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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 23h

This. If Trump doesn't need Congress in order to fund the military, the Constitution is out the window and Congress is irrelevant.

There's *also* no reason to actually reconvene Congress. Evidently Trump will just fund whatever he wants and fire whoever he wants even if the government is shut down.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

“This one-day symposium will bring together leaders from across the global Anglican Communion and U.S.-based clergy and lay leaders curious to learn more about the possibilities and challenges of an increasingly postcolonial and polycentric Anglican Communion”

Living Postcolonial Anglicanism: Prospects for a Polycentric Anglican Communion

This one-day symposium on Friday, November 7, will bring together leaders from across the global Anglican Communion and U.S.-based clergy and lay leaders curious to learn more about the possibilities ...

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 4d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

I think that between Epstein, the shutdown, and frog wizard, the political tides are in our favor at the moment. I know there will be a time when that is not the case. But that is all the more reason not to find a reason to spin victory into defeat now.

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

gladly! just dm your preferred email, i can’t seem to share pdf in dm

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

ok sending presently

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

my review of chris green’s book the fire and the cloud published in the scottish journal of theology ⤵️ holler if you’d like a pdf

Chris E. W. Green, The Fire and the Cloud: A Biblical Christology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2024), pp. xiii + 378. $52.99 | Scottish Journal of Theology | Cambridge Core

Chris E. W. Green, The Fire and the Cloud: A Biblical Christology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2024), pp. xiii + 378. $52.99 - Volume 78 Issue 3

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 4d

My alt text will suck, but this is going around now. Portland frog facing off ICE really has become a mascot here.

A painting of a lone green and white belly frog wearing a blue scarf is facing off a line of feds, who are in helmets and faceguard and carrying batons. A line of tear gas flows up into the sky from the cops.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 4d

Picture of text on top and image meme on bottom.

Top: "Hey man, you wanna eat 6 boiled eggs in a row?"

"Nah, I'm good."

"We'll mix the yolks with mayo and mustard and put them back into the boiled egg whites and then cover it with paprika."

Bottom: Image of animated cartoon character in yellow shirt. He's saying, "You son of a bitch. I'm in."

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 4d

the social media coordinator for the american society of missiology (asm) invited me to make a short video introducing my new book god draws near ⤵️

A Message from God Draws Near Author Collin Cornell (Link to Book: Important and relevant work to explore this NBM! (Link to Book: https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781540968968_god-draws-nea...

A Message from God Draws Near Author Collin Cornell (Link to Book: Important and relevant work to explore this NBM! (Link to Book:...

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 4d

stephen chapman’s new book about the priestly blessing is *excellent*

The Lord Bless You | Duke Divinity School

The Priestly Blessing in Numbers 6, “The Lord bless you,” is one of the most familiar and widely used liturgical texts in Christianity. Although often recited, it is not usually a subject of in-depth ...

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 4d

every digital reading experience now pushes ai summary into my face. i hate it

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 5d

my review of john harrigan’s book entitled _extending mercy to the gentiles (american society of missiology monograph series) has now published in the journal *international bulletin of mission research*—let me know if you’d like to see a pdf

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 5d

nice—huge accomplishment, congratulations, andrew!

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7d

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 6d

The liberal class once hailed Greta Thunberg's values. But Thunberg stepped outside of her lane and transgressed against the only true values the liberal class understands: imperial values. For this they abandoned her open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6d

in some ways its genuinely impressive how Democrats have consistently been able to right the failures of the previous Dem administration, before immediately slamming headlong into new and interesting failures of their own making

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6d

Clinton started big liberal after Carter basically whiffed his majority but Hillarycare failed, Obama got healthcare done but whiffed on the America Jobs Act, Biden got his American Jobs Plan passed under another name (and whittled down) but whiffed on Trump and the VRA

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 6d

Okay, that "speech" is literally the most senile I've ever seen Trump act and that is including that time he just stood around for a half-hour vibing to the Who Won't Sue Us If We Use Their Music megamix on the campaign trail. Like, we are passing "middle-stage symptoms of senility" here.

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 8d

wonder if you or others on here read dbh’s all things full of gods? i don’t really go in for philosophy of mind stuff but i thought it was quite clever and readable

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 9d

Recent archaeological findings by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain, reveal that the Amazon supported vast & complex ancient urban societies.

He’s hopeful that new archaeological understanding of the Amazon will challenge centuries of prejudice against Indigenous people & offer answers for the future.

Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain

Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.”

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 11d

please clap 2.0

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12d

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Each day, I recognize (to paraphrase Lincoln again) that
the brave men and women, living and dead, who have struggled in
our Nation's service have hallowed our Constitutional freedom
far above my (or anyone’s) poor power to add or detract. The
only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we
extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12d

"Is he correct?"

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12d

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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