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John Allen

@knowtea

Minister (PCUSA), Musician (conductor, composer, singer, pianist/organist, music director for musical theatre), Whovian, Teutophone, Swedish-American, Jazz aficionado, #faithfullylgbt, and stuff.

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Atlas is the absolute CUTEST

07.03.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My undergrad is in voice performance. One of my master’s degrees is in conducting. One of my daughters is a professional ballet dancer. And I don’t care about TimothΓ©e Chalamet.

07.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

07.03.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

For his next post Glass will be in a prematurely-air-conditioned supermarket …

06.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DONALD TRUMP KILLED 170 CHILDREN IN MINAB, IRAN AND THEN POSTED A SIZZLE REEL DECLARING "FLAWLESS VICTORY"

We are the bad guys.

We are the rogue nation we grew up being taught to fear and despise.

06.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 1993 πŸ” 642 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 28

Same

06.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oil up by $12 a barrel in less than 12 hours.

Gas prices skyrocketing.

Almost 100,000 jobs lost last month.

Another war in the Middle East.

Are we great again yet?

06.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 10563 πŸ” 2903 πŸ’¬ 561 πŸ“Œ 125
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β€œTrans children are perfect.”

06.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 3729 πŸ” 1027 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 147
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This is not good.

06.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 9111 πŸ” 3536 πŸ’¬ 723 πŸ“Œ 451

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 29550 πŸ” 4007 πŸ’¬ 367 πŸ“Œ 161
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

04.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 998 πŸ” 599 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 15

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

03.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 10712 πŸ” 3254 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 244

Must be in the air … right there with you

03.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."

If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids

03.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 2518 πŸ” 232 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 23

We’ve been in full communion with those 3 for a WHILE. Like the entire time I’ve been in the denomination. We’re also in full communion with the Moravian Church.

03.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a β€œvictim” in the warrant.

02.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 10989 πŸ” 4643 πŸ’¬ 210 πŸ“Œ 266

Andrew Lloyd Webber. Nothing wrong with him AFAIK

02.03.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even though ALW is, well ALW, his music still has 1000x the artistic integrity of anything from Hillsong.

01.03.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Five things that I like and five oomfs to do the same:

Jazz
Creole Cooking
Shape-note Singing
Coffee & Tea (tie LOL)
Doctor Who

@bcentz.bsky.social
@geraldfarinas.bsky.social
@nicholasheide.bsky.social
@magikarpolycarp.bsky.social
@jpmillernerd.bsky.social

21.02.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Last year’s Bannock Night/Mardi Gras Party: 45+ people, ran out of bannock batter, ran out of King Cake. This year I made 1.5x as much bannock batter, made 3 LARGE King Cakes (3 different kinds) instead of 2 Medium like last yr., had maybe 16 people. I’m so tired and so depressed.

18.02.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This made me feel so much better. Thank you, internet, for making my day so much brighter.

14.02.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Completely agree

14.02.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 1245 πŸ” 237 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 0
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14.02.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I am friends with exactly 3 people from high school.

14.02.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE operation causes students at Lindenwold bus stop to flee in panic, school district says

Children ran from a South Jersey bus stop in a panic on Thursday when an ICE operation was carried out nearby. Video shows kids were shouting β€œICE! ICE!”

13.02.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A grievous failure of justice and compassion. When our nation’s leaders re-harm the wounded, they betray the gospel of justiceβ€”no matter how much they may pretend otherwise.

13.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Magically Disappearing Stimulus Checks I was promised cheaper groceries and tariff rebates and all I got was this lousy pogrom.

"These checks were supposed to be sent to every red-blooded American household, to be funded from all the magnificent savings achieved by Elon Musk’s chainsawing of federal waste, fraud, and abuse." Hey, remember that?

13.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 202 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

12th Valentine’s Day in a row alone. Livin’ the freakin’ dream …

13.02.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

13.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 3872 πŸ” 1836 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 204
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RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

13.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 4984 πŸ” 2241 πŸ’¬ 581 πŸ“Œ 388