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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1h

Knowing Moses Mike, he’s not actually watching anything that’s going on which is why he hasn’t seen them cross the line repeatedly

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 2h

When leaving to run and get some eggs:
✅ keys
✅ phone
✅ wallet
✅ semi-automatic rifle

🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 2h

Which one? Cuz they both creep me out

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 3h

Glad i quit shopping there. (Friend of mine took this photo in Jacksonville)

Photo of a man in a Publix with some kind of semi-automatic rifle (AR-15?) strapped across his back

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: young republicans think and believe exactly what we thought they thought and believed.

Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 10h

A new series of revealed messages from leaders of young Republican groups reveals some horrific racism and violence, including musings about putting their political opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies, and lauding Republicans who support slavery. 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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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t want to give Trump too much credit, but I think even he realizes that the kingdom Jesus offers… isn’t the kingdom he wants. And that’s why he keeps saying he’s not getting into heaven.

🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

You cannot claim Jesus as your savior while simultaneously rejecting the kind of kingdom/world Jesus is calling us to build.

“Accepting Jesus into your heart” means accepting the kind of world he was ushering in that cared for the poor, the marginalized, the immigrant, the widow, the orphan.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

Yes compassion is key and so many lack that

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly. I hate to give Trump credit for ANYTHING, but I think all this “I’m not getting into heaven stuff” is he actually maybe recognizes that the world Jesus is ushering in isn’t the world he wants. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

You have to accept a world of compassion and love—not one that spews hateful rhetoric and lies and dehumanizes marginalized people.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 9h

You cannot claim Jesus as your savior while simultaneously rejecting the kind of kingdom/world Jesus is calling us to build.

“Accepting Jesus into your heart” means accepting the kind of world he was ushering in that cared for the poor, the marginalized, the immigrant, the widow, the orphan.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 12h

*bonds not bongs though the latter would be really interesting… 🤣

🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 15h

Depends on how they’re raised. They form strong bongs with other animals when they are raised with them. But they are fiercely independent/ territorial later on if you try to introduce another animal later on.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 16h

And to be clear: no one regardless of citizenship or immigration status deserves this treatment. Full stop.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 16h

This is the future under Trump. US citizens being rounded up and shoved in moving trucks like they’re in cattle cars. All because they aren’t white.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 18h

Moving vans are the new cattle cars. Doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not if your skin isn’t white.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until you find out they didn’t even speak English…

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

I mean they been pretty much doing it for thousands of years so yeah

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

Me realizing 70k words into my next novel that i made an error (dealing with historical fiction) regarding someone’s age in a story and having to go back and change scenes in literally EVERY CHAPTER as a result… 😭😭😭

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

*500+ years ago. Because I’m not great at math

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that even in his lifetime Christopher Columbus was considered so horrendously cruel that the people responsible for the g*ddamn Spanish Inquisition went “oh my God. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???” And had him arrested and stripped of his titles.

Dunking on Columbus isn’t “revisionist history,” it was literally an order from the crown of Spain in 1500

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

“Eventually we came to such terms…” Men 400 years ago trying to pretend that beating a woman was a “negotiation” for sex.

"While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked—as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But—to cut a long story short—I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores."

— Christopher Columbus, letters to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 1d

Women don’t yearn for power. They yearn for justice, dignity, freedom, love, to be heard, and for their stories to matter. Because a heart seen and a voice valued is true power.

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

a close up of a person 's face with the words `` bit of both '' written on it .

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with the words `` bit of both '' written on it .

media.tenor.com

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🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.social · 2d

Freaking sociopaths

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