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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what do people think of this sorta thing? kevinyoung.substack.com/p/requiem-fo...

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Requiem for the Progressive Church

PART 1: What Killed the Progressive Church

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a consistent theme across different types of American Christofascism are the love and pleasure found in death and suffering

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great story by @gillianbrockell.com about progressives on the Chicago city council forcing a private equity firm trying to buy city parking meters to divest from Omni Air International, the charter airline that did ICE’s longest & cruelest flights. The spun-off Omni is now in huge financial trouble.

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a consistent theme across different types of American Christofascism are the love and pleasure found in death and suffering

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Racism and sexism are the text. Fascism is the subtext. What do people think the purpose is?

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Racism and sexism are the text. Fascism is the subtext. What do people think the purpose is?

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there is a maybe a religion news angle with their hiring of a former religion reporter as their managing editor….

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

on Martin Neimoller and the Confessing Church

Certainly Niemöller did not believe his Confessing Church activities constituted political agitation against the state. In fact, the only political activity Niemöller engaged in prior to 1945 - as a U-boat commander and as a pastor - was expressly in defence of the conservative nationalist state. In this, he differed from his politically more liberal colleagues such as Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth. What Niemöller objected to during the Third Reich was the attempt by the German Christians and the Nazis to Nazify the Protestant Church by eliminating its traditional emphasis on sin, suffering, death, and redemption; by transforming Jesus of the cross into Jesus the Nordic / Aryan hero; by purging the pastorate of baptised Jews; and by restructuring the church according to the Führer principle. Niemöller understood all too well that challenging Hitler on political grounds would discredit the Confessing Church and provide the Nazis with a convenient excuse for rounding up confessing Christians.

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Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the thesis of my book, yes

A post by @constans on X.com:

Protestant with arm tattoos and a soul patch: you're about to hear a message about how gay people are going to hell and Harris is going to bring forth communism

Protestant with full robes and a censer: you're about to hear how Jesus is, if you think about it, trans

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

on Martin Neimoller and the Confessing Church

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

even if Trumpism crashes and burns in its own way I think this will continue to happen across evangelical institutions. E.G., more budget cuts or issues at flagship media, universities, or parachurch groups

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

genuinely think that addressing what is causing this would totally transform Chicago (positive). if there was political will and leadership to do so

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't want to overweight this as an event (given consolidation and collapse is pretty much a consistent media reality now) but seems slightly related to the ever shrinking evangelical "center" (yes yes its a bad frame)

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

still a bit gobsmacked about this from the documentary . that is an altar/chancel draped in violence, just like this

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

still a bit gobsmacked about this from the documentary . that is an altar/chancel draped in violence, just like this

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just seeing The Death of the Pastor’s Wife and these We Forgive We Give We Serve We Respect signs are over the top fascism

We Forgive We Give We Serve We Respect signs in church

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please say this again...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in many cases, they're the same person (see e.g. David French)

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Christianity Today laid off half of its staff? Huh

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026

New documents reveal that U.S Southern Command is investigating how soon the military action can take place. trib.al/qtfwA1k

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U.S. Military Prepares for Possible Action in Cuba

New documents reveal that U.S Southern Command is investigating how soon the military action can take place.

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cmitown @cmitown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Great Things Happen in Chicago" needs to be the city's new motto

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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 24/09/2026

ICYMI: We officially launched our map of Chicago's bike lanes - where you can see how each ward's alder shapes how safe it is to bike in every neighborhood!

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Some Chicago Alders Block Bike Lanes - We Mapped It

YouTube video by Chicagoans Who Bike

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you live in IL then tell Duckworth this sort of thing is unacceptable www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 23/09/2026

United States Senator Tammy Duckworth: "Don't impeach anyone."

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

don’t normally do this, but sharing something I’m leaving on the cutting room floor here about early christians and anti fascism

Last Fall, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that designated antifa as a terrorist group. This targeting of left-wing networks accelerated this Spring, with the administration stating that "our national (counter terrorism) activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist." The administration has made anti-anti-fascism a core element of its domestic politics, not simply because they are principled in their fascism, but because it views suppressing left-wing dissent as a means for consolidating its power and accomplishing its ethno-nationalist goals.
It is hard to look at this government and not see echoes of imperial Rome. The personal cult of the emperor, corrupt patronage systems, imperial governors of colonies, the omnipresent aesthetics of war paired with violent imperial overreach, with the White House even became a temporary gladiatorial pit for UFC fights. As Imperial decline spread, Roman emperors and invested elites began blaming a newly emerged cult as a threat to the civic order of Rome itself.
In his work True Doctrine, Celsus, a second-century Roman philosopher critiques this counter-cultural community for its exclusive god worship, writing that it brings a "seditious word" against the emperor, leading there to be "nothing to prevent the emperor from being abandoned, alone and deserted." This dangerous sect was, of course, the early Christians. It was not just barbed rhetoric which was slung at them, with Christian persecution waxing and waning across different emperors. Their way of worshipping and life was criminalized because it embodied an unfaithfulness to the imperial cult and a threat to the Roman social order.
What was true of the early Christians should be true today - faithfulness is a threat to unjust imperial orders. Faith is always a living thing, not meant to live in sheer reaction to the wo…

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is what Christofascism looks like

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a party worth its salt would find a way to punish a politician like this

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A thread about "Common Ground Collective", a Chicago dark money org that is funding a lot of the attack ads I've seen I've seen in the races for the School Board.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And politicians wonder why the American people hate them all so much. If some Democrat running for President in 2028 doesn't run on an explicit antimonopoly, trustbusting platform they are missing the biggest layup in political history

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

dems have to crush all of these reactionary industries

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