Cody⁺
@cebm.bsky.social
monkish Episcopal priest; enjoyer of weird little crockery; aggressively Minnesotan; 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
📍Cows, Colleges, Contentment
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(banner: 'plumed passion flower' by Corita Kent, IHM, 1962)
📍Cows, Colleges, Contentment
🛐 http://www.ogs1913.org/
(banner: 'plumed passion flower' by Corita Kent, IHM, 1962)
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One day, all these new followers are going to be surprised at what I usually talk about
January 26, 2026 at 8:33 PM
One day, all these new followers are going to be surprised at what I usually talk about
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Minneapolis' "playbook" is not the Viet Cong's; it's the organizational skills you develop as an active Lutheran.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Minneapolis' "playbook" is not the Viet Cong's; it's the organizational skills you develop as an active Lutheran.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
The kind of parishioner a priest dreams of having. Really and truly I’ve been almost overwhelmed by the support my parishioners have shown me lately as we all try to figure out this occupation together. 🕯️
January 26, 2026 at 3:11 AM
The kind of parishioner a priest dreams of having. Really and truly I’ve been almost overwhelmed by the support my parishioners have shown me lately as we all try to figure out this occupation together. 🕯️
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Important words from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, where I served as a priest before moving to Texas. ⚓️
![Fellow Americans,
Things are impossibly hard in [MN] right now. We are a state that feels under siege, and the people of this place are doing everything possible to resist. The campaign of reckless brutality being waged by the federal goverment has been well documented, including today's killing of a citizen who was restrained and immobilized. The clear evidence of what's happening exposes cartoonish lies from federal agencies that echo the most cynical propaganda machines in human history. The images are clear, and we are told, don't believe what you see.
But there is also something much more powerful, and not as widely reported, happening. We are mobilizing for revolutionary love. Vast networks of care, compassion, and solidarity, organized by churches to deliver food and supplies to those who cannot leave their homes. People are documenting the violence being used against us in a way that puts their own lives at risk. People are standing guard outside schools and daycares, and at bus stops to protect our children from real risks of harm. Others are taking turns watching each others' kids stuck in online learning because some schools aren't safe. Health care workers are bravely caring for people in hospitals that also are no longer safe, and risking being targets of arrest and detention for protecting the patients. A rich web of underground care and hidden love is taking deep root, and it's amazing to think what fruit that might bear when this occupation ends.
Minnesotans cannot do more than we are doing. Here are a few ways you can help.
1) Please flood your US senators with appeals to not to further fund ICE, by rejecting a bill the US House has already passed. Please flood all your members of congress with calls for deescalation in [MN]; for ICE, [CBP], and other federal agents to leave [MN] now; and to write and pass legislation that requires proper and extensive training for all those working for the federal government in our states and local communities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jygcwdjhliwj2tnlr34utncd/bafkreihgvgiqexyity7awki36is7vrluy5jrovhwnyenfhlmicyvwmorqy@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Important words from the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, where I served as a priest before moving to Texas. ⚓️
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me: I give up
mpls: we are going to flood our frozen city with candlelight
mpls: we are going to flood our frozen city with candlelight
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
me: I give up
mpls: we are going to flood our frozen city with candlelight
mpls: we are going to flood our frozen city with candlelight
We had close to 250 people at our interfaith vigil which is about 100 more than we can comfortably fit. Folks were packed into pews, standing in the narthex, listening on in the parish hall, and sitting on folded chairs in the aisles. It was beautiful, but I’m still so upset we had need to gather. 🕯️
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 AM
We had close to 250 people at our interfaith vigil which is about 100 more than we can comfortably fit. Folks were packed into pews, standing in the narthex, listening on in the parish hall, and sitting on folded chairs in the aisles. It was beautiful, but I’m still so upset we had need to gather. 🕯️
A murder in Minneapolis and an abduction here in Northfield. It seem to never end.
We’ll gather in sorrow and light candles and recommit ourselves to fighting fascism.
We’ll gather in sorrow and light candles and recommit ourselves to fighting fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 10:48 PM
A murder in Minneapolis and an abduction here in Northfield. It seem to never end.
We’ll gather in sorrow and light candles and recommit ourselves to fighting fascism.
We’ll gather in sorrow and light candles and recommit ourselves to fighting fascism.
