Karl Runser
@therunser.bsky.social
Lutheran pastor; cat person; etc. etc.
That’s right.
Boooooooo down with AI Jesus!!!!!
Crucify the COMPUTER CHRIST!!!!!!
Crucify the COMPUTER CHRIST!!!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
That’s right.
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There’s something a bit, I don’t know … iffy? Shady?… about sharing a photo of a woman and a man at some public function or place, as evidence that the woman is in the man’s pocket in one way or another.
That’s quite the assumption.
That’s quite the assumption.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There’s something a bit, I don’t know … iffy? Shady?… about sharing a photo of a woman and a man at some public function or place, as evidence that the woman is in the man’s pocket in one way or another.
That’s quite the assumption.
That’s quite the assumption.
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Ohio’s own Nathan Rourke is the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian!
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Ohio’s own Nathan Rourke is the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian!
What the hell kind of defense is this supposed to be?
“A guy”? “Someone”??
Please …
“A guy”? “Someone”??
Please …
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What the hell kind of defense is this supposed to be?
“A guy”? “Someone”??
Please …
“A guy”? “Someone”??
Please …
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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It's hard to believe this too was a decade ago already.
Just as 2015 marked the high-water mark of the liberal international order, it also marked the turning point in the West's gradual abandonment of that order. And this was a big part of that shift.
Just as 2015 marked the high-water mark of the liberal international order, it also marked the turning point in the West's gradual abandonment of that order. And this was a big part of that shift.
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It's hard to believe this too was a decade ago already.
Just as 2015 marked the high-water mark of the liberal international order, it also marked the turning point in the West's gradual abandonment of that order. And this was a big part of that shift.
Just as 2015 marked the high-water mark of the liberal international order, it also marked the turning point in the West's gradual abandonment of that order. And this was a big part of that shift.
Genius, this —
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Genius, this —
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It would be a good time for the NYT to have an ombudsman
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It would be a good time for the NYT to have an ombudsman
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This one has been a long time in coming. Reflections on the philosophical catastrophes facing Catholics, Protestants, and now Jews.
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/religious-...
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/religious-...
Religious Convulsions
Priest abuse, then Trump, now Netanyahu have hit three major religions hard. Each is catastrophic. But, as Catholicism has shown us, something will emerge from the devastation.
virginiaheffernan.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This one has been a long time in coming. Reflections on the philosophical catastrophes facing Catholics, Protestants, and now Jews.
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/religious-...
virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/religious-...
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“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Same here. I don’t know how the country recovers if a large chunk of the electorate lives in its own head, reality-free and catered to by pretenders and thieves.
I yearn for evidence-based politics.
Please. My heart aches for expertise, experience, and competence.
Please. My heart aches for expertise, experience, and competence.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Same here. I don’t know how the country recovers if a large chunk of the electorate lives in its own head, reality-free and catered to by pretenders and thieves.
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Peanuts from November 11, 1998. Charles M. Schulz pays tribute to veterans (and Bill Mauldin) by featuring Mauldin's characters, Willie & Joe.
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Peanuts from November 11, 1998. Charles M. Schulz pays tribute to veterans (and Bill Mauldin) by featuring Mauldin's characters, Willie & Joe.
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I want a robot to follow Elon Musk at all times that does nothing but give him a livestream of whatever Joyce Carol Oates has to say about him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I want a robot to follow Elon Musk at all times that does nothing but give him a livestream of whatever Joyce Carol Oates has to say about him.
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The Christian Nationalism crusade and crusaders are active in our struggle for a free and fair democracy.
I found this conversation timely, informative, and enlightening
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
The Christian Nationalism crusade and crusaders are active in our struggle for a free and fair democracy.
I found this conversation timely, informative, and enlightening
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
American Conversations: Diana Butler Bass
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Christian Nationalism crusade and crusaders are active in our struggle for a free and fair democracy.
I found this conversation timely, informative, and enlightening
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
The Christian Nationalism crusade and crusaders are active in our struggle for a free and fair democracy.
I found this conversation timely, informative, and enlightening
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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