Carl Gregg
@carlgregg.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist minister (frederickuu.org), Meditation Teacher (buddhistgeeks.org), Spiritual Director, D.Min., Vegetarian, Ultimate Frisbee enthusiast
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Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
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Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
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This is a crazy story—the FBI may have had advance warning of a credible conspiracy to kill MLK ... and did nothing to stop it. The man at the center of the plot broke his silence this year, just before he died.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
There’s Always Been an Official Story About One of America’s Most Notorious Murders. One Man Knew Otherwise. He Finally Told Me Everything.
Just before he died, a 94-year-old career criminal had one last confession.
slate.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is a crazy story—the FBI may have had advance warning of a credible conspiracy to kill MLK ... and did nothing to stop it. The man at the center of the plot broke his silence this year, just before he died.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Thanks so much for giving Senator Kelly a platform, haters! He's making gorgeous use of it and looking pretty fearless too.
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Thanks so much for giving Senator Kelly a platform, haters! He's making gorgeous use of it and looking pretty fearless too.
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The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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This is definitely the vibe shift.
By the standards of the structural cynicism of both the human brain and social media algorithms, it's a very good vibe shift indeed.
(Still hoping the vibe keeps shifting to the empowerment of a new progressive party).
When things change, they change fast.
By the standards of the structural cynicism of both the human brain and social media algorithms, it's a very good vibe shift indeed.
(Still hoping the vibe keeps shifting to the empowerment of a new progressive party).
When things change, they change fast.
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is definitely the vibe shift.
By the standards of the structural cynicism of both the human brain and social media algorithms, it's a very good vibe shift indeed.
(Still hoping the vibe keeps shifting to the empowerment of a new progressive party).
When things change, they change fast.
By the standards of the structural cynicism of both the human brain and social media algorithms, it's a very good vibe shift indeed.
(Still hoping the vibe keeps shifting to the empowerment of a new progressive party).
When things change, they change fast.
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
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the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
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It's important to remember why this is true. The president's command of the armed forces comes only from the Constitution. He has no magical authority beyond it. And the Constitution also says that Congress has the power to "make rules for the government and regulation" of those armed forces. 1/1
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It's important to remember why this is true. The president's command of the armed forces comes only from the Constitution. He has no magical authority beyond it. And the Constitution also says that Congress has the power to "make rules for the government and regulation" of those armed forces. 1/1
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Gratitude to Bhikkhu Bodhi for responding to my piece: “Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?”
I have watched him be a tireless advocate, not only for Palestinians, but for pretty much all people facing overwhelming suffering.
He’s a real one. 🙏
I have watched him be a tireless advocate, not only for Palestinians, but for pretty much all people facing overwhelming suffering.
He’s a real one. 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Gratitude to Bhikkhu Bodhi for responding to my piece: “Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?”
I have watched him be a tireless advocate, not only for Palestinians, but for pretty much all people facing overwhelming suffering.
He’s a real one. 🙏
I have watched him be a tireless advocate, not only for Palestinians, but for pretty much all people facing overwhelming suffering.
He’s a real one. 🙏
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So much Bsky discourse is people with strong ideological conception arguing as if the people with weak ideological conception don’t exist
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So much Bsky discourse is people with strong ideological conception arguing as if the people with weak ideological conception don’t exist
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also not sure I care all that much about someone’s thoughts on the future of “small government” conservatism if their most notable contribution to public life was defending child separation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
also not sure I care all that much about someone’s thoughts on the future of “small government” conservatism if their most notable contribution to public life was defending child separation.
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
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I wish this didn't feel like a typical feature of rape culture: denying the capacity of women and girls to bear witness, refusing to listen to them, erasing their voices.....
40 minors gave sworn testimonies that they’d been raped & trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wish this didn't feel like a typical feature of rape culture: denying the capacity of women and girls to bear witness, refusing to listen to them, erasing their voices.....
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Saudi Arabia’s Prince Has Big Plans, but His Giant Fund Is Low on Cash
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after.
Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after.
Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople