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Of all the late-inning, last-minute heartbreaking losses, the most devastating has to be losing the Cold War three decades after thinking we had it in the bag.

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Some intersectional theology for a Sunday afternoon: God is spirit (John 4:24) and has no physical, biological essence, DNA, or chromosomes. People call God “he” based on revelation—God uses 'he' to refer to Godself. God does this despite any biological/genetic basis. God has preferred #pronouns.

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Huh.

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 86 days ago • 1294 comments

In World War II, the German #resistance movement, the White Rose, realized that the only way for the Nazi dictatorship to be defeated was for Germany to lose the war. I see no reason that that logic should not apply to trade wars as well.

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The hardest part about the results of that game is the heartbreak felt in the city of my birth and home to so many wonderful people. But, as surely as blue cheese goes with wings and horseradish on beef on ’weck, the @buffalo-bills.bsky.social will rise again. (image: Buffalo Skyline, by my dad)

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I made an annotated version of #BishopMariannEdgarBudde’s plea. The TL;DR version—she addressed ancient Jewish/Christian values, defended the marginalized, and spoke truth to the powerful humbly, fully aware of the risks. It was Christian witness par excellence. sometheologica.com/culture/bish...

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

In case you're wondering, the belief that that is a "Roman legion salute" comes from one single painting from 1784, the "Oath of the Horatii" by Jacques-Louis David. So, yeah, it's not a Roman Legion salute.

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Apropos of nothing, I keep thinking about this passage from Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in which the Ghost of Christmas Future takes Scrooge to the home of a family living under huge debt to an unnamed creditor just in time to see the husband come home to tell his wife how asking for leniency went.

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After a great playoff football Sunday, I’m looking forward to “I was wrong” Monday on sports talk radio. #BuffaloBills #BillsMafia #GoBills 🦬🏈💙❤️

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Lucky socks on. Wings, blue cheese, and Labatt Blue on the menu. 🦬🏈💙 #gobills #bills #billsmafia

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

This... Stay angry people! The enemy are oligarchs!

submitted 134 days ago • 255 comments

An organization I work with sent out an email to its members supporting those affected by the #wildfires. One member felt constrained to respond: "Prayers are the most crucial way to help. The org needs to get over its sophomoric political correctness. 💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙" I hate this theology so much. 🧵

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Warms my heart every time Damar Hamlin makes a play. #buffalobills #billsmafia

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Folks, the X in #GenerationX doesn't represent the 24th in a series. It's the 𝑥 in mathematics, i.e., "unknown." Gen Y was a placeholder until "Millennial" came along. Stop naming generations with successive letters of the alphabet—it's lazy & says literally nothing other than "next!" #GenX

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A very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays to all, with prayers for peace, justice, love, and grace in the coming year and always. #christmas #hanukkah #holidays #christmastime #peace

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I found this accidental juxtaposition particularly amusing. #Nostradamus #PolarExpress

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Just before the trade deadline in 2004, the Red Sox traded Nomar Garciaparra—a star of the team—much to everyone’s shock. In return, they got Orlando Cabrera, Doug Mankiewicz, and Dave Roberts—and a World Series ring. Could letting Diggs go have done the same thing for the Bills? #BillsMafia 🦬

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Well, the @buffalo-bills.bsky.social managed to let the game get closer than I was comfortable with, bit still snatched the win! The Bills have given KC their only loss and Detroit their second. Go Buffalo! #BillsMafia ❤️🦬🏈

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

Am I the only one who uses @microsoft.com Word's "Replace" feature far more than "Find"? Maybe it's a function of #copyediting, but I rarely use "find" without also needing to replace. Why does it take an extra step to get to "Find & Replace"? Shouldn't this be as easy as finding? #smallproblems

submitted 135 days ago • 3 comments

Good morning and Happy Tuesday to everyone who wishes the media would grow a spine and learn to interview the lying piece of shit properly the way Barbara Walters did fearlessly back in the day. She was prepared for his lies and HANDLED him. Stop sanewashing his crazy bullshit.

submitted 140 days ago • 892 comments

We shouldn’t have to teach people not to be racist—but this is too well done not to share🔥

submitted 144 days ago • 159 comments

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

submitted 144 days ago • 1244 comments

Of all the failings of the contemporary church & Evangelical #Christianity (and there are many), perhaps the greatest one is that homosexuality and transgender identity are seen as sins, but systemic racism and the fact that some people have a billion dollars while others starve are not. #hypocrisy

submitted 144 days ago • 3 comments

Is anything more useless than an error message that reads, "Something went wrong"?

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 146 days ago • 569 comments

I appreciate how the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers uses the same typeface that Law & Order does. I see what you're doing there, NYSATL. @lawandordertv.bsky.social

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