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Holly Berkley Fletcher

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Ex-CIA. Author of The Missionary Kids (Aug 2025) PW starred review! Kid of missionaries 🇰🇪 Exvangelical. PhD historian. https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com @TheBulwark @Lawfare @liberalcurrents Co-Host @DogShirtTV Art For Democracy @ Etsy #OneThing

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · Aug 7

You might be wondering...Why should you read my book about a narrow subset of white evangelicals? Well, because it's about so much more than that, and it is kind of insane, too. Poisonwood Bible? BORING #TheMissionaryKids @broadleafbooks.bsky.social #WhiteEvangelicalism

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 11h

1/ New Episode!
@wearenotenemies.bsky.social & Bon talk again with historian @hollybfletcher.bsky.social about her just released book "The Missionary Kids" the cost of personal discipleship, when faith costs something of others, & how to navigate the divide hurt causes between people.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 14h

I looked into it more, and while there are certain things that are concerning about this deal, and about our relationship with Qatar, i do believe you are right, it is not so different from other training arrangements with foreign military personne. mea culpa.

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 16h

I would add the DNI to that, personally. Could institute better interagency coordination without creating a whole new bureaucracy imo.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Wow my dog's desire to lick my legs dry after a shower finally coming in handy now that I can't bend over that far
Been waiting for Lilo's useful era to begin

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

He does tend to encourage a belief in hell, yes.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

A rare truthful statement from him

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

maybe Trump has invented med beds and teleportation

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

The movement is spreading
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

My exciting night in the ER last night, WITh ambulance ride!

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The time I injured myself vacuuming

My talent for these things is truly prodigious.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Either way, that is an amazing book that everyone should read. So clearly explains the complexities. 10/10

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry @jvl.bsky.social I do believe these times have found you because you are uniquely gifted for them. And we are all thankful. Keep the faith.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

almost as bad. it was a vacuum cleaner...full story to come...

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

it was today... I did not run it...

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Long story but i hurt myself and had to go to the hospital last night, got my first ever doses and fentanyl and ketamine and i now understand why the tech bros are so messed up.
I do not understand why anyone would take those drugs willingly. Felt like 💩
I will be fine, no worries there.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most outrageous story to date. HOW IS THIS IS AMERICA???

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Also the “issue“ for so many of these cases is Are we going to remain a constitutional democracy and they insist on piddling around the edges in hopes of not provoking legal armageddon. But it’s already here. they are chamberlain at munich.

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

If they haven’t “resolved the issue,” then they shouldn’t be using the shadow docket to overturn long-standing precedents.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

If they haven’t “resolved the issue,” then they shouldn’t be using the shadow docket to overturn long-standing precedents.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

From a reader/friend:

"Your book has changed the world. You just don’t know how, and really never will.”
The same is true for all our efforts here. I have always believed that.
Keep the faith.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

This looks like anti-Christian bias to me.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Ok “facility“

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly this administration is psychologically torturing anyone who has a single clue

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 3d

So we're letting a frenemy foreign power build a military base on US soil NBD
So the Guatemalan grandma whose been living here 30 years has to go ASAP but Qatar's Air Force can just camp out
WTAF WTAF WTAF

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

www.cbsnews.com

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