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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 5h

But I do think the Dramione stuff having a moment right now has, like Twilight and 50 Shades did, more to do with the desire for a very particular, very straight, type of kink that just keeps bubbling up in the market. (I'm not against this, but I would like "romantasy" to be broader)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 5h

I was of the right age to be really into the first few as a preteen, but boy have they not aged well. (And tbh I was already fed up by the later books.)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 6h

Like: this right here IS the normative context of the Eucharist. This is what it is FOR ⚓️

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 7h

The religious elements of the solidarity happening right now are BEAUTIFUL

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 8h

glad my department of religion is being shut down because there's no need to understand what's going on here

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 19h

Wait you have a three-legged cat wearing pantaloons?

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 23h

For real, freezer dumplings are an MVP

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23h

You can keep potstickers in your freezer and whip up a quick sauce, maybe some sauteed vegetables, in a matter of minutes when you're too tired to cook a real meal. They do not want you to know this.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice

Chengdu style dumplings from The Dumpling Lady's stand in Charlotte. Half of them have already been eaten.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 23h

Thanks; I am into the Brightest Red I Can Find lol

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 23h

My sweater is taking shape! bsky.app/profile/hann...

Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

Going slowly, but the yoke of the new cardigan is done (this is the Tin Can Knits Harvest again, but the goal is to put POCKETS on this one with chunky cables on them)

The yoke of a red cardigan on knitting needles

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

It is SO MUCH labor!!

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

I am still a couple of years away from mammograms and I am already mad and in a mood about them

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The Magnificast @themagnificast.bsky.social · 1d

“When the Church bends down to break the new chains that bind the poor, she becomes a paschal sign.”

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The Magnificast @themagnificast.bsky.social · 1d

The liberation of prisoners is an expression of Trinitarian love: a God who frees not only from spiritual slavery but also from concrete oppression. The act of rescuing someone from slavery and captivity is seen as an extension of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice, whose blood is the price of our redemption (cf. 1 Cor 6:20).

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 1d

Why remember a password when you can just reset your account every single time.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

I absolutely agree with you that it's essential for abolitionists to attempt answers to this question, because it's an essential question. I think the answers are complicated, but the question MUST be addressed. (I'm a white progressive abolitionist.) Thank you for your vulnerable thread.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

Without at all minimizing the horror of this position (just about nothing compares to the cruelty of chattel slavery!!!), imagine the similar conversation you could have with many, many Christians today about the abolition of prisons

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

Ahahaha I found it and it’s hilarious

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

It’s an amazing chant. Chant this. Sing some Amazing Grace. Chant some more

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 1d

Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job!

(this is an amazing chant. We should all be chanting this chant. Constantly.)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

Going slowly, but the yoke of the new cardigan is done (this is the Tin Can Knits Harvest again, but the goal is to put POCKETS on this one with chunky cables on them)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 1d

…wait I’ve forgotten this

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 2d

I literally can’t imagine what it would be like to have extended family nearby!

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 2d

It just makes an unbelievable difference to hang out together and EVERYTHING is set up to make it hard for parents to do so. And yeah, "1-2 parents plus paid childcare" is an EXTREMELY difficult and stressful model!

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 2d

Of course, this is the *hardest* thing to actually help with, because everything about our society atomizes against being in groups all the time. Family far away, we all live in separate houses and can't easily go from one to another, every time kids are sick you're stuck alone, etc.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 2d

My opinion about parenting is that the single thing that makes the biggest difference to how easy or hard it is is having other adults around as much as possible (family, other friends with kids -- 4 adults and 6 kids is much easier than 2 adults and 2 kids -- whatever).

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 2d

Unfortunately this follows naturally from the still-common logic by which once something is named illegal, it’s moralized as wrong. It’s part of why we need a morality that rejects policing and punishment as the way to respond to harm. (Abolition: it’s the way)

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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