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Matthew Shadle

@matthewshadle.bsky.social
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Theologian, ethicist, higher ed administrator. USCCB Representative to National Council of Churches Faith and Order Convening Tables. Interrupting Capitalism (2018). The Origins of War (2011).

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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 13h
The Pentagon’s new Office of Religious Affairs is off to a good start!
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 15h
Fun fact about Catholic doctrine on the death penalty, there's no carveout for "what if the guy was really bad"
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 16h
This is exactly why the tariff policy was always doomed to failure, which was obvious from economic history. You need to import the primary and intermediate goods necessary for domestic production. And what Navarro doesn't explain is why that won't be true in the future, as well.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It kind of sounds like he wasn’t listening to you!
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He's trying to stoke a US version of the anti-migrant riots in the UK.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2026
At about 1:20 in here, Hegseth says: "Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons." Note: Hegseth's current pastor, Doug Wilson — who Hegseth has had *preach at the Pentagon* — has openly called for the U.S. to be a Christian theocracy. www.youtube.com/live/zXd567G...
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Secretary Hegseth Message to the Warriors of the USS Abraham Lincoln.
YouTube video by Department of War
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is the recruiting video: youtu.be/MIYGFSONKbk?...
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EMMA | THE CALLING | GOARMY
YouTube video by GoArmy
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Gaudium et Spes @gaudiumetspesbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Insofar as men are sinful, the threat of war hangs over them, and hang over them it will until the return of Christ. But insofar as men vanquish sin by a union of love, they will vanquish violence as well. —Gaudium et Spes §78
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And it would make inflation worse!
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026
Same energy.

@Sassafrass_84

I'll take $5,000 dollars over socialism.
It's not a hard choice.
Vote RED!
Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026
the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well.
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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John B @johnbc74.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
via wiktionary
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Midichlorians” being the even more well known example of messing this up…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s wild that no one in the media asks the White House for any evidence that Iran was anywhere near producing nuclear weapons and makes it major a story when they refuse. Instead Trump just repeatedly uses this to justify the war and the economic hardships it’s caused without question.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Notably doesn’t want to fight the Nazis.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, he's a rogue AI agent?
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dr. Doom was actually dead the entire movie.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One good thing he did is the shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. It’s pretty nice.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, and Smith is an experienced prosecutor himself and knows how to set a trap for a witness, so you can see him thinking to himself, “Is this guy just stupid, or is this some kind of trap?”
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Indeed
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That’s funny that it sounds like according to Meta, the buyer offering $600 and Muse saying “Sounds good! $700 it is!” would have been correct operations.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Their definition of “open” is that the U.S. can escort limited groups of vessels out at great expense. That is very different from what “open” meant before they started this war.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The report even says the data wasn’t encrypted!
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That will be wild if this is also ShinyHunters, although they took credit for the FBI hack apparently before the FBI knew about it.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm reminded of how US troops left Niger two years ago because of the latter's growing preference for security ties with Russia.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh wow, and Ashley Hinson is right there, too.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
$95B? That's over a third of the total annual GDP of Iowa. What is the timeframe here?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Time to rewatch Andor?
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just found out this guy was also in Andor.
Supervisor Lagret from Andor.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone immediately think of this?
Brad Pitt and a zombie researcher at the World Health Organization lab in Cardiff in the movie World War Z.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An age-old story.
Men “panicked” when they saw woman
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow...
Smashing the Flock Camera Idols
Musings on Predictive Surveillance, Molina, and God's Foreknowledge
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Window Light

Photo: A black Flock camera on a telephone pole. A tree branch in the foreground partially obscures the picture but the camera is fully visible, as if the viewer is catching a glimpse of the camera through the foliage.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rise Sir Cielo is doing double duty there with the castles.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What gets me is the lack of critical thinking about how all this is supposed to work if we cognitively offload in the way he's describing. How will engineers engage in systems thinking if they don't understand the basics? How can people fruitfully engage with AI if they don't know anything?
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This would have been so much funnier.
The first lady – who was a famous soprano with the People’s Liberation Army – is known as “Mama Peng” in China and is a contrast to her more austere, low-profile predecessors.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 23/09/2026
The FBI is investigating what appears to be a serious hack of its jobs portal by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters that may have exposed FBI agents' and applicants' sensitive personal data, sparking fears of an intelligence bonanza for foreign adversaries. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fbi-hac...
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FBI probes cyberattack tied to third-party jobs portal
The potentially serious breach highlights the supply chain risks facing even the most sophisticated organizations.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“L’etat, c’est moi” but for the regulatory state.
Trump rejected the idea of placing guardrails on AI, saying on Truth Social that the only control needed is “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sorry, I have Selzer trauma. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah but what if you can get there a minute faster by going down the alley and cutting behind Target?
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