Anthea Butler
@antheabutler.bsky.social
Professor, Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.
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“It doesn’t help that a lot of the pastors & ministers who have grown large online followings often actually are soliciting donations & selling things, just not the same things that their AI impersonators are.”
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Oh, what a fine mess we have gotten ourselves into! God anyone?
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Oh, what a fine mess we have gotten ourselves into! God anyone?
AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations
Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations.
www.wired.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
“It doesn’t help that a lot of the pastors & ministers who have grown large online followings often actually are soliciting donations & selling things, just not the same things that their AI impersonators are.”
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Oh, what a fine mess we have gotten ourselves into! God anyone?
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Oh, what a fine mess we have gotten ourselves into! God anyone?
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America crossed many Rubicons by attacking Venezuela on Jan. 3, 2026
We are now a rogue nation. Any rules-based global order is dead. Trump is a dictator, without Congress, public approval or legal restrain. And an axis of evil is carving up the globe
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
We are now a rogue nation. Any rules-based global order is dead. Trump is a dictator, without Congress, public approval or legal restrain. And an axis of evil is carving up the globe
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
America launches its 250th birthday year by becoming a rogue state | Will Bunch
Trump's illegal war on Venezuela cemented his claim to dictatorship and marked the U.S. as a global pariah.
www.inquirer.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
America crossed many Rubicons by attacking Venezuela on Jan. 3, 2026
We are now a rogue nation. Any rules-based global order is dead. Trump is a dictator, without Congress, public approval or legal restrain. And an axis of evil is carving up the globe
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
We are now a rogue nation. Any rules-based global order is dead. Trump is a dictator, without Congress, public approval or legal restrain. And an axis of evil is carving up the globe
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Ok I need the clip of the priest putting holy water in the end zone at the steelers game ..
January 5, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Ok I need the clip of the priest putting holy water in the end zone at the steelers game ..
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Spinzone: The Steelers offense vs the Texans defense is gonna be very funny
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Spinzone: The Steelers offense vs the Texans defense is gonna be very funny
Can't wait
Houston is going to murder Rodgers
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Can't wait
That kicker needs to walk home for real
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 AM
That kicker needs to walk home for real
I am sick for Lamar Jackson for real
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I am sick for Lamar Jackson for real
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I'm tired of living inside an unholy mix of a shrug emoji and the "this is fine" dog.
January 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I'm tired of living inside an unholy mix of a shrug emoji and the "this is fine" dog.
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Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.
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Can't wait for the greeting America gets at the Olympics in a month.
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Can't wait for the greeting America gets at the Olympics in a month.
So much I want to say right now, but I think little Marco face says it all. He's complicit too, he just hates hearing his embarrassing benefactor speak
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
So much I want to say right now, but I think little Marco face says it all. He's complicit too, he just hates hearing his embarrassing benefactor speak
Reading is fundamental….
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Reading is fundamental….
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It’s a new year and a new day in NYC.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
It’s a new year and a new day in NYC.
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New Year's Eve in El Paso: While families prepared to celebrate, ICE hunted construction workers with helicopters and unmarked cars. These are the people building America's homes and schools.
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Immigration raid in El Paso neighborhood leaves residents shaken
An apparent immigration raid in Far East El Paso has left residents rattled after witnessing what they described as a chaotic scene involving unmarked ICE vehic
kfoxtv.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
New Year's Eve in El Paso: While families prepared to celebrate, ICE hunted construction workers with helicopters and unmarked cars. These are the people building America's homes and schools.
kfoxtv.com/news/local/i...
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goddamn do they swear all their politicians in at midnight or just the ones who can stay up that late
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
goddamn do they swear all their politicians in at midnight or just the ones who can stay up that late
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And to think NYC goes full socialist in just over 4 hours.
January 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
And to think NYC goes full socialist in just over 4 hours.
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BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
I'm just going to start calling America disease nation because all y'all out here coughing and snotting with no masks are stressing me TF OUT
December 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm just going to start calling America disease nation because all y'all out here coughing and snotting with no masks are stressing me TF OUT
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If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever
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There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.
The Elaine massacre of October 1919, writes Atul Dev, represents “a pivotal episode of American history, consigned inexplicably to the margins.” https://go.nybooks.com/4s3ui6p
‘They Killed Our People’ | Atul Dev
In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of
go.nybooks.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.
