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Susie Hayward

@sohayward.bsky.social
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Religion, violence, & peace scholar-activist. Minneapolis-based justice organizer and UCC pastor. Formerly with US Institute of Peace, Harvard Divinity School. Views mine but I share.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The chyron says it all
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/09/2026
Relatedly: Today Rev. Susie Hayward, a UCC minister who was among the Minneapolis faith leaders who pushed back against DHS in January, testified before the state's "Truth Council" created by Gov. Walz. She called the DHS surge a "spiritual crisis," then listed all the reasons she sees it that way:
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Ash Chudgar @chudgar.com · 17/09/2026
“This was an assault on Minnesotans’ religious freedom,” says Rev. Hayward. “It was an assault on the dignity of our neighbors, and so an assault on God.” ❤️‍🔥
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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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 27/08/2026
A week after Trump's inauguration, faith groups began suing over his immigration policies. They never stopped. In fact, so many faith groups, denominations, and clergy have filed suits (22 so far) that we teamed up with @lawrightsreligion.bsky.social to track them. religionnews.com/2026/08/27/r...
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Religion & Immigration Litigation Tracker
(RNS) The Religion and Immigration Litigation Tracker follows federal lawsuits involving religious groups, individual faith leaders, and the second Trump administration over the administration's immig...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Amusingly, some agents infiltrated these meetings and found the protesters to be pretty innocuous. In their reports you find agents admitting no violence was discussed and finding that protesters were churchgoers. There's some Keystone Kops bumbling here too. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2144...
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babsbeaty @babsbeaty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I am convinced certain segments of elected officials, political pundits and media folks don’t have a clue how riled up nice Minnesota church folks still are about Metro Surge. Huge miscalculation by Craig and her staff.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/07/2026
As ICE activity ramps back up, networks of everyday folks—teachers, parents, clergy, store owners, and retirees—are still fighting it. Our latest feature explains how these people inherited an old playbook, adapted it to a new machinery of enforcement, and, at times, rebuilt their lives around it.
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The architecture of resistance: America’s year of mobilizing against ICE
Ordinary people launched a movement against Trump's secret police. They're still at it.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A CNN investigation — 18 Days In Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/p...
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18 Days in Minnesota: The false claims, chaos and coverups behind the Trump administration’s killing of two American citizens | CNN Politics
This is the story of the 18 days between the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the highly questionable ways the Trump administration handled immigration enforcement and the shootings, and the agg...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 21/07/2026
ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It took a team of AP reporters about 2 days to get this information. The same information ICE could have gotten before they hired the man who said he shot and killed an immigrant in Maine.
In late 2025, around the time he joined ICE, his ex-wife Ashley said he left a three-minute voicemail mocking her for taking out a restraining order against him. According to the message she shared with AP, he repeatedly called her "disgusting" and suggested that she and the other women and girls in her "bloodline" should die.
"And all of you should have your f----g throats cut," the voicemail said. "Yeah, you should. Am I threatening that I'm gonna do that? Nope. Nope. But do I think that you should have your f——-g throats cuts? Or should have had them cut? Yep."
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"We've reviewed nearly 300 pages of an extended medical examiner report that ha[d] not been published ... Geraldo [Lunas Campos] had continued to ask for his [bipolar and anxiety] medication. That's actually what led to the altercation, according to witnesses, the day he died [from asphyxia]."
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026
YIKES!!!! -- People have climbed atop the spire of the Empire State Building right now
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 05/06/2026
Ought to be a nice little First Amendment suit here
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Now do the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/05/2026
I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Delaney Hall ICE prison in New Jersey is a privately owned/operated immigration detention (prison) with a multi-$B U.S. contract. Immigrants are being held without due process, feed rancid food, severely mistreated and are on a hunger strike, while protesters are being attacked. Do not look away!
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Melody Hoffmann @phmelody.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thank you, Ashley
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TIME100 Philanthropy: Ashley Fairbanks
Find out who else is on the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2026 list
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 04/05/2026
Photos: The 51st Mayday parade, always a cathartic welcome for spring, was especially poignant this year after our particularly brutal winter. minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/03/m...
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Melting ICE and welcoming spring at the 51st Mayday parade • Minnesota Reformer
After a remarkably difficult winter, the 51st Mayday parade in south Minneapolis was especially poignant. The festival of puppets, music and protest art has long highlighted immigrant communities and ...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22/04/2026
Note: there is only one non-Christian faith leader currently on the docket to speak: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, who sits on Trump's religious liberty commission.
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
happy #caturday!
