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Queer Hand Luke

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CEO, @outinnatsec.bsky.social I Cask-strength gay I Homosexual Professional/Professional Homosexual 🏳️‍🌈 I Monitoring and Reporting on Straight Culture Since 1999 I Talks about books, comic books, policy, and whatever else I wanna get up to

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · Nov 10

Captain America explaining that there are no good Nazis

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3h

Never forget

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The Laramie Project

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot fucking wait for him and Daniel Isaac to make out

rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 4h

literally one episode in and this dumb fucken show rules

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

When your commitment to family annihilation as policy gets a slight reprieve.

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Werq

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

This isn’t how I found out but it definitely adds to her iconic status, RIP

Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton- such sad news, what an incredible talent. You probably didn't know she collected clown paintings by amateur artists, eventually publishing an entire book devoted to them

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

One of the great weird connections: Diane Keaton's look in the Young Pope invoking "hours" era Bowie

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

I just love real America so much

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

On #NationalComingOutDay, I’ve been thinking about what it means to show up fully, especially when you’re serving something bigger than yourself.

Courage, honesty, and community make our institutions stronger. 🌈

#OutInNatSec

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 1d

There is a cost insulation mechanism, a defensive projection of the mind, that wants to believe: things may be bad, but those who really need or deserve it will be ok. The worst will be avoided. Surely there’s a program…

To that, I say: recall that the admin is trying to get rid of commissaries

Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

Christ.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

THIS is the bold policy initiative that will solve the “men and boys crisis.”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

somehow, the polycrisis returned

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

I do think it's unclear if anything load-bearing snaps, but I do think we're looking at a multi-faceted national healthcare crisis, an AI bubble correction, and a farm crisis

Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

Eminently relatable gay content

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d

I fucking love buying books.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

Cripes

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Robert Balkovich @robertbalkovich.bsky.social · 2d

These people are so incompetent that I do think not that long from now anybody who capitulated without a fight is going to look profoundly foolish and weak (more so than they already do).

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
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X.com
Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

The free press is a vital part of American democracy

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 4d

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

Get some!

And don't miss out on our commemorative USNS Harvey Milk gear: outinnatsec.threadless.com/designs/hono...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

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🌶 Bonus! Eggybread Wonderlatch | Extra Hot Great

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

Let me see if I can figure out a way to post it to the Internet.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

Let me know when he and Andrew Scott kiss

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

So, I saved a VERY old episode of @extrahotgreat.com which is just endless roofing on different anagrams of Benedict Cumberbatch for 10 or 15 minutes. I hope that the host will one day do this for Timothée Chalamet.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

CHRIST

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

Truly love that this was Francis’s Dick Cheney

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

LMAO

Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact: if it had not been Nancy Pelosi, she would’ve been the first female Speaker of the House.