Drew Kadel
@drewkadel.bsky.social
Long-time Episcopal Priest and Long-time academic librarian.
Author of How do you Baptize a Whale? An Encouragement to Compassion https://wipfandstock.com/9798385256204/how-do-you-baptize-a-whale/
Blog: https://drewkadel.wordpress.com/
Author of How do you Baptize a Whale? An Encouragement to Compassion https://wipfandstock.com/9798385256204/how-do-you-baptize-a-whale/
Blog: https://drewkadel.wordpress.com/
Pinned
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
--1 John 4:16 ⚓
--1 John 4:16 ⚓
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Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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This morning I am envisioning a kinder and happier world 💛 💜
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This morning I am envisioning a kinder and happier world 💛 💜
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American 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 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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An American Jew pushing a fun house mirror of Hitler’s mythical Aryanism all the way to the White House is a twist too sick for even Philip Roth.
This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
An American Jew pushing a fun house mirror of Hitler’s mythical Aryanism all the way to the White House is a twist too sick for even Philip Roth.
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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by thy precious Death and Burial;
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
by thy precious Death and Burial;
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Iykyk
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Iykyk
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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Very pleased with my submission "No True Strawman" and am sharing it here
(with apologies to true Scotsmen and other fallacy-purists)
(with apologies to true Scotsmen and other fallacy-purists)
Anyway, the world does not need another post dunking on Josh Barro. What it does need, is a word for the fallacy where you make up some weird stereotype about people, and then when it turns out they don't actually act that way, you think that's something strange about *them*.
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Very pleased with my submission "No True Strawman" and am sharing it here
(with apologies to true Scotsmen and other fallacy-purists)
(with apologies to true Scotsmen and other fallacy-purists)
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oh is he doing another can't-appear-in-public treatment
White House pooler S.V. Daté releases a statement about President Trump's video on the DC shooting not NOT saying it was AI-generated
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
oh is he doing another can't-appear-in-public treatment
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November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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*Jean Valjean, Bob Cratchit, and Tom Joad have entered the chat*
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
*Jean Valjean, Bob Cratchit, and Tom Joad have entered the chat*
How will this administration have the bandwidth to do anything but re-review immigration cases? They can't even do simple grand jury presentations right. & the NY Times quotes the Speaker of the House as saying he's "dying on a hill every ten minutes"??
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How will this administration have the bandwidth to do anything but re-review immigration cases? They can't even do simple grand jury presentations right. & the NY Times quotes the Speaker of the House as saying he's "dying on a hill every ten minutes"??
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a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
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Imagine Nancy Pelosi reading this aloud to her husband over breakfast this morning, both of them laughing until tears drop onto their toast.
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Imagine Nancy Pelosi reading this aloud to her husband over breakfast this morning, both of them laughing until tears drop onto their toast.
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Wow! Somehow @radleybalko.bsky.social didn’t end up as a mob enforcer.
Good morning. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving composition by a burgeoning young writer.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Wow! Somehow @radleybalko.bsky.social didn’t end up as a mob enforcer.
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Never lose sight of the fact that Lizza is literally trying to profit off Nuzzis betrayals of the public interest and trust as we speak
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Never lose sight of the fact that Lizza is literally trying to profit off Nuzzis betrayals of the public interest and trust as we speak
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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One of my number one pet peeves with respect to western perceptions of Buddhism is that it gets treated as either a minus sign in front of the Bad Bits of Christianity or as Generic California Hippyshit, neither of which take actually-existing Buddhism into account.
Buddhism isn't something you can project your perceptions on. It is a religion with movements and reactionary waves like all the others
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
One of my number one pet peeves with respect to western perceptions of Buddhism is that it gets treated as either a minus sign in front of the Bad Bits of Christianity or as Generic California Hippyshit, neither of which take actually-existing Buddhism into account.
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Extremely calm president again bragging about "acing" a test meant to check if his brain is still on
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Extremely calm president again bragging about "acing" a test meant to check if his brain is still on