Marcus Womack
@marcusgwomack.bsky.social
UMC Pastor. Longhorn (undergrad), Vandy (seminary), Wesley Theological Seminary (DMin) grad. Married to Alyssa, parent to Graham and Wesley. Howard Thurman Scholar. Music, justice, peace, love are most of my content.
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exciting as the potential overturning of this awful map is, it's worth noting that the 2021 map is *still* a gerrymander, just a less egregious one
Republicans got some sudden and unexpected bad news Tuesday when a three-judge federal court blocked Texas from using its new GOP-drawn congressional districts. Our new Digest examines why a Trump appointee made this momentous ruling and what it does—and doesn't—mean for the redistricting wars.
Morning Digest: Court blocks new Texas map, dealing surprise blow to Republicans
An appeal is already underway, but the GOP's redistricting push could backfire massively
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November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
exciting as the potential overturning of this awful map is, it's worth noting that the 2021 map is *still* a gerrymander, just a less egregious one
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Epstein survivor: "It shouldn't take an act of Congress" to get justice for victims
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Epstein survivor: ‘It shouldn’t take an act of Congress’ to get justice for victims | CNN
Jess Michaels joins The Lead.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Epstein survivor: "It shouldn't take an act of Congress" to get justice for victims
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For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
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I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
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bluesky is like if a flash mob of 38 year olds came to post on 2009 twitter
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
bluesky is like if a flash mob of 38 year olds came to post on 2009 twitter
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Imagine organizing your whole life around a movie whose central point you missed.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino "also revered Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein's 1959 military sci-fi classic about an interstellar war between humans and alien bugs - a book his sister says he still reads to this day."
An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old.
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Imagine organizing your whole life around a movie whose central point you missed.
The cowboys look amazing against bad teams, and horrible to average against good teams. Thus they are what?
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The cowboys look amazing against bad teams, and horrible to average against good teams. Thus they are what?
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A deep irony that so-called “Bible-believing” churches are proving themselves to be anything but because, like, the Beatitudes are too woke.
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A deep irony that so-called “Bible-believing” churches are proving themselves to be anything but because, like, the Beatitudes are too woke.
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Really feels like we’re quickly moving to an American Christianity defined by MAGA Churches vs the rest of us across previously-drawn Roman Catholic vs Protestant, conservative vs progressive, etc. lines.
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Really feels like we’re quickly moving to an American Christianity defined by MAGA Churches vs the rest of us across previously-drawn Roman Catholic vs Protestant, conservative vs progressive, etc. lines.
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
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Surprised he heard about it.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Surprised he heard about it.
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Wait till he hears about what government forces are doing to Christian clergy in Chicago
He is planning to start wars everywhere. Nigeria is next, I guess can no one stop him?
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Wait till he hears about what government forces are doing to Christian clergy in Chicago
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It Illegal to Starve Americans, Some Experts Say
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It Illegal to Starve Americans, Some Experts Say
Monday was rough. Tuesday was a long day. Then Wednesday while walking into work I had a fleeting thought that I genuinely already have everything I’ve ever wanted in my life.
The rest of the week has had ups and downs, but damn if that thought hasn’t changed my overall outlook.
It’s time to be.
The rest of the week has had ups and downs, but damn if that thought hasn’t changed my overall outlook.
It’s time to be.
October 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Monday was rough. Tuesday was a long day. Then Wednesday while walking into work I had a fleeting thought that I genuinely already have everything I’ve ever wanted in my life.
The rest of the week has had ups and downs, but damn if that thought hasn’t changed my overall outlook.
It’s time to be.
The rest of the week has had ups and downs, but damn if that thought hasn’t changed my overall outlook.
It’s time to be.
Longhorn football is not good for my health.
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Longhorn football is not good for my health.
After listening to it, I get why Bruce didn’t release the electric Nebraska at the time…BUT I think it’s great, and think it would’ve still been received well (just probably not seen as iconic as the stark acoustic version originally put out there).
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
After listening to it, I get why Bruce didn’t release the electric Nebraska at the time…BUT I think it’s great, and think it would’ve still been received well (just probably not seen as iconic as the stark acoustic version originally put out there).
Do you think it’s fair to say most American churches (at least Anglo, Protestant churches) are closer to closing than sustainably growing (or being financially sustainable at all)?
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Do you think it’s fair to say most American churches (at least Anglo, Protestant churches) are closer to closing than sustainably growing (or being financially sustainable at all)?
Overtime. Against Kentucky. Kentucky.
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Overtime. Against Kentucky. Kentucky.
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Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
October 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34
October 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34
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Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.
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You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state
Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state