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SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Sep 21

WHAT IF? Maddow, Colbert, & Kimmel joined NPR …

SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Sep 18

These are the stories of affirmation and activism and joy that we need to lean in toward yes, it’s tragic, but just listen to how powerful the voices sound in the podcast. People taking active goals in the lives of their family.

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Families: Searching for Safety Outside the U.S.

Podcast Episode · TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones · 09/04/2025 · 43m

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Sep 1

At the #VeniceFilmFestival. Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Father Mother Sister Brother” with Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchet, and more. Wonderful film

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 15

Dancer, author, and playwright, Kimerer LaMothe, discusses
“Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater.

Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche

Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-musical-ab...

#nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 18

VOL. 68, NO. 3: Interreligious Aesthetics

Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-...

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 20

Professor Rachel Wagner on the attempted mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church, Michigan, and all the ways we label things “good” and “evil.”

Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/does-god-kil...

#assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 24

Courtney Thomas on the role of religion in the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor is the Villain.”

Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC

Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-baptist-se...

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 27

Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley.

www.aprilonline.org/the-senses-o...

The Senses of Freeman Alley

Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Aug 13

Have we considered paying educators more? Is this a thing that has been tried yet? If not, maybe we should give it a whirl.

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Feb 21

EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of the recent tragic murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, we are reposting this interview with him from 2011, conducted by APRIL President Björn Krondorfer.

Link to post:
www.aprilonline.org/diversity-of...

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Mar 23

Check out this review by Dantaé Garee Elliott of The Blackout Poetry Event with Afro-Dominican poet and performance artist Yaissa Jimenez in collaboration with Caribbean art journal Forgotten Lands and the Museum of Modern Art’s Creativity Lab, at MoMA.

www.aprilonline.org/diasporic-al...

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Adam DJ Brett @adjb.co · Jun 28

New CrossCurrents Special Issue Vol.74.No.4 out now: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism via @indigenousvalues.org @april-cc-commons.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074

Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 8

Check out Tiffany Thompson’s latest piece on showing up and tells the story of her latest single, “The Reason” as a harbinger of hope to come, the prelude to the story.

Link Below:
www.aprilonline.org/when-stillne...

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 12

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April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social · Aug 11

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf shares a piece prompted by the first episode of South Park’s 27th season and its depiction of Jesus and the state of American Christian nationalism.

Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/south-parks-...

#christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody

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SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yes, good point! I saw several outlets today in it and couldn’t figure out if it was something new, but it seems the same story, they’re just behind RNS!

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SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Aug 7

New national caption:

“USA, the Spirit Airline of the world’s nations.”

SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Jul 22

Logic 101:
A) I liked the new Superman, more than I thought I would.;
B) I am a longtime fan of Iggy Pop and love the song “Punk rocker”;
C) that does not make Iggy Pop’s song relevant to the end of the Superman movie

#Superman #IggyPop #PunkRock

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SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Jul 13

Beware of Dog

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 1

1. In a troubling development, multiple transgender rights court cases have been reopened following the Skrmetti decision, even ones the decision didn't touch.

They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates.

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Transgender Rights Cases Reopened After Supreme Court Ruling—Even Ones It Didn’t Touch

The Supreme Court ordered several cases to be reexamined after the Skrmetti ruling, despite the decision ostensibly being a limited ruling.

www.erininthemorning.com

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SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Jun 27

What a headline!

SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Bozos wedding

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