Scott Rushing
@scottrushing.bsky.social
Middle School Teacher. Pastor spouse. Ph.D. In Historical Theology. Frankfort, KY. Belmont | Vanderbilt | Baylor
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Supreme Court, if you're listening . . .
SENATOR CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: "Has the Trump administration made any efforts to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States?"
US EMBASSY IN EL SALVADOR: "No."
SENATOR CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: "Has the Trump administration made any efforts to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States?"
US EMBASSY IN EL SALVADOR: "No."
April 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Supreme Court, if you're listening . . .
SENATOR CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: "Has the Trump administration made any efforts to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States?"
US EMBASSY IN EL SALVADOR: "No."
SENATOR CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: "Has the Trump administration made any efforts to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States?"
US EMBASSY IN EL SALVADOR: "No."
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A play in two acts.
April 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A play in two acts.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
The projection by these con artists is something to behold.
Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.
April 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The projection by these con artists is something to behold.
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People whisked off the street by masked men in plainclothes and spirited away in unmarked vans is the chilling modus operandi of secret police in a totalitarian state.
April 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
People whisked off the street by masked men in plainclothes and spirited away in unmarked vans is the chilling modus operandi of secret police in a totalitarian state.
This is eerily accurate.
All right, fine.
The second Trump administration as villains from the Batman TV show.
Let's do this.
The second Trump administration as villains from the Batman TV show.
Let's do this.
March 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is eerily accurate.
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We cannot make the world Christian through un-Christlike means and methods.
March 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We cannot make the world Christian through un-Christlike means and methods.
I was so surprised to see Confederate flags in Indiana when I moved there.
For all the South gets shit about the failures of reconstruction, the North doesn’t get called out enough on its lack of resolve. They won’t even defend their own backyards. Rural life has been so throughly Confederatized that you’re more likely to see a Confederate flag in rural NY than Atlanta.
March 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I was so surprised to see Confederate flags in Indiana when I moved there.
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40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN
A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025.
Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication.
Let's go!
A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025.
Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication.
Let's go!
March 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN
A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025.
Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication.
Let's go!
A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025.
Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication.
Let's go!
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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?
February 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?
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Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week.
Don’t let him.
Don’t let him.
January 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week.
Don’t let him.
Don’t let him.
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On today’s episode of “if Obama”
If Obama fired over a dozen inspectors general in the middle of the night, the media would have (appropriately) excoriated him over the illegality and absolutely tanked his approval ratings
Trump does it, and CNN calls it a “shakeup”
Shameful.
If Obama fired over a dozen inspectors general in the middle of the night, the media would have (appropriately) excoriated him over the illegality and absolutely tanked his approval ratings
Trump does it, and CNN calls it a “shakeup”
Shameful.
January 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
On today’s episode of “if Obama”
If Obama fired over a dozen inspectors general in the middle of the night, the media would have (appropriately) excoriated him over the illegality and absolutely tanked his approval ratings
Trump does it, and CNN calls it a “shakeup”
Shameful.
If Obama fired over a dozen inspectors general in the middle of the night, the media would have (appropriately) excoriated him over the illegality and absolutely tanked his approval ratings
Trump does it, and CNN calls it a “shakeup”
Shameful.
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The same people having a temper tantrum over DEI just confirmed the least qualified Secretary of Defense in US history because Trump liked him on TV.
January 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The same people having a temper tantrum over DEI just confirmed the least qualified Secretary of Defense in US history because Trump liked him on TV.
That’s what I keep being told.
The rules, if you are keeping track:
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
That’s what I keep being told.
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Now that Trump is in office he's immediately pivoted from "the President is responsible for anything bad that happens in the world" to "Me? That's not my problem."
REPORTER: How confident are you that you can keep the ceasefire in Gaza?
TRUMP: I'm not confident. That's not our war. It's their war ... Gaza is interesting. It's a phenomenal location.
TRUMP: I'm not confident. That's not our war. It's their war ... Gaza is interesting. It's a phenomenal location.
January 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Now that Trump is in office he's immediately pivoted from "the President is responsible for anything bad that happens in the world" to "Me? That's not my problem."
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Trump operative Charlie Kirk in 2020: TikTok is an ‘evil CCP-compromised’ app. Ban it!!
Charlie Kirk today: Shame on President Biden for signing the Republican-led bill to ban TikTok into law. I’m glad Trump is going to save this great app
Whatever the dear leader says. It's a cult
Charlie Kirk today: Shame on President Biden for signing the Republican-led bill to ban TikTok into law. I’m glad Trump is going to save this great app
Whatever the dear leader says. It's a cult
January 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trump operative Charlie Kirk in 2020: TikTok is an ‘evil CCP-compromised’ app. Ban it!!
Charlie Kirk today: Shame on President Biden for signing the Republican-led bill to ban TikTok into law. I’m glad Trump is going to save this great app
Whatever the dear leader says. It's a cult
Charlie Kirk today: Shame on President Biden for signing the Republican-led bill to ban TikTok into law. I’m glad Trump is going to save this great app
Whatever the dear leader says. It's a cult
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IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: The last few days before Christmas is when people usually tend to rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Can I commend to you this really superb essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that movie.
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
www.thebulwark.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:54 AM
IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: The last few days before Christmas is when people usually tend to rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Can I commend to you this really superb essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that movie.
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
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What I thought would kill me, by age:
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
December 13, 2024 at 8:08 PM
What I thought would kill me, by age:
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.
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The Trump crowd wants to kill FDIC, install tariffs *and* bring back polio?
I guess all this time the magical past of American Greatness they’ve been aiming for has been the banner year of 1930.
Can’t wait for the soup lines! Wheee!
I guess all this time the magical past of American Greatness they’ve been aiming for has been the banner year of 1930.
Can’t wait for the soup lines! Wheee!
December 13, 2024 at 9:15 PM
The Trump crowd wants to kill FDIC, install tariffs *and* bring back polio?
I guess all this time the magical past of American Greatness they’ve been aiming for has been the banner year of 1930.
Can’t wait for the soup lines! Wheee!
I guess all this time the magical past of American Greatness they’ve been aiming for has been the banner year of 1930.
Can’t wait for the soup lines! Wheee!
Vandy is now bowl eligible. This is not a drill.
November 3, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Vandy is now bowl eligible. This is not a drill.
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Whenever I hearTrump rant about undocumented immigrants "getting the jobs," I think of Sandra Diaz and Victorina Morales - who worked for Donald Trump:
How two housekeepers took on the president — and revealed that his company employed undocumented immigrants
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how...
How two housekeepers took on the president — and revealed that his company employed undocumented immigrants
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how...
October 4, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Whenever I hearTrump rant about undocumented immigrants "getting the jobs," I think of Sandra Diaz and Victorina Morales - who worked for Donald Trump:
How two housekeepers took on the president — and revealed that his company employed undocumented immigrants
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how...
How two housekeepers took on the president — and revealed that his company employed undocumented immigrants
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how...
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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit
Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2024 at 12:55 AM
This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...