to...
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💯. It's a net neg since you support a group you now concede may pose a danger). Dems take reasonable recognition of voter positions but interpret it as fixed reality that yields more votes to the extent you approach their positions. Voters smell the fake more than they would've opposed the stance.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Something tells me this person doesn't walk into their local deli to declare that their most recent sandwich wasn't their favorite so they will no longer be purchasing them.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Don't take the wrong lesson from El-Sayed's well deserved victory in the awful, Islamophobic Michigan primary. AIPAC isn't some all-powerful bogeyman that explains the whole of US politics. It's just a well funded lobby that *lost* a race it DESPERATELY wanted. And it blew $30M in the process 🥳.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Excellent corrective to the ignorance model by @kshwetz.bsky.social. And a Q for the research community: given the power of language, does it maybe make sense 2 move on from the "hesitancy" rubric to clearly distinguish groups w/ hesitancy from those who embrace an ideology that demonizes vaccines?
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
*its... And I'm an editor. 😜
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Good ol' jonathan chait -- doing the Right's work so the Right can save its energy for it's assault on everyone who wouldn't have been eligible to join a 1960s country club.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Of course she knows all this. She's just striking a centrist pose for the camera.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So "nuance" = Republicans have decimated the economy, enabled the stagnation and decline of wages, and ensured that going to college is out of reach and/or a colossal burden, but they've cleared the way for maybe -- MAYBE -- one more scholarship.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Perfect that the NYT uses "insurgent" for Dems running from the Left (or far-right Repubs)... and for violent anti-state actors. Sure, it's dictionarily correct, but reveals the Times' obvious disdain for everything but the center (whatever it happens to be at a given moment).
new york times headline reads "Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado"
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Not great, no. But that's the comedy of the whole thing, right? Mamdani and many of those in that orbit aren't the burn-it-down Leftists they're portrayed as. At this point someone who doesn't take bribes and does fix potholes is so far from the center they look radical.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Dems' responses like these make all the moaning about the electoral successes of Mamdani-backed candidates look astonishingly out of touch and stupid.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Above all, this decision may reveal their conviction (& the conviction of the right-wing power structure that developed & underwrites them) that it's no longer necessary, for the sake of precedent, to uphold the religious rights of those they despise. They feel free to simply rule unequally.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Please, mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, I know you've already gotten an earful, but please cancel Thursday's regents... I'd love to have my son with me at the parade!
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It sincerely a pleasure to work with you!
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A now for something completely idiotic. Although, I'll say this for him: he certainly puts his beliefs into action. www.harpercollins.com/products/sui... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social
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Suicidal Empathy
The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows why empathy in politics leads to civilizational collapse. What happens when a society elevates victimhood...
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This interview in @bombmag.bsky.social (by Paul Maziar, whose insight is uncanny) doesn't just make me want to read these new poems again with fresh eyes, it makes me want to marry the person who wrote them all over again. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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BOMB Magazine | Jacqueline Waters by Paul Maziar
Poems that confont healing and pain with humor and unexpected turns.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Also: here's AI's math-challenged response... unless I'm missing something.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Yep. According to the U.S. Army: "American combat deaths in World War I totaled 53,402. But about 45,000 American Soldiers died of influenza and related pneumonia by the end of 1918."
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Congrats! I'm sure it's just as important, thorough, and beautifully written as your Whiteness Triptych.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The cowardice, yeah, but the fact that he's taking his cues from Thomas Friedman is just crushingly depressing. It's like cribbing from the test of a C- student.
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Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 06/03/2026
Could there be better confirmation of @laurenhorngriffin.bsky.social's excellent piece on Iran as a meme war? religiondispatches.org/2026/03/06/t...
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Trump's War on Iran Isn't About Armageddon, It’s the First Meme War
On Monday, two days after the U.S. and Israel carried out a series of attacks on Iran—dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” by the U.S. and “Operation Roaring Lion” by Israel—reports began circulating of comma...
