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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 9h

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WIRED @wired.com · 12h

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

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Charlotte Johnson @revcharjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Today, I was asked how to pray for us in Chicago. I responded with a detailed list of ways they can engage with the justice issues using time, money, or influence.

White evangelicalism's belief that prayer *by itself* will change the world is messed up and dangerous. We gotta act *and* pray.⚓️

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like dfl senator Grant Hauschild is an obstacle for any meaningful gun legislation. If you have family/friends up in NE MN ask them to call him and ask for an assault weapon ban with “specific definitions.”

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Sen. Grant Hauschild talks "undemocratic" federal energy grant cancellations and approaching gun control in a divided legislature | WTIP

With both a deeply divided congress, and a nearly evenly split legislature, Minnesotans are watching their governments closely as they navigate several politicized issued. Minnesota District 3 Senator...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

but what do I know, I'm just a trained chaplain who pivoted to working in the legislature because I struggled deeply with the lack of meaningful tools of public advocacy within that profession.

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

5) Finally, Fletcher Merkel's funeral was held at Mount Olivet. To write something like this after being host to such grief and communal trauma is in my view extremely poor pastoral judgement

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

I am NOT a proof-texter -- the Bible is vast and made up of LOTS of different perspectives -- that's why it's so challenging (and rewarding) to read and interpret responsibly, which I don't think Rev. Lose did here.

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

4) also Jesus going to preach in his home synagogue and those present getting super angry at him (Luke 4)

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

3) He readily quotes Romans but ignore the numerous prophets in the Hebrew Bible that said and did stuff that definitely made leaders uncomfortable! (off the top of my head: Isaiah, especially chap 5, Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel...again just off the top of my head!)

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

2) Rev. Lose also critiques the tone of his colleagues' letter and says that it "[implies] that anyone who does not agree with the petitioners lacks moral vision and courage."

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

1) Advocating a specific position on an issue of public policy is not inherently partisan. If your church's congregants have that perception, then a) they are probably feeling called out OR b) you need to prioritize education around the church's history and role in affecting social change.

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 22h

Extremely disappointing that the leader of such a prominent congregation would choose to write such a feckless and condescending op-ed
www.startribune.com/mn-christian...

Opinion | Why, as leader of a faith community, I did not sign this gun petition

"My faith community is not of one mind or voice on this issue," the Rev. David Lose writes.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 5d

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of Minnesotans need to read this.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 1d

"On May 7, Taher and his wife watched their baby take his final breath. Their other children began to scream." apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

Transcript: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Slate's @mjsdc.bsky.social wrote it up: slate.com/news-and-pol...

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 2d

is this not Mike Ditka?

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 4d

hmmm...same LTE re: opposition to Walz running for re-election printed in @startribune.com and @pioneerpress.bsky.social within a day of each other (gift links below)
www.startribune.com/readers-writ...

www.twincities.com/2025/10/03/l...

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 7d

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6d

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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