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the internet is my pulpit now. former pastor, current freelance writer living in the Blue Ridge mountains danacassell.substack.com

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With what Republicans are about to hand to ICE we could instead end school lunch debt, hire enough teachers, and keep the childcare system afloat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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What $100 billion in new ICE funding would look like
The staggering increase is difficult to process. These numbers will help.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
9. If they were choosing patriotism, we'd be done by now. If they had the votes for Trump fealty, we'd be done by now. Instead, they are floundering, hoping that before this day is out they will find a way to hurt the American people as Daddy has demanded.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/06/2025
“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main... #Palestine #Israel
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Mainstream obituaries are erasing Pope Francis’s deep concern for Palestine
Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.
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SMART Union @smart-union.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Faith leaders gathered in front of the White House today for a vigil and prayer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Bring him home!
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 04/04/2025
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including the power of ridicule, writes @daniel-hunter.bsky.social.
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What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked?
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In addition to all the other horrible things, Trump's second term is like a Twilight Zone episode where his voters are told they can be as racist as they want except now groceries cost a trillion dollars.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
we all understand that this just means we have to yell at our reps more, right
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
THE PRESIDENT CANNOT DO THIS BY EXECUTIVE ORDER IT ONLY PURPORTS TO DO THIS WHY DO THE COUNTRY'S LEADING NEWSPAPERS NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/03/2025
SCHUMER: Look… I know everyone’s worried about this statue facing our gates. But I see this as a chess match between us and the Greeks—and I know chess. Our best play is to move the horse straight forward. TOWNSMAN: Are you sure you know chess?
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Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you have power in your institution and your institution imposes rules limiting what you can do or say, please consider breaking those rules and doing so publicly.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.” Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College. Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/03/2025
t h e r e a s o n m a n y e l e c t e d d e m o c r a t s a r e a c t i n g l i k e t h i s i s b e c a u s e t h e y l i k e w h a t i s h a p p e n i n g
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I am well acquainted with this bankrupt brand of leadership because I worked for the church for a very long time.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/03/2025
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/03/2025
We have to talk about the absolutely insane CR the GOP has proposed. This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Every time I speak publicly about the abusive behavior of men in leadership, someone privately messages me to tell me to be safe/careful/circumspect in how and where I speak. You know what would make me safer? More people speaking up about the abusive behavior of men in leadership.
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Mennonites are getting a LOT of mileage out of Mennonite Church USA vs. Department of Homeland Security right now, and I've heard talk of tshirts. Nobody measures up to Raygun, tho.
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Look, I agree that pennies and paper straws are trash. If you could issue your own petty executive order, what would it be?
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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts. Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.
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Trump admin claws back $80M given to NYC to house migrants — but comptroller calls it ‘highway robbery’
Millions in FEMA funds sent to New York City last week to help with the migrant crisis were clawed back Wednesday, officials said.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I'm so glad to know so many faith leaders who take Jesus seriously enough to do this. Way to go, Mennonites, CoB, NC Council of Churches, NC & GA Methodists! www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Rather than turning the funding back on, the Trump administration is appealing the federal district judge's order. That should be political messaging: rather than complying with the court order to restore Congressionally-appropriating funding, they are still trying to withhold needed federal $$
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This thing I wrote yesterday went slightly viral; maybe you'd like to read it, too? danacassell.substack.com/p/all-up-in-...
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all up in each other's business
No fewer than five people sent me this NPR article about the NC Baptist pastor who was fired for (ostensibly) preaching racial justice. It was a hot topic, of course, with all the clergy groups I’m st...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/02/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
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Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
REP. OMAR: “This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.” SEN. MURPHY: “Let’s call it what it is - a constitutional crisis.”
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening."
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The dog woke me up at 2am because...she was hungry? Now she's snoring and I am still awake. Every time.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
hi there! neighborhood chickenlittle here. there’s an administrative coup happening right now that is barely being reported on, and trade wars are set to start tomorrow that will absolutely impact the entire world economy.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I'm volunteering today at an event with hundreds of high schoolers and they are ALL wearing CLOGS. Seriously, like 60% of footwear in my line of sight are slip-ons.
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Dana @danadefrocked.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Someone please give me the best alternative to the NYT crossword because I MUST stop giving those tyrant-fawning goobers my hard-earned dollars!
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