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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3m

Not to be unecumenical but it's a fascinating choice to describe the puritans et al as coming to "baptize a new world in their ancient faith"

KPD Max von Sydnow 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇬🇱 @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 8m

I finally read all of Schmitt's speech and it's pure settler nationalism.

This is who we are. We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers—born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.

We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith. Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

Christian nationalists for usury has to be the funniest possible type of guy to come out of modernity

𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

It’s perversely funny that he literally talks about “small, mom-and-pop lenders” as if that’s a thing, and that thing is not called loansharking.

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 2h

My mewithoutYou and my wife's The Oh Hellos streams are an outlier and should not be counted

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5h

these metrics are not meaningfully connected to the claim

Eric Daugherty: JUST IN: Stunning data reveals Christianity is SURGING in the United States

Bible sale: +41.6%
App downloads: +79.5%
Christian music streaming: +50%

What an amazing sight to see.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 2h

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe YOUR Twitter group chats devolved into madness. Mine ended up playing fantasy basketball and diplomacy and now we all hate each other in between going to each others weddings etc

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 9h

If Claremont doesn't hate you you're probably not following Christ

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 9h

Good

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 11h

It is almost always in practice a discursive move to justify telling our brothers and sisters “be fed, be clothed”

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 11h

The thing about Dorothy Day and subsidiarity etc. is that she and those like her are essentially the only people who have appealed to subsidiarity as a positive demand that, for example, the poor be fed, rather than an argument against the government feeding them.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 12h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 12h

this is sort of the natural next step in cyberpunk world

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 12h

Akron Caleb is mad thirsty 🤣

Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 12h

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

'Pearl-Clutching': JD Vance Waves Off Outcry Over Young Republicans' Racist Group Chats

www.huffpost.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 16h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 22h

Sort of darkly ironic that a guy who hitched his wagon to the ressourcement would end up a giddy collaborator.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Still hasn't managed to say anything about his sheep being put in concentration camps and subjected to every manner of abuse, I take it

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Peace ¡not as the world gives it!

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 1d

it's so important not to believe that the Resurrection is God getting His revenge on the evildoers as if bringing the permanent presence of forgiveness into the world were some sort of act of violence

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Also gotta say seeing him at North Shore as a teenager was a game changer for the rest of my music-listening life

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Black Messiah is one of my favorite albums ever. This sucks

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

I will say that if you needed Politico to break the news to you that "young conservatives" are all exactly like that, you haven't known many young conservatives

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

"Only see notifications from people you follow" is a life saver

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Black Messiah is one of my favorite albums ever. This sucks

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

One of the guys I do some contract work for is talking about letting me go at the end of the year. Would appreciate prayers that either that is resolved or I can find something new that continues to support my schooling

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