David Lilley
@davidofbuffalo.bsky.social
Pastor and Theologian
Talk to me about birds and hockey
Talk to me about birds and hockey
fao @drempel.bsky.social, who has written about these same issues
Snowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Snowstorms are hell for wheelchair users—but they don't have to be
"You can't physically move. You can't do anything."
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:45 PM
fao @drempel.bsky.social, who has written about these same issues
I love the Niagara Falls anytime, but the beauty of that place covered in ice will make you believe the world is greater than you knew. www.reuters.com/pictures/fro...
Frozen Niagara Falls draws captivated tourists
Tourists are flocking to view the partially frozen Niagara Falls, despite frigid temperatures, with visitors praising the winter spectacle as a striking sight.
www.reuters.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I love the Niagara Falls anytime, but the beauty of that place covered in ice will make you believe the world is greater than you knew. www.reuters.com/pictures/fro...
Just got hit with a bbc news paywall for the first time, and I am shook.
February 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Just got hit with a bbc news paywall for the first time, and I am shook.
Had been carrying a sermon illustration in search of the right sermon for a couple of years now and finally got to use it today. That’s a good feeling as a preacher when one of those lands well.
February 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Had been carrying a sermon illustration in search of the right sermon for a couple of years now and finally got to use it today. That’s a good feeling as a preacher when one of those lands well.
<stern faced, grizzled captain sitting behind his desk> “I’m going to need your barbecue fork, your pizza cutter, and your badge.”
A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a Brooklyn jail with a barbecue fork and pizza cutter and tried to free Luigi Mangione on Wednesday night: gothamist.visitlink.me/kxGilT
January 29, 2026 at 10:45 PM
<stern faced, grizzled captain sitting behind his desk> “I’m going to need your barbecue fork, your pizza cutter, and your badge.”
So, did Brennan Lee Mulligan time travel to the future or did Jason Isbell time travel into the past? And who has been sent to kill whom?
January 29, 2026 at 4:18 AM
So, did Brennan Lee Mulligan time travel to the future or did Jason Isbell time travel into the past? And who has been sent to kill whom?
Reposted by David Lilley
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
Hotline operators report flood of calls for rental assistance as residents hide during ICE surge
211 calls from Spanish-speakers have increased more than 1,600 percent and requests for rental assistance have more than tripled, according to Greater Twin Cities United Way. Local officials are pushi...
www.mprnews.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
Children don’t see “love your neighbor as yourself“ as politics but as an obvious good.
The hardest thing about growing up is learning there is an opposing side to this. Fred Rogers prepared children for the moments that growth is needed. (and rejected entertainment as framing purpose of his show)
The hardest thing about growing up is learning there is an opposing side to this. Fred Rogers prepared children for the moments that growth is needed. (and rejected entertainment as framing purpose of his show)
January 24, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Children don’t see “love your neighbor as yourself“ as politics but as an obvious good.
The hardest thing about growing up is learning there is an opposing side to this. Fred Rogers prepared children for the moments that growth is needed. (and rejected entertainment as framing purpose of his show)
The hardest thing about growing up is learning there is an opposing side to this. Fred Rogers prepared children for the moments that growth is needed. (and rejected entertainment as framing purpose of his show)
Honestly it’s still wild that the conquering son of David and the suffering servant of the least are the same guy.
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Honestly it’s still wild that the conquering son of David and the suffering servant of the least are the same guy.
Reposted by David Lilley
And people might think it's just "activists" or whatever trying stir shit up - NO, it is absolutely not. An older relative told us they went to the doctor for chest pain because they couldn't stop sobbing after seeing a news story about that older Hmong man being illegally taken from his house
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 AM
And people might think it's just "activists" or whatever trying stir shit up - NO, it is absolutely not. An older relative told us they went to the doctor for chest pain because they couldn't stop sobbing after seeing a news story about that older Hmong man being illegally taken from his house
“Just as you did not do to the least of these, you did not do it to me.”
