Muse With A Magnum
@musewithamagnum.bsky.social
Just a human with good editing skills trying to help nudge the world toward freedom one project at a time, while answering to my own multi-disciplinary Fight Club of Muses. (It's not easy living with Divine Fire in your head, but what ya gonna do?)
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For the record, I'll be blocking accounts that I either don't know or can't immediately tell that we have interests in common. I do not have time for bs and I'm not interested in whatever it is you're selling. I'll be reporting ones that look obviously fake, spammish, scammish.
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Quaker & other U.S. groups that help individuals obtain conscientious objector are seeing a spike in inquiries — including from current military members who believe they’re being asked to violate international law: www.ms.now/news/conscie...
Troops fighting against Iran and drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law
Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets...
www.ms.now
August 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Quaker & other U.S. groups that help individuals obtain conscientious objector are seeing a spike in inquiries — including from current military members who believe they’re being asked to violate international law: www.ms.now/news/conscie...
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Good thread here with important insights, but really just read Greg's whole New Republic piece. He highlights some disturbing insights as well as the alarming fact that we don't yet know the full scale of DHS spying on people in churches & elsewhere.
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment.
The details are unnerving. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2144...
The details are unnerving. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2144...
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
newrepublic.com
August 19, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Good thread here with important insights, but really just read Greg's whole New Republic piece. He highlights some disturbing insights as well as the alarming fact that we don't yet know the full scale of DHS spying on people in churches & elsewhere.
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It didn't look like Jennifer Hegseth was there today, but she & some of their kids are usually on front row at Pentagon worship services even though invites say no guests. She's there so often that AI often includes her (or at least poor versions of her): publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/what-we-ca...
What We Can Learn From AI Slop Images Celebrating Pentagon Worship Services
I first noticed something odd after reporting on Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” reading Psalm 144 during the Pentagon worship service in January to justify the U.S.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
August 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
It didn't look like Jennifer Hegseth was there today, but she & some of their kids are usually on front row at Pentagon worship services even though invites say no guests. She's there so often that AI often includes her (or at least poor versions of her): publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/what-we-ca...
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"This design history of Mussolini’s Italy moves beyond the usual focus on monuments to show how fascism also took hold within the home ... The conversation it starts is important for anyone interested in examining historical and contemporary fascism." — Ecem Sarıçayır, review of "Furnishing Fascism"
"Bookshelf: Spring 2026" is here!
Browse our seasonal roundup of reviews of recent books on buildings, landscapes, and cities. This spring, our critics’ roundtable takes on fascism at home, revolution in Black bookstores, climate change in augmented reality, gentrification as metaphor, and more.
Browse our seasonal roundup of reviews of recent books on buildings, landscapes, and cities. This spring, our critics’ roundtable takes on fascism at home, revolution in Black bookstores, climate change in augmented reality, gentrification as metaphor, and more.
Bookshelf: Spring 2026 | Book Reviews in Places Journal
Recent books on fascism at home, revolution in Black bookstores, climate change in augmented reality, gentrification as metaphor, and more.
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June 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
"This design history of Mussolini’s Italy moves beyond the usual focus on monuments to show how fascism also took hold within the home ... The conversation it starts is important for anyone interested in examining historical and contemporary fascism." — Ecem Sarıçayır, review of "Furnishing Fascism"
As pointed out in Jesus and John Wayne, the comparison of political figures to Jesus Christ - esp. when they're in trouble - isn't a new thing. Oliver North was used as a "persecuted martyr" not long after the Religious Right transferred loyalty to the GOP. theotherjournal.com/2021/05/john...
John Wayne, Jesus Christ, and the Question of Evangelicalism: An Interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez - The Other Journal
Justin Phillips and Zac Thomas Settle interview Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her book, Jesus and John Wayne.
theotherjournal.com
April 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
As pointed out in Jesus and John Wayne, the comparison of political figures to Jesus Christ - esp. when they're in trouble - isn't a new thing. Oliver North was used as a "persecuted martyr" not long after the Religious Right transferred loyalty to the GOP. theotherjournal.com/2021/05/john...
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Thanks to @telliotter.bsky.social for linking to our reporting throughout this excellent new piece.
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April 14, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Thanks to @telliotter.bsky.social for linking to our reporting throughout this excellent new piece.
You can learn more here:
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In her timely new book “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), political theorist @lkatfield.bsky.social provides an intellectual tour of the movement that has twice carried Donald Trump into the White House.
Review & Giveaway: Furious Minds
Do ideas have consequences, or do consequences have ideas? This is the question the political theorist Laura Field wrestles with in Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
February 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
In her timely new book “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), political theorist @lkatfield.bsky.social provides an intellectual tour of the movement that has twice carried Donald Trump into the White House.
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DOJ's prosecution of Lemon, Fort, and the protesters is part of a broader Trump administration effort to constrain religious freedom to be only for white, right-wing Christians. I discussed this last week on Reign of Error with @briankaylor.bsky.social:
redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...
redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...
003: Weaponizing “Religious Freedom”: Trump’s DOJ, "Religious Liberty," and the Attack on a Free Press
Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle
redcircle.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:22 PM
DOJ's prosecution of Lemon, Fort, and the protesters is part of a broader Trump administration effort to constrain religious freedom to be only for white, right-wing Christians. I discussed this last week on Reign of Error with @briankaylor.bsky.social:
redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...
redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...
