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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The eve of the papal conclave is as good a time as any to point out that it was only fairly recently (1917) that a cardinal in the Catholic Church was required to be ordained and therefore also male. Prior to this point, cardinals only needed to be active in the sacramental life of the church… 1/

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Well done, good and faithful servant.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I love Luke’s version of the resurrection proclamation n because, among other reasons, it reminds men that they should BELIEVE WOMEN

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

During the reading of the passion according to Luke at mass tonight, when the reader portraying the soldier said of the recently-crucified Jesus, “Surely this man was innocent,” in my mind I heard, “Sorry, administrative error.”

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Greer: “As the ‘I didn’t think he would do this’ chorus continues to grow, I can’t help but think what many really mean is, ‘I didn’t think he would do this to people like me.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Opinion | Black Americans Are Not Surprised

Many Black Americans are not surprised by the way Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, because they have seen it happen throughout American history.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Every unjust social hierarchy from the modern period onward (race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) relies for its justification on the idea that the categorization of humanity into two or more groups is based on differences that are natural, biological, genetic, and/or intended by God.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/03/2025

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

You know, I’ve seen a lot of opinions lately in #VeryImportantNewspapers, the general gist of which is that US professors in higher education are out of touch with the American public, presumably because they hold certain views about immigration, transgender people, public health, and so on… 1/

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed face And renounce the voice Because I cannot hope to turn again 1/

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This morning at mass, Fr. Mike Ryan read as his homily most of the letter that Pope Francis recently wrote to the U.S. Catholic bishops, in which he opposes mass deportation and calls on them to advocate for the human rights of migrants and refugees. www.vatican.va/content/fran... 1/2

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Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United States of America (10 February 2025) | Francis

Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United Sates of America, 10 February 2025

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It’s just wild to me that Pope Francis has become the de facto moral leader of the world who stands up for justice, compassion, democracy, etc., despite technically being a monarch. His articulation of the Catholic social tradition is the most viable ideological contender with capitalism.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Voted in a local Seattle election tonight. Ballot featured a propositions about how to fund social housing and levy renewals for public school funding. I locked eyes with some of the other last-minute folks at the ballot dropbox. Slackers, all of us, but we did it. It felt sacred.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I listened to the poet recite this poem at a reading last night. Absolutely stunning and germane to the present political crisis: poets.org/poem/be-self...

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To Be Self-Evident

Every empire tells its subjects a story

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025

do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Taylor, you’ve got to get yourself a new boyfriend, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Last fall, I began class sessions in my undergraduate courses with a contemplative practice. Usually it involved reading a poem and sitting in silence for several minutes. This winter, I’ve started incorporating specific techniques into our practice so that they can regain a sense of agency. 1/

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies

The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A better headline would be: “Could undocumented persons living in the US, and US citizens suspected of being undocumented, be deported and sent to a torture facility in El Salvador?” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador's mega-jail?

El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US and house them in its mega-jail.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

An unelected private citizen is entering government buildings unimpeded and accessing highly sensitive data about millions of people. Why is no one calling the police and saying “a crime is currently in progress; please arrest him ASAP”? #DOGE

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The GOP sees this cruelty as necessary to facilitate the money grab that is coming. They are withholding federal funds authorized by Congress to pay for tax cuts for billionaires later. Vought as head of OMB will ensure this happens. They are stealing from every American taxpayer, straight up.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

An interesting thing about the Christianity currently providing ideological support for the GOP and the fictional Christianities found in Butler’s Parable series and Atwood’s Handmaid‘s Tale series is that Christ is conspicuously missing from all of them.

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here’s why Catholic universities need to frame DEI as an integral aspect of their Catholic mission, identity, and values, particularly the commitment to justice. It’s the only way we would win any legal challenge brought against us. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

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Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia

The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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Michael Jaycox (he, him) @jaycoxm.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hardly an original take, but: He’s a mob boss. A mob boss has taken over the Republican Party and is currently running the federal government. That’s what the pardoning of all of these convicted criminals, the January 6 insurrectionists, was about. They are his goons.

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