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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn’t the whole thing about the 70s divorce spike that it was because it was the first time people were allowed to leave hurtful relationships so they did and then new entrants into the contract had different standards and it went back down? seems fine! if it is in fact analogous, maybe revealing!

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

they are actually trying to deliver what broad swaths of people want to hear about for purely commercial reasons, whereas NYT, WaPo, etc are all captured by wealthy elites and their coverage is shaped accordingly

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The other effect is that ICE/DHS don’t have to spend energy on managing the people’s objections to them any more and are freed up to kidnap more people. Governors who send state police in cause direct harm to the people of their state who get detained or deported as well as the ones who get beat.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

speaks specifically to the youth. occasionally quite old!

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Flashback to explaining to a 14 year old in Confirmation the whole death by the state, possible descent into Hell, resurrection into liberation, so we eat symbolic sacrificial flesh for thousands of years thing - “Pastor, that’s like….pretty freakin metal.” It is indeed.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

waiting as always for someone to write the definitive essay on how Biblical “literalists,” Constitutional “originalists,” and Star Wars/pop culture “purists” are all the same guy, using the same tactic to fight for an imagined white supremacy that none of the above enshrine

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

happened in Chicago pretty frequently - they couldn’t actually bring charges or hold indefinitely but they would take protestors and people who they said got in their way and detain them in their facilities, harass them for extended periods of time, then release them in random dangerous locations.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

for the @chicagoreader.com's 2025 best of chicago issue, i wrote about cops! for the best conglomeration of local police to protect a murderous army of federal agents, look no further than the unified command of broadview, illinois.

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Best police force to protect a murderous army of secret police - Chicago Reader

Unified Command of Broadview, Illinois, a powerhouse conglomerate of cops led by the Illinois State Police and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

we looked into even the more legitimate version of these apps for our kids to give them some practice on virtual pay, etc. and none are FDIC insured or have customer service! reports of total losses constantly. bar them, and real banks should step in with better teen and associate account options.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Yes, and over representation of white people in media and politics who grew up in segregated neighborhoods and towns then experienced integrated living for the first (and sometimes last!) time in college, so they perceive it as especially radical.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Phone cameras also allow people to “see” auroras more clearly than they would with the naked eye, so aurora info is more actionable for regular people than it would have been during any past solar maxima.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It’s not even the stupidest thing about racist beliefs, but it drives me wild how phenomenally bad you have to be at basic biology and genetics to fall for racism, and yet these people who demonstrate non-understanding of the basics of human make-up continue to get the time of day from press

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

None of the current demands touch the camps, which is where majority of deaths and abuses are occurring. They at the very least could legislate consequences for denial of congressional visits, etc - it’s like all they care about is solving DHS’s PR problems for them, not actually protecting people.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just so people know every couple years homophobic protestors disrupt worship at LGBTQ affirming churches in protest, this is completely precedented, and they have never before afaik been prosecuted or subject to legal interference of any kind

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

NRSV‘s rep is translation most consistently hewed to original text, and most frequently used in academic settings. varies on how well it captures the poetry (sometimes quite well!)

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

indictment of a socials environment that aggressively promotes anti-Semitic, racist, anti-woman content as a matter of course, not the soft minds who echo that environment without really thinking about it. so many of them change their minds or express contradiction just within the interview!

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My takeaway is you could get 18 to 19 out of 20 of these people to radically change their vote and perception of what will solve their problems if you put the right charismatic (Christian for half, funny for half) people in their feed. (Andrew and possibly Baptist mom are true believers).

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

state already offers no cost insurance & tax breaks to employers who hire formerly incarcerated, wonder if we could use same system to incentivize housing providers? would love to hear from others any other policies that have helped where they are, to advocate for them here

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

have congregants with recent records looking to rent in Illinois right now and it’s so impossible, you just immediately get rejected even if you have paystubs.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

wait does Xtreme cream triple down on that sucker make you more manly, or does being chill and like not even caring how many times it got creamed you just eat whatever cheese is around double is fine make you more manly?

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Best movie about being a Pastor ever. first Louise moment took my breath away, it happens literally all the time - you’re on the phone with customer service, or at a dinner party, or getting groceries, and then someone finds out your job and drops in and time stops and it becomes something else.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Center for Religion & Psychotherapy in nearby Chicago offers great LGBTQ-affirming, gets the religious stuff therapy, maybe if you called them they could refer or vet resources more local to the family? or telehealth

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Congresspeople have to live in two locations and travel between them frequently. If we don’t want them to be beholden to wealthy donors or make corrupt trades they have to either make more money or have access to decent easy public housing in DC.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

the idea that what makes Jesus special is his distance from humanity rather than his experience of it 😭😭😭 every day new heresies and the old ones I thought we settled jump back

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

also can be seen, along with fishing boat murders and domestic CBP kidnapping & torture facilities, as expressions of the desire to try to genocide Latinos for existing and putting a lie to the fantasy that America can be white. first thing he said off the elevator, still the thing he means most.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

enslaved people rebellions. don’t know if we have the material preserved to support his style of documentary but there’s so much great scholarship now of incredible stories most Americans just don’t know, would love to see it put in a form that could be shared in popular & educational settings.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

always heard that he tried to become a United Methodist Pastor in Indiana and they kicked him out during the psych/social evaluation portion, so if that’s true some people were on to the fact that something was not good

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

the legal advice is we are public when open for worship services, because open to anyone. spaces like offices, sacristies, etc that are not setting of public worship remain private and may be usable as hiding places, but if they get to the point they’re invading churches that may not matter.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It was a worship service, most of the people they arrested were faith leaders or lay people of faith. Absolutely bananas.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

seems like if he didn’t leak it must have been the DOJ officials, who then used the story to apply additional pressure. Reporters have an obligation to consider why the person giving them info is giving it, what they want out of it, and offer context that doesn’t allow them to get used this way.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

If you write clearly you have to be faced with the meaning of what you say, which would upend the entire project

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

My assumption is they are cleaning up inhumane conditions for the Judge’s visit Thursday and then will go try to drag things as far back to torture as they can before next Judge’s visit.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Weird. The bruises, concussions, and state charges dozens of protestors have sustained (on video!) don’t feel very protective.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

really don’t get why none of them are afraid of lawsuits. civil rights law is still on the books. all these black people and women getting disproportionately fired while their bosses publicly talk anti-DEI bs have grounds to sue. did they lose their compliance departments when they fired ethics?

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

also people in those professions must use human judgment all the time about secrets - many traditions require that clergy not keep the seal of confession in cases of abuse of children or vulnerable adults or intended harm to any. from what we are seeing LLMs not capable of that kind of discernment.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

if we do, might come from most impacted locals - seen city and state reps in Chicago get radical real fast as conditions otg get bad. they’re risking arrest, confronting harm directly, starting food pantries at offices. feels different and good. doesn’t feel like senators, governors really get it.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Seems like a mirror of the brave juries/collaborator Ivy admins divide - the closer a publication is to having to please actual people, the more it will reflect abundant anti-Trump responses. NYT still cares more about elite reception than broad consumer sentiment, even its own. People does not.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

sure sure sure but because she is not computer required to agree with you she might challenge you at some point!! this cannot be abided.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Broadview PD has usually tried to be pretty hands off and just let protests happen, although there are exceptions where they have overreached - it’s Illinois State Police sent by the Governor that habe done the majority of the arrests and brutalizing

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My impression being there is it’s a lot dumber than that, they are frustrated by how many religious protests there have been and how much attention they have garnered and decided to see if saying “nuh uh!!!!” would stop us. They will find out that it will not.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

For many “a Muslim has civic power” is the actual nightmare they fear and it will continue to be true, so no, they won’t walk it back. They say hyperbolic nonsense to justify their extreme emotional response to simple multiracial democracy, but will continue to be scandalized by it in any form.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Even incredibly conservative Catholics are historically pro-immigrant. It’s deep in the faith but also in the lived practice - most people’s formative Catholic communities were ethnicity based and immigrant founded and even most US born Catholics at this point have had a Priest born elsewhere

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

YES (lower right technically an American Baptist, but all love to all the denoms showing out for immigrants and Jesus)

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

reportedly did this with Broadview protestors early on as well - detained them steps away at BV then drove them miles for the sole purpose of releasing them in an unfamiliar location

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

That is an explanation for getting the tattoo. Nothing can explain revealing the tattoo without sharing a plan to remove or cover immediately, and without verbalizing understanding of why Nazism is bad. Boneheaded judgment from this month, and not so easy to explain away.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

the day we get ICE out of the metro area we should put a fifth gd star on the flag

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

American car companies should know that there are certain makes and models that my neighbors and I will now never see again without thinking of kidnappers. Something for them to consider!

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Isn’t this just The Lost Cause with more compelling visuals? Think the prediction is right but don’t know that the social phenomenon itself is new or surprising, simply expressed through new forms of media. Confederate statues built in the early 20th century served a similar function.

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

something there about modern democracies’ complicated relationship to “merit” - part of saint like role is sport as one of few remaining sources of broad collective effervescence, but also having closer claim to meritocracy than any other by how skill is clearly defined and visible to spectators

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revup08.bsky.social @revup08.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

they cut off traffic multiple blocks either way for many of the protests, literally who would hit the protestors except ICE or the state and local police themselves?? there is a traffic light right there people would use to cross if they weren’t prevented from doing so by local police??

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