@drlarsjayson.bsky.social
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This is gold.
08.04.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0trumps-razor.urbanup.com/10295245
Hell yes.
The art of Joy Brown is cool.
#Thingsthatarecool
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Call it out. Don’t stop.
Preach.
05.03.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, BUT. You don’t need to be a scholar in religion to realize that authoritarianism, as a religion, NEEDS a “religious brand” if it is going to survive.
05.03.2025 18:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0While she emphasized returning power to local governments, she also echoed Trump’s call for the federal government to police what schools are teaching. Not sure how you return power but then don’t return all of it.
04.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 2863 🔁 263 💬 65 📌 5RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.
04.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 12947 🔁 3634 💬 733 📌 360
Yeah, that’s just great. Right out of the Authoritarian Playbook.
04.03.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Madrid’s Garden of Three Cultures is cool.
#Thingsthatarecool
A lot of people are going to die from this
01.03.2025 19:05 — 👍 16963 🔁 6750 💬 1184 📌 489The people of Ukraine have a strong, fearless man for a leader.
01.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.
01.03.2025 18:30 — 👍 5548 🔁 982 💬 124 📌 83
Via my friend Eglute. Mark Rothko, Untitled Yellow and Blue, ca. 1954.
01.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proud of our guy.
Chris Murphy Emerges as a Clear Voice for Democrats Countering Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
Ministerial and spiritual care work is so discouraging right now.
24.02.2025 03:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@robertpjones.bsky.social makes it clear that the president's administration aims to protect Christian Nationalists and persecute everyone else, including Christians who believe the Jesus way.
19.02.2025 23:03 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The Virgin of Hope of Macarena in Sevilla is cool.
#Thingsthatarecool
"Their belongings were confiscated, including their Bibles, but that did not stop them from finding a way to worship and pray in detention." (2018)
18.02.2025 23:00 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Couldn't be more excited to be hosting THE SCOPES TRIAL AT 100: SECULARISM, RACE, AND EDUCATION at Penn on March 20-21!
When we first planned this last year, the idea that the Scopes Trial was linked contemporary politics and culture seemed plausible enough. Now it's overwhelmingly clear.
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
19.02.2025 00:28 — 👍 25337 🔁 7365 💬 761 📌 609Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more.
Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.
Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is”
It was fun doing democracy with you.
