Cal Burke
“a well-known LGBT Mormon advocate”—@thedailybeast. “a faith leader to watch”—@AmericanProgress. “Heartbreakingly honest”—@LDSLivingMag. He/him⚣🌈
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- Reposted by Cal BurkeImpossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
- Reposted by Cal Burke“We’re being canceled when we say the n-word” *white woman says n-word, people giver her $700,000” “We still feel canceled on the inside”
- Reposted by Cal BurkeThe Israeli government-approved plan for the full takeover of Gaza ten days from now would clearly constitute “deliberately inflicting on [a] group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part” — i.e. genocide. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
- Reposted by Cal Burke“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days. …signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...
- Reposted by Cal Burkethe jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
- Reposted by Cal BurkeIt's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.
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- Reposted by Cal Burkedisciple 1: he’s alive! returned from the dead! disciple 2: did he roll away the stone? disciple 3: did he show you the holes in his hands? judas: did he uh. did he mention me
- Guess who headlined in their congregation’s Easter Sunday program for the second year in a row? That’s right: Korihor.
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- Reposted by Cal BurkeThis is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.
- Reposted by Cal Burkeanyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality
- This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
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- Reposted by Cal BurkeTHEY FINALLY PUT ME ON AIR ahahahaha
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- Reposted by Cal Burkethis is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
- Reposted by Cal BurkeTaking “constituent services” to the max. Well done, Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov.
- Reposted by Cal BurkeLegit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.
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- Reposted by Cal Burkei have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move
- Reposted by Cal BurkeI have three bottles of champagne set aside. One for her, one for the oligarch, and one for the dictator. And I intend to live to drink all three.
- Reposted by Cal Burkeflashback to how americans acted the last time federal agents started kidnapping their neighbors
- Reposted by Cal BurkeI said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
- Reposted by Cal BurkeIf I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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- Reposted by Cal Burkerewatching raimi's spider-man 2 and what's killing me about these movies is just how laser-focused they are on class dynamics. 14 minutes in aunt may starts crying because she gave peter 20 bucks for his birthday and he tried to turn it away and she's ashamed she can't afford to do better by him
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View full threadReposted by Cal Burke"T.S. Eliot is more complicated than advanced science." --actual line of dialog spoken by otto octavius in spider-man 2. imagine an mcu movie even momentarily suggesting that being "smart" isn't a magical super power that instantly makes you better than everyone at literally everything
- Reposted by Cal BurkeThis is what the so-called war on “woke” was always about it, convincing people that what happens to the marginalized can’t happen to them. It can, it will. First, challenge citizenship by birth. Then, unconstitutionally expel citizens from their own country. “Deport” is the incorrect word, btw.
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- By far my favorite popular culture development of 2025 has been the resurrection of the song “Someone to Call My Lover” by Janet Jackson, which has been one of my very favorite songs since I was a little boy. SO glad that people are remembering it now😭
- MEN ARE TRASH but this weekend I am hosting a movie party and I am very excited about this. I will be inflicting another Almodóvar movie on my IRL friends. V excited to socialize again
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- Reposted by Cal Burkegoldman sachs execs showing up to luigi mangione's cell like nick fury recruiting an avenger
- “A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
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- Reposted by Cal Burkeif there's one thing Evangelical Christians know it's that having the state execute a beloved dissident always stops that dissident's message from spreading so yeah seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione seems smart
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- Reposted by Cal BurkeIf Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.
- Reposted by Cal Burkeremember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
- Reposted by Cal BurkeWhen you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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