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“There’s never been a WH faith office.” No, but there WAS a robust infrastructure of faith-based engagement offices that started under Bush, expanded under Obama, and were entirely dismantled under Trump. At the WH & across agencies. These offices engaged multi-religiously. Was that the problem?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/04/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "For the first time in France, and possibly for the first time ever, anywhere, an entire corporation had been put on trial and found criminally liable for enabling terrorism," our columnist M. Gessen writes.
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Opinion | A Paris Court Just Rewrote the Rules of Corporate Morality
The profit motive was on trial. The verdict was scathing.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/04/2026
A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.
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ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 13/04/2026
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest of a Hmong American man by federal officers that was captured on video as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment, officials announced Monday.
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Minnesota investigates the arrest by ICE of a Hmong American man as a possible kidnapping
A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest by federal officers of a Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Well that blows the 3.5% target outta the water. And demonstrates its truth: you don’t need majority of the population engaged to affect structural change, but you do need sustained action that includes but goes beyond protest and, crucially, includes noncooperation techniques.
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Somali Minnesotans are such an exquisite and beloved part this state, who we are. I live in a neighborhood with them, three blocks up from the largest Somali mall outside Somalia. I love my neighbors, their smiles and warm Salaams, their sambusas and tea, their model of devotion.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/04/2026
NEW: For months, faith leaders have pushed for access to detainees at ICE facilities in Broadview, IL and outside Minneapolis. This past month or so, clergy finally gained access in both places — bc judges ordered the govt to let them in. Here’s what they saw. religionnews.com/2026/04/03/a...
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After court battles, clergy visit ICE detainees in Illinois and Minnesota
(RNS) — In the last week, faith leaders were offered some of their first glimpses into ICE facilities, making use of a degree of access denied to most people — even members of Congress.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2026
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to provide access to Holy Week religious services to immigrants held at the Chicago-area Broadview detention facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/03/2026
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/03/2026
NEW via @yonat.bsky.social and myself: Progressive faith leaders found new power in protesting ICE. Can their movement survive success? Our reported analysis of a hyper-local, grassroots religious left (broadly defined) that has caught fire in this political moment. religionnews.com/2026/03/22/p...
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Progressive faith leaders found new power in protesting ICE. Can their movement survive success?
(RNS) — Not since the Civil Rights Era has the religious left so publicly and collaboratively protested in the name of a social question they regard as a spiritual one.
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RNS @rns.org · 20/03/2026
(RNS) — 'This is one important step in our struggle for justice and my call to live out Jesus’s command to care for the captives,' said the Rev. Susie Hayward, who is cited in the legal case and was in court for the ruling.
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Judge grants Minneapolis clergy access to detainees in ICE holding facility
(RNS) — 'This is one important step in our struggle for justice and my call to live out Jesus’s command to care for the captives,' said the Rev. Susie Hayward, who is cited in the legal case and was in court for the ruling.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20/03/2026
NEW from me: In a ruling from the bench this morning, a federal judge granted Minneapolis clergy access to immigrants detained by DHS in a federal facility as the case proceeds, allowing the faith leaders to provide pastoral care after denying them for months religionnews.com/2026/03/20/f...
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Judge grants Minneapolis clergy access to detainees in ICE holding facility
(RNS) — 'This is one important step in our struggle for justice and my call to live out Jesus’s command to care for the captives,' said the Rev. Susie Hayward, who is cited in the legal case and was in court for the ruling.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2026
Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call attention to the consequences of President Trump’s immigration agenda.
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Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
The Texas Democrat has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call attention to the consequences of President Trump’s immigration agenda.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/02/2026
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 25/02/2026
The Supreme Court today heard arguments on a case about an oil pipeline under the Great Lakes. While the immediate issue is about jurisdiction, the court decision could shape Native land rights, states’ ability to protect waterways, and the future of fossil fuels.
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Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
The issue in front of the US Supreme Court is seemingly mundane, about federal or state jurisdiction. But it is actually much bigger, encompassing some key questions of the 21st century.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/02/2026
NEW: Three Minnesota faith groups/leaders — local ELCA and UCC bodies, and a Jesuit priest — are suing DHS over its refusal to grant them access to immigrant detainees at a federal building. It's one of 2 related suits filed against the government in recent months. religionnews.com/2026/02/23/f...
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Minnesota faith groups sue DHS over access to immigrant detainees
It's at least the second lawsuit challenging the federal government's policy of barring faith leaders from accessing some DHS facilities.
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
@matthewdtaylor.bsky.social & I recorded a postlude to our podcast American Unexceptionalism. I shared my experience in the resistance from Minneapolis, focusing on the role of faith. Thanks to @bradleyonishi.bsky.social for platforming the episode on SWAJ. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Faith in the Streets: A Pastor's Firsthand Account of ICE's Terror and the Neighbors Resisting It
Podcast Episode · Straight White American Jesus · February 16 · 1h 10m
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