The Karlie Chronicles
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I'm no one special. But I see so many people seeming to give up already. NO! NO NO NO! It's not over. As long as one person keeps the flame of freedom and love for neighbor alive, the powers that be HAVE NOT WON! Nemik's Manifesto, from Andor, is worth reading, and remembering:
No. No they are not different. Ew.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
No. No they are not different. Ew.
*headdesk*
just gonna put this here without further commentary
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
*headdesk*
*bumps John Ahn's book up to top of reading list *
Looking forward to these!
Looking forward to these!
Excited to share the sessions that the "Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature" unit has for you all this upcoming #aarsbl25 @sblsite.bsky.social!
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
*bumps John Ahn's book up to top of reading list *
Looking forward to these!
Looking forward to these!
This is awful. So sorry to hear, @leximcmenamin.com . This is a true loss.
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
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November 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is awful. So sorry to hear, @leximcmenamin.com . This is a true loss.
Read this thread from Talia. Especially if you used to be evangelical. Stop with the black and white thinking and learn to see nuance
The way Westerners discuss conservatism and oppressed people in non-Western cultures is so utterly, irreparably broken.
I did not say "white", by the way. I'd have said "white" if I meant "white".
I did not say "white", by the way. I'd have said "white" if I meant "white".
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Read this thread from Talia. Especially if you used to be evangelical. Stop with the black and white thinking and learn to see nuance
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
I agree with Dex to a point. Ableism IS a problem. Stupid is the wrong word. However, I do think the majority of my fellow citizens are WILLFULLY ignorant. The information is out there, can be simply explained, but they CHOOSE not to engage with it.
The number of people who responded to this with basically “no, my fellow Americans are stupid” is deeply concerning. Ableism runs deep in the left.
I want to gently push back on this: not being able to read complex writing is not the same as being a low information citizen. Many people can comprehend the topics involved just fine if they are presented in an accessible and understandable manner.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I agree with Dex to a point. Ableism IS a problem. Stupid is the wrong word. However, I do think the majority of my fellow citizens are WILLFULLY ignorant. The information is out there, can be simply explained, but they CHOOSE not to engage with it.
This. Exactly.
Seeing a lot of discourse around trans meds again.
I don't want anything to do with them.
If anyone is trying to gatekeep transness, you aren't welcome in any community I am a part of.
There is no magical threshold of "trans enough".
I don't want anything to do with them.
If anyone is trying to gatekeep transness, you aren't welcome in any community I am a part of.
There is no magical threshold of "trans enough".
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This. Exactly.
That's because they think the majority of poor people are white, and so the poor aren't "our own." White supremacy in another guise.
Conservative individualism in a nutshell: the same people who said we need mass deportation so we can take care of “our own” are cheering on the suspension of SNAP because now they don’t want other people to receive “handouts.” They proudly hate other people. It’s a murderous, anti-society ideology.
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
That's because they think the majority of poor people are white, and so the poor aren't "our own." White supremacy in another guise.
Billie is 100% right. I've been saying trans people were the canary in the coal mine for three bloody years, including on the hellsite.
If, in 2025, you are even vaguely tempted to tell someone from one of these groups that we are "overreacting" or are being alarmist then I would invite you to take all of the seats.
Today is a good day to tell someone that they were right and you weren't alarmed enough.
Today is a good day to tell someone that they were right and you weren't alarmed enough.
"Who would have predicted this?"
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.
"Well why didn't I hear them."
You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Billie is 100% right. I've been saying trans people were the canary in the coal mine for three bloody years, including on the hellsite.
Pittsburgh FTW!
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Pittsburgh FTW!
So proud of my city!!!
40,00 in Pittsburgh. Five times the crowd at the first No Kings. Crowd stretches over two blocks behind these photos!
October 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So proud of my city!!!
New post on my Instagram - On Bonhoeffer and Christian Nationalism:
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October 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New post on my Instagram - On Bonhoeffer and Christian Nationalism:
www.instagram.com/p/DP80knsDjtA/
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Our country is being run by Romper Room.
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Our country is being run by Romper Room.
This looks absolutely fascinating! I read @christycobb.bsky.social 's excellent book on it and I bet this one is good too!
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
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I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This looks absolutely fascinating! I read @christycobb.bsky.social 's excellent book on it and I bet this one is good too!
Love this!
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Love this!
Veronica Franco
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
October 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Veronica Franco
I am currently reading Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus by Reggie Williams, and it is a lovely antidote to metaxas's Bohoeffer
With the Trump administration targeting antifascism, what does that mean for Metaxas's Bonhoeffer?
October 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I am currently reading Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus by Reggie Williams, and it is a lovely antidote to metaxas's Bohoeffer
This is awful. Gender care saves lives
In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.
224 YEARS.
This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.
We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.
224 YEARS.
This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.
We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.
October 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is awful. Gender care saves lives
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Even without the official jobs data, “private-sector indicators out in recent days pointed to sluggish hiring ..”
@bloomberg.com
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October 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Even without the official jobs data, “private-sector indicators out in recent days pointed to sluggish hiring ..”
@bloomberg.com
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@bloomberg.com
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
Fascist governments and their performative displays. SMDH
October 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Fascist governments and their performative displays. SMDH
So, um, in today's battle environment, a big steel battleship is pretty much just a missile magnet . . .
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So, um, in today's battle environment, a big steel battleship is pretty much just a missile magnet . . .
1) This is an awesome thread
2) If we work together we can win
3) I am so excited about hopefully going to Boston for my PhD!
2) If we work together we can win
3) I am so excited about hopefully going to Boston for my PhD!
A story about Bostonians.
In Maine in 1773, John Malcolm was tarred and feathered for the first time. He pissed off some sailors, and the sailors poured the tar (which was actually pine sap 99% of the time, NOT asphalt as we all picture) and feathers OVER his clothes. 1/?
In Maine in 1773, John Malcolm was tarred and feathered for the first time. He pissed off some sailors, and the sailors poured the tar (which was actually pine sap 99% of the time, NOT asphalt as we all picture) and feathers OVER his clothes. 1/?
September 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
1) This is an awesome thread
2) If we work together we can win
3) I am so excited about hopefully going to Boston for my PhD!
2) If we work together we can win
3) I am so excited about hopefully going to Boston for my PhD!
This is why I've started referring to my own spirituality as neo-Celtic Christianity. I'm Protestant, and I like the egalitarianism, and the environmentalism, and I recognize that this was not how it originally was.
there's a largely imagined 'celtic christianity was a softer, gentler version until the Roman Church came along' which honestly isn't based on much.
I'm definitely the person on the left whenever people bring up "Celtic Christianity." Although as someone who'd like to be young but isn't, I should also emphsasize that the Celtic thing is less Boomer than it is Xers who grew up on Mists of Avalon-type stuff.
September 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is why I've started referring to my own spirituality as neo-Celtic Christianity. I'm Protestant, and I like the egalitarianism, and the environmentalism, and I recognize that this was not how it originally was.