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Brian Harrington

@abharrington.bsky.social
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Minister, Speaker, Educator, Writer; striving to help others (particularly White Christians) be inspired by their deepest faith commitments to work for justice.

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Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 19/09/2026
I feel so bad for NC State fans. I cannot believe that just happened. Throw it away! Take the safety! Do anything BUT that!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is very important, and very well done, by @jamellebouie.net. I encourage you to watch it and share it. 
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 13/08/2026
Men will literally build a baseball field in their corn field instead of going to therapy.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Q: What is the defining character of this time in American history? A: Relentless, shameless lying by people in power. And public tolerance for it.
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Jack Todd @jacktodd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Overwhelming response to this column today. Pretty clear people are fed up with the gambling takeover of major sports - and that fans support Kylian Mbappe in his opposition to the corporate bookies. montrealgazette.com/sports/socce...
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Todd: Kudos to Kylian Mbappé for heroic stand against gambling scourge
French soccer puts principles ahead of pocketbook with courageous shot at "destructive" sports gaming industry.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Brian Harrington @abharrington.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I was in the audience that night, was thrilled Bebe Neuwirth was a guest judge, and echo her sentiments about this joyous celebration of humanity!
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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On the shift from “Christian Nationalism” to “Christian Civilization” NYT 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/b...
"I wouldn't describe it as a rebranding; I think what's going on is far more radical than that," Philip Gorski, a professor of sociology and religious studies at Yale, told me. "What you're seeing is a reorganization and reorientation of the Christian right in the United States and other parts of the world that really is quite profound."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I guarantee you that Trump cares more about the Reflecting Pool turning green than he cares about his illegal war killing 100+ Iranian schoolgirls.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/06/2026
I mean…wow.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today in 1954
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Brian Harrington @abharrington.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I'm so excited to share with you all that I am leading my first Faithful Justice pilgrimage to NYC in July, with three Broadway shows, a Slavery and Underground Railroad tour, and a Spirituality in Art tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More info: faithfuljustice.org/pilgrimages
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The soldiers in the back are Western-backed and the kid in the front is just a kid. The Israeli barbed wire prevents the kid from going to a Palestinian school in the Palestinian West Bank. That’s the Israeli-Palestinian “conflict”. www.instagram.com/p/DYC4tOalYWJ/
Three masked and armed men overlook a kid reading a book
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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Such stories are not unique in the Southern Baptist Convention. Paul Pressler is not a “fluke in the system.” The system knew what Pressler was doing behind closed doors, and it willingly turned a blind eye—and worse, even provided financial assistance to make his abuse possible.
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How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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John18 @john18.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Could we have a worse Administration to have the 250th Anniversary, the FIFA World Cup & the Olympics? I didn't think so.
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Morgan @mport25.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
STOP PLAYING GOD BLESS AMERICA AT SPORTING EVENTS.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It is difficult to imagine any US leader who could cause more harm to US foreign policy than Trump: 1. Since he lies all the time, he has wasted all US credibility. 2. Since he pursues trade wars against all purported allies, he is in war with all allies. /1
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Matt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
(Re-posting, sent through the cobwebs.) Source confirms to CBS Sports that Will Wade is bailing on NC State after one year and going back to LSU. One of the more absurd coaching sagas I can ever remember. LSU is 1 of 1. So is Will Wade. Which makes them a match made in mess.
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Pat Forde @bypatforde.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Column: Will Wade and LSU. A strong-ass love story. bit.ly/4lTIZ9i
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Will Wade and LSU Seem Destined for a Reunion Four Years After Messy Firing
The current NC State men’s basketball coach was radioactive after his last stint in Baton Rouge, but now could add to the menagerie of antiheroes.
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Brian Harrington @abharrington.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I was so honored to be invited to preach a week ago at Princeton University by my dear friend Theresa Thames, the Dean of the Chapel. You can watch the worship service, including my sermon, “Surely We Aren’t Blind,” at this link: www.youtube.com/live/eG6FE8O...
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Sunday Worship Service | March 15, 2026
YouTube video by Office of Religious Life Princeton
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 09/02/2026
Unidos somos América.
Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Trump goes full racist during Black History Month, refuses to apologize. What the research says about why this matters. www.whitetoolong.net/p/trump-goes...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
So far it seems like the mainstream media is mostly ignoring Trump posting a video of the Obamas as apes
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NYT: “The depiction of Mr. and Mrs. Obama as apes perpetuates a racist trope promoted by slave traders and segregationists,” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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Trump Posts Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Since the damn Tea Party which was always about race/racism
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 25/01/2026
And there’s the irony: in the attempt to avoid inserting itself into the argument, a news organisation which fails to distinguish empty statements from evidenced ones is doing exactly that. You cannot, in 2026, report passively and hope to be truthful. /ends
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 23/01/2026
More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A blessing for this evening. From the Black Rock Prayer Book.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Please read this great Inquirer op-ed by my good friend Gwen
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.” www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
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ICE detains and holds four Native Americans, tribal leader says
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands action after ICE detains four members in Minneapolis. Tribal attorneys work to confirm identities and secure release.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
this really is quite something. This is a mayor of a major U.S. city saying that he cannot do what he is legally empowered to do because he doesn’t have enough guns to do it. The thing is arresting agents of the federal government who are breaking laws.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no
Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history.
He doesn't care about the life of the mind
OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper.
He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or youngson. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them
— and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he'svery ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?
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