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@calvinjburke.bsky.social
“a well-known LGBT Mormon advocate”—@thedailybeast. “a faith leader to watch”—@AmericanProgress. “Heartbreakingly honest”—@LDSLivingMag. He/him⚣🌈
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@calvinjburke.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Religion is my greatest vice.
I am a simple Mormon. I wake up every day, and then I put Zohran Mamdani’s name on the temple prayer roll
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I am a simple Mormon. I wake up every day, and then I put Zohran Mamdani’s name on the temple prayer roll
I’ve been teaching Sunday school in my ward this year & it’s my favorite calling I think I’ve ever had? Like, I get to write & teach my own lessons! Which means we spend Sunday school talking about Cornel West and Theodor Adorno and bell hooks and Richard Rorty
My Christmas lesson? It’s on Pasolini
My Christmas lesson? It’s on Pasolini
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’ve been teaching Sunday school in my ward this year & it’s my favorite calling I think I’ve ever had? Like, I get to write & teach my own lessons! Which means we spend Sunday school talking about Cornel West and Theodor Adorno and bell hooks and Richard Rorty
My Christmas lesson? It’s on Pasolini
My Christmas lesson? It’s on Pasolini
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Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart
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I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
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Progressive state Senator Nate Blouin strongly considering a run for new Utah Seat
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Progressive state Senator Nate Blouin strongly considering a run for new Utah Seat
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For real a Utah Republican who reps a Biden->Trump +1.3 seat trying to impeach a judge should be treated as insane
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
For real a Utah Republican who reps a Biden->Trump +1.3 seat trying to impeach a judge should be treated as insane
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🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
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They hate us for things it wouldn’t even occur to me to notice.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
They hate us for things it wouldn’t even occur to me to notice.
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yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
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…etc etc etc tangible wins.
2. Stop playing around and invest in the GD South’s electoral infrastructure. Don’t just hold your nose for white sides. Hold them for annoying but fundamentally right minorities, women, queer people, disabled people etc.
2. Stop playing around and invest in the GD South’s electoral infrastructure. Don’t just hold your nose for white sides. Hold them for annoying but fundamentally right minorities, women, queer people, disabled people etc.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
…etc etc etc tangible wins.
2. Stop playing around and invest in the GD South’s electoral infrastructure. Don’t just hold your nose for white sides. Hold them for annoying but fundamentally right minorities, women, queer people, disabled people etc.
2. Stop playing around and invest in the GD South’s electoral infrastructure. Don’t just hold your nose for white sides. Hold them for annoying but fundamentally right minorities, women, queer people, disabled people etc.
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The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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There is very little of this from those of you who read us. Again, we don't put up with it. I am too old. There is a fight to be had, but I've seen more won back from greater opponents. People also used to understand that history seems to stand still then it moves all at once. You have to work -
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
There is very little of this from those of you who read us. Again, we don't put up with it. I am too old. There is a fight to be had, but I've seen more won back from greater opponents. People also used to understand that history seems to stand still then it moves all at once. You have to work -
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"The Right in 2025 Sounds a Lot Like the Nazis in 1925"
Today’s far right may know it’s wrong to talk about a “superior race,” so it just frames it as a “superior culture” instead:
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
Today’s far right may know it’s wrong to talk about a “superior race,” so it just frames it as a “superior culture” instead:
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"The Right in 2025 Sounds a Lot Like the Nazis in 1925"
Today’s far right may know it’s wrong to talk about a “superior race,” so it just frames it as a “superior culture” instead:
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
Today’s far right may know it’s wrong to talk about a “superior race,” so it just frames it as a “superior culture” instead:
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
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it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
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This is so blatantly fascistic I don’t know what to say.
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is so blatantly fascistic I don’t know what to say.
No man knows my dating history
October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
No man knows my dating history
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It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.
www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.
www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
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"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
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October 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...
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“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com
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October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM