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Elizabeth Jones
@chaplaineliza.bsky.social
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mom/wife/sister/friend, believer/hospice chaplain, UCC pastor & DMin student; mental health advocate, cheerful, creative communicator, music-maker, on the journey through life
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cwebbonline.com
Trump’s “enraged” that the media is giving major news coverage to what everyone sees: the age, the decline, the not so slow fade. And he can’t spin it away.

Bonus: folks online are calling him “Sleepy Don” because he keeps nodding off in meetings like it’s nap time at Mar a Lago.

Keep it up 👊🏽
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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michellesea.bsky.social
People better start going to prison for this and by people I mean ICE.
Witnesses, video: ICE vehicle ran over legs of man detained in Vancouver
Videos are circulating that appear to show a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement SUV running over a man’s legs as agents detained him Thursday in Vancouver.
www.columbian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
Flash Gordon was released 45 years ago today!

"A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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ericswalwell.bsky.social
My Friend Frank Gehry
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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alfredlund.bsky.social
I’m under no illusions about war crimes in our history. And this has to stop.
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i... @fiona-ndre.bsky.social @ulaakuzi.bsky.social
In Minneapolis, clergy mobilize to manage ICE raids targeting Somali immigrants
(RNS) — Preparing for ICE agents' presence in the city, an interfaith coalition shared best practices for dealing with law enforcement at houses of worship.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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patdeklotz.bsky.social
At the end of this clip, Berman had Cotton taking the position (which is de facto the Administration’s position) that the President on his own can declare who he wants to to be terrorists and to kill them under inherent Article II authority.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded

BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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churchtimes.bsky.social
The director of the Royal School of Church Music, Hugh Morris, has completed a 25-hour #organ marathon to “raise the profile” of the instrument and to raise funds for #PlayTheOrganYear. #ChurchMusic #RSCM
Organist’s 25-hour music marathon is fuelled by ‘tea and biscuits’
Director of the Royal School of Church Music, Hugh Morris, hopes to ‘raise the profile’ of the instrument as well to raise funds for Play the Organ Year
www.churchtimes.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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11thhourmsnow.bsky.social
"Pete Hegseth was already on social media crowing about it and treating it like it was a video game."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social and @stephruhle.bsky.social discuss the Pentagon carrying out another deadly boat strike in the midst of a controversy over a strike in September.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."

Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."

Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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propublica.org
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process.

A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.

(Published May)
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: They’re going try to re-indict Letitia James tomorrow. www.ms.now/all-in/watch...
Trump DOJ set to seek to re-indict Letitia James on Thursday
New reporting from Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian says federal prosecutors are scheduled to seek to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday. Sen. Chris Murphy reacts.
www.ms.now
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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shabana.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth murdered a Colombian fisherman with elderly parents and kids. Just before Christmas.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Family of fisherman killed in U.S. strike files complaint, alleging murder
The family of 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina, who was killed on Sept. 15, insisted he was a fisherman just doing his job on the open sea.
www.yahoo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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malloy.rocks
This article from 2016 aged like fine wine.
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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dcbigjohn.bsky.social
New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units

www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during
www.nola.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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jackjenkins.me
NEW: Abp. Timothy P. Broglio, former USCCB head who oversees Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, issues statement on "Caribbean Interceptions."

"…Abandoning due process undermines human rights, erodes public trust, and risks harming innocent people." files.milarch.org/archbishop/a...
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D. Statement on Caribbean Interceptions December 3, 2025 Everyone shares the concern about drug trafficking and the use of illegal narcotics in our country. Addressing this issue requires coordinated efforts from all sectors of society, including prevention and education, especially for young people, drug-free schools, accessible treatment and harm reduction, better international cooperation, and evidencebased drug-policy reform. If there is no market, the profits of cartels and those who support them will collapse, and with them, the incentive to smuggle drugs into this country. No one denies that dismantling the powerful criminal networks responsible for the flow of illegal substances into our Nation is a necessary and laudable task. To be sure, the illegal drug trade is not merely a criminal enterprise; it is a complex global problem with tragic human, socio-economic, and environmental consequences. We have all witnessed its farreaching and damaging impact, creating cycles of human suffering and public health crises, violence, poverty, and instability; including the dramatically increased global overdose mortality resulting from the illicit production and use of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. Questions have been raised about the use of military force in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and, as a Nation, we must ensure that the use of military force is ethical and legal. I have a specific interest in this question, because from the beginning George Washington wanted chaplains with his troops to tell him the truth. In the fight against drugs, the end never justifies the means, which must be moral, in accord with the principles of the just war theory, and always respectful of the dignity of each human person. No one can ever be ordered to commit an immoral act, and even those suspected of committing a crime are entitled to due process under the law. As the moral principle forbidding the intentional killing of noncombatants… We do not know if every sailor on a vessel presumed to be carrying illegal drugs knows the nature of the cargo. We do know that there is a legal way to intercept a suspicious vessel, board it, and have members of the Coast Guard on hand who have the authority to make arrests. Then, the courts function in determining the guilty and the appropriate punishment. Due process must apply to everyone, regardless of his or her role in illegal activity. The rule of law must guide all actions; abandoning due process undermines human rights, erodes public trust, and risks harming innocent people. True justice is achieved through transparent legal procedures, accountability, and respect for life—not through violence outside the law. Our Nation has a long tradition of responding to injustice, liberating the oppressed, and leading the free world. We cannot tarnish that reputation with questionable actions that fail to respect the dignity of the human person and the rule of law. Efforts to end the drug trade and their illicit use must never exclude employing the rule of law. To be the best, we must give example and do what is right. When we allow the moral law to guide our actions, we not only protect the innocent, we protect our men and women in uniform. These principles have nothing to do with partisan politics, right, left, or center. I call on our Nation’s leaders, legislators, and those specifically charged to direct our Armed Forces to respect the consciences of those who raise their right hands to defend and protect the Constitution by not asking them to engage in immoral actions. Show the world our respect for human dignity and the rule of law.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
As of Monday, Trump has fired over 100 immigration judges, essentially on suspicion of them being judges, as opposed to sure-thing compliant cogs in the mass deportation machine

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Trump Has Never Been Clearer About What an Immigration Judge’s Real Job Is
The president doesn’t want immigration judges who handle cases by the book. He wants immigration judges who will rubber-stamp his mass deportations agenda.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Protest at minneapolis airport, as some Muslim Minnesotans prayed.
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM