Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
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Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
· May 22
Hi followers. In case you thought I was JUST a shitposter, I'm a historian, trained as a medievalist and working on the long eighteenth century, a college professor, and also for the last six years I've been writing about the far right. Primarily the religious far right, but not exclusively.
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the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats
December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats
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One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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![HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreiez4d5lsrpbn3mrwkwrnbrhb3ra7dmvagbxjaz7hg5be7njnsbary@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
I discovered I'd never opened last year's Scotch from my dad--so having a glass, and wishing him a merry Christmas, and missing him fiercely on this day.
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I discovered I'd never opened last year's Scotch from my dad--so having a glass, and wishing him a merry Christmas, and missing him fiercely on this day.
My boys are laughing at "nuclear powered battleship" spoken like and with the hand gestures of 6 7, as shorthand for the dumbest thing said all day. So, I guess Trump is bringing my family together.
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My boys are laughing at "nuclear powered battleship" spoken like and with the hand gestures of 6 7, as shorthand for the dumbest thing said all day. So, I guess Trump is bringing my family together.
Trump would absolutely shoot Santa down.
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Trump would absolutely shoot Santa down.
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If I were a billionaire I simply wouldn’t be fighting with strangers on the internet on Christmas Eve
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If I were a billionaire I simply wouldn’t be fighting with strangers on the internet on Christmas Eve
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for instance, "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is clearly nonsensical as a depiction of the events of the Gospel, which involve no sailing, and is indeed a distorted version of the departure of Frodo to the West, accompanied by 'His Lady' (Galadriel)
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
for instance, "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is clearly nonsensical as a depiction of the events of the Gospel, which involve no sailing, and is indeed a distorted version of the departure of Frodo to the West, accompanied by 'His Lady' (Galadriel)
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I don’t know how things are at Harvard, where Hankins is, but I can tell you that military history is popular, but not uniquely so, at my public university.
90% of military history is about where the latrines are dug. You cannot make war if you have dysentery.
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I don’t know how things are at Harvard, where Hankins is, but I can tell you that military history is popular, but not uniquely so, at my public university.
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As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."
I don't want to go back to blue books. It's an accessibility issue. I don't want to make problems for students. I lack better ideas, though, because students won't read, and too many think chatGPT is ok. Oral exams are the same kind of problem.
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I don't want to go back to blue books. It's an accessibility issue. I don't want to make problems for students. I lack better ideas, though, because students won't read, and too many think chatGPT is ok. Oral exams are the same kind of problem.
Chatterton is complaining people don't give him opportunities because they hate his worldview. Meanwhile, a trans grad student was fired because a far right student's paper that alludes to the Bible existing not getting an A is a violation of... free speech?
OK home skillet, sure, cool story.
OK home skillet, sure, cool story.
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Chatterton is complaining people don't give him opportunities because they hate his worldview. Meanwhile, a trans grad student was fired because a far right student's paper that alludes to the Bible existing not getting an A is a violation of... free speech?
OK home skillet, sure, cool story.
OK home skillet, sure, cool story.
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it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
ALSO. Military history classes DO fill up! With excited non majors! Who study battles! And also art! And also the lives of the people who fought (social history)! And economics, and politics, and poetry, and literature, around the wars! Military history contains all of it! It has to!
I want to treat "Roman Helmet Guy" as a serious interlocuter, and I want to do it as someone who does what might be called "New Military History," applying cultural studies to military history (religious violence and apocalypticism during wars): you can't study war without studying people.
I’m crying
December 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ALSO. Military history classes DO fill up! With excited non majors! Who study battles! And also art! And also the lives of the people who fought (social history)! And economics, and politics, and poetry, and literature, around the wars! Military history contains all of it! It has to!
I want to treat "Roman Helmet Guy" as a serious interlocuter, and I want to do it as someone who does what might be called "New Military History," applying cultural studies to military history (religious violence and apocalypticism during wars): you can't study war without studying people.
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I want to treat "Roman Helmet Guy" as a serious interlocuter, and I want to do it as someone who does what might be called "New Military History," applying cultural studies to military history (religious violence and apocalypticism during wars): you can't study war without studying people.
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if they are putting this up what the hell are they still redacting
CW: SA, infanticide
According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
if they are putting this up what the hell are they still redacting
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Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
Read about Commonsense Guardrails for Using Advanced Technology in Schools aiinstruction.org/sites/defaul...
aiinstruction.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.
A few thoughts for your consideration...
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"activities like coding and building simple AI models empower students as creators rather than passive consumers."
Come on. The vast majority of kids aren't building "simple AI models." They're cheating throught ChatGPT and generating bad "A.i." illustrations. Please don't insult us.
Come on. The vast majority of kids aren't building "simple AI models." They're cheating throught ChatGPT and generating bad "A.i." illustrations. Please don't insult us.
December 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"activities like coding and building simple AI models empower students as creators rather than passive consumers."
Come on. The vast majority of kids aren't building "simple AI models." They're cheating throught ChatGPT and generating bad "A.i." illustrations. Please don't insult us.
Come on. The vast majority of kids aren't building "simple AI models." They're cheating throught ChatGPT and generating bad "A.i." illustrations. Please don't insult us.
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Anna and the Apocalypse.
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Anna and the Apocalypse.
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
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Been frustrated - as we all have - with this court, but this seems like a pretty remarkable ruling.
I rather suspect the court does not rule this way without the collapsing approval numbers, without No Kings, without the Dems sweeping special elections.
I rather suspect the court does not rule this way without the collapsing approval numbers, without No Kings, without the Dems sweeping special elections.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Been frustrated - as we all have - with this court, but this seems like a pretty remarkable ruling.
I rather suspect the court does not rule this way without the collapsing approval numbers, without No Kings, without the Dems sweeping special elections.
I rather suspect the court does not rule this way without the collapsing approval numbers, without No Kings, without the Dems sweeping special elections.
The fascists who worship a rapist as their Golden Idol are also rapists. I wish, desperately, that I was surprised.
Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The fascists who worship a rapist as their Golden Idol are also rapists. I wish, desperately, that I was surprised.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM