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Josiah Kidwell

@josiahkidwell.bsky.social
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Sociologist studying media, culture, and religion

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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Impossible to parody… “But Mr. Duffy and his colleagues have also deployed rhetoric that suggests the bicycle is hopelessly lefty, belonging in the same category as green-haired baristas…” Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes.
The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to see one of four copies of the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral (UK). While flawed, it says (among other things) that the monarch should be accountable to the law. 800 years later, this still seems to be a controversial idea in the US. #NoKings
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In light of the human rights violations and war crimes of the Trump admin, consider signing and sharing with Orthodox around the world. #Ορθόδοξος #Православный #Православний #Православие #Православие #Ortodoxie #მართლმადიდებელი #Ուղղափառ #ኦርቶዶክስ publicorthodoxy.org/2026/03/26/c...
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Concerning the Civil and Human Rights Violations in the United States
We sign this letter as Orthodox Christians who are witnessing a shocking shift, under the Trump administration, away from democratic norms, international law, human rights, civil rights, and religious...
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“We kept our (Palestinian Christian) existence and presence for the past 2,000 years, despite all the turmoil…But since the occupation the pressure imposed on us comes from all sides … Israel has managed to create an atmosphere where there is no hope.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank
The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The open letter on the human rights violations of the Trump administration has over 250 signatures from Orthodox Christians. Please consider sharing this letter. open.substack.com/pub/sobornos...
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Two Hundred Orthodox Christians — and Counting — Speak on Human Rights in the US
There are moments when silence is no longer an option — when the Church is called not to withdraw from the world, but to stand in it with the courage that the Gospel demands.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 31/03/2026
The Israeli defense minister threatens an illegal occupation and crimes against civilians www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border, defence minister says
Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the ‌border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday...
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
For any Orthodox Christians in the US or abroad that are concerned with the civil and human rights violations of the Trump administration, please consider signing this appeal and sharing the link with others. publicorthodoxy.org/2026/03/26/c...
publicorthodoxy.org
Concerning the Civil and Human Rights Violations in the United States
We sign this letter as Orthodox Christians who are witnessing a shocking shift, under the Trump administration, away from democratic norms, international law, human rights, civil rights, and religious...
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“United Nations food agency said the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran threatened to drive up the number of people suffering from acute hunger by tens of millions worldwide, potentially reaching record levels.” U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran Set to Drive Hunger to Record Levels www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...
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U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran Set to Drive Hunger to Record Levels
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Robert O. Paxton foretelling what American-style fascism would look like.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“The rights group said it had aggregated reports of 1,097 civilian deaths and over 5,000 injuries so far” time.com/7382536/iran...
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Civilian Death Toll in Iran Passes 1,000, Rights Group Says
Pete Hegseth said airstrikes would intensify across Iran, and that U.S. forces were delivering “death and destruction."
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AI & ML News @ai-news.at.thenote.app · 02/03/2026
'No ethics at all': the 'cancel ChatGPT' trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the US military Amidst concerns over mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, many users are quitting ChatGPT. Telegram AI Digest #chatgpt #gpt #openai
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'No ethics at all': the 'cancel ChatGPT' trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the US military
Amidst concerns over mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, many users are quitting ChatGPT.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/02/2026
The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/02/2026
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Now do immunity...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
National Shutdown today. No work, no school, no shopping (least of all at complicit businesses). See you in the streets today and tomorrow for the ICE Out of Everywhere protests 📣📣📣
ICE OUT!
NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN!
NO WORK. NO SCHOOL.
NO SHOPPING.
JAN 30, 2026
SIGN ON TO JOIN US:
NationalShutdown.us
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This poll is the worst high-quality poll for Trump that I’ve seen this term.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Political Scientists would call it a "tactical concession" (RRS' Spiral Model). Human rights and democracy campaigners need to make sure it leads to more gains (positive spiral) instead of stalling progress (negative spiral).
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Beautiful sign supporting the people of Minnesota. Photo taken at a protest today in Las Vegas.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23/01/2026
The general strike is happening today. www.iceoutnowmn.com
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ICE OUT OF MN
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/01/2026
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/01/2026
Subzero temps, mass arrests, and a shutdown that is still swelling the streets. Thousands across Minnesota are marching, on work stoppage, and risking arrest to say: immigrants are welcome here. From @sarahlazare.bsky.social with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
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“Immigrants Are Welcome Here”: Thousands of Minnesotans Take to the Streets to Stop ICE
Extreme cold couldn't stop the Minnesota shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested in an act of civil disobedience and scores of residents participated in the work stoppage, a massive...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22/01/2026
Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
"But also I feel like Christians should be the first people to fight for this," Ben interjected, as Sam nodded. "What have we been taught our entire life? Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked.
This is basic, basic stuff. Christians have always been people who are supposed to be there for the marginalized, the people that are being hurt by systems, the people that don't have a voice."
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza, Building by Building www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Two Months After Cease-Fire, Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza
More than 2,500 buildings have been destroyed since the start of the cease-fire, according to a New York Times analysis. Israel says it is demilitarizing Gaza.
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Politico @politico.com · 12/01/2026
Former Rep. Mary Peltola jumps into Alaska Senate race
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Former Rep. Mary Peltola jumps into Alaska Senate race
The former Alaska congressmember will likely face off against Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and is a recruitment coup for national Democrats.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Kristi Noem: "Renee Good was a domestic terrorist."
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The illegal attack on Venezuela is not foreign policy; it’s gangsterism on an international scale.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
He is completely deranged…
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Genuinely wonder how European and Irish leaders do respond to this. How are Denmark, Greenland or indeed the people of Ukraine and Taiwan feeling too?
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
World Council of Churches calls for sanctions on Israel
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World Council of Churches calls for sanctions on Israel
The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over what it described as a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and violations against…
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 17/12/2025
Venezuela is not completely surrounded by an armada, because Venezuela is not an island. Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.
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Andrey X @theandreyx.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Bethlehem 🇵🇸 is celebrating Christmas for the first time in two years
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@weeknightmsnow.bsky.social Great interview @aftynbehn.bsky.social joined @aliciamenendez.bsky.social to talk about tomorrow’s election and how her opponent and MAGA Republicans are so afraid and desperate that he is going to lose. Best of luck tomorrow! #TN07 #Tennessee youtu.be/BZyIyDhsaCM?...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/11/2025
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Insightful reflection on the New York Times article that explains the problem of the “masculinity” narrative among Orthodox converts. publicorthodoxy.org/2025/11/22/o...
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The "Orthodoxy as Masculinity" Narrative
According to the New York Times, young, conservative men are flocking to the Orthodox Church because it provides an all-too-rare space that celebrates masculinity. This “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narr...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
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Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I guess MAGA folks want to make America great by deporting Christians?? "The report finds that, as of the end of 2024, more than 10 million Christians are vulnerable to deportation, accounting for roughly 80 percent of all of those at risk of deportation.” worldrelief.org/pr-new-repor...
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New Report Details the Potential Impact of Deportations on American Christian Families
Today, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program for at least four months.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“Every word that you’ve read about him from people who know him is a true word,” said Elizabeth Diop, who worked alongside Soliman as a chaplain. “Even in fucking detention, he’s counseling people who are locked up right now … He’s got work to do here, he’s got work to do to help heal the world.”
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/10/2025
anyways attend NO KINGS this weekend! bsky.app/profile/plas...
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Same trick, 130 years later by Trump administration. “This cartoon makes an ironic commentary on the children of immigrants rejecting the arrival of new immigrants.” Year: 1893
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
More general strikes for Gaza in Italy! We need a general strike in the USA! #FreePalestine
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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