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musician | good shoulder | teacher | monk | liturgist | LGBTQ+ activist (in a quiet way) |

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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Spam in a bag?
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SavoryCaroline @savorycaroline.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A relationship the likes of which we should all strive for
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
nyti.ms
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. reflects the president’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues and has lost sight of its combat role.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
latimes.com
Ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe explains why he got arrested protesting Huntington Beach MAGA library sign
'You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,' he told the council during Tuesday's meeting. The chambers erupted in applause.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
advocate.com
Trump’s health department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans website featuring right-wing influencer (exclusive)
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable char...
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Here's my fear: as the US seems to be aligning with Russia, what happens if Europe comes together and sends troops to support Ukraine, does that place the US and Russia against Europe? And, is this the beginning of the road to WWIII?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Tomorrow’s UK front pages are tearing Trump apart. Two of these are right-wing newspapers. “Trump appals world”, “Shameful Trump” and “Deranged Trump”
Daily Mail headline reads:
Trump appals world with dictator blast at ZelenskyDaily Express headline which reads: Shameful Trump Attack Stuns WorldDaily Mirror headline which reads:
To Ukraine…with love. Starmer calls Zelenskyy after deranged Trump calls him dictatorsZelenskyy is no dictator, Starmer tells Trump. This is the headline in Thursday’s Times
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here we go
yahoo.com
Donald Trump declares himself ‘king’ after striking down New York congestion pricing
Trump faces legal challenge after threatening to kill Manhattan toll that raises money for mass transit
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What little respect we may have had is now gone, except from Russia, "After cutting President Volodymyr Zelensky out of the first US talks with Russia on ending the war, Trump on Tuesday falsely accused Ukraine of starting a conflict that has ravaged its land and killed thousands of its people."
cnn.com
Analysis: Trump delivers another blow to Ukraine and a new boost to Putin | CNN Politics
It looked like things couldn’t get any darker for Ukraine. Then President Donald Trump spoke up.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A trans man tortured and killed: Sam Nordquist. Say his name. 😢
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Sam Nordquist: 5 charged for allegedly torturing, killing Minnesota trans man | CNN
Five people have been arrested in New York and charged in connection with the disappearance and murder of a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota, who police say was tortured and abused for weeks...
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
So much winning, for Elon.
nytimes.com
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
brennancenter.org
SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans
Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
npr.org
What happens if Trump starts ignoring court rulings? We break it down
A court finding that the Trump administration did not comply with an earlier order and a recent statement by Vice President JD Vance have some experts warning of a potential constitutional crisis.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"...calls for capital punishment for homosexuality and strictly patriarchal families and churches."
theguardian.com
First Thing: Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law. Plus, the Australians lining up to sniff a flower that smells like a rotten carcass
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New: the AP says it was blocked from an Oval Office event after being informed that it would be barred if it didn’t follow President Trump’s guidance on renaming the Gulf of Mexico
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A wise decision
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, finally.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Also, note the two articles at the bottom of the story.
operawire.com
Kennedy Center Fires Back at President Trump's 'Surprising' Decision to Install Himself as Chairman of the Board - OperaWire
The Kennedy Center has released a statement after President Donald J. Trump announced that he would install himself as Chairman of the board and dismiss some of the current board members.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/p...
cnn.com
Trump announces plans to gut the Kennedy Center board and appoint himself chairman | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump announced an aggressive plan Friday evening to gut the existing board of trustees at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and oust its chairman, billionaire philanthropist...
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Have your say on the next Archbishop of Canterbury! "Whether you are based in the UK or anywhere in the Anglican Communion, your views matter". Nice that they're asking the colonies nowadays...
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Helena L. Martin @helenalmartin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
They could save some money and just add a “don’t” at the front.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Is there such a thing? And if not, should there be?
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
by Jerome Steuart via Unvirtuous Abbey on Facebook
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If you're not afraid of this, you're not paying attention... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
msnbc.com
Opinion | There are several reasons Musk wants to control Treasury payments. None of them are good.
An unelected and unaccountable billionaire wants to dictate what working families can and cannot afford.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This from Bp. Folts (South Dakota) And a friend posted that Mississippi is training bounty hunters and will XX amount of money (I can't remember the amount at the moment) for all who are turned in. What is this country becoming?
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I have never been as alarmed about America in my 87 years as I am by this article. This should be a topic addressed head-on by the churches. A person at risk of losing lifesaving meds is not interested in what our politics are. American soft power has been the best power we have ever had.
nytimes.com
How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze
President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I have relatives in Canada.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 02/02/2025
There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Rather than the POTUS he is the BOTUS, Bully of the...
cnn.com
Live updates: The latest on Trump’s presidency as tariff pledge comes due | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has announced aggressive new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China today. Follow for live updates.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
wfmt.com
15 Queer Composers You Should Know | WFMT
Can you imagine a world without the music of Handel, Tchaikovsky, or Britten? These great composers of the past are just a few of many important musical figures who did not identify as heterosexual.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Today. Just one of the many things over the past two weeks. Including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth, LGBTQ Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day
nbcnews.com
Federal agencies bar Black History Month and other 'special observances'
A number of federal agencies have banned celebrations related to MLK Jr. Day, Women's History Month and other such observances to comply with Trump's executive orders.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
That sounds like something our dear leader is trying.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Jan. 22 by MuskTrump
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
From this morning's reading from Galatians: "'If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?'" Still appropriate today.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I wish I could say I was shocked at the actions of the current POTUS, but he has done everything he said he'd do. So many, including the current VPOTUS, said he didn't really mean it. Well guess what, he did, and it's all about retribution.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Silence is a very interesting messaging tool.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Florida would be the exception in the other direction to the coastal/heartland scenario.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Well, let's see what shape the organ is in today. Last week was a particularly unpleasant time in her life; enough so we had a Come-to-Jesus talk and she straightened up, a bit.
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Sumner @sumnerjenkins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Much of that statement is true. It's handy to think, with a few exceptions like Chicago, that the coastal regions trend Blue and the remainder of the country is Red
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