John Allen
@knowtea.bsky.social
Minister (PCUSA), Musician (conductor, composer, singer, pianist/organist, music director for musical theatre), Whovian, Teutophone, Swedish-American, Jazz aficionado, #faithfullylgbt, and stuff.
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John Allen
@knowtea.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Ok for those of you who don’t know me: hi. Minister (PCUSA), Composer, Conductor, Singer, Baker, Queer/Bi, Whovian, Barth/Torrance stan, Batman stan. I write church music but I mostly listen to jazz. Liturgy nerd. Nerd in general. Involuntarily single. What’d I leave out?
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Don’t waste your time fact-checking these numbers, don’t engage Vance's vile propaganda as if he was advancing an argument in good faith.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Don’t waste your time fact-checking these numbers, don’t engage Vance's vile propaganda as if he was advancing an argument in good faith.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
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I listened to the Megyn Kelly clip and my takeaway is that she should change her name to Megyn R Kelly
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I listened to the Megyn Kelly clip and my takeaway is that she should change her name to Megyn R Kelly
Downside of going to sleep listening to Classic American Top 40: chances are HIGH you’re gonna wake up to a Richard Marx song!
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Downside of going to sleep listening to Classic American Top 40: chances are HIGH you’re gonna wake up to a Richard Marx song!
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Once Christians tie their faith to partisan politics they eventually have to defend the indefensible.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Once Christians tie their faith to partisan politics they eventually have to defend the indefensible.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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Republicans spent 10 years radicalizing their own base over QAnon. They promised to release the Epstein Files, which they said would be the proof and expose the conspiracy.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Republicans spent 10 years radicalizing their own base over QAnon. They promised to release the Epstein Files, which they said would be the proof and expose the conspiracy.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
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The Epstein saga is the biggest political cover-up in modern history.
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Epstein saga is the biggest political cover-up in modern history.
You know you’re hungry when you can smell rice cooking.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
You know you’re hungry when you can smell rice cooking.
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Kim Davis is so angry that the Supreme Court failed to uphold her deeply held religious belief that "marriage is sacred," she's threatening to get three MORE divorces.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Kim Davis is so angry that the Supreme Court failed to uphold her deeply held religious belief that "marriage is sacred," she's threatening to get three MORE divorces.
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Today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Please tell me this QVC host didn’t just say “Cream BROO-lay.” 🤦🏻♂️
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Please tell me this QVC host didn’t just say “Cream BROO-lay.” 🤦🏻♂️
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JUST NOW: Donald Trump gets loudly BOOED by the crowd at the Commanders game. What a loser!
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
JUST NOW: Donald Trump gets loudly BOOED by the crowd at the Commanders game. What a loser!
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November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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#ProudBlue
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#ProudBlue
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
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Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
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Fascist Russia is at war with the West. We are in the middle of World War III.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fascist Russia is at war with the West. We are in the middle of World War III.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
🤦🏻♂️
The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
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The jurors did not swallow the government's case
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The jurors did not swallow the government's case
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
They had no appetite to convict
The government tried to get them to bite, but couldn't
So the jurors spit out an acquittal
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Trump springs into action as a man collapses in the Oval Office.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Trump springs into action as a man collapses in the Oval Office.
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Show me on the squishy toy where the sandwich touched you.
Imagine being such a snowflake that you end up having your name in a court case like this
“Did the sandwich impede your duties” hahaha
This timeline, I swear
#DCSandwichThrower
“Did the sandwich impede your duties” hahaha
This timeline, I swear
#DCSandwichThrower
"The sandwich did not impede Officer Lairmore’s duties that night,” Sandwich Guy's lawyer argues. "A footlong from Subway could not and certainly did not inflict bodily harm.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Show me on the squishy toy where the sandwich touched you.
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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Thinking about sending a reporter to Teterboro Airport to watch all the oligarchs fleeing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Thinking about sending a reporter to Teterboro Airport to watch all the oligarchs fleeing.
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Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God