Rev. James Clarke
@revjamesclarke.bsky.social
Ordained Interfaith/Omnist/Pluralist Chaplain and Community Minister, Unitarian Universalist Lay Person, Father, Husband, Music Lover, Bassist, and Meme Maker
In a SCOTUS brief opposing the recognition of transgender personhood as a protected class, the LDS church states that such protection could restrict its ability to enforce faith-based policies.
September 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In a SCOTUS brief opposing the recognition of transgender personhood as a protected class, the LDS church states that such protection could restrict its ability to enforce faith-based policies.
At least six Historically Black Colleges and Universities feel it necessary to go under lockdown because rival factions of a White Supremacist political cult are violently feuding with each other.
Let that statement sink in.
Let that statement sink in.
September 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
At least six Historically Black Colleges and Universities feel it necessary to go under lockdown because rival factions of a White Supremacist political cult are violently feuding with each other.
Let that statement sink in.
Let that statement sink in.
It's strange that the Republicans who have offered Thoughts and Prayers™ in response to school shootings haven't offered Thoughts and Prayers™ in response to Charlie Kirk's shooting but are instead demanding action.
September 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's strange that the Republicans who have offered Thoughts and Prayers™ in response to school shootings haven't offered Thoughts and Prayers™ in response to Charlie Kirk's shooting but are instead demanding action.
Anti-Vax logic applied to drunk driving:
"I don't need to drive sober. If drunk driving is so bad, why haven't I died or killed someone? Shouldn't I have? Oh, that's right, since I drive drunk, other drivers' sobriety doesn't matter. Sober driving is a hoax. My body, my choice"
"I don't need to drive sober. If drunk driving is so bad, why haven't I died or killed someone? Shouldn't I have? Oh, that's right, since I drive drunk, other drivers' sobriety doesn't matter. Sober driving is a hoax. My body, my choice"
September 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Anti-Vax logic applied to drunk driving:
"I don't need to drive sober. If drunk driving is so bad, why haven't I died or killed someone? Shouldn't I have? Oh, that's right, since I drive drunk, other drivers' sobriety doesn't matter. Sober driving is a hoax. My body, my choice"
"I don't need to drive sober. If drunk driving is so bad, why haven't I died or killed someone? Shouldn't I have? Oh, that's right, since I drive drunk, other drivers' sobriety doesn't matter. Sober driving is a hoax. My body, my choice"
Few people realize that the Second Amendment was ratified less than four months after the start of the Haitian Revolution.
Historians have plausibly argued that the 2nd Amendment was intended to help White farmers violently put down slave revolts.
Historians have plausibly argued that the 2nd Amendment was intended to help White farmers violently put down slave revolts.
Historian Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment
Carol Anderson says the Second Amendment was designed to ensure slave owners could quickly crush any rebellion or resistance from those they'd enslaved. Her new book is The Second.
www.npr.org
September 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Few people realize that the Second Amendment was ratified less than four months after the start of the Haitian Revolution.
Historians have plausibly argued that the 2nd Amendment was intended to help White farmers violently put down slave revolts.
Historians have plausibly argued that the 2nd Amendment was intended to help White farmers violently put down slave revolts.
"Armed minorities are harder to oppress" is a curious thing to say in a heavily armed society where minorities are regularly oppressed through incarceration, carceral enslavement, police shooting, financial predation, disenfranchisement, segregation, ethnic cleansing, and concentrated encampment.
September 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Armed minorities are harder to oppress" is a curious thing to say in a heavily armed society where minorities are regularly oppressed through incarceration, carceral enslavement, police shooting, financial predation, disenfranchisement, segregation, ethnic cleansing, and concentrated encampment.
Every time there's a spree-shooting, gun fetishists reflexively argue that spree-killers would find another way if we restricted guns.
The US's non-epidemic of spree-stabbings, spree-battings, spree-hammerings, spree-bombings, spree-poisonings, and spree-chainsawings demonstrates otherwise.
The US's non-epidemic of spree-stabbings, spree-battings, spree-hammerings, spree-bombings, spree-poisonings, and spree-chainsawings demonstrates otherwise.
