@lshorts.bsky.social
New platform, new handle. In another life I was a cloud.
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Hollow public words, impotent task forces, phony dog-n-pony shows, performative platitudes & behind-the-scenes betrayals. This has become the norm in Southern Baptist leaders’ handling of clergy sex abuse.
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist leaders’ duplicity betrays abuse survivors – Baptist News Global
Newly released court documents depict an image of Southern Baptist leaders’ duplicity in dealing with clergy sex abuse.
baptistnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hollow public words, impotent task forces, phony dog-n-pony shows, performative platitudes & behind-the-scenes betrayals. This has become the norm in Southern Baptist leaders’ handling of clergy sex abuse.
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
"So much duplicity adds up." #ThisistheSBC
My column today: baptistnews.com/article/sout...
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he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
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You may recognize this guy we worship from our 2,000-year-old book "don't worship the antichrist"
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
You may recognize this guy we worship from our 2,000-year-old book "don't worship the antichrist"
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My therapist: The antichrist isn't real he can't hurt you.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My therapist: The antichrist isn't real he can't hurt you.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
U.S. politics: Hello we grew the antichrist in a special lab and made him president.
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The greatest trick Elon Musk ever pulled was making me think Twitter used to be good
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The greatest trick Elon Musk ever pulled was making me think Twitter used to be good
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i know i sound like a broken record but i genuinely think the problem mostly self-corrects if we tear down The Algorithm
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
i know i sound like a broken record but i genuinely think the problem mostly self-corrects if we tear down The Algorithm
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
fox news on tv or whatever (or, hell, even websites where you have to manually seek things out) don't have the same constant reinforcement needed to sustain that level of hate
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Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.
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Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon reut.rs/3Y3ziKg
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
President Donald Trump, who has painted himself as a fearsome warrior against illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
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The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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"The only way to get over being called fascists is by being even more committed fascists. Let us pray."
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"The only way to get over being called fascists is by being even more committed fascists. Let us pray."
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If Dems win cleanly in 2028 and power is transitioned peacefully, I don’t think there will be a lot of political will to go after high-level Trump officials.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If Dems win cleanly in 2028 and power is transitioned peacefully, I don’t think there will be a lot of political will to go after high-level Trump officials.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
But I suspect Hegseth et al will *perceive* a threat of prosecution and will attempt a coup. if that fails, they’re all getting prosecuted.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Bet he's a Canned Soup Exec now.
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Bet he's a Canned Soup Exec now.
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Wang Chunging requires full participation
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Wang Chunging requires full participation
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It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
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Intolerable contempt of the law.
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Intolerable contempt of the law.
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1/ So it looks like grand juries may be one of those Chesterton's Fence things. For years, I thought the grand jury system was useless since they almost always do what the prosecutor asks. But now we see they are no-billing on some charges and prosecutors are trying to bypass them w/ chicanery.
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
1/ So it looks like grand juries may be one of those Chesterton's Fence things. For years, I thought the grand jury system was useless since they almost always do what the prosecutor asks. But now we see they are no-billing on some charges and prosecutors are trying to bypass them w/ chicanery.
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