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Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him. web: https://rickbrannan.com

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · Dec 6

Hello, newer followers! I thought I'd mention my last book, "Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers." It has introductions, transcriptions, and translations to 30 papyri (5th cent. & before. (1/2) amzn.to/4iqOj1V #EarlyChristianity

Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers

Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers [Brannan, Rick] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 48m

Looks like the 💩-dumping jet veered off course and hit the east wing of the White House.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3h

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 1h

I know everyone has been wondering about this (including my 18yo who has a life goal of being a crazy cat lady): www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Orange Cats Are Genetically Unlike Any Other Mammal and Now We Know Why

The iconic coats are due to a mutation not seen in other animals.

www.zmescience.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 7h

$40 billion to Argentina’s government. Subsidizing Argentinian farmers. Meanwhile American farmers can barely afford to stay afloat and families are about to go hungry because Trump refuses to open the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "The only price we have that's high is beef, and we'll get that down. And one of things we're thinking about doing is beef from Argentina."

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 7h

Account of dude making AI slop videos for Donny to post

Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 7h

"Hey, that thing people click/touch to start our major apps, you know, the ones that make us all that sweet sweet money? Hear me out: What if we change them, so they're different and not what folks are used to? That would be cool, huh?"

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 7h

The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>>

“Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services”
www.wsj.com/business/med...

Customers Ditched Disney+, Hulu After Kimmel Suspension

Cancellation rates for both Disney’s streaming services doubled in September from a month earlier.

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 7h

Impeach Pam Bondi.
Impeach Marco Rubio.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.”

Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.

Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 7h

Of course, IIRC, Kroger, Fry's, Albertson's, and Safeway are all owned by Kroger.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 9h

Trump gave Argentina, a country with a chainsaw-wielding right-wing president, a $40B lifeline. Wealthy US businessmen benefit from the deal

The annual budget for USAID, an organization which provided food to starving children, medicine to people in need was $35B before it was defunded

Priorities

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 1d

Before 2016, Drumpf never entered my thoughts. He was a non-entity. I knew of him, knew he was on a reality TV show (the kind of TV I loathe) yet, before 2016, I could care less about him or what he tweeted.

I want that feeling back.
I want to never hear of him ever again.
I want him to disappear.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 19h

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
-Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution

Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: You talked about the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC. Is the funding terminated?

TRUMP: Right now there is no funding. Because it's up to me

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 1d

If Hegseth had any honor he'd resign in a hot minute. But he doesn't, so he won't.

Impeach Hegseth, Rubio, and the twice-impeached convicted felon and philanderer.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 1d

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Wrote some things about what it was actually like inside an inflatable frog costume at the #NoKings protest, and how we might remember this someday.

The View from Inside an Inflatable Frog

https://www.quinndombrowski.com/blog/2025/10/18/view-inside-inflatable-frog/ I hadn't thought much of it, but there's a good reason the inflatable frogs were most often nocturnal, and found in northe...

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 1d

As if one needed more reasons to impeach the weak, twice-impeached convicted felon.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.

Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏

History.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 1d

Gerrymandering isn't just about the net gain for one party or the other - though that's crucial.

By reducing competition, mid-decade redistricting makes it easier to interfere with the 2026 election.

My deep dive, with examples in Texas, California, and Ohio: samwang.substack.com/p/gerrymande...

Gerrymandering's domino effects

Narrowing the field of competition opens new vulnerabilities to attack

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 1d

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Joe DeLong @joedelong.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

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The Appian Way Press @appianwaypress.com · 1d

Chrysostom's Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles. Fresh modernization/revision of the NPNF translation.

Kindle $7.49 / Audio $9.99 / PB $19.99 / HB $29.99

(PB & HB working their way through the pipes, probably available sometime tomorrow)
appianwaypress.com/books/chryso...
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Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: Acts of the Apostles by Saint John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom (c. 349–407 AD), bishop of Constantinople, was among the greatest preachers and interpreters of Scripture in Christian history. His <cite>Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles</ci...

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