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Every time there's a spree-shooting, gun fetishists reflexively argue that spree-killers would find another way if we restricted guns.
The US's non-epidemic of spree-stabbings, spree-battings, spree-hammerings, spree-bombings, spree-poisonings, and spree-chainsawings demonstrates otherwise.
The US's non-epidemic of spree-stabbings, spree-battings, spree-hammerings, spree-bombings, spree-poisonings, and spree-chainsawings demonstrates otherwise.
Any law that serves neither justice nor safety serves law makers', law enforcers', and law supporters' power.
August 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Any law that serves neither justice nor safety serves law makers', law enforcers', and law supporters' power.
@neildegrassetyson.com Question: if we're measuring the length of a river, are we measuring it in space-time? Put otherwise: CAN we measure a river in space time?
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@neildegrassetyson.com Question: if we're measuring the length of a river, are we measuring it in space-time? Put otherwise: CAN we measure a river in space time?
Kim Davis cheated on her first husband with her third husband, then divorced her first husband to marry her second husband, then divorced her second husband to marry her third husband, then divorced her third husband to remarry her second husband.
August 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Kim Davis cheated on her first husband with her third husband, then divorced her first husband to marry her second husband, then divorced her second husband to marry her third husband, then divorced her third husband to remarry her second husband.
Is the below quote from Hitler or Trump?
"We do not tolerate anyone in our ranks who offends the ideas of Christianity."
It's from Hitler¹, but its seeming consistenct with Trump's "anti-Christian bias" fad speaks to our political milieu.
¹snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-our-movement-is-christian/
"We do not tolerate anyone in our ranks who offends the ideas of Christianity."
It's from Hitler¹, but its seeming consistenct with Trump's "anti-Christian bias" fad speaks to our political milieu.
¹snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-our-movement-is-christian/
April 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Is the below quote from Hitler or Trump?
"We do not tolerate anyone in our ranks who offends the ideas of Christianity."
It's from Hitler¹, but its seeming consistenct with Trump's "anti-Christian bias" fad speaks to our political milieu.
¹snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-our-movement-is-christian/
"We do not tolerate anyone in our ranks who offends the ideas of Christianity."
It's from Hitler¹, but its seeming consistenct with Trump's "anti-Christian bias" fad speaks to our political milieu.
¹snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-our-movement-is-christian/
Trump in 2016:
"No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith"¹
Also Trump in 2016:
"How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?"²
Trump in 2020: Joe Biden is "against God".³
Trump is insincere.
"No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith"¹
Also Trump in 2016:
"How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?"²
Trump in 2020: Joe Biden is "against God".³
Trump is insincere.
April 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Trump in 2016:
"No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith"¹
Also Trump in 2016:
"How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?"²
Trump in 2020: Joe Biden is "against God".³
Trump is insincere.
"No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith"¹
Also Trump in 2016:
"How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?"²
Trump in 2020: Joe Biden is "against God".³
Trump is insincere.
Anybody who is familiar with the Mutant Registration Act from the X-Men universe should understand why RFK's national registry of autistic people is troubling.
April 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Anybody who is familiar with the Mutant Registration Act from the X-Men universe should understand why RFK's national registry of autistic people is troubling.
@elizabethbanks.bsky.social
Will you please consider making a prequel to Cocaine Bear called Smite Bears, based on 2 Kings 2:23-25, wherein two female bears go on a rampage and maul 42 boys who mocked Elisha for being bald?
This would make a great horror movie!
Will you please consider making a prequel to Cocaine Bear called Smite Bears, based on 2 Kings 2:23-25, wherein two female bears go on a rampage and maul 42 boys who mocked Elisha for being bald?
This would make a great horror movie!
What’s up with Elisha & the she-bears?
YouTube video by Dan McClellan
youtu.be
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
@elizabethbanks.bsky.social
Will you please consider making a prequel to Cocaine Bear called Smite Bears, based on 2 Kings 2:23-25, wherein two female bears go on a rampage and maul 42 boys who mocked Elisha for being bald?
This would make a great horror movie!
Will you please consider making a prequel to Cocaine Bear called Smite Bears, based on 2 Kings 2:23-25, wherein two female bears go on a rampage and maul 42 boys who mocked Elisha for being bald?
