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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's a lot of temptation for the clergy among us to try to carefully articulate why our traditions oppose the death penalty for Biblical and theological reasons. Which is fine, I guess. But it's far more salient to flat-out say "if you WANT to watch an execution, your soul is in danger."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/09/2026
NEW: Trump claims he's “done more for religion than any other president." But 81 religious plaintiffs (including clergy and entire denominations) have filed 21 lawsuits challenging his immigration policies since Jan 2025, most alleging religious freedom violations. religionnews.com/2026/09/16/r...
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RNS tracked the religious lawsuits against Trump’s immigration policies. Here’s what we found.
(RNS) — Eighty religious plaintiffs from 11 major faith traditions have joined lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies, according a tracker developed by RNS with the Law, ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026
I reiterate that my Supreme Court Expansion plan is to simply switch to a distinctively American Cicada Brood System where we have overlapping panels or “broods” of justices spread over the country, numbered I to XXIII, emerging periodically and consisting of panels of 13, 17, 19, or 23 justices.
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kristyliddell.bsky.social @kristyliddell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our small patch of yellow giant hyssop is feeding multiple families of goldfinches, dozens of bumblebees, a couple of hummingbirds, and now this monarch butterfly, who stayed on it for half an hour straight.
A brightly colored monarch butterfly sips nectar from small, cream colored blossoms on a tall spike of clustered flowers in the sun.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First Democrats say Dolly Parton taught young women they can do anything. Then they tell Natalie Harp, just kidding, you need a security clearance if you want to be the shadow president of the United States. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. by Scott Jennings
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“…churches & other sacred spaces should not be subject to government infiltration, but churches have become a threat to those in power when we care for our neighbors, provide safe spaces for our community members to gather in peace & strive together toward justice.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Feds spying in Minneapolis church may have violated court order
Homeland Security spied on a Minneapolis church in May as part of an investigation into alleged anti-ICE activities, potentially violating a court order barring federal agents from enforcing civil imm...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/07/2026
just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
Baltimore Banner header.

A Johns Hopkins University public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained this week by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement efforts at airports.
In an email Thursday night, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security confirmed that agents with its
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arrested Fatima Ameaka on July 28 at Baltimore-Washington
International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
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Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
they have killed people, terrified our children, and made public spaces that *belong to us* inaccessible--and that's what i'm focused on from here on out
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
i don't know how to make it clearer that there are 5,000 soldiers + federal agents + the 30-odd police forces that are always here + like the oklahoma sheriff's department for some reason, in an area that is *68 square miles* and has lower crime than many of the places these folks come from
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/06/2026
A lot of high-minded theories about what's animating the Trump administration to do the things it does and what that might mean for the near future. But I think "how would the Bluth family from Arrested Development deal with this" is probably a pretty predictive rubric
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We are here, now, folks.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/06/2026
Here is a livestream of crews removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. I’m pretending this is part of the 250 celebrations. www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
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LIVE: See Donald Trump’s name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens
YouTube video by MS NOW
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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Becoming open to the transcendence within the beauty of the indigo bunting, or the elusive bittern, awakens an awareness of the unintended destructive ways of mankind" 📚 This Episcopal priest is a keen birdwatcher, Adam Ford discovers 🐦‍⬛ #Birdwatching #Books
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Book review: Watch and Wonder: Birding as a spiritual practice by Ragan Sutterfield
IT IS a good and loving parent, or teacher, who guides a child to notice the natural world around them, to learn how to look and enjoy, to be attentive and to listen. It has become increasingly difficult, since the Industrial Revolution, to rememb...
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kristyliddell.bsky.social @kristyliddell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Oh wow, yes, definitely try putting some rural Southern Church of Christ folks in with the UCC. This taxonomy was surely AI generated, right?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
FLAG: The Trump Justice Department is now acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection — calling the information about the prosecutions "partisan propaganda" (it is not).
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Trump's Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
The Department of Justice is acknowledging it's removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
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St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri is now celebrating his husband's return to St. Louis after a yearlong separation following a routine immigration appointment in Mexico that upended their lives.
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Missouri's Episcopal bishop opens up about family struggles with U.S. immigration policy
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri shares how immigration policies separated his family for a year.
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I do this exercise w/ theology students: imagine in an important area of your life, you can only operate on what you understood at 14. Every other area, you grow in understanding, but in e.g. romance or finances? 14. How’s that part of life going to go? Now when do people stop learning re: religion?
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kristyliddell.bsky.social @kristyliddell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Curious whether @npr.org knows that their site takes forever to load and then, when it appears to be finished, freezes up on multiple mobile browsers. It's been getting worse for months and now it just doesn't work at all for me on Chrome or Firefox.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/04/2026
i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account
White House staffer Margo Martin tweets "Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis" with a photo of Trump and a bunch of dudes and some female heads way in the back
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13/04/2026
Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I feel compelled to go on the record and say this: Genocide is always evil. To threaten to eradicate a civilization in the name of Jesus Christ is blasphemous and morally repulsive. Genocide must be rejected in the strongest terms by all who follow Jesus. #ThingsINeverThoughtIWouldHaveToClarify
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 03/04/2026
IDK, I think war is bad, but it's especially bad when we're the side double tapping aid workers, hitting schools, and threatening to destroy absolutely essential for civilians infrastructure.
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kristyliddell.bsky.social @kristyliddell.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Every day is fools' day.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
How to say you are using a paramilitary force without admitting it's a paramilitary force.
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andy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
'Novak has joined (a) club no one wants to be in, those who have been smeared online as retaliation for reporting sexual harassment...Tech giants...have (are) instrumental tools for patriarchal institutions to maintain a status quo' New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social spitfirenews.com/p/rebecca-br...
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Comment section smear campaigns are becoming more powerful
When trolls are treated as evidence by institutions.
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kristyliddell.bsky.social @kristyliddell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm not sure anyone ever sees anything I post here, but dear liturgy nerds: Where would I have encountered a St. Michael the Archangel prayer that uses the phrase, "Cover my head in the day of battle"? I think this is the first version I ever saw, long ago, and can't for the life of me find it.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
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