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How can a fox be happy without a chicken in its teeth? 💙📚 ReligionNerd; Libraries 🏳️‍🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️‍⚧️. End the warcrimes. Open borders. End Prisons. Eat the Rich.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Second interview for a prison ed job yesterday left me feeling... quietly hopeful and curious about what that future could look like.
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just taught 1st class with @thekateward.bsky.social‘s book, & the conversations were phenom! Dr. Ward masterfully lays bare the dysfunction in our work culture & shows how Catholic Social Teaching challenges it
Book cover:

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MAKING A Life
LIVING
— CATHOLIC —
SOCIAL TEACHING AND THE MEANING
- OF WORK
KATE WARD
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing up my sleeve....
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More rough news in religious higher education. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/25/v...
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Vanderbilt Divinity School in receivership - Nashville Banner
Vanderbilt Divinity School has been placed into receivership as university administration looks to restructure operations, reevaluate investment.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Since then, there has been a good deal of research on racial disparities in Title IX enforcement. No one found anything. (Myself included.) In fact, sexual assault is one of the only school disciplinary proceedings without a racial disparity.
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U.S. GAO - K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities
What GAO Found Black students, boys, and students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined (e.g., suspensions and expulsions) in K-12...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And I know this thread is already long, so I’m going to wrap it up with a link to Sara Ahmed’s beautiful essay about how it’s actually okay for perpetrators to face the consequences of their actions—including exclusion from the social spaces where they abused their power.
feministkilljoys.substack.com
The Complainer as Carceral Feminist
I am often asked how my arguments about complaint activism relate to the projects of transformative and restorative justice as well as abolitionist feminism.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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The Catholic Theological Society of America @thectsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Career Opportunity: Professor of International Peace Studies, including directorship of Catholic Peacebuilding Network. @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social #CareerOpportinity #Theology #Catholic www.ctsa-online.org/CareerOpport...
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Catholic Theological Society of America - Career Opportunities
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Heather Corinna @heathercorinna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re near the end of our fundraising drive: can you help the queer-led, truly comprehensive — w/thousands of original resources created over nearly 30 years AND direct services — inclusive, dedicated source of sex, relationships + health help for young people today? pro.gofundme.com/fundraiser/7...
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Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This song is how I am making it through Wednesday youtu.be/NEfmRXYCguc?...
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Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (Official Video)
YouTube video by Rhiannon Giddens
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22/09/2026
Black folks are being pushed out of the workforce & unemployment rates are at their highest since the pandemic. That's why we need a Federal Job Guarantee now more than ever. My bill will help America reach full employment & help achieve long-term economic security for all.
A graphic that reads:

How it started:

A Federal Job Guarantee has deep roots in American history and the civil rights movement.

It was a key component of FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights, and Black leaders and economists like Coretta Scott King and Sadie Alexander all advocated for guaranteed jobs.A graphic that reads:

How it’s going:

It’s been 63 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and it’s time we actualize their radical dream and legislative blueprint.

Today, we’re building on their legacy and introducing legislation to help reach full employment and achieve long-term economic security for all.A graphic that reads: 

How it works: 

A Federal Job Guarantee would create an enforceable legal right to a quality job on projects that meet long-neglected needs, including:

—care for children and seniors
—sustainable transit systems
—protecting the environment

It provides all adults seeking employment public jobs with wages no less than $25 an hour and strong union protections.A graphic that reads: 

Our resolution:

—Creates a pathway to stable employment
—Helps close racial and gender income gaps
—Sets a new standard for quality jobs with dignified wages, safe working conditions, healthcare, and more
—Makes the economy more resilient and more inclusive
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.
A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know what would let a lot more people play/focus on sports intensively as a post-high school and even post-college career into their 30s? Universal basic income.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the end of Lula's speech is hopeful and pointed. citing MLK's Nobel prize speech, he says, what self-centered men break, other-centered men may rebuild, & that the UN was born under a sign of hope by people who refused to accept war, colonialism, poverty, that it should be again a tentpole of peace
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My friend Joshua is doing some great reporting on immigration in CT.
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Greylock Together INDIVISIBLE Berkshire County Ma @gtindivisible.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's National Voter Registration Day, and we're getting #VoteReady! If you’re not registered at all, get registered. And if you have any trouble or need more help, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE. #NationalVoterRegistrationDay share.indvs.org/s/ctv55nHu
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Check Your Voter Registration: Select Your State
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Homework... I hates it. (Reader this is my 15 year old's AP human geography homework. I cant remember my parents helping me with any homework after 6th grade... except big projects. is this just me?)
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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can't wait to listen to this limited Podcast series from @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Learn how Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson started tracking & documenting book bans, what inspires her advocacy, what she's most proud of, & how she continues showing up every day. www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...
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Episode One: Tasslyn Magnusson — Liberating Lit
Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson has been tracking book bans since 2021. But her work is much more than simply counting–it’s helping motivate other people nationwide to get to work protecting the right to read. ...
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Found it! Ratified by the USA (and China, Russia, etc.), so it's on the same level as constitutional amendments, above US federal law. "states shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner"
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Outer Space Treaty - Wikipedia
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Even though I haven't found any of the tools to be particularly helpful personally given my existing level of research skill it's hard not to conclude from this chart in the Katina article that EBSCO has a much better development strategy that ProQuest... katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Chart from article shows 6 AI tools developed for different tasks by EBSCO and a unification of tasks across a smaller number of Proquest/Clarivate research assistants. Combining tasks may not make them inherently worse at each task but it seems to have done so in fact?
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Important critical lacuna in the dialogue about SWs in libraries NAMELY (1) we don't have evidence it decreases social exclusion or increases inclusion (2) its not a solution which arises from patron demand/interest (3) it introduces new privacy concerns and risks reinforcing marginalizing policies
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This article makes valuable points, but I will never forget the relief I saw on a circulation worker's face when she realized that a social worker in the space would mean she wasn't the primary person on call the next time someone ODed in the library bathroom.
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"the project of elimination is now being implemented more openly, directly and violently than before, and increasingly relies on cooperation between official state authorities and settler militias operating in the West Bank with state backing and support"
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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April Sharp, MD @ansharp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was 16 on 9/11, and I was scared for our country. I was 35 on 1/6, and I was even more scared for our country. Acts of hate will destroy us. Love and acceptance are the path forward.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Really nothing to say about this except “shame“ and “scandal“ www.ncregister.com/news/pecknol...
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Catholic Theologian Takes Job in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security
Chad Pecknold, a longtime professor at The Catholic University of America, has begun working for the government agency that oversees immigration enforcement.
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can one both wash the dishes to wash the dishes and wash the dishes, practicing the presence of God? Perhaps this is like asking if one can wash the dishes while singing "Soda-pop" by the Saja Boys and embarassing your teenager.
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
quotes Bretherton "we can either kill them, create systems of domination to coerce them into doing what we want or we can form some kind of common life with them through politics" BUT
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no one @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
narrator voice: he’s getting away with it
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Evening reading...
My tax dollars: the moraity of tqxpaying in America by Ruth Braunstein
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#thunderinggods Today I am thinking about how one might use this archival record of the interrogation of Jacques La Fargue (born Esther Brandeau) to talk about how religion, race, and gender would be co-constitutive in colonial Americas/New France...
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In today's GLAM news,... another institutional leader that is committed to telling our full and complicated national history stepping down. We don't need more American propaganda, we need to aspire to ideal of freedom with full knowledge of our past failures as well as our heroes.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Proud to know Elizabeth!
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So how are those Feast of Creation sermons coming along?
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i wanna single out this one too: awhile back there was ALMOST a bipartisan pass on banning surprise billing at hospitals, but it got blown up by richard neal (dem house rep for MA's 1st district, at-large whip) and the party's punishment of him for doing this was: nothing bsky.app/profile/thir...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This entire campaign is about normalizing the idea that Trump and Hegseth can murder without evidence, due process, justification, or legal consequences. They want the god-like power to smite anyone at will. They are counting on your silence and acquiescence. Do not comply.
abcnews.com
Return of Trump's boat strike campaign reignites questions of legality -- and usefulness
The revival of the Trump administration's boat strike campaign targeting alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean has prompted a fresh round of scrutiny from critics.
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PSA that the website for @lauraleibman.bsky.social and @adrianabrodsky.bsky.social's fantastic collection, *Jews Across the Americas* offer's fantastic resources to supplement the book. Check it out:
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Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present – Learning and Teaching Jewish American History
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At a moment when gender and sexuality is central to understanding contemporary American politics, Harvard decides to . . . defund its Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 03/09/2026
Our ancestors were neither primitive nor ignorant. They thought and reasoned and questioned and drew conclusions based on the data in front of them. They knew way more than one might assume and we (as a society) are far more ignorant than we like to admit.
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👀 @mpgphd.bsky.social @profirmf.bsky.social
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👇 This is necessary reading - about the closing of one particular program, but giving insights into the bigger war on education:
Starting with the last claim first, about “financial return,” closing the department will supposedly save Virginia Tech $121,185 per annum—barely a rounding error in an institutional operating budget of $2.5 billion. The neoliberal university may function like a corporation, but budgets are always moral documents that demonstrate what an institution values. So, if we’re talking about such a small portion (0.004%) of the budget, and yet “financial return on investment” was supposedly a driving factor in the decision, then we have to ask about those institutional values. Or, to put it another way, it’s fair to ask what Virginia Tech received for its $121,185.
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep A coalition of 22 blue states sues Trump over new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid rule which prohibits funds being use for minors' GAC, saying it unfairly singles out trans kids.
courthousenews.com
Blue states sue Trump over Medicaid ban on trans youth treatments
The states accuse the Trump administration of using transgender minors as “scapegoats to stoke national division.”
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The threats continue against judges. www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...
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Dozens Of Federal Judges Go On Record About The Rising Threats They Face
In rare first-person accounts, judges describe a surge in disturbing threats, “swatting” and “pizza doxxing” since Trump took office in 2025.
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Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com · 03/09/2026
"When fascists come to you asking for help IDing our neighbors, coworkers, community, YOU: don't know, don't care, don't tell..." riso prints are now up at my press store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/nope...
Risograph print on speckled cream paper with black, fluorescent blue, magenta, and gradient ink. The text says: "When fascists come to you asking for help identifying our neighbors, coworkers, community, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing"
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jks (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the opening of The River has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com is so lyrical I think I am really going to enjoy this one...
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