Chris Heller

Chris Heller

@cheller-rev.bsky.social

Just a random Chicago sports fan who also happens to be a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I usually go by he/him but won't be offended if you just call me "that idiot over there."

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I mean, how would that even work? Forced visits? Monitored phone call quotas?

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Gov. nominee Byron Donalds promises a Florida Republican voter "his word" that he will work on a 'grandparents' rights' law so her daughter stops estranging her

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“I’m really lighting conscious” A REAL THING SAID BY MIKE FUCKING TOMLIN ABOUT MINECRAFT IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026

Ryan Day@ryanday.bsky.social

I’m sorry but Mike Tomlin is one of the best Minecraft city builders of all time.

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We have completely lost the plot in America, when seven men can drug and gang rape a woman who was in no condition to give consent and so much of the concern is for the “men’s” futures. There needs to he a reckoning when it comes to male-first framing and societal expectations.

Rams need to have a long talk with the decision makers that insisted they didn't even need 48 hours in Australia before playing a football game.

Sheil Kapadia@sheilkapadia.bsky.social

Rams' 20-point loss is worse than any they had last year. This offensive performance was worse than any they had last year (EPA per drive). And Matthew Stafford's individual performance was worse than any he had last year (EPA per pass play). The Jet Lag Game!

In three days he'll be announcing he's invented this new thing called "free trade," claiming "nobody's ever even thought of something like this before."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You're importing beef in an effort to bring down prices. Should that concept apply to other consumer goods? TRUMP: It could

Why do we live in the stupidest timeline?

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Just to review today: The Dept of Ed made a post saying they were just like Hitler. Ted Cruz had a retweet of an account named ‘Ted Cruz’s Tiny Penis’ The WH posted a screen shot of an eagle on top of a Canadian goose but in the video the goose wins. Trump made a ‘Mission Accomplished’ post on

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You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com

“The WNBA will not institute a league-wide ban on Freedom, according to a source with knowledge of the decision.” They are trying to lose me and it’s going to work the way this is going.

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here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Bread and Circuses, but make it even worse for the environment.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The national debt just hit $40 trillion, gas is $4 a gallon, personal bankruptcies are at an all-time high, mortgage rates are up, GDP growth is terrible, we are stuck in another endless Middle East conflict, but the Republican Party is focused on ballrooms and car races.

Ridiculous stat.

Meghan Montemurro@mmontemurro.bsky.social

Pete Crow-Armstrong is the first MLB player with a leadoff HR on the first pitch his team saw and a walk-off HR on the last pitch his team saw in a game since the Kansas City A’s Vic Power on May 7, 1957 per OptaSTATS.

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A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

I need somebody to explain to me why so many people (mostly "men") seem to think being a level 5 asshole is the best way to be taken seriously. Explain it to me like I'm 7, please.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

what a fucking asshole

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i cannot stress enough how much this man should not be the democratic presidential nominee

Governor Gavin Newsom@governor.ca.gov

California 🤝 @anthropic.com We're entering a partnership to strengthen cybersecurity and provide Claude to state agencies at a discount. The Golden State helped build Silicon Valley — and every Californian should benefit from the responsible use of their latest innovations.

Narrator: They would not do as he said.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

CAPUTO: Are you gonna be able to control Israel from attacking Lebanon? TRUMP: Yeah, I will be. CAPUTO: How? TRUMP: They have a lot of respect for me. And they do as I say.

I'm sure Mike is posting this for no reason in particular...

Mike Okuda@mikeokuda.bsky.social

From Star Trek episode “Bread and Circuses” Written by Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon. First aired, Mar 15, 1968 “Victory or death? And for which of them? Well, ladies and gentlemen, you know as much about that at this moment as I do because this is your program. YOU name the winner!”

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The thing about “USAID is a tool of soft power” is that it’s true, but ripping out all of that aid is also murder. The solution isn’t just getting rid of USAID. It’s replacing it with direct, unconditional reparations for colonialism and underdevelopment.

NPR@npr.org

Through an innovative program, parents in Senegal had easy access to a therapeutic food that's a boon for malnourished kids. Now there are shortages. Health specialists say U.S. aid cuts are to blame.

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Don't hate-watch these - a view is a view for streaming platforms. Ignore them, let them rot away with low engagement. It's one of the earlier tests to prove that people (hopefully) just do not want AI-generated animated shows. Shame on The Book of Life's creator for selling out too, what a blow.

Animation Magazine@animag.bsky.social

Three AI animated series are heading to Prime Video streaming via Amazon MGM/AWS-backed GenAI Creators' Fund: 'Cupcake & Friends;' 'Love, Diana Music Hunters;' and 'Punky Duck' from Jorge Gutierrez.

"Perfectly" is not a term I would consider using for a physical, and I'm in mostly okay health.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Jonathan Reiner: "One other interesting thing I noted was that when the president left Walter Reed, he posted that he had a perfect '6 month physical.' So we're changing from a routine yearly physical to, I guess as a nod to his age, a 6 month cycle for evaluations."

It's almost as if telling students who just spend tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to train for a career in myriad industries that their labor is being devalued and deprioritized is unpopular. Hm.

404 Media@404media.co

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

"The Christian Nationalists who have a victim complex are trying to silence the influence and voice of anybody not them, and I'm perfectly okay with that" - Mike Johnson, probably.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "The naysayers who have created this new term 'Christian nationalism' as a pejorative, a derogatory term, are trying to silence the influence and voices of Christians, and I think that's wildly inappropriate."

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Replying to @muellershewrote.com

Trust in our institutions, including the justice system, law enforcement, the media, and elected officials has been obliterated by flooding the zone with shit and a handful of billionaires owning everything. Start there. END/

We are perhaps a couple years away from stripping citizenship from anyone who can't pay to keep it and reinstituting indentured servitude for the rest.

Jay Kuo@nycjayjay.bsky.social

This is…rather telling and incredible. Link: buff.ly/4nvF198