Max Kuzma
@maxwellkuzma.bsky.social
Transgender man, lifelong Catholic, NCR Columnist, Board Member DignityUSA, Host of Whiplash Podcast
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Max Kuzma
@maxwellkuzma.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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Hi bluesky! I am a transgender catholic man who writes about my identity and faith--check out my website and substack for more:
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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the federal government is arresting journalists not only without a warrant but after being explicitly denied a warrant
i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
the federal government is arresting journalists not only without a warrant but after being explicitly denied a warrant
i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
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It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.
There it is
January 31, 2026 at 6:38 AM
There it is
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Don Lemon from inside the Minnesota church protest: “I’m just here photographing. I’m a journalist. We’re here just chronicling & reporting”
Going to be difficult to assert that he was doing anything other than reporting on the event in his capacity as a journalist
Going to be difficult to assert that he was doing anything other than reporting on the event in his capacity as a journalist
January 30, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Don Lemon from inside the Minnesota church protest: “I’m just here photographing. I’m a journalist. We’re here just chronicling & reporting”
Going to be difficult to assert that he was doing anything other than reporting on the event in his capacity as a journalist
Going to be difficult to assert that he was doing anything other than reporting on the event in his capacity as a journalist
Theobro Catholicism is a spiritual dead end. It's like gymbros who have no personality outside the gym, except it's theology. Group status comes from “theological dominance,” which *should* be a completely incoherent concept in Christianity. What does domination have to do with following Jesus?
January 31, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Theobro Catholicism is a spiritual dead end. It's like gymbros who have no personality outside the gym, except it's theology. Group status comes from “theological dominance,” which *should* be a completely incoherent concept in Christianity. What does domination have to do with following Jesus?
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My first remarks since being arrested last night.
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
My first remarks since being arrested last night.
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here is the video version of this post, with a few other thoughts as well. youtu.be/wBS13rx-M7s
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
here is the video version of this post, with a few other thoughts as well. youtu.be/wBS13rx-M7s
a lot of rad trad catholics online are such fundamentally unserious people. the amount of false equivalences made stemming from the cognitive dissonance and contradictory nature of their beliefs is wild.
January 30, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a lot of rad trad catholics online are such fundamentally unserious people. the amount of false equivalences made stemming from the cognitive dissonance and contradictory nature of their beliefs is wild.
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Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
www.pbump.net
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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I haven’t listened to that circulating video of the children screaming from inside the ICE detention center. I can’t.
But just knowing it exists makes me pray for God to come with fire and fury, for a God of judgement who will smash down all prison walls.
But just knowing it exists makes me pray for God to come with fire and fury, for a God of judgement who will smash down all prison walls.
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I haven’t listened to that circulating video of the children screaming from inside the ICE detention center. I can’t.
But just knowing it exists makes me pray for God to come with fire and fury, for a God of judgement who will smash down all prison walls.
But just knowing it exists makes me pray for God to come with fire and fury, for a God of judgement who will smash down all prison walls.
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This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
Thanks for featuring our most recent episode of Whiplash! We talked about what American Catholics get wrong about persecution
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January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Thanks for featuring our most recent episode of Whiplash! We talked about what American Catholics get wrong about persecution
First of all, empathy is not “toxic”
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
First of all, empathy is not “toxic”
You have to draw a line somewhere if you want to live in a world where this doesn’t happen once a week.
January 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM
You have to draw a line somewhere if you want to live in a world where this doesn’t happen once a week.
Oh look, the NRA is alive
January 25, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Oh look, the NRA is alive
Yeah definitely crying
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Yeah definitely crying
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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An important one to watch. Each element is critical. ICE tailing clergy. Fact that ICE declared driving *behind* ICE “obstruction.” White people; ICE still went to violence in 30 seconds; but community saved them. This cld have been another murder; community intervened.
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
An important one to watch. Each element is critical. ICE tailing clergy. Fact that ICE declared driving *behind* ICE “obstruction.” White people; ICE still went to violence in 30 seconds; but community saved them. This cld have been another murder; community intervened.
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I've covered a lot of protests and resistance movements of various kinds in my days on this earth -- I've never seen anything quite like this epic day in Minneapolis today.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I've covered a lot of protests and resistance movements of various kinds in my days on this earth -- I've never seen anything quite like this epic day in Minneapolis today.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
Note the word conservative. Conservatives know this isn't right.
Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
January 22, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Note the word conservative. Conservatives know this isn't right.