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profkbates.bsky.social
Professional dead person interpreter (historian). Books: Mainstreaming Fundamentalism (2021); Civil Religion and American Christianity (2020)
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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 5 days ago • 614 comments

As Americans didn’t exchange one King George for another King George, so they haven’t now anointed a King Don.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 12 days ago • 2109 comments

silicon valley is going to destroy america

submitted 12 days ago • 628 comments

There’s a lot of value in a humanities education, but being able to see through glib con men is a nice one.

submitted 36 days ago • 73 comments

House Republicans are celebrating pardons issued to a bloodthirsty mob that violently assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021. What happened to backing the Blue? Far right extremists have become the party of lawlessness and disorder. Don’t ever lecture America again. About anything.

submitted 37 days ago • 922 comments

Important to emphasize that this is projection. It is the radical right that has been committing violence in the U.S., not those who support liberal democracy.

submitted 38 days ago • 182 comments

Trying to get through this waste of dead trees. A cortado at Turntable Coffee is my best strategy. (It seems to be working.)

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday to the love of my life. She’s grace, strength, determination, compassion …

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday to the love of my life. She’s grace, strength, determination, compassion …

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments