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S. David Cox
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Episcopal priest, Christian philosopher & ethicist; lover of good literature, including science fiction and fantasy; husband & father; increasingly attracted to Democratic Socialism.
🤣 I only hope the damage is minor enough that "Embarrassing" will be a sufficient adjective. .
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Whoops
Don't ya just love live TV?
July 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Authoritarianism 101
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We need all the insight we can get into the authoritarian and fascist moment we are in. Abbey Heffer provides just such insight.
Authoritarianism 101 | Abbey Heffer | Substack
Recognising authoritarianism, wherever we see it. Click to read Authoritarianism 101, by Abbey Heffer, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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July 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We do in America 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 Too!

If all the attacked and marginalized people All stood up al Once? 🥰 The Earth would tremble (in her Joy!)
June 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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THIS. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It's so frustrating that the United States wasted the years since WW2 teaching kids to master capitalist thinking when we should have been teaching them critical-thinking-citizenship as if our life depended on it. So many quotes from Arendt & others reveal that the wisdom was there to be passed on.
March 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Benjamin Franklin produced the very first chart of the Gulf Stream and then two more charts of it—here’s the final one, of 1786, showing Dr. Franklin in the lower right-hand corner, lecturing poor old Neptune, behind whom is the source of the Gulf Stream: the Gulf of Mexico
February 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Your purpose on earth is not to argue with people who intentionally want to misunderstand you
November 22, 2024 at 10:33 PM