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@srspen.bsky.social
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Former prof of, at various times, philosophy, history, and theology, later an academic librarian. Former fundamentalist and evangelical, more liberal politically every day.

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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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How the October 7th Terror Attacks Were Exploited to Fuel Genocide, Colonization and Empire
***Because I’m a terrible capitalist, here’s a great 25% off discount for new paid subscribers.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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Kate Bowler and Me: Losing Religion
“Everything Happens” on post-evangelicals, politicized religion, and not demonizing the nones
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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Why Californians Want a Billionaire Tax (but May Not Get One)
The Lesson here?
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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What A Day: Party Crasher-in-Chief
Republicans ditch Donald Trump.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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Panic
To read this letter, click here:
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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Chop Wood, Carry Water 10/7
A special Florida event tomorrow morning! 🏖️
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 9h
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The Donor Class: How Big Money is Shaping the 2026 Midterms and the Future of American Politics
Big money has captured our politics & media. It’s a big club of a few billionaires spending absurd amounts of money to purchase Republicans and Democrats. However, the people are fighting back.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 10h
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The Goodie Bag Has a Bottom
Trump Accounts make investment easy and visible. SNAP is becoming harder to access, even though feeding children is an investment too.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 10h
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The Republic, Revisited
Ten Essays for Right Now
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18h
He has never known sacrifice small or big.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 18h
Agreed 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17h
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
I've played poker at dozens of casinos in my life, from the fanciest palaces in Las Vegas to crappy riverboats in the Midwest, and I can say that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was -- by a fucking mile -- the dirtiest, dingiest, cruddiest casino I have ever experienced in my life.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 13h
Arrh! 🫶🏼 #BookSky
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12h
We’re pulling up to the UP in style 🚍😎🍂
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12h
WHAT a life!! Margaret Hamilton, who lead the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter, Lauren.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 16h
This needs to happen 👇
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
VICTORY! A Georgia judge Wednesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to restrict where Gwinnett County voters can return mail ballots, ruling the law allows the county to accept ballots at designated early voting sites. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia court rejects RNC bid to restrict mail ballot return access in state’s second-largest county
The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia’s second-most populous county to cast their ballots ahead of the November election.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 23h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
still super salty Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn’t
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15h
JD Vance is sizing up a $9 million Virginia estate while preaching to the rest of us that housing is more affordable than ever. No one believes him.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 13h
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 21h
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h
Psycho. He’s an absolute psycho.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
Who could’ve have foreseen Kim Guilfoyle would go on a grifting and crime spree after Trump named her as Ambassador to Greece to get her out of the country after Junior hooked up with a younger woman?
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 10h
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The politics of negative space
It was another night in West Hollywood.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 10h
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Congressional Candidate Raped in Arizona While Fixing Campaign Sign
10.7.26
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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Vote Republican
Trump bribes voters
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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Iranians Will End War if They Get LA, San Diego!!!
‘Small Price,’ Trump Said
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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The Homefront Report: “Affordable” Isn’t a Payment Method.
Health care, public accountability, and the reasonable expectation that someone asking for our votes has a plan.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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JAMM: Trump Gets Flayed Over Insane Nuke Rant Edition
Plus Bad Times For Susan Collins And More
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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The "Access Hollywood Tape," 10 Years Later
Looking back at the 10th anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape, it’s clear this was the moment the party fully caved to Trump.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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How Christian Nationalists Will Ban Contraception if They Win the Midterms
Please LIKE, RESTACK, and SHARE with every person you know who can be pregnant (Recording at the end)
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 23h
and Dems are delighted- especially in Ohio!
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Data Center Backlash Is MAGA’s Comeuppance
🚨 27 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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💙Christine Slemmer💙 @slem63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Substack Live with Judd Legum, 10am ET on Thursday
Who’s behind the political ads you’re seeing?
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 18h
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Future leaders
The President of the United States
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 19h
The Trump administration wants to exclude millions of immigrants from the 2030 census. The proposal would do more than just violate the law — it would harm the American public. bit.ly/4y6x1yl
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Excluding Immigrants from the Census Would Hurt the Country and Break the Law
The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cartoonist: Clay Bennett
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 20h
The Energy Innovation analysis found that households will pay an average of $6,500 more for energy, cumulatively through 2040. In five states, households will pay roughly $9,000 more: Oregon, Mississippi, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming. buff.ly/7tKf5r4
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Mississippians Will Pay Higher Energy Rates Due to Trump’s Policy Changes, Think Tank Says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040, a nonpartisan think tank said Friday.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 23h
Exactly 💯
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 21h
There’s a term for Trump’s bullying, often racist sneers and attacks, accompanied by indirect (always indirect) calls to violence: stochastic terrorism, defined as hostile rhetoric that raises the statistical risk of ideological violence. Here’s how it works:
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Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’
No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21h
As Transportation Secretary, I could always count on a Congressional Republican to take credit for an infrastructure win that they had voted against. That's the type of behavior that makes people cynical about politics - but it doesn't have to be that way.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22h
100% 🤣 #BookSky
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
$6 BILLION. Of taxpayer money. While the Hunter Biden hunters stay silent. Obscene.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 20h
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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