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Jonathan Hall

@schleviboy.bsky.social
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organist at Zion Lutheran Church, Waynesboro, VA composer, arranger, accompanist, trail runner

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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today I walked in the Waynesboro/East Augusta CROP Hunger Walk. The need has greatly increased recently. Please consider donating at events.crophungerwalk.org/chw/jonathan... 25% supports local groups, including the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank; 75% supports the Church World Service. #CROPHungerWalk
The walkers from Zion Lutheran Church at the 2026 Waynesboro CROP Hunger Walk
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're looking for current doctrine, I would go to denominational sources like the Catholic Catechism's section on grace (paragraphs 1996–2005): tinyurl.com/y2k2uk3w For a single, “generic” view, maybe chapter 3 in Alister McGrath's *The Spirit of Grace,* which is decidedly non-technical.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's a tough one! Historically in the West, it has been such a denomination-splitting issue that so much ink has been spilled: Augustine, Pelagianism, Thomas, Nominalism, Luther, Calvin, Arminianism, and Jansenism, just to start. The Wikipedia article "Grace in Christianity" is a decent overview.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bugguide.net even says they are sometimes called “parsley worms.” They seem to like anything in the Apiaceae family, including parsley and Queen Anne’s Lace. In response to danger, the caterpillars stick up yellow “antlers.” www.bugguide.net/node/view/2636
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Species Papilio polyxenes - Black Swallowtail - Hodges#4159
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I highly recommend this very well-written essay to all Americans: Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum... Thank you, @profgabriele.com and @vox-magica.bsky.social, from a Religious Studies grad.
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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good
The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
next admin prisoner swap: one Rubio for the return of all of them
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/08/2026
Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It was named after the small fairy-like being that many people saw after drinking it.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This year marks 800; that was the 700th anniversary of his death.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
The Trump administration claims no one died as a result of its slashing of USAID. Our reporters traveled to refugee camps in Africa to find out if that was true. Listen to this conversation from @revealnews.org on “Paper Trail”:
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What Happened When Trump Officials Destroyed USAID (From Reveal)
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · July 23 · 34m
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
No mention of millions dead already, thanks to the wanton destruction of USAID. The destruction of the foreign assistance network aligns perfectly with this administration’s values of racism and grift.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I hope it's not the one in the stock photo…
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I would vote for my dog over our so-called representative McGuire, but it's nice to be able to vote for someone who I respect. Thank you, Tom.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament In the immediate moment this is the only response to the far right authoritarian party's attempt to end democracy in America. Ultimately, single member districts need to go. We won't become an actual democracy until that happens.
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Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!” And St. Anthony said, “No!”
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How can anyone claim that this regime displays Christian values?
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hitler survived at least 42 assassination attempts and 8 children were shot in Louisiana last week. What I think is that I wouldn't trust anything Franklin Graham said about God.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/04/2026
518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”
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Geek tragedy
Look upon the works of the AI oligarchs and despair.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A speech from the first Earth Day, which seems as relevant as ever under the current regime: doorcountypulse.com/sen-gaylord-...
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Sen. Gaylord Nelson’s Earth Day Speech - Door County Pulse
Earth Day founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin gave the following speech in Denver, Colo., on the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970: I congratulate you, who by your presence […]
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/04/2026
The instant obliteration of our congressionally mandated development assistance agency—by the world’s richest man and his cabal who “gave zero fucks” (Musk’s exact words) about the mass deaths they caused—is a historic atrocity that should stain everyone who touched it, forever.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Trump is coming to Charlottesville TODAY! Let's show him how exactly how welcome he is in this town! Join the protest at one of 3 locations at 4:30.
FASCIST - GET THE F*CK OUT!!! TODAY AT 4:30 THREE LOCATIONS. STONEFIELD, RT 20 & 53 XTERSECTION, PROFIT RD/29 N
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Why does my Senator keep asking rhetorical questions, when I can do that perfectly well myself?
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/04/2026
Oh: Shortly before the Artemis II Orion craft flew around the moon yesterday, entering a 40-minute period of radio silence, Astronaut Victor Glover — who has been open about this faith — took a moment to reflect on Christian scripture. The passage he chose: love your neighbor as yourself.
HOUSTON: Integrity Houston You are six minutes from your 40-minute lunar flyby LOS. From all of us, it's a privilege to witness you carrying the fire past our farthest reach. Thank you. Godspeed. 

VICTOR GLOVER: Thank you for that, Jenny. And thank you to all of you for allowing us the immense privilege to be on this journey together. It's quite amazing. And as we go on this journey, thinking about the NASA mission to explore the unknown in air and space, to innovate for the benefit of humanity and to inspire the world through discovery — and as you've gone along on this journey with us, hopefully we're doing just those things.

And as we get close to the nearest point to the moon and farthest point from Earth, as we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, I would like to uh remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on earth — and that's love. Christ said in response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are. And he also, being a great teacher, said this: I give you equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself. And so, as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth and to all of you down there on Earth, and around the Earth, we love you from the moon.

HOUSTON: Houston copies, we'll see you on the other side.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Breaking: Justice Department has now determined that the entire Constitution is unconstitutional.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My kid had a great time in the SOCA Challenge program—games were mostly in Charlottesville, some in Crozet, and one or two a year in Waynesboro. He then did AHS JV and now varsity.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wake me when the headline is "Russ Vought to be tried for crimes against humanity"
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Cabinet has been replaced by an LLM? That explains a lot.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.
Alberto Rodríguez, 73, limped with a cane down a deserted industrial street. A stroke
had left him perpetually foggy, unable to recall many details about his life beyond the fact that he had been born in Cuba and had
spent nearly 50 years in the United States.
"Where am I?" he called out.
"Villahermosa," someone answered.
Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle. The deportees…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
out with one Nazi, in with the next
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Shouldn't a company named Icarus worry about hitting new heights?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I’ll care when he actually commits to fighting Trump and the oligarchy.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/03/2026
Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal? Has your leader eroded trust in elections by attempting to bring them under his direct control and/or stoking false claims of voter fraud?
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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz
“In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Deliver me, O Lord, from evildoers. Protect me from those who are violent, who plan evil things in their minds and stir up wars continually. Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked. Do not further their evil plot. —Psalm 140
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Regime change begins at home.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Eat RealDogFood
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
when we finally have a female president, running for a third term:
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a woman is smiling with the words i am no man above her
ALT: a woman is smiling with the words i am no man above her
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 27/02/2026
the U.S. media is incapable of honestly covering the U.S. media Way too many financial conflicts of interests and embedded normalization of corporatism. You need journalism to be highly-subsidized nonprofit and publicly owned. Corporate power can't do it. They're simply not reliable narrators.
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To Save the Media, Ditch Capitalism, a New Study Says
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
theonion.com/this-war-wil...
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
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Pulp & Politics @pulpandpolitics.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Jonathan Hall @schleviboy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Jesus said, “Suffer little children.” Perhaps you misunderstood this if you call yourself Christian and support the Trump regime. Lord, have mercy.
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Charlottesville Tomorrow @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The Jefferson School will celebrate its 100th anniversary this Friday, Feb. 20.
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Four women changed the course of education for Black students in Charlottesville. A local musician composed a piece to honor them
Ivan Orr will debut his new composition during a 100th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Jefferson High School, which provided Black students with access to secondary education during…
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