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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Faith communities can play a pivotal role in protecting our neighbors and building a stronger democracy. Join me and @interfaithalliance.org, @protectdemocracy.org, @horizonsprjt.bsky.social on June 23rd for a virtual training to get tools to counter authoritarianism: bit.ly/faithfulfight.

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's probably time to remove Sam Long from high leverage situations and let him work on his stuff and his confidence @royals

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Chris Crawford @crawfordstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is, indeed, a moral moment. Today, @protectdemocracy.org and Horizons Project are launching "The Faithful Fight", a series of toolkits that provide uplifting stories and concrete actions that religious communities can take to counter authoritarianism. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...

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The Faithful Fight: Toolkits for countering authoritarianism - Protect Democracy

The Faithful Fight brings together strategies from religious leaders across denominations to help communities mobilize against authoritarian actions.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 30/03/2025

Shocked, but gratified to see that 90 law professors at Harvard signed this letter denouncing the lawlessness of Trump’s attacks on equal protection and freedom of speech and affirming commitment to the rule of law (especially after its dean did not join in the prior letter stating similar things)

We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities—because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment.
Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice."
The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders:
• single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment;
• threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service;
• relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and
• punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern.
While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described.
On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts, we share a conviction that our Constitution, including its First Amend…

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The article is by Brian but the quote is from Christian leaders in Jerusalem. Taking Gaza is an act of colonization that denies our shared humanity

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Jerusalem Christian Leaders Denounce Trump’s Plan to Take Over Gaza

Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump offered a surprise announcement that “the U.S.

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

open.substack.com/pub/publicwi... As Brian points out, the governor is Lutheran and a member of the largest Lutheran congregation in the US but she cannot speak to whether it is a money laundering operation. Perhaps she should re-afilliate

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When a Politician’s Party Trumps Their Church

How do you respond if the world’s wealthiest man attacks your church?

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In these days of unending targeting and aggression, there's so much to love ab this story. An historically Black church owns their name. The resistance is real www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

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Kansas City Chiefs Fans @chiefs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

32 to 29 final. Chiefs heading back to the Super Bowl. Chiefs fans, check in!! #ChiefsKingdom

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Kansas City is going to the Super Bowl back to back to back! Nawlins are y'all ready for some KC magic?

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

x.com/billmelugin_... The 'sensitive places' memo has been rescinded. Houses of worship, schools and hospitals need to have a plan for vulnerable people moving forward

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RIP to a life well lived with integrity, grace and intention. You lived out your faith and reminded us to always become our best selves.

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@heathercounts.bsky.social welcome to the party! Glad you left the bird graveyard

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Deth @dethim.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Welcome to the party @fianational.bsky.social! Time to leave govt efficiency in the dust #votewithourfeet

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