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Minneapolis’s emergency manager compares ICE’s invasion to what she saw in Yemen, Haiti, Iraq, and Syria.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Minneapolis’s emergency manager compares ICE’s invasion to what she saw in Yemen, Haiti, Iraq, and Syria.
Yet again the video footage is so clear. The government is lying to its people.
THE DHS VERSION; aka WHY THEY'RE TAKING EYEWITNESSES TO WHIPPLE and CONFISCATING THEIR PHONES—"An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun," DHS said in a statement. "The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted."
January 24, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Yet again the video footage is so clear. The government is lying to its people.
Another legal observer murdered by ICE in Minneapolis about 15 minutes ago. God damn this country.*
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Another legal observer murdered by ICE in Minneapolis about 15 minutes ago. God damn this country.*
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
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* I fully mean this in the technical and theological sense.
I’ll have more to say later, but for now, I just want to say that I’m actually feeling hopeful for the first time in…a long time. It may dissipate, but for now it’s mine and I’m so grateful for it.
Minnesota, we did good today. And we do well today. ❤️
Minnesota, we did good today. And we do well today. ❤️
January 24, 2026 at 4:17 AM
I’ll have more to say later, but for now, I just want to say that I’m actually feeling hopeful for the first time in…a long time. It may dissipate, but for now it’s mine and I’m so grateful for it.
Minnesota, we did good today. And we do well today. ❤️
Minnesota, we did good today. And we do well today. ❤️
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Tens of thousands of Minnesotans came out to protest and march in -12°F weather, on a weekday.
There is no doubt anymore that we are going to win.
There is no doubt anymore that we are going to win.
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans came out to protest and march in -12°F weather, on a weekday.
There is no doubt anymore that we are going to win.
There is no doubt anymore that we are going to win.
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It's -20 degrees in Minneapolis & my friends are getting ready to join faith leaders in putting their bodies on the line at an outdoors protest this morning. If you're a praying person, please say a prayer for their safety, their resolve, and that their prayers will be answered.
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
It's -20 degrees in Minneapolis & my friends are getting ready to join faith leaders in putting their bodies on the line at an outdoors protest this morning. If you're a praying person, please say a prayer for their safety, their resolve, and that their prayers will be answered.
I’ve spent the evening quietly preparing for Friday’s day of prayer, fasting, and action. Let me tell you…the spiritual and moral clarity that I’m feeling right now is really invigorating. 🕯️
January 23, 2026 at 5:43 AM
I’ve spent the evening quietly preparing for Friday’s day of prayer, fasting, and action. Let me tell you…the spiritual and moral clarity that I’m feeling right now is really invigorating. 🕯️
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Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.
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Minnesotans leveraging water balloons and ice against ICE like they’re Nordic skiers taking out Nazi munitions plants
January 17, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Minnesotans leveraging water balloons and ice against ICE like they’re Nordic skiers taking out Nazi munitions plants
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The energy I’m bringing into sermon writing today
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
The energy I’m bringing into sermon writing today
Hundreds of high schoolers in Northfield walked out of school and to our town square in support of our immigrant neighbors and against the ICE occupation of our state. I’m so unspeakably proud of them (especially of the head organizer who is one of the teens from my parish.) 🕯️
January 15, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Hundreds of high schoolers in Northfield walked out of school and to our town square in support of our immigrant neighbors and against the ICE occupation of our state. I’m so unspeakably proud of them (especially of the head organizer who is one of the teens from my parish.) 🕯️
Minnesota is essentially under occupation by the federal government, but at least the sky had the decency to give us a glorious sunrise this morning.
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Minnesota is essentially under occupation by the federal government, but at least the sky had the decency to give us a glorious sunrise this morning.
Was so distracted by Everything™️ this evening that I took my morning medicine (a stimulant!) at bedtime (~three hours ago…). RIP to me, I guess.
January 15, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Was so distracted by Everything™️ this evening that I took my morning medicine (a stimulant!) at bedtime (~three hours ago…). RIP to me, I guess.
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On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
January 15, 2026 at 5:05 AM
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
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Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."
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You can tell this true and not at all a load of crap because they managed to work in a dig at Joe Biden in it.
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 AM
You can tell this true and not at all a load of crap because they managed to work in a dig at Joe Biden in it.
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I Love North Minneapolis.
I Love North Minneapolis.
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I Love North Minneapolis.