Folks it's been a really rough year in many respects, but even though the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social won the Superbowl, this was my super bowl for a religious historian who is a Catholic..And a Pope of the Americas to boot. What a year!
Dr. Anthea Butler
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December 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Folks it's been a really rough year in many respects, but even though the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social won the Superbowl, this was my super bowl for a religious historian who is a Catholic..And a Pope of the Americas to boot. What a year!
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Excellent piece.
Osita Nwanevu with the perfect rejoinder to that nonsense Compact piece (which way too many self-professed "liberals" took at face value), fleshed out with the types of actually diligent statistics and contextual analyses sorely absent from the conversation: www.ositanwanevu.com/on-race-gend...
On Race, Gender, and Journalism
Hello all. This is a little essay on part of another essay that's been making the rounds over the holidays. Expect a proper end of the year post shortly.
One of the policy analyst Matt Bruenig’s best...
www.ositanwanevu.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Excellent piece.
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BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejects OLC and Russell Vought's effort "to starve the CFPB of funding."
Her order clarifies that the preliminary injunction she earlier entered in the case over Vought's efforts to "dismantle" the agency does not allow the new funding interpretation.
Her order clarifies that the preliminary injunction she earlier entered in the case over Vought's efforts to "dismantle" the agency does not allow the new funding interpretation.
![Based on this reasoning, defendant Vought, the Acting Director of the CFPB, informed
President Trump and Congress on November 20, 2025:
I have determined that sums available to the Bureau under [the Dodd-Frank Act] will not be sufficient to carry out the authorities of the Bureau under Federal consumer financial law for Fiscal Year 2026. I make this determination based on the conclusion of the Office of Legal Counsel
(OLC) within the Department of Justice that there are no funds legally available for the Bureau to request from the Federal Reserve System[.]
Ex. A to Defs.' Notice [Dkt. # 147-1] at 2, 4.
And based on the same reasoning, Vought and the CFPB simply announced to the Court and the plaintiffs that the Bureau's funding is about to "lapse." Notice at 1. What was left unsaid was that claiming that funds are unavailable is tantamount to closing what is left of the Bureau, bringing any performance of statutory functions and any remaining ongoing compliance with the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreidjs54tkya3btu4fkv7rroiwzsiyfhn3egoct6ybgxsy5jzmeo7fi@jpeg)
![terms of the preliminary injunction to a halt, even though the case has not yet been resolved on the
merits.
This prompted the November 23 filing of the motion now pending before the Court:
plaintiffs' motion to clarify the preliminary injunction [Dkt. # 148] ("Pls.' Mot.); Pls.' Mem. in
Supp. of Pls.' Mot. [Dkt. #148-1] ("Pls.' Mem."). Plaintiffs seek "clarification that the defendants may not justify a violation of the preliminary injunction by refusing to request" funding from the Federal Reserve, as, they maintain, the Dodd-Frank Act requires. Pls.' Mot. at 1. The motion is fully briefed. See Defs.' Resp. to Pls.' Motion [Dkt. #160] ("Defs.' Opp."); Pls.' Reply [Dkt. # 163]; Br. of Amici Curiae Former Fed. Rsrv. Offs, in Supp. of Pls.' Mot. [Dkt. # 162]
("Amicus Br.").
For the reasons set forth in more detail below, the Court will GRANT the motion to clarify.
The defendants' interpretation of the Dodd-Frank Act is contrary to the text and intent of the statute and the way it has been consistently interpreted by both the Federal Reserve and the CFPB; acting in accordance with the OLC's flawed reasoning would contravene the plain terms and implicit requirements of this Court's Order as it has been revised by the Court of Appeals; and making that
finding does not require any modification of the preliminary injunction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibtne5jajk5p7mjqjvkgllvhtcmg4aaieq72pumzn6ejvgibcszwi@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejects OLC and Russell Vought's effort "to starve the CFPB of funding."
Her order clarifies that the preliminary injunction she earlier entered in the case over Vought's efforts to "dismantle" the agency does not allow the new funding interpretation.
Her order clarifies that the preliminary injunction she earlier entered in the case over Vought's efforts to "dismantle" the agency does not allow the new funding interpretation.