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Jeffrey C. Pugh

@jeffreycpugh.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Elon University. Resident of Charlottesville, writer of books. www.amazon.com/stores/Jeffrey-C.-Pu… Sliding into DMs is a block.

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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Evergreen
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We also have a green smoothie that's full of protein, Soylent Green.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"'Tis the time's plague, when madmen lead the blind." King Lear
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The wrong people are dying.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026
i'm actually a little shook by the way that mao and trump seem to be the same Type of Guy.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I mean, if I lived there, Binface would have my vote over Farage.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Absolutely gutted. Hard to wake up to the this news.
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Irish singer-songwriter and ‘Once’ star Glen Hansard dies in motorcycle crash
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard passed away early this morning after a motorcycle crash in Dublin. He was 56.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social this morning is a lot of scarecrows building straw men arguments.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Saw this Nolan movie. Wondered why the title wasn't "One Trick Pony."
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Notice how they never want the Beatitudes posted in the schools.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is one ugly game.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I thought the ref in USA/BOS was bad, but this ref in FRA/PAR is just the absolute worst.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I was willing to roll with Disclosure Day for a long time, but then they put bath robes in that fleabag hotel and I was like, "That's a plot hole I cannot accept."
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So, essentially, the Supreme Court gave the bank robber keys to the safe yesterday in Slaughter decision. They have thrown USA under the bus.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I did Nazi that coming.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is a long read, but, boy, is it worth it. We are drowning in knowledge and ignorant of wisdom. Of Stoicism and Stupor open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of Stoicism and Stupor
The Wars of Marcus Aurelius and Donald Trump
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wonder how long it's going to be before this replicates in Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kQ...
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Doctor Zhivago (3/10) Movie CLIP - Stick Together (1965) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
World Cup only confirms my belief that the people of the world have more in common with one another than they do with their own leaders.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just have to say, in the last 18 months I've had to reconsider my position on demon possession.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Don't think these folks can be accused of anti-Semitism. Maybe calling government to be accountable transcends bad faith attacks on those who want better for Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Israeli former leaders and security chiefs threaten legal action over ‘Jewish terrorism’
Leaked letter to PM and military demands action to stop violence against Palestinians in occupied West Bank
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Democrats are going to need at least 51, probably 52 in Senate come November. Fetterman is not a reliable vote.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hoping Trump works over Republican senators so much today they go to open revolt.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
OMG, an emotional support prop? How long, O Lord, how long?
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
So glad they got a sketch of the guy. Shouldn't be too long now.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Re-reading Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Children of Light and The Children of Darkness" for first time in 50 years and it's surprising how much of that I've internalized over the years. Speaks to the moment we're in.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The next time Republicans use "He's for they/them, not you" as a political slur, just counter with "I'm for us, all of us."
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When do we get to the backing up trucks to Fort Knox and loading them up corruption stage? Feels like we're pretty close.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Someone tell JD we found the fraud.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dunno, seems like work camps to me. Arbeit macht frei? Build the camps, find bodies to put in them, start slave labor. It's go time America. Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities open.substack.com/pub/projects...
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Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities
Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
So, Athens warns Sparta not to attack out of fear of Athens rising? That about it? Trump is out of his league here.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Three words I hope one day to never hear again regarding government: hottest, cards, deal.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm not sure there's a way out of this political struggle that allows USA to survive intact. It might be best to think about what a future of different nation-states looks like within boundaries of continental USA.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Could've been worse. At least it wasn't "(Don't Fear) The Reaper."
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I guess that whole "shining city on a hill" thing was not manly enough for this testosterone-poisoned doofus.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
When he says "we," he means "I."
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Whew, talk about being weak on crime.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I would hate to be a ketchup bottle in Trump's reach tonight. Way to go Hungary.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Was just kicked out of my hotel reservation at Cambria at Navy Yards in DC for night of Bruce Springsteen concert. They said the National Guard had taken lots of rooms and it was a Force Majeure situation Seems kind of strange. All of DC and they place Nat. Guard at concert venue? Any ideas?
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Pretty convinced that historians a generation removed from us will consider the 2020 elections a suicide pact, or perhaps, a nationcide.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Where's a Borgia pope when you need him? Oh, and in Avignon everything was for sale, just like USA.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
JD Vance knows nothing of God.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Since 2016 I have been arguing that either @GOP or USA survives Trump, but cannot survive intact. I was thinking too small; I had not factored in he wants to destroy the world as well.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
To all who celebrate
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Trump's Easter message sure conveys the love of Christ and gratitude of resurrected life.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Evidently Franklin Graham believes in universal salvation.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Men's brooch game is strong at Oscars.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Is this quote from Project 2025 or Hitler's first radio address to Germany in 1933? "It (the state) will take under its firm protection Christianity as the basis of our morality, and the family as the nucleus of our nation and our state."
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Seems deliberate somehow.
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Jeffrey C. Pugh @jeffreycpugh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Apparently, USA is now a client state of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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bri-llo-ween 🎃👻 @briween.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
look what outlet she's talking to ffs
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