Jonathan Freeman
@reverendpear.bsky.social
"People think you're all interesting, but you really just play guitar and eat cereal." - my college roommate
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Preface to the Confession of Peace
Read this for context to the Confession of Peace (which is linked at the bottom)
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I hope this is helpful to somebody.
Thanks again to the friends and colleagues who helped me write it!
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Thanks again to the friends and colleagues who helped me write it!
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Thank you Rev @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social !
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What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or …
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January 28, 2026 at 9:36 PM
FREE BOOKS 📚 from @versobooks.bsky.social and @haymarketbooks.org to up your political education in this moment !!
Thank you Rev @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social !
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Nothing in nature is binary.
Not sex. Not gender. Not hormones. Not chromosomes.
Not organisms, self vs other—each of our bodies is a commensal cosmos. Community is humanity’s greatest adaptation. Borders are unnatural.
Species aren’t binary.
Not even dead vs alive is a rigid binary.
Not sex. Not gender. Not hormones. Not chromosomes.
Not organisms, self vs other—each of our bodies is a commensal cosmos. Community is humanity’s greatest adaptation. Borders are unnatural.
Species aren’t binary.
Not even dead vs alive is a rigid binary.
January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Nothing in nature is binary.
Not sex. Not gender. Not hormones. Not chromosomes.
Not organisms, self vs other—each of our bodies is a commensal cosmos. Community is humanity’s greatest adaptation. Borders are unnatural.
Species aren’t binary.
Not even dead vs alive is a rigid binary.
Not sex. Not gender. Not hormones. Not chromosomes.
Not organisms, self vs other—each of our bodies is a commensal cosmos. Community is humanity’s greatest adaptation. Borders are unnatural.
Species aren’t binary.
Not even dead vs alive is a rigid binary.
"The Capitalist Prayer"
January 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
"The Capitalist Prayer"
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Regardless of which version of this story is true, you could make a quick phone call to your senators right now and tell them to abolish ICE. Only takes about 30 seconds per call.
🚨BREAKING: DEMS DRAW RED LINE IN DHS APPROPS: NO FUNDING INCREASE FOR ICE. POLICY RIDERS GROWING. STORY COMING IN MIGRANT INSIDER
🚨NEWS: Senate Dems are reportedly offering ICE funding increases in exchange for body cams and de-escalation training for agents.
Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored.
Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.
Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored.
Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.
January 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Regardless of which version of this story is true, you could make a quick phone call to your senators right now and tell them to abolish ICE. Only takes about 30 seconds per call.
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AI can't take my job as a writer because I don't even have one
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM
AI can't take my job as a writer because I don't even have one
Today was an unmitigated triumph @havehashad.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Today was an unmitigated triumph @havehashad.com
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Happy War (Xmas Is Over)
January 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Happy War (Xmas Is Over)
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If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.
January 4, 2026 at 2:15 AM
If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.
I know we've all heard this a thousand times, but seriously y'all, be careful where you get your news. I just realized @dutchbroscoffee.bsky.social has been spreading misinformation on my coffee lid.
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I know we've all heard this a thousand times, but seriously y'all, be careful where you get your news. I just realized @dutchbroscoffee.bsky.social has been spreading misinformation on my coffee lid.
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"Honestly, not surprised about the glacier. The earth’s crust cracked open here last week, and we lost four Whole Foods. My roommate’s been building a pulley system out of old USB cables so we can send down granola bars to the people who fell in. The pit keeps whispering my name."
Still Here
A: Hey! Just saw your message. Sorry for the delay—got swallowed by a glacier that migrated south. I’m inside the ice now. Surprisingly roomy. Hope...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Honestly, not surprised about the glacier. The earth’s crust cracked open here last week, and we lost four Whole Foods. My roommate’s been building a pulley system out of old USB cables so we can send down granola bars to the people who fell in. The pit keeps whispering my name."
People who study biblical languages love the word "emphatic" so much
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
People who study biblical languages love the word "emphatic" so much
(upon seeing the title "Pluribus" on Apple TV)
They made a show about the stuff One's made out of?
They made a show about the stuff One's made out of?
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
(upon seeing the title "Pluribus" on Apple TV)
They made a show about the stuff One's made out of?
They made a show about the stuff One's made out of?
If you aint out here protecting your inner child by watching a single leaf slowly flutter all the way down from the top of a tall tree until it settles into the soft litter below then what could I possibly even have to say to you rn?
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If you aint out here protecting your inner child by watching a single leaf slowly flutter all the way down from the top of a tall tree until it settles into the soft litter below then what could I possibly even have to say to you rn?
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"This is a choice we have made as a family, and I will not let a bunch of judgmental strangers or any of the many doctors I have called shame me into changing my mind."
