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mojizele solarte (she/ her) @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 1h

I can personally vouch for anyone or anything Linda boosts. Let’s gooooo!

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2h

(Choosing the safety of my congregation and those other congregations who meet in our space *doesn't* mean doing nothing, it just means doing stuff that makes an impact without drawing an excess of attention. There's so much to do and it all matters.)

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2h

And Christians, particularly White Christians with cishetero men for clergy have a lever the rest of us don't have access to.

But I'll also note that Black and Brown Christians, and women who are Christian clergy are pushing on that lever as much as they can, and really admirably.

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2h

As the trans leader of a congregation that once had to sue the federal government to be considered a religion at all (and which houses Jewish and Muslim groups)...I have to pick our safety over doing the loudest thing. Everyone has a lane, and all the work is needed.

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2h

I've gotten some requests lately to do actions I, in another body and/or another tradition (or another time...) would be absolutely into.

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2h

Really thankful for Christian leaders who are leveraging their faith in a way only Christians in this country truly can

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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The 51st @51st.news · 1d

This article is part of @streetsensedc.bsky.social's D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project, in collaboration with other local newsrooms.

See more from the project here: bit.ly/DCHCRP

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25d

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

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Scott @smadin.net · 1d

OK so what would be the downside

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, it's silly, and I feel it a lot

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

With friends it's a little more that a lot of the people I'm closest with just aren't gonna get married, or were married before I was ordained. With congregants it's...more confusing? But mostly that there aren't a ton of weddings and they're mostly between newer folks who aren't both members

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 1d

One of the silly but significant sadnesses in my life is how infrequently I get to officiate weddings for friends or even for members of my congregation

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

JOHNNY CASH? THIS JOHNNY CASH?

black and white photo of Johnny Cash looking like a badass

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

Also like, @spacebrujita.bsky.social and I went on our first date after 2+ years of knowing each other because they liked a post of mine asking if anyone wanted to make out

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly meeting @lesliemuse.bsky.social would be enough, but there are so many people I've met over the years who I'm really grateful to know

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

Taking the wins where I can get them. Which is particularly helpful given how quick my brain is to get into the "you're not doing anything valuable" ditch lately

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 2d

I am remarkably caught up on email for someone who was on vacation for a week and then sick for a week

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Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social · 2d

You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to the Pope, but it's very relevant both structurally and historically that capitalism formed explicitly around the nucleus of Protestant thought that was ascendant in Europe at the time. Both Lutheranism and Calvinism are religions of opportunity.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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