This would make a great horror movie!
I want to read The Bible Says So, by Dr. Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I want to read The Bible Says So, by Dr. Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social
@maklelan.bsky.social Is this viral post valid?
April 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@maklelan.bsky.social Is this viral post valid?
Given that the UK Supreme Court has legally erased transgender personhood, will it now compel JK Rowling to republish the novels she penned as Robert Galbraith using her real name?
April 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Given that the UK Supreme Court has legally erased transgender personhood, will it now compel JK Rowling to republish the novels she penned as Robert Galbraith using her real name?
It seems like now would be a good time for the Supreme Court to explicitly affirm that detainments and deportations that involve neither warrants nor due process are unlawful orders, and that they will refuse to uphold the conviction of any government agent who refuses to obey such an order.
April 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It seems like now would be a good time for the Supreme Court to explicitly affirm that detainments and deportations that involve neither warrants nor due process are unlawful orders, and that they will refuse to uphold the conviction of any government agent who refuses to obey such an order.
In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Satan is recorded as tempting Jesus with the love of power. On a strictly literary level, it seems prudent to thank Satan for helping society identify an early means test for fascism. (Not that we've been good at applying this means test, of course).
April 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Satan is recorded as tempting Jesus with the love of power. On a strictly literary level, it seems prudent to thank Satan for helping society identify an early means test for fascism. (Not that we've been good at applying this means test, of course).
If Donald Trump can get a sex-trafficking, psychopathic rapist out of Romania, he can get an innocent man out of El Salvador.
He won't because he's fundamentally unjust.
He won't because he's fundamentally unjust.
April 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If Donald Trump can get a sex-trafficking, psychopathic rapist out of Romania, he can get an innocent man out of El Salvador.
He won't because he's fundamentally unjust.
He won't because he's fundamentally unjust.
The subtext of terfy women's anti-trans argument that "women have a right to feel safe from men" in women's spaces seems to be that trans women have no right to feel safe from cis women in women's spaces.
April 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The subtext of terfy women's anti-trans argument that "women have a right to feel safe from men" in women's spaces seems to be that trans women have no right to feel safe from cis women in women's spaces.
You know a country is going wrong when the penalty for the not-a-crime of washing your hands in your gender's bathroom is greater than the definitely-a-crime of participating in an seditious domestic terrorist attack against the capitol building.
Trans student’s arrest for violating Florida bathroom law is thought to be a first
Marcy Rheintgen, 20, faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge punishable by up to 60 days in jail and is due to appear in court in May.
www.nbcnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You know a country is going wrong when the penalty for the not-a-crime of washing your hands in your gender's bathroom is greater than the definitely-a-crime of participating in an seditious domestic terrorist attack against the capitol building.
Banishing an innocent man to an overseas gulag isn't an "administrative error" when you're targeting people on the basis of their race and nationality; that is a policy error.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Banishing an innocent man to an overseas gulag isn't an "administrative error" when you're targeting people on the basis of their race and nationality; that is a policy error.
Some people were too proud to join us when they thought we were wrong, then too ashamed to not join us when they realized we were right, and are now too proud to admit they were wrong.
Their egotistical solidarity is not genuine.
Their egotistical solidarity is not genuine.
April 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some people were too proud to join us when they thought we were wrong, then too ashamed to not join us when they realized we were right, and are now too proud to admit they were wrong.
Their egotistical solidarity is not genuine.
Their egotistical solidarity is not genuine.
You may think your citizenship protects you from ICEtapo kidnappings and disappearings; citizens aren't being arrested, detained, and expelled without due process, you might be saying.
But what's keeping the ICEtapo from disputing your citizenship's validity? The Trump-controlled State Department?
But what's keeping the ICEtapo from disputing your citizenship's validity? The Trump-controlled State Department?
March 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
You may think your citizenship protects you from ICEtapo kidnappings and disappearings; citizens aren't being arrested, detained, and expelled without due process, you might be saying.
But what's keeping the ICEtapo from disputing your citizenship's validity? The Trump-controlled State Department?
But what's keeping the ICEtapo from disputing your citizenship's validity? The Trump-controlled State Department?