Some great work right here. The links between the clergy and the Klan documented at Monticello were not unusual for the time period; we have other well known cases across the state. Let the implications of that sink in deep.
brohammett.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
brohammett.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
What the Windows Witnessed
We don't need analogies to 1930s Germany. We have 1920s Arkansas.
brohammett.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Some great work right here. The links between the clergy and the Klan documented at Monticello were not unusual for the time period; we have other well known cases across the state. Let the implications of that sink in deep.
brohammett.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
brohammett.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
An old favorite hitting me hard today...
Heart - Love Alive (Official Video)
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January 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM
An old favorite hitting me hard today...
Live link available for those outside the UNE area:
Artist Robert Shetterly will discuss his Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits at the University of New England speaker event, “Art in the Age of Democratic Upheaval.”
Free and open to the public, mark your calendars for January 28th at 6PM!
More here: bit.ly/4kbe1Zy
Free and open to the public, mark your calendars for January 28th at 6PM!
More here: bit.ly/4kbe1Zy
January 27, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Live link available for those outside the UNE area:
Lots of good stuff here, especially for the long term change made possible in these moments of extreme crisis:
racketmn.com/how-can-arti...
racketmn.com/how-can-arti...
How Can Artists Show up for Minneapolis? - Racket
I held a 500-person virtual workshop on how artists can meaningfully support the work to get ICE out of Minneapolis. Here's what I learned.
racketmn.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Lots of good stuff here, especially for the long term change made possible in these moments of extreme crisis:
racketmn.com/how-can-arti...
racketmn.com/how-can-arti...
Re: Steve Bannon's recent comments - straight up "Reconquista narrative" & replacement theory. Take it from a historian who burned a lot of sanity points studying it back in 2015...when it was just a fringe movement and not federal hiring policy. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Column: Here's how Fox News’ white supremacist propaganda can be stopped
The 'reconquista' panic of the 1990s paved the way for the GOP's 'replacement' paranoia, now fanned by the likes of Tucker Carlson.
www.latimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Re: Steve Bannon's recent comments - straight up "Reconquista narrative" & replacement theory. Take it from a historian who burned a lot of sanity points studying it back in 2015...when it was just a fringe movement and not federal hiring policy. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
One of my big goals for the year is to get back into seasonal sync ceremonially. Since the turn towards an inward focus and being a solo practitioner again, I've gotten away from outward ceremony/calendar observances - and am starting to feel it in terms of a disconnection with the natural world.
January 6, 2026 at 8:36 PM
One of my big goals for the year is to get back into seasonal sync ceremonially. Since the turn towards an inward focus and being a solo practitioner again, I've gotten away from outward ceremony/calendar observances - and am starting to feel it in terms of a disconnection with the natural world.
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LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
This is exactly what is needed on so many fronts. We're too used to things being siloed by an infrastructure with some problematic roots. Find a place, gather the community, and share knowledge, skills, and energy. Throw in some food and music, and you have a good time while also meeting needs.
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is exactly what is needed on so many fronts. We're too used to things being siloed by an infrastructure with some problematic roots. Find a place, gather the community, and share knowledge, skills, and energy. Throw in some food and music, and you have a good time while also meeting needs.
We're going to move the business website over to a new hosting service - any thoughts on which one is best? It's going to be graphics heavy (as a photography service), but really only needs a contact page that works well...we don't do any orders through it.
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We're going to move the business website over to a new hosting service - any thoughts on which one is best? It's going to be graphics heavy (as a photography service), but really only needs a contact page that works well...we don't do any orders through it.
Yes, I know who many of them voted for and agree this is the FO that naturally follows the FA. It's still heartbreaking when you see it happening to the families and communities around you,& to know how it is going to impact and reshape the region. Even if their savior/king comes through this time.
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yes, I know who many of them voted for and agree this is the FO that naturally follows the FA. It's still heartbreaking when you see it happening to the families and communities around you,& to know how it is going to impact and reshape the region. Even if their savior/king comes through this time.
I ended up picking Church of Spiritual Humanism to get the ordination paper. I may still pursue AHA credentials down the road, but I have the prior EGC ordination, a nearly completed B.SW, 3 MAs & independent training & service in conflict mediation, community org & recovery as the base.
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I ended up picking Church of Spiritual Humanism to get the ordination paper. I may still pursue AHA credentials down the road, but I have the prior EGC ordination, a nearly completed B.SW, 3 MAs & independent training & service in conflict mediation, community org & recovery as the base.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
There's a clip going round using this speech, so like a good historian, I tracked down the citation for it: Obama, Barack, "Remarks by the President at Ohio Democratic Party Dinner," October 13, 2016, Greater Columbus Convention Centerm Columbus, Ohio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmf...
Obama Blasts Republicans Now Disavowing Trump
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August 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There's a clip going round using this speech, so like a good historian, I tracked down the citation for it: Obama, Barack, "Remarks by the President at Ohio Democratic Party Dinner," October 13, 2016, Greater Columbus Convention Centerm Columbus, Ohio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmf...
29th anniversary of the 0* day at Kali. One epic N'awlins trip, that was.
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
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August 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
29th anniversary of the 0* day at Kali. One epic N'awlins trip, that was.
AR's Religious Rights at Public Schools Act starts today:
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
arkleg.state.ar.us
August 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AR's Religious Rights at Public Schools Act starts today:
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.
On the surface, it gives non-Christian religions the same rights and protection...but those of us who survived rural schools know what that really means: harassment, isolation & possible violence for those who express the non-majority views.