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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...

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Delaney Hall’s air conditioning goes out during N.J.’s worst heat wave in 15 years

Air conditioning failed at Delaney Hall during a major heat wave, prompting concerns for detainees as advocates cite ongoing complaints and inspection disputes.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Yeah, insane doesn’t capture the degree of corruption here.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/12/2025

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

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Michelle Van Loon @michellevanloon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I knew @matttebbe.bsky.social when he was a seminary student once upon a time. Each one of us have put some serious highway miles on our faith and practice since then. It was an honor to reconnect in this lively conversation: gravitycommons.com/podcast/mich...

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Michelle Van Loon: Letting Go of Evangelicalism’s Nonessentials - Gravity Commons

We talked with author Michelle Van Loon about why evangelical Christianity needs to shed the baggage that gets in the way of authentic faith. Her book Downsizing: Letting Go of Evangelicalism’s Noness...

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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Summer is when denominations hold their annual conventions. Given how much harm they cause, it's worth asking what role if any religious institutions should play in our lives, & if they're capable of liberation instead. So today I interview @matttebbe.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Ep29: SBC Annual Meeting & the Role of Denominational Institutions in Our Lives, with Matt Tebbe

Podcast Episode · Highest Power: Church + State · 06/09/2025 · 27m

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Looking for active news accounts to follow on blsky - one of the issues i have fully transitioning from the twitter is that i've curated so many good journalist/news accounts there that still pump out good stuff. drop suggestions in the comments of who I should follow if you would be so kind tyvm.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

AI is taking over our political economy, incl education. INthe near future AI will replace many (millions?) of jobs which will 'look great' in the stock market (corps will slash their costs associated with salaries, healthcare, hiring, retirement, etc) but will wreck havoc on average people.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

So for those of you interested in Mammon... I was on the "Found in Translation" podcast to discuss Matthew 6 and 7 and how Mammon works. So much fun check it out here: Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWv1... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3fex... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Resisting Mammon – Matthew 6 & 7 with Matt Tebbe

Found in Translation · Episode

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Comedians out here doing the Lord's work

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Next online Zoom book club starts TOMORROW. We're reading "Being Christian" by Rowan Williams, a short primer on the Christian life. We'll meet every Friday for 4 weeks at 12pm ET starting tomorrow, Apr 11! Get a copy, download Zoom, and join us! gravitycommons.com/bookclub/

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Gravity Book Club - Gravity Commons

Gravity Book Club Our next book is Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer by Rowan Williams. Fridays 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET (Apr 11 – May 2) Many of us grew up with a faith that doesn’t reson...

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Cocaine: the neoliberal Eucharist of Mammon worship.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What's your favorite TV show right now? Mine: Severance. I could watch it on mute for its cinematography and production design, lighting, costuming...and the story, character development, human condition, themes - all of it love all of it. Also: I'm on S2E3 so NO SPOILERS. What's your fave rn?

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

when you see something hypocritical or duplicitous & it's obvious to you but not other people there's usually something at work 'under the surface' for that person to make 'the hypocritical to others' entirely rational for them hypocritical behavior has deeper coherent logic that makes it rational

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

step 1: create problem under auspices of solving one step 2: people die due to your 'solution' step 3: blame DEI for their death step 4: propose solution to your own cluster that makes you $$$$+++ step 5: receive acclaim as hero who saved the day This is how MAGA works.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Jesus and: His Mother The Syro-Phoenician (Canaanite) Woman The Samaritan Woman The Woman with the Issue of Blood The Woman at Simon the Pharisees House Martha and Mary In every interaction there are common themes- patterns- that indicate the work and redemption Jesus had for women. +

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If I oppose you it's because it's the best way i know to love you + to love those you are harming. If i hated you i'd want to destroy, defeat, dehumanize you. But I don't want any of that for you. Or me. I want your reformation, your redemption, your restoration into a whole community.

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JPHall102.bsky.social @jphall102.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An excerpt from @matttebbe.bsky.social FB post. The heart of MAGA Trump voter struggles with Trump doing to her family what she voted for him to do to other families. This is the heart of MAGA: 1. “privilege and benefit for me, but not for thee” 1/2

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So I posted this yesterday on Substack & Facebook: My observations about the diversity of white people responses to the Kendrick Lamar Halftime Super Bowl Show. My Substack article: matttebbe.substack.com/p/thoughts-o... Or if you prefer to read it on Facebook: www.facebook.com/matttebbe/po...

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Thoughts On How White People Experienced the Super Bowl Halftime Show

A general observation about MAGA vs non-MAGA white people

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Top 10 Sports (and sporting events) I enjoy watching on TV in order of preference: 1. March Madness 2. College Football (incl CFP) 3. College Basketball 4. World Cup 5. Super Bowl 6. The Masters 7. EPL 8. NBA Playoffs 9. Summer Olympics 10. Winter Olympics

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Name calling has its place in Jesus's taxonomy of love: fox whitewashed tombs hypocrites brood of vipers blind fools to name a few. I'm interested in learning how to name call in the way of Jesus so I can love as Jesus does.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm preaching on this tomorrow: "He (Jesus) set free those who were held in slavery their entire lives by the fear of death." Heb 2.15 Why does freedom from the fear of death matter? How does this liberation from the fear of death change us? What are we able to be + do now that we weren't before?

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"Birthright citizenship is unconstitutional." - Karoline Leavitt, WH Press Secretary, defending Pres. Trump's decision to end birthright citizenship Notice here: 1. Factually, legally what she says is not true. See Amendment 14, Section 1. But that doesn't matter here's why+

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Q: Can you give me a one tweet answer for how MAGA happened? A:

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is how 'merit based hiring' and 'anti-dei' works.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

On how legacy (mainstream) media has failed us- and- continues to operate in service to Mammon at the expense of humanity.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Saturday reminders: empathy is not a sin mercy is not satanic the least of these are not your enemy christianity is not a weapon billionaire-run media isn't free press to be wrong is human refusing to be wrong is dehumanizing perfect love casts out fear beware those who use fear to cast out love

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La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"And so we can barely come up for air to celebrate MLK, Jr. Day cause even Snoop is dancing for the arsonist while the world burns so is there anything we can do to oppose this darkness?" - @matttebbe.bsky.social

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Celebrating MLK Day on Inauguration Day

in a dystopian game show that just won't quit

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

this is how "i don't see color" works this is normal everyday MAGA stuff here this isn't extraordinary or an outlier: musk is probably the second (if not the first) most powerful person in the Trump admin. A casual sieg heil during our President's inauguration for your consideration.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

this is how the War On Drugs works

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“Don’t try to win over the haters. You are not a jackass whisperer.” - Brené Brown

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I wonder how other social media companies are making money oh lel still with white supremacy I see cool

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

How MAGA works: 1. Inauguration attendance for thee, but not for me 2. White guys policing a Black woman 3. “Upholding tradition” while dismantling democracy 4. Selective moral outrage straining gnats to swallow camels 5. Accusing others of what you yourself are guilty of

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Looking for a good/new commentary or treatment of 1 John from a perspective that isn't white conservative (MacArthur, Stott, Packer, Jobes, Yarbrough, Akin, et al). Suggestions?

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Marc Alan Schelske @marcalanschelske.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“Some books about spiritual disciplines load heavy burdens on the reader, but not this one…Simple, profound, and entirely practical. This resource is a treasure.” - @matttebbe.bsky.social bit.ly/3kIwUbr #journaling #spiritualgrowth

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“In any society, the most marginalized people best understand the rules of the system, because they need to know the politics and dynamics in order to avoid being crushed by them.” - Chanequa Walker-Barnes

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is how neoliberal free market fundamentalist capitalism works. It’s doing what it was created to do very well. It’s how Mammon reigns in our present age.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"and wanting to justify himself he asked, 'who is my neighbor?'" (Lk 10.29) same vibes as today's: "hey i'm just asking questions" "i like to play the devils advocate" "what about this other thing" Questions do work. In some contexts "who is my neighbor?" does good work. In others it doesn't.

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

There are countless ways that being poor is more expensive than being rich. Here's one:

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Matt Tebbe @matttebbe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hugs? a- never b- depends on person/mood c- always d- side hug pro over here e- there's a hierarchy of intimacy/trust: hand wave --> hand shake --> hand pound --> hand pat on shoulder --> bro hug (just shoulder/s touch) --> hug hug (more of a full body touch situation) --> face hug (snuggle hug)

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