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
“Just as you did not do to the least of these, you did not do it to me.”
I don’t want to make a citizen arrest. I want to issue citizens tickets to people whose stupid big trucks obstruct traffic because they’re parked in spaces where they don’t fit.
January 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I don’t want to make a citizen arrest. I want to issue citizens tickets to people whose stupid big trucks obstruct traffic because they’re parked in spaces where they don’t fit.
Another entry for the files chronicling the greatest political unity of my lifetime being always for war.
The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda.
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
January 15, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Another entry for the files chronicling the greatest political unity of my lifetime being always for war.
One of my the insights of my earliest theological study was that a common reading of Rom 13—submit to the authorities when legitimate and then don’t when they cross the line to being evil authorities—was unsustainable because, well, what’s the line and how would you know when it’s been crossed?
January 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM
One of my the insights of my earliest theological study was that a common reading of Rom 13—submit to the authorities when legitimate and then don’t when they cross the line to being evil authorities—was unsustainable because, well, what’s the line and how would you know when it’s been crossed?
Neither you nor I nor any humans in history have seen ”protein“ used more positively or more often than we have in recent years.
“No, I won’t be eating my vegetables” [scariest face I can muster]
January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Neither you nor I nor any humans in history have seen ”protein“ used more positively or more often than we have in recent years.
After a very full weekend of ministry, I used what last raspy scraps of a voice I had left to celebrate Cole Bishop’s interception, and Josh Allen‘s whole deal, with a family of Bills fans at the grocery store.
January 12, 2026 at 12:45 AM
After a very full weekend of ministry, I used what last raspy scraps of a voice I had left to celebrate Cole Bishop’s interception, and Josh Allen‘s whole deal, with a family of Bills fans at the grocery store.
The 2020 addition to the spy kids universe, We Can Be Heroes, includes what is best viewed as a prescient depiction of Ms Rachel vs the forces of apartheid.
January 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The 2020 addition to the spy kids universe, We Can Be Heroes, includes what is best viewed as a prescient depiction of Ms Rachel vs the forces of apartheid.
Reposted by David Lilley
Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other.
Let the reader understand.
Let the reader understand.
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Exodus 1 tells the story of a foreign people growing in power and the ruling nation oppressing them out of fear of the other.
Let the reader understand.
Let the reader understand.
Reposted by David Lilley
I'm tired of being exhausted out of my mind.
Chronic illness and the state of the world are not a fun mix.
Chronic illness and the state of the world are not a fun mix.
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I'm tired of being exhausted out of my mind.
Chronic illness and the state of the world are not a fun mix.
Chronic illness and the state of the world are not a fun mix.
Self evident and inalienable is the right to life, as Jefferson wrote, with federal officers precisely in view.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of these lions. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, as David wrote, with federal officers precisely in view.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of these lions. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, as David wrote, with federal officers precisely in view.
Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life"
January 8, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Self evident and inalienable is the right to life, as Jefferson wrote, with federal officers precisely in view.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of these lions. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, as David wrote, with federal officers precisely in view.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of these lions. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, as David wrote, with federal officers precisely in view.
Reposted by David Lilley
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
Why yes, my 5yr old did crawl half asleep into bed an hour ago. And yes, she did just start meowing Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Why do you ask?
January 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Why yes, my 5yr old did crawl half asleep into bed an hour ago. And yes, she did just start meowing Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Why do you ask?
Hello, I’m @timothyreardon.bsky.social
Hello! I'm motorists who think people who choose to cycle to work are an existential threat to their sacred right to drive as fast as their internal combustion engine can carry them
Hello, I'm a ruptured brain aneurysm.
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Hello, I’m @timothyreardon.bsky.social
I don’t understand why anyone would be talking about anything that’s not the Buffalo Sabres.
January 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I don’t understand why anyone would be talking about anything that’s not the Buffalo Sabres.