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Professor Cosmic

@cosmicgilligan

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active: 2025-07-28 → 2026-06-20

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PR Professor Cosmic · Misfits Ministries

Who are My Mother and Brothers?

“Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.” — Jesus

Sep 27, 2025 · 25 min read · 0 claps #christian-love #discipleship #ecumenism

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The F-Bomb: Fascism, Recognition, and the Failure to Name

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” — attributed to George Orwell

Jun 11, 2026 · 22 min read · 0 claps #fascism #maga #alternative-facts

The F-Bomb: Fascism, Recognition, and the Failure to Name

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

George Washington Warns Across the Centuries

The Platonic Strongman and the Soul of Democracy

Apr 06, 2026 · 19 min read · 0 claps #trump-administration #maga #george-washington

George Washington Warns Across the Centuries

PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The Long View: What the News Doesn’t Tell You About the Strait of Hormuz

“Those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it — and those who do remember the past are doomed to watch everyone else repeat…

Jun 20, 2026 · 17 min read · 0 claps #strait-of-hormuz #iran-war #persian-gulf

The Long View: What the News Doesn’t Tell You About the Strait of Hormuz

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

Better Angels, Broken Promises

The arc of the moral universe [still] bends toward justice

May 27, 2026 · 14 min read · 0 claps #voting-rights #civil-rights #mlk

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The Amendment We Lost

Lexington, the Second Amendment, and the Slow Death of Federalism

Mar 12, 2026 · 13 min read · 0 claps #2d-amendment #constitution #dc-v-heller

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The Epistemological Cage

Epistemic Isolation and the Death of Self-Correction

May 16, 2026 · 11 min read · 0 claps #maga #media-bubbles #web-du-bois

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

Tracing the Flight of the Psychological Bird: Race Division as Social Control

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him…

Jul 28, 2025 · 10 min read · 0 claps #racism #jim-crow #mlk

Tracing the Flight of the Psychological Bird: Race Division as Social Control

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

Show Me the Spot

The Inevitable Cost of Presidential Military Adventures

May 03, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps #venezuela #iran #trump

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

It’s Much More Than Bread and Circuses

The promise and dangers of American populism, from Andrew Jackson’s White House to Donald Trump’s octagon

Jun 04, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #bread-and-circuses #america-250 #donald-trump

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The Times That Try Men’s Souls

What the Founders Can Teach Us About Tyranny

Oct 06, 2025 · 9 min read · 0 claps #ice #trump #revolution

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

They Should Have Killed More: How Lies Give Permission for Violence

Somewhere in America right now, there are neighbors — ordinary people, probably parents themselves — who believe Renee Nicole Good…

Jan 09, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #politics #social-justice #psychology

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The Theology of Pretext: From Tampico to Caracas

Why the “Cartel of the Suns” is the 21-Gun Salute of the 21st Century

Jan 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #just-war-theory #venezuela #us-history

The Theology of Pretext: From Tampico to Caracas

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

No, Speaker Johnson, You Are Not More Catholic Than the Pope

The Theological and Constitutional Fallacy of Romans 13 in the Face of State Lawlessness.

Feb 04, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #catholic-social-teaching #constitution #human-rights

No, Speaker Johnson, You Are Not More Catholic Than the Pope

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PR Professor Cosmic · Dispatches From Exile

The Guardrails Are Gone: Nixon Would Survive 2025

In the summer of 1974, the United States faced one of the most profound constitutional crises in its history. President Richard Nixon and…

Dec 01, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #nixon #watergate #trump-administration