Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
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Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
· May 22
Hi followers. In case you thought I was JUST a shitposter, I'm a historian, trained as a medievalist and working on the long eighteenth century, a college professor, and also for the last six years I've been writing about the far right. Primarily the religious far right, but not exclusively.
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📢 Save the Date – Hospitaller Research Forum (HRF)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
📢 Save the Date – Hospitaller Research Forum (HRF)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
🗓️ Thursday, 11 December 2025 – 18:00 CET (Rome time)
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historians, every day:
what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this information???
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
historians, every day:
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
Tim Kaine has a bunch of unemployed constituents. He's not the one I think we should be most frustrated with.
I think the deal shit and Dem leadership is useless for asking for so little. Also, I have friends who need paychecks. It's a fucking mess.
I think the deal shit and Dem leadership is useless for asking for so little. Also, I have friends who need paychecks. It's a fucking mess.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tim Kaine has a bunch of unemployed constituents. He's not the one I think we should be most frustrated with.
I think the deal shit and Dem leadership is useless for asking for so little. Also, I have friends who need paychecks. It's a fucking mess.
I think the deal shit and Dem leadership is useless for asking for so little. Also, I have friends who need paychecks. It's a fucking mess.
..........I want to splurge on a book.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
..........I want to splurge on a book.
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On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Thomas Lecaque tells us about his current book project on holy war rhetoric in colonial America. Listen on podcast streaming services or the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Thomas Lecaque tells us about his current book project on holy war rhetoric in colonial America. Listen on podcast streaming services or the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...
Being blocked for posting pictures of my cooking and responding patiently to the person saying this is insensitive that this is how I feel close to my newly deceased father?
Twitter is back baby, over here on Bluesky.
Twitter is back baby, over here on Bluesky.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Being blocked for posting pictures of my cooking and responding patiently to the person saying this is insensitive that this is how I feel close to my newly deceased father?
Twitter is back baby, over here on Bluesky.
Twitter is back baby, over here on Bluesky.
Agreeing to this deal demands a primary challenge.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Agreeing to this deal demands a primary challenge.
Chili colorado? Yes, yes chili colorado. www.thekitchn.com/chile-colora...
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Chili colorado? Yes, yes chili colorado. www.thekitchn.com/chile-colora...
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Absolute queen shit
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Absolute queen shit
...did anyone pitch that "hungry people storm the palace and then everyone dies please fucking stop it" piece yet or do I have?
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
...did anyone pitch that "hungry people storm the palace and then everyone dies please fucking stop it" piece yet or do I have?
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Lebensraum for the late American Century
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lebensraum for the late American Century
It's really funny to have known Josh from Byzantine Studies Conferences and now... this.
Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. Forbes just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen (who advises DOGE & is involved w/ Network States) & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It's really funny to have known Josh from Byzantine Studies Conferences and now... this.
Abolish ICE is the conservative position. Jail huge numbers of administration figures is the moderate. If they keep pushing war crimes, starvation, kidnappings, and secret police brutality, we head towards the Terror. I'd rather not.
“Abolish ice” at this point is the conservative position.
Everyone involved in the administration at any level is going to have to be tried for crimes against humanity and dealt with accordingly.
This isn’t going away with elections and we certainly cannot “come together” after this.
Everyone involved in the administration at any level is going to have to be tried for crimes against humanity and dealt with accordingly.
This isn’t going away with elections and we certainly cannot “come together” after this.
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Abolish ICE is the conservative position. Jail huge numbers of administration figures is the moderate. If they keep pushing war crimes, starvation, kidnappings, and secret police brutality, we head towards the Terror. I'd rather not.
My mom came up to Iowa and we're going to the play my oldest is doing crew for and I'm going to make chili colorado for dinner.
One month without my dad. It's hard. I want to call him. I wish I could talk to him about what wusses everyone is about spice. The manuscripts I saw. How to be a director.
One month without my dad. It's hard. I want to call him. I wish I could talk to him about what wusses everyone is about spice. The manuscripts I saw. How to be a director.
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My mom came up to Iowa and we're going to the play my oldest is doing crew for and I'm going to make chili colorado for dinner.
One month without my dad. It's hard. I want to call him. I wish I could talk to him about what wusses everyone is about spice. The manuscripts I saw. How to be a director.
One month without my dad. It's hard. I want to call him. I wish I could talk to him about what wusses everyone is about spice. The manuscripts I saw. How to be a director.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
1752 prayer book manuscript of a French missionary, Francois Picquet, from the La Presentation Mission (Ogdensburg, NY), with musical notation, all in Mohawk.
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
1752 prayer book manuscript of a French missionary, Francois Picquet, from the La Presentation Mission (Ogdensburg, NY), with musical notation, all in Mohawk.
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I think drawing swastikas on a Jewish day school is bad and whoever did it should be punished to the full extent of the law regardless of the direction from which they are trying to terrify Jews
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think drawing swastikas on a Jewish day school is bad and whoever did it should be punished to the full extent of the law regardless of the direction from which they are trying to terrify Jews
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
I have this vision of how I want to spend the rest of my major writing career, vis-a-vis history books--two with @jtomlin.bsky.social on holy war rhetoric, in the colonial wars between England and France and then in the long American War of Independence. That's all NE America/Canada.
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I have this vision of how I want to spend the rest of my major writing career, vis-a-vis history books--two with @jtomlin.bsky.social on holy war rhetoric, in the colonial wars between England and France and then in the long American War of Independence. That's all NE America/Canada.
Onwards to the next document!
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Onwards to the next document!
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The energy I'd like to see from every Democrat
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The energy I'd like to see from every Democrat
Men will literally destroy the planet to build an AI to create weird images of girls to tell them that they're loved instead of going to therapy.
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Men will literally destroy the planet to build an AI to create weird images of girls to tell them that they're loved instead of going to therapy.