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Our solution to someone killing is to kill more? Lord, forgive us. Cruel and unusual. Cruel and despicable. Lord, forgive us.

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Call me Ishmabill @billjank.bsky.social · 2h

Being from NJ, with a 101 year old Grandmother who WILL NOT pick up the phone when the Yankees are playing, I am not your Boston clergy available to pastor the Boston faithful’s grief should there be a Wild Card collapse. I will not betray my family like that.

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Today would be a good day to end the death penalty.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 2h

You’re rowdy this Feast day of St Jerome!

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Yeah motherfucker your decision to try and doxx a horrific rape survivor while defending the men who did it and allowed it to happen has awoken the I Am Jane Doe movement. We’re all Jane Doe until there are no Jane Does 💜

Michael Tracey I guess this is a thing now with dozens of messages saying I am Jane doe

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 3h

I see the Yankees have decided to play béisbol tonight!

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Shouldn’t have tried to score there Yanks.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 3h

I was given a rape whistle with campus police phone number printed on it when I arrived on Brown’s campus, not exactly a hotbed of frat life in 2000. I still have it. We women are acculturated everywhere to expect sexual assault. Male students were not given the whistles.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 9h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 13h

Today, my office released a report detailing the findings of our investigation into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Dioceses of Fall River, Springfield and Worcester. It is my profound hope that this report honors survivors and serves as a catalyst for MA to ensure the safety of our children.

Graphic with AG Campbell's full statement on report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Dioceses. Yellow and white text on a green background with a photo of the scales of justice.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 5h

Incredible respect to MA Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and her office for the years of investigation into abuse in the three Roman Catholic diocese. “But accountability cannot come from the courts or Legislature alone. The #Church itself holds an even more significant role.” Amen. #mapoli

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 14h

I should have said- first off, be well because you deserve to be well! Simply because you are precious and beloved. And I am more and more convinced, particularly as a Christian, that we do not need to martyr ourselves to institutions that cannot and will not care for us. We have a savior.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 14h

Look, I believe in changing systems and structures. It’s the only way we ALL get free. And. Those systems and structures will not care for you personally. So create your own peace. Take your own sabbath. They aren’t coming to your funeral. Be well *so that* you can change the system.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 15h

Today in, “and you wonder why more sexual assault victims don’t report…” Take care of yourself, Saints. This system was never built to heal you.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.com

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 15h

All I’m saying is the other scripture reading set for this morning in Hosea was all about “whoredom” and then the Globe runs this massive story about the 30+ men who exchanged 400 or more text messages to buy sex www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/m...

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The First Lesson
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Hosea 4:11-19
A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Hosea.
WHOREDOM. Wine and new wine take away the
understanding.
My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have played the whore, forsaking their God. ' They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. 'I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with whores, and sacrifice with temple prostitutes; thus a people without understanding comes to ruin. ' Though you play the whore, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear,
"As the LorD lives." " Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture? ' Ephraim is joined to idols- let him alone. 1 When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory. " A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 16h

Praying today with Luke 5- let us pray 🙏: oh Jesus, You friend of the tax collectors and sinners and sick, bless me this day. Forgive me for caring what others think Your banquet looks like. Too many attempts to sew new patches on old cloth. Gather me with Your beloved, broken people today. Feast

(Back= Morning Prayer
A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.
FTER this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me." 28 And he got up, left everything, and followed him. 2 Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them. 30 The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying,
"Why do you eat and drink
with tax collectors and sinners?" " Jesus answered,
"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; 32l have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance." 33 Then they said to him, "John's disciples,
like the
disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink. 3* Jesus said to them,
"You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?
35 The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." 3° He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 3* But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, 'The old is good."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This ⬇️ feeling expresses the nihilism I’ve heard so strongly in #Boston streets. If the Wu administration doesn’t address it, we’re going to have a much bigger problem than simply rising road violence - we will have progressive city that does not believe government can help. #Bospoli #VisionZero

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One of the hardest things about being a cyclist is dealing with the nagging feeling that a serious crash is inevitable. Because you can indeed do everything "right" and it still does not matter.

I followed every precaution and it didn’t matter

New to biking here

I started in July around the time of the fatal car crash with that biker. That and hearing everyone who bikes to work tell me that they have had horrid experiences with cars was disheartening.

I made sure to only use protected routes. I take Southwest corridor for basically my whole trip and even though it adds so much more time to my commute, it makes me feel safe.

None of that mattered because at some point, even for a second you will hit the main road. And you will always lose to the 4 ton machine. I got hit by a car parking in the bike lane. He was more concerned with his car than the fact that I could have my life potential altered forever because he was looking at his phone. And at the end of the day, the police can literally choose to not respond to your 911 call and you get stuck with medical bills.

It’s hard to have a conversation about sharing the road when people in cars feel entitled to do whatever they want and the only person who’s ever in danger is the biker. I love biking in this city and I have found a really love and joy for the outdoors because of it. Now I am terrified to even get on a bike lane, even if there is one, if it’s shared with the main road.

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threegoodwords @threegoodwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This 🧵 Fwiw shopping lists in my neck of the woods are multilingual. Add the various familects, and anything that demands a monolingual approach is pointless.

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Praying today on the feast of Archangel Michael and All Angels, with Daniel 12- Let us pray 🙏: Lord, I don’t know if this is the time of great anguish foretold, but send down those angels and write my name in the Book of Life, please. I want to be awakened to life everlasting; make us like the stars

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The First Lesson
Daniel 12:1-3
A Reading from the Book of Daniel.
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BiT that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book. " Many of those who sleep in the dust of the carth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.

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Emphatic spelling of “I”

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Zucchini says it’s time to put away the toys and go to bed, y’all. Empire won’t overthrow itself unless we are well rested.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol so EYE made more money last year in generative AI than Anthropic? (I think generative AI is generally idolatrous and thievery, and don’t as a general rule use it)

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Rape culture in the DA’s office

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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 28/09/2026

Davis Square vendor market Small Mart bans AI art Artists who sell goods there applaud the decision, made after a vendor was selling AI-produced art....

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Davis Square vendor market Small Mart bans AI art

Artists who sell goods there applaud the decision, made after a vendor was selling AI-produced art.

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Jake @brehlol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks for sharing. I’ll pass it along. I was an initial funder of our local lesbian bar here in Boston.

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How did the least boring city get the most boring name

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was with another queer friend the other day, and we concurred: the joyless hate-watching of WMASS lesbian bar internal conflict was all heat, no light, and not something I want to discuss in mainstream media. We’re losing lesbian bars every year. What did that story add? Voyeurism.

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There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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I’m highly susceptible to any recipe with cardamom. And persimmon are a wonderful fruit- there are great native American varieties ripe through fall and different Asian species too. It’s a lovely fruit. And in ancient Japan, fermented persimmon juice was used as a lacquer & dye!

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Final results of the persimmon cardamom cake. It came out good, y’all!

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 27/09/2026

Praying today with Luke 5- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, I know that feeling of being asked to do just one thing more, and being so tired that I fall to my knees. Help me know what are the requests from You to follow, and what I can leave on the shore. I do not want to sink. I will let down my nets for You

< Back = Morning Prayer
A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.
ONCE while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd
was
pressing in on him to hear the word of God, 2 he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were
washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boar. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." 5 Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing.
Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets." When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" 9 For he and all who were with him were amazed at the carch of fish that they had taken; 0 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people." " When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.

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Praying today with Matthew 21- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, Your ways are not our ways and for this I give thanks. Truly, You tell us, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God first. Not the high and mighty. Not the rich and powerful. But as You see. Flip my world today.

WHEN he entered the temple, the chief priests
and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" 24 Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin?" And they argued
with one another,
"If we say, "From
heaven, he will say to us, Why, then, did you not believe him?' 2' But if we say, 'Of human origin,' we are afraid of the crowd, for all regard John as a prophet." 27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
"What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' 29 He answered, 'I will not,' but later he changed his mind and went. 30 The father went to the second and said the same, and he answered, 'I go, sir, but he did not go. 3' Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said,
"The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. 3*For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, and even after you saw it you did not change your minds and believe him.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 26/09/2026

Sabbath Sign Out: it’s ok to stop. When people ask how they can help, it’s ok to give clear answers. It’s ok to ask too. It’s ok to awe at the fading light. May your Sukkah be sturdy in the storm. Rest. It’s ok to rest, beloved.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 25/09/2026

Nor’easter grocery apocalypse at the Trader Joe’s in Brookline. The line is three turns deep. I’m regretting my life choices.

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Cycling is a climate, transit, and public safety issue. I convened a roundtable with advocates to discuss how we can make our communities safer and more accessible for pedestrians, cyclist, & commuters across the #MA7.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley provides remarks at a roundtable discussion at Bikes Not Bombs.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley hugs and greets a constituent.

A photo of Rep. Ayanna Pressley taking notes.

Advocates provide remarks during a roundtable discussion.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 25/09/2026

In which my RNS colleague @bmietana.bsky.social tracks the "Rise of the Jim Crow theobros." Fascinating an unsettling reporting here, but this is a key line: "…along the way, they are turning outrage into cash." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

statesman.com

UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Praying today with Esther 8- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, even though she and Mordecai are now good, Queen Esther asks, “how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming upon my people?” For we who are near power, how can we stand idle? Give me the courage of Esther to use my proximity for my people.

Back = Morning Prayer
ĐN THAT day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. 2 Then the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Then Esther spoke again to the king; she fell at his feet, weeping and pleading with him to avert the evil design of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 The king held out the golden scepter to Esther, S and Esther rose and stood before the king. She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?" 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to the Jew Mordecai, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he plotted to lay hands on the Jews. & You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king. and seal it with the king's ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."

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I was talking to a local small landlord in Boston who was saying how soft this rental market is, with grad students, post docs and immigrants missing.

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