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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Wordle in 3, purple connections on 3, perfect Strands. Is this what it is like to slay?

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Just started Matt Elias’ book and I don’t know….

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Across the ecumenical divide, Pope Leo and I build a bridge of unity that is tweet dunking JD Vance.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppleganger and I’m being COVID retraumatized. The chill that went through me when I heard Plandemic

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

An older adult in my spin class gave a shout for our first song (Van Halen) and announced that he loved this song and because it reminded him of his first girlfriend and a summer of “serious lapses in morality”

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Tommy Orange 🤝Kaveh Akbar Is the main character alive at the end?

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"And so the women, the dependent, the victims, seek for what is not there; and it is only because they seek, it is only in their seeking, that the risen Christ appears to them." @melissaf-b.bsky.social quoting Frei Betto. melissaflorerbixler.substack.com/p/empty-tomb...

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Empty tomb, absent Christ, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Painting by Salvadoran folks artist, Fernand Llort

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter, fellow Radical Left Lunatics! Jesus is risen!

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

And I’m listening to Ezra Klein again so I guess that’s how badly things are going

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I think it’s fine for men to preach but Luke 24 does give one pause!

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My algorithm is just a series of different angles on Bernie at Coachella

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

BREAKING —>

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“I invite you to know and remember, as an act of compassion and humanization, the names of Palestinians who suffer under Israel’s repression.” – @melissaf-b.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/us-me...

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The US media is biased against Palestinians

Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to...

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Wait have I been saying economist wrong for four decades???

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Not unlike most religious traditions. You’ve got Sinead O’Connor (of blessed memory) and Pope Benedict - both Catholic!

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Guess who offered to relocate the public talk? Columbus Mennonite Church, a congregation that also provided sanctuary during Trump 1.0

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Not superstitious but got the Wordle in 3, and a perfect Strands so it’s going to be a great day

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Going as a Winnicott book for Halloween

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Maybe I’m too emotionally fragile to be reading The God of Small Things right now

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Why can’t my Oura ring tell Duolingo that I’M Too Sick For Spanish????

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Come to the United States, where you’ll be kidnapped in broad daylight because you wrote an op-ed.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Preaching on the parable of the prodigal son and on behalf of oldest children everywhere - how dare you, Jesus

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Almost done with the Elon Know Your Enemy pods which present the clearest case of “men will do anything but go to therapy” to date

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Every time I hear Christian leaders fretting over polarization I laugh a little and think, “yes, followers of this Jesus who was notoriously committed to depolarization.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It’s the book birthday of Isaac Villegas’ Migrant God with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social Because I am a Very Good Friend I bought a copy in addition to a copy from the publisher. As it is let’s do a #bookgiveaway ! US only please! I’ll pick a name on 3/15 at 8 pm

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I called my congresswoman, Deb Ross, as soon as I heard. I hope you will call your reps too

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Finished reading David Graeber’s Debt and have come to the conclusion Jesus was right - money is bad

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

No trash on the street AND THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF POLICE FIRED FOR A PATTERN OF SEXUAL VIOLATIONS OF FEMALE EMPLOYEES

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Abject reporting failure to name Carmel’s history of racialized police misconduct and school bullying, antisemitism, and how historic efforts to resist desegregation led to vast wealth disparities in schooling. Havens from “elites” and “traditional values” is always code for white supremacy.

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He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel

And the feeling isn’t good. Aaron Renn has gained a following by warning that the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I borrowed anointing oil for my ashes from the Episcopalians and now my face smells DELICIOUS

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🐦‍⬛ @raven.gifts · 05/03/2025

the high-five drown meme but with the paddle that says false instead of the unhelpful hand

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The number of cats x Ramadan reels coming to me. The algorithm finally understands me

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Still have three branches of gov (for the time being) phew!

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I have returned to the question in this chant over and over again in this first month of Trump catastrophe. May it also be a gift to you youtu.be/zDhYaWUsFbE

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How Can our Anger

YouTube video by Davi Weasley

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Pastoral ministry is a wildly diverse job that today includes a funeral sermon, letter for early parole on behalf of an incarcerated worship leader, protest permit submission, imposition of ashes, and submitting credit card receipts for printer toner

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Maqluba 🤝 pineapple upside down cake

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 02/03/2025

Pretty good deep dive on Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Senator we MUST DEFEAT in 2026. Note: He's scared of Trump (see: Hegseth, Pete), and is vulnerable to a MAGA primary (he already has a MAGA opponent). If we can stoke some divisions, it could get interesting. www.notus.org/congress/tho...

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Stuck in the Middle With You: Thom Tillis Is Already Navigating a Delicate Balance for Reelection

“The way you win in North Carolina is you’re gonna win somewhere around 49%, maybe 50%,” Tillis told NOTUS. “And it’s all about a million people who you know are in the middle.”

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I’m listening the heck out of horsegirl

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