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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃

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Writer & editor; curator of FireFall, a Substack newsletter amplifying women leading in the church across traditions, around the world, & throughout church history. elizabethglassturner.substack.com/

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · Mar 24

Since it must be said loudly & repeatedly:

With many others, I'm an American celebrating international friendship, allies who safeguard freedom, & collaboration that respects:

🇨🇦 Canada
🇬🇱 Greenland
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇵🇦 Panama
🇪🇺 European Union
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇺🇳 United Nations

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 11h

In fact one woman took advantage of her ship being taken over by pirates as opportunity to evangelize which is objectively hilarious. Recalling God called her to preach & it didn't matter to whom, she refused to eat food that'd been stolen, gave them tracts, asked one about his mother, & so on.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 11h

"Hey Elizabeth are you quietly noting the names of pets of 20thC women preachers?"

I don't know Rufus, AM I? Sorry yes in case it's not clear one was Rufus.

"Are you also quietly noting women who preached or were taken hostage by pirates and/or Nazis while aboard ships?"

[flags yes in semaphore]

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 20h

Love this from the 1930s:

A vintage black and white photo from 1937 of a racially integrated group of women playing basketball in athleticwear. They were part of a union rec league. ILGWU local 22 vs ILGWU local 91, Stuyvesant High School, Nov 6 1937, photo courtesy Cornell University Kheel Center.

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 20h

I watched or listened to a lot of the hearings.

Even with that, wow was all I could say after watching this.

It's framed really well.

There was so much fog + breaking news + overwhelm,

this is a helpful retrospective even aside from the subject himself.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

BIG NEWS: When Adam Kinzinger stood up to Trump and risked everything, director Steve Pink captured it all. Meidas Studios just released our latest documentary ‘The Last Republican’ on all major platforms. Watch the movie today!

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 21h

That's a point he makes in the documentary, actually-that he and Cheney weren't courageous, they were just doing their jobs in a sea of cowardice. It's worth watching.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 22h

That man's gonna have such an awkward Thanksgiving dinner.

Meanwhile, ladies in the 1930s:

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 1d

Also, if you're a citizen & they try this, don't you have the right to stay silent/in this case refuse to have your face scanned as a visual equivalent of silence? The right to stay silent is in part so you don't incriminate yourself. Isn't allowing your face to be scanned potentially incriminating?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

www.404media.co

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will be a giant lawsuit.

You can say a tech tool gives "definitive determination" all you want -

*it's not proof* and it's not judge jury and executioner.

OH MY GOSH, IF I FAIL CAPTCHA DOES THAT MEAN I'M NOT HUMAN!?

It's literally that easy to debunk this.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 1d

This feels like a piece of cheese on a thin wooden slat with a metal bar pulled back, taut and at the ready.

Are they also digging a hole and covering it with branches?

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

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Bank of England security guards call strike for November 13

Security staff at the Bank of England have voted to go on strike for 24 hours, starting at 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) on November 13, in protest at a pay freeze, trade union Unite said on Wednesday.

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 1d

Do seminaries need to require a How to People course? I feel like we need some intentional, basic, interpersonal interactions 101 reviews, because I know pastors are busy + tired + pulled in a million directions but my gosh you can't pull out a phone in a hospital waiting room to ask it what to say.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 1d

Imagining trying to explain to an irate parishioner that the incorrect profile of their deceased loved one in the newsletter was hallucinated by an "AI" tool tasked with writing a bio for All Saints Day. "I can't apologize enough..." or ending a delicate email with a lingering "use pastoral tone."

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 2d

I'm thankful to have a small voice in Dorothy Greco's new book on misogyny:

open.substack.com/pub/dorothyl...

For the Love of Women Launch Day Conversation

Kelley Mathews and Dorothy Greco discuss Greco's new book on misogyny

open.substack.com

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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 3d

The chairs in the city council chamber look like very nervous muppets

Marc MacGovern speaking at a dais behind a nametags for Mayor E Denise Simmons, two big ornate wood chairs with two big round ornaments that look like eyes, and squiggly lines that look like mouths

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 3d

Since 1920s & 30s. There was a birther conspiracy about New Deal architect Sec of Labor Frances Perkins in 30s.

In 1921, Sheppard-Towner Act got all kinds of labels (nat'l maternal & infant nutrition bill, a scale-up of public health work by Dr Josephine Butler).

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Ways Women Met Their Moment: the Von Trapps, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, a Fiesty Journalist, & an FDA Team

Courage comes in many forms.

open.substack.com

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 3d

The main story in the US right now:

elected reps at the national level keep extending their own vacation/"recess" instead of working on behalf of the American people.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 4d

American clergy who aren't in Chicago -

if you want to add your name to the "in solidarity" section of this broadly ecumenical open clergy letter, there's a link to the letter in this news article.

RNS @rns.org · 4d

The treatment of religious demonstrators at the facility has become a political flashpoint and, ultimately, a legal one.
religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago

(RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’

religionnews.com

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 5d

Def not all women.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 5d

I still find people talking at cameras holding tiny microphones or tiny floofball microphones disorienting.

When? Did this happen? Can we pinpoint their advent to a specific month? Year?

When did the landslide of Tiny Mics begin?

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 6d

Democracy scones!

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6d

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 6d

Places matter.

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

"The Geography of Women Preachers" text is placed over a faint background of a map with varying colors of digital pins marking locations.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 6d

Every Roderick Spode has their Eulalie.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 7d

Any other time, this would be quite a story.

Well. It still is. Just a quiet one in the current US context.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7d

King Charles III, Queen Camilla and Pope Leo XIV prayed together on Thursday during a historic visit to the Vatican.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Oh wow:

"During the fracas, a federal agent fired a pepper round that struck a (UCC) clergyman, Jorge Bautista, near the chin. The impact caked his face and clothing in orange powder. Bautista said the agent shot him in the face from about 5 feet away."

"'I’m in a lot of pain,'" Bautista texted…"

A man, identified as a UCC minister, squints in pain with his face caked in orange from apparent pepper balls allegedly shot by ICE/DHS agents.

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Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 7d

Pastor Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee.

Yes yes *not* Episcopalian, but I don't get many chances to bring up Dr. Lee and her Chinatown church. Pell St, I think? (I think she may be the only woman pastor I've found so far to have a post office dedicated to her.)

Black and white photo of Chinese American suffragist and pastor Dr. Mabel Ping Hua Lee. She stands in front of metal railing in a broad brimmed dark hat and thick textured winter overcoat with deep pockets and dark buttons, a scarf folded tidily around her neck. She has a half smile like she's about to say something to the photographer. In her hands she holds a bouquet of roses.

Elizadeath Grass Turner 🧟‍♀️🎃 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 7d

There's a Chinese Baptist church in NYC Chinatown that was pastored by a Chinese American suffragist with a great sense of outerwear style. She had a PhD in econ. Nearby post office is named after her now. She led the congregation for decades. Marched for suffrage when she herself couldn't benefit.

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