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Europe-focused but just as relevant to US & Trump/MAGA. And this line (about the BBC) just cuts to the heart of the problem with the NYT whose coverage "is all too often shaped by internal guidelines and a collapsing vision of performative neutrality."
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
True... and hopefully they'll bring it up with Politico U.S. over bagels at the next all staff meeting.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Lemme guess: It helps men bond & become stronger & more resilient? Which... that probably rings true when you're surrounded by incels & fragile men who're just positive we're THIS CLOSE to executing white men every time a statue of a slave-holder is removed from a vaunted institution.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
So, as you clearly signal that you will throw anyone under the bus that rural Missouri voters deem "not normal," you're humblebragging about your support for same sex marriage? He's clearly another sleazy pol lacking conviction and crafting a message... Voters will see that.
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Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams @advocate.nyc.gov · 24/02/2026
As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In this weeks Group Threat @victorerikray.bsky.social writes about the resurgence of unabashed defense of white supremacy & colonialism in Rubio’s Munich speech & how DuBois anticipated exactly this over 100 years ago. groupthreat.com/p/the-souls-...
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The Souls of White Folk in Munich
Marco Rubio’s speech in Munich yearned for a white nationalist international
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I suspect it has something to do with their numerous contracts with the federal government. bsky.app/profile/evan...
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Darnit, just as the narcissist's rating is among the lowest since the 1930s. Sure. And bravo to The Hill's Dominick Mastrangelo for failing to mention that numerous federal agencies appear to be among Gallup's clients.
screenshot of The Hill saying that when asked if they'd gotten feedback from the president, Gallup said no.Screenshot from Gallup website showing numerous federal agencies that Gallup appears to have contracts with.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
simply one of the greatest calls of all time
Washington Post endorsement of Pam Bondi for Attorney General: "Florida's former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious."
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I don't know much about Australia, but I suspect "the right to have one's genes remain in the gene pool" is not codified in its constitution. But like I said, just a guess.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'd love to see @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & @notalawyer.bsky.social cover Gen Z fave: Chan 5 w/ Andrew Callaghan. Not exactly standard IBCK, but I think it'll pique your interest partly bc it's hard to pin down politically (tho not nec in the good way). www.youtube.com/@Channel5You...
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Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
More content on https://www.patreon.com/channel5. Directed, produced, filmed, edited, and created by Andrew Callaghan
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's beautiful. And the Right is so baffled and so cynical many of them can only conclude that it must be a secret conspiracy. religiondispatches.org/2026/01/26/r...
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The Right is Shocked by Anti-ICE Organizing
Over the weekend, a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis, which quickly went viral on the online Right. As thousands took to the s...
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
So my theory that Jonathan Chait is actually an AI project whose sole purpose is to demonstrate how vacuous ideological centrism can be... it's looking pretty convincing right now.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Sure he doesn't acknowledge it explicitly, but in fairness his bio includes both The Atlantic & the Brookings Institution...so being catastrophically late to the party, shitting on those who already got it as so ideologically predisposed it doesn't count, and being a dick are all sort of implied.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Democratic leadership are unlikely to ever “find their spines.” But that’s not entirely necessary. What’s necessary is to build so much resistance & so much support for the right path that they’re more worried about not doing the right thing than about taking a risk.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Bill Kristol is urging defunding ICE. BILL KRISTOL. And people still think it’s a political non-starter?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
And yet. When he speaks the NYT and most other media act like he's NOT an entitled child whining about doing his homework. He's treated like he's a serious person who deserves genuine consideration -- and more importantly, the benefit of the doubt.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
They're "too nihilistic" for political classification? Nihilism has long been *the* go-to description of MAGA (incl. in The Atlantic several times). What he means is a data set of 1 tells him that bros. in this standard right-wing movement won't mindlessly vote 'R' every time.
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I mean. Who could have seen this coming...
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Evan Derkacz @evanderkacz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
You're correct of course, but I always thought it was somehow fitting that his name isn't exactly "hate"... but it isn't exactly not.
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