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wrote a book on Pentecostals, writing one on the Moonies, 1/3rd of @helltopaypod.bsky.social ellehardy.com

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Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above All Names, Inc.—Asterisk Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the mak...

With Duterte on trial at the ICC, here's something I prepared earlier on the fugitive preacher accused of sex trafficking who helped bring him to power asteriskmag.com/issues/11/ki...

25.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This is gonna be very cool, please consider supporting 🙏

23.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The bitching and moaning has wound me right up

25.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Arsenal don’t deserve a point, let alone a title after this display. Horrific all around, Rice the only one playing with any intensity

25.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you’ve had an edible please do not be tempted to put on the Taipei Tower climb

25.01.2026 01:34 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s happened again, it’s happened again, Tottenham Hotspur, it’s happened again

24.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Possibly my favorite album of all time turns 20 today (I am old)

23.01.2026 17:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are They Hot, or Is It the ‘Australia Effect’?

lol www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/s...

21.01.2026 16:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Life imprisonment for man who killed Japan's ex-PM Shinzo Abe - BBC News Abe's assassination stunned the country where there is virtually no gun crime.

Tetsuya Yamagami given life for assassinating former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. Advocates were hoping he would only get 25 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

21.01.2026 13:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think he’s gotta go straight charismatic to get donors/voters/influencers on side

19.01.2026 23:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The only real question is who is gonna dunk him in the Jordan River

19.01.2026 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Senegal robbed twice, what a joke

18.01.2026 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Online Arsenal fans calling for the coach and captain to be sacked in 24 hours of bedwetting as we go seven points clear at the top of the table and our rivals post worse results

18.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

As a recovering libertarian I can confidently say that free speech absolutists may make time for CSAM and Hitler, but they are never comfortable with actual free speech www.politico.com/news/magazin...

18.01.2026 03:38 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was thinking of you watching the game, the sporting gods have decided to ruin your life and they cannot be bargained with

18.01.2026 03:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My stupid football team is leading two competitions and there’s nothing I hate more than watching them

17.01.2026 18:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2024 shooting at Greg Locke’s home wasn’t persecution against controversial pastor but an attack directed at stepson Prosecutors say a 2024 shooting at Pastor Greg Locke’s home in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee wasn’t persecution but a dispute targeting his stepson.

I was certain at the time that this was never politically motivated, and lo julieroys.com/es/2024-shoo...

16.01.2026 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational Parents’-rights crusaders seeking to impose their Christian nationalist vision on the United States took their playbook from South America.

For @thenation.com, I wrote about how America’s Christian anti-LGBT, pro-parental rights movement was imported from Peru via the dark money Ziklag group www.thenation.com/article/soci...

15.01.2026 18:51 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Kudos to @ellehardy.bsky.social for the outstanding reporting! I’m truly honored to be cited.

15.01.2026 19:45 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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15.01.2026 20:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational Parents’-rights crusaders seeking to impose their Christian nationalist vision on the United States took their playbook from South America.

For @thenation.com, I wrote about how America’s Christian anti-LGBT, pro-parental rights movement was imported from Peru via the dark money Ziklag group www.thenation.com/article/soci...

15.01.2026 18:51 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

He was always a midfielder, I don’t understand why people kept persisting with him as a winger

14.01.2026 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is the Paramount+ streaming app cooked for everyone else trying to watch the Carabao?

14.01.2026 20:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything else aside, you’ve invited a guy who only eats chicken and broccoli and a guy who only eats McDonald’s

13.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Government gives football clubs the green light to continue accepting money from illegal betting firms linked to organised crime.

More essential reporting from @josimarfootball.bsky.social

13.01.2026 12:20 — 👍 28    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

My parents have reached Boomer zenith: too hot to go out but still not hot enough to turn on the aircon

09.01.2026 03:17 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Hell yeah, welcome to the madness!

08.01.2026 03:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not looking forward to the next one with the overhaul this team needs, but it was good fun

08.01.2026 03:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Australia was not 4-1 good, gotta hand it to the English!

08.01.2026 03:28 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1