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I’m a MAHA Mom, and Here’s Why I Won’t Stop My Monkeys from Jumping on the Bed—No Matter What the Doctor Says
I’m a proud mother of five who is obsessed with keeping her monkeys healthy. Some people think it’s crazy how much time I spend making sure everyth...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"This is a choice we have made as a family, and I will not let a bunch of judgmental strangers or any of the many doctors I have called shame me into changing my mind."
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"Let’s put a stop to the same old partisan sniping and divisiveness about healthcare, defense, and who’s striking whom with a bulging sock full of US currency."
Asking Me to Stop Beating You with This Sock Full of Quarters Will Only Further Divide Our Nation
The social bonds that hold us together are fraying, and sadly, many of our citizens no longer trust the institutions that govern us. Right now, the...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Let’s put a stop to the same old partisan sniping and divisiveness about healthcare, defense, and who’s striking whom with a bulging sock full of US currency."
Why is this nation's "left wing" party unanimously declaring a new holiday for fascists?
September 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Why is this nation's "left wing" party unanimously declaring a new holiday for fascists?
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This is what I said about Kirk-style conservative "debate" culture a few months ago, and I still believe it.
They're never actually debating a belief. They just want to dominate others, but they're so pathetic that the only way they can do so is in this very specific format where they're allowed to use the three rhetorical tricks they've memorized.
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is what I said about Kirk-style conservative "debate" culture a few months ago, and I still believe it.
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"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"
Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s
Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"
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Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image...
(Don’t worry; any images you generate using AI will have no meaningful relationship with a divinely created reality. Besides, you aren’t actually “making” anything.)
(Don’t worry; any images you generate using AI will have no meaningful relationship with a divinely created reality. Besides, you aren’t actually “making” anything.)
The Ten Commandments, Annotated for Use in Your AI-Enhanced Classroom
Dear Educator, As you are aware, your state legislature has mandated that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all publicly funded classrooms. Thos...
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September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image...
(Don’t worry; any images you generate using AI will have no meaningful relationship with a divinely created reality. Besides, you aren’t actually “making” anything.)
(Don’t worry; any images you generate using AI will have no meaningful relationship with a divinely created reality. Besides, you aren’t actually “making” anything.)
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"We must reject political violence in EVERY form"
Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.
Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.
The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"We must reject political violence in EVERY form"
Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.
Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.
I hope this is helpful to somebody.
Thanks again to the friends and colleagues who helped me write it!
open.substack.com/pub/reverend...
Thanks again to the friends and colleagues who helped me write it!
open.substack.com/pub/reverend...
Preface to the Confession of Peace
Read this for context to the Confession of Peace (which is linked at the bottom)
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I hope this is helpful to somebody.
Thanks again to the friends and colleagues who helped me write it!
open.substack.com/pub/reverend...
Thanks again to the friends and colleagues who helped me write it!
open.substack.com/pub/reverend...
I rebuke the concept of convenient, thumbnailable poetry! Art must be fundamentally challenging to its audience! 🧐
Jk. But still, click this link and read my poem please, if you feel like it. (You may need to turn your phone sideways.)
Jk. But still, click this link and read my poem please, if you feel like it. (You may need to turn your phone sideways.)
🪿POEM🪿
Okay honestly Jonathan really killed it with the poems that I have to just tell you to click on this issue! Click it click it click it! (and do it on a computer it’s worth it I promise!)
PERHAPS TOO TINY by @reverendpear.bsky.social
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Okay honestly Jonathan really killed it with the poems that I have to just tell you to click on this issue! Click it click it click it! (and do it on a computer it’s worth it I promise!)
PERHAPS TOO TINY by @reverendpear.bsky.social
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Perhaps Too Tiny — SillyGoosePress
on mobile? turn phone sideways!
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August 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I rebuke the concept of convenient, thumbnailable poetry! Art must be fundamentally challenging to its audience! 🧐
Jk. But still, click this link and read my poem please, if you feel like it. (You may need to turn your phone sideways.)
Jk. But still, click this link and read my poem please, if you feel like it. (You may need to turn your phone sideways.)
I wrote a cute lil poem that all you cute lil people can read via the link below if you want to 🤙
🪿POEM🪿
This one’s too little for me to give you a sneak peek line so you better pinky promise me you’ll click the link below and read it your honkin’ self!
WHAT I’M SMILING ABOUT by @reverendpear.bsky.social
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This one’s too little for me to give you a sneak peek line so you better pinky promise me you’ll click the link below and read it your honkin’ self!
WHAT I’M SMILING ABOUT by @reverendpear.bsky.social
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What I’m Smiling About — SillyGoosePress
I think of you whenever I see the glow of a firefly because — Because you’ve told me to.  ...
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August 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I wrote a cute lil poem that all you cute lil people can read via the link below if you want to 🤙
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Hey man, it’s just a joke. Which, as we all know, is a form of speech in a vacuum, devoid of meaning
August 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Hey man, it’s just a joke. Which, as we all know, is a form of speech in a vacuum, devoid of meaning