Brandon Rhodes
@bdrhodes.bsky.social
🤓 ancient sacred texts, consciousness, contemplation, neighborhood life, Apple
🎤 "Found in Translation"
🗣️ he/they/Dude
✊ #decolonizechristianity
📍 Cascadia
🎤 "Found in Translation"
🗣️ he/they/Dude
✊ #decolonizechristianity
📍 Cascadia
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We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.
September 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.
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Happy Labor Day everybody.
In a capitalist society, unions are very necessary.
*Except police unions. Which is why union busters don’t go after those. Ron DeSantis is going to the bad place. 🙃
In a capitalist society, unions are very necessary.
*Except police unions. Which is why union busters don’t go after those. Ron DeSantis is going to the bad place. 🙃
September 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Happy Labor Day everybody.
In a capitalist society, unions are very necessary.
*Except police unions. Which is why union busters don’t go after those. Ron DeSantis is going to the bad place. 🙃
In a capitalist society, unions are very necessary.
*Except police unions. Which is why union busters don’t go after those. Ron DeSantis is going to the bad place. 🙃
If you only want something to be done after this school shooting because the shooter was trans, please kindly go to hell – or better yet, to church, and learn that scapegoating and bullying is antichrist.
a man in a black shirt with #schittscreek on the bottom right
ALT: a man in a black shirt with #schittscreek on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
If you only want something to be done after this school shooting because the shooter was trans, please kindly go to hell – or better yet, to church, and learn that scapegoating and bullying is antichrist.
The Return of the King.
Internalizing Aragorn’s “I give hope to men, but keep none for myself” kept me in some religious spaces as a somber reformer, to my agony, for far too long.
Recovering from that has taught me a lot, and helped me better identify harmful religious mantras.
Internalizing Aragorn’s “I give hope to men, but keep none for myself” kept me in some religious spaces as a somber reformer, to my agony, for far too long.
Recovering from that has taught me a lot, and helped me better identify harmful religious mantras.
What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?
August 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Return of the King.
Internalizing Aragorn’s “I give hope to men, but keep none for myself” kept me in some religious spaces as a somber reformer, to my agony, for far too long.
Recovering from that has taught me a lot, and helped me better identify harmful religious mantras.
Internalizing Aragorn’s “I give hope to men, but keep none for myself” kept me in some religious spaces as a somber reformer, to my agony, for far too long.
Recovering from that has taught me a lot, and helped me better identify harmful religious mantras.
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He is a loser fascist who will fail to get elected nationally. He is an empty man who believes in nothing but his own power. And he will stop at nothing to obtain it.
August 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
He is a loser fascist who will fail to get elected nationally. He is an empty man who believes in nothing but his own power. And he will stop at nothing to obtain it.
I just changed my iPhone dock for the first time in a decade. #ChatGPT replaced Camera. @signal.org replaced Maps.
August 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I just changed my iPhone dock for the first time in a decade. #ChatGPT replaced Camera. @signal.org replaced Maps.
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The very obvious point here is to have a more pliant and compliant “national police force.” It’s going to become the Stasi/FSB (but dumber and more trigger-happy)
Apart from firearms, the part of training we spent the most time on (if I am recalling correctly) was legal instruction. Now the FBI is hiring people with no college degree and slashing training time in half (reducing academics, guessing ethics also). Absolute disaster www.nysun.com/article/fbi-...
August 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The very obvious point here is to have a more pliant and compliant “national police force.” It’s going to become the Stasi/FSB (but dumber and more trigger-happy)
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It's OK to hold multiple things with Newsom.
What he's doing w/ redistricting is really important. He's using the power he has in a blue state to try & push back fascism.
He's also shitty (see tearing down homeless encampments with his own hands) & shouldn't have a national future in the party.
What he's doing w/ redistricting is really important. He's using the power he has in a blue state to try & push back fascism.
He's also shitty (see tearing down homeless encampments with his own hands) & shouldn't have a national future in the party.
August 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It's OK to hold multiple things with Newsom.
What he's doing w/ redistricting is really important. He's using the power he has in a blue state to try & push back fascism.
He's also shitty (see tearing down homeless encampments with his own hands) & shouldn't have a national future in the party.
What he's doing w/ redistricting is really important. He's using the power he has in a blue state to try & push back fascism.
He's also shitty (see tearing down homeless encampments with his own hands) & shouldn't have a national future in the party.
Church takes many shapes.
Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.
August 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Church takes many shapes.
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again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society
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There’s a theme here, between Miller and Vermeule, which is that the authoritarian right has a view of “order” which has nothing to do with actual crime and has everything to do with violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies.
August 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There’s a theme here, between Miller and Vermeule, which is that the authoritarian right has a view of “order” which has nothing to do with actual crime and has everything to do with violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies.
If church is supposed to be a communion of the crucified many bound together by the Crucified One, the lynched with the Lynched God, then this effort to “violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies” is pure antichrist.
There’s a theme here, between Miller and Vermeule, which is that the authoritarian right has a view of “order” which has nothing to do with actual crime and has everything to do with violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies.
August 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
If church is supposed to be a communion of the crucified many bound together by the Crucified One, the lynched with the Lynched God, then this effort to “violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies” is pure antichrist.
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They return at evening,
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.
See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, “Who can hear us?”
…For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride.
—Psalm 59
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.
See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, “Who can hear us?”
…For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride.
—Psalm 59
August 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
They return at evening,
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.
See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, “Who can hear us?”
…For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride.
—Psalm 59
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.
See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, “Who can hear us?”
…For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride.
—Psalm 59
Every protest sign in #DC this summer needs to be "Don't Tread on Me" on one side, and the American flag on the other. When #Trump sics his stormtroopers on American citizens exercising their #firstamendment rights, them holding those signs is the optic that everyone's inner antifascist needs.
August 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Every protest sign in #DC this summer needs to be "Don't Tread on Me" on one side, and the American flag on the other. When #Trump sics his stormtroopers on American citizens exercising their #firstamendment rights, them holding those signs is the optic that everyone's inner antifascist needs.
Martial law is bad, right?
August 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Martial law is bad, right?
My morning prayer is “fuck this orange pharaoh bullshit.”
Breaking News: Trump implies that he will in the future "go further" by taking over additional American cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Oakland—an unmistakable assertion of an intent to become a dictator over the United States
August 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My morning prayer is “fuck this orange pharaoh bullshit.”
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What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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August 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
/
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
/
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Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”
The woman will be given the choice of whether she wants to take her newborn, a US citizen born Wednesday, with her when she is deported, CBP says.
Guatemalan woman who just gave birth in Tucson faces rapid deportation
The woman will be given the choice of whether she wants to take her newborn, a US citizen born Wednesday, with her when she is deported, CBP says.
tucson.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”
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This isn’t new, though; this has been a major strain in American Reformed Christianity for decades. It’s nonetheless abhorrent and opposed to THE single distinctive theological claim of Christianity (kenosis).
appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality
New heresy just dropped
August 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This isn’t new, though; this has been a major strain in American Reformed Christianity for decades. It’s nonetheless abhorrent and opposed to THE single distinctive theological claim of Christianity (kenosis).
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I had a blast with the @litbible.net team talking about a HEAVY text. Go ahead and enjoy!
What Was Jesus' Atonement Theory? – Matthew 27 with Mae Forrest Barnes
Found in Translation · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I had a blast with the @litbible.net team talking about a HEAVY text. Go ahead and enjoy!
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this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely
it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society
fuck your "just asking questions" about sports
it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society
fuck your "just asking questions" about sports
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely
it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society
fuck your "just asking questions" about sports
it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society
fuck your "just asking questions" about sports
Wildly fucking antichrist behavior.
August 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Wildly fucking antichrist behavior.
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@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."
August 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."
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We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs
We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs
Democrats should respond by gerrymandering their states. If Supreme Court is fine with Republicans doing it in Texas, then do the same and pick up more seats. Take on fascists.
July 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs
We’re not obligated to fight fascism with our hands tied behind our backs
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What bothers me about it most is that they just do not give a single fuck about anyone else. Speakerphone conversations in the store at full volume, videos in the doctor's waiting room, games with the little chimes on at the airport... Why? Because the rest of the world is just there to serve them.
Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this
July 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What bothers me about it most is that they just do not give a single fuck about anyone else. Speakerphone conversations in the store at full volume, videos in the doctor's waiting room, games with the little chimes on at the airport... Why? Because the rest of the world is just there to serve them.