Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD
@marlenagraves.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Spiritual Formation-AOS: U.S. cultural history; religion, politics, and inequality in Am. history; Christian nationalism; public memory; political/public theology historical trauma. Seeking our flourishing Rochester, NY🇵🇷
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Hoping to reunite with friends/make new ones here! I'm a Puerto Rican writer, speaker & professor with a focus on Christian spirituality & Christian nationalism. One of them is not like the other. My PhD is in Am. Culture/Social History-race, gender, immigration-trying to love *all* of my neighbors.
@thegodpodcast.com all I want for Christmas is for you to follow me and for righteousness and justice to be done in the world. “God” commented on one of my posts back in the day on Twitter and it was my favorite reply to a Tweet ever. After Elon took over, I deleted my account.
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
@thegodpodcast.com all I want for Christmas is for you to follow me and for righteousness and justice to be done in the world. “God” commented on one of my posts back in the day on Twitter and it was my favorite reply to a Tweet ever. After Elon took over, I deleted my account.
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Thou shalt not wear a cross around your neck if you always do the opposite of what Jesus would do.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thou shalt not wear a cross around your neck if you always do the opposite of what Jesus would do.
Truth is stranger than fiction. This is hilarious. I am sure the people/family at the funeral were mortified and furious:
www.threads.com/@ubnplus/pos...
www.threads.com/@ubnplus/pos...
UBN+ (@ubnplus) on Threads
The most infectious laugh heard in a very. long. time. 🤣
34 Year Old Swore To Never Drink Agai
www.threads.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Truth is stranger than fiction. This is hilarious. I am sure the people/family at the funeral were mortified and furious:
www.threads.com/@ubnplus/pos...
www.threads.com/@ubnplus/pos...
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
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This is stunning.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is stunning.
Went to a great conference this week. There I learned that my PhD education from BGSU in my field was stellar, just as good as those who went to Ivy League schools. Those who attend Ivy League schools just have more resources and opportunities than I had.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Went to a great conference this week. There I learned that my PhD education from BGSU in my field was stellar, just as good as those who went to Ivy League schools. Those who attend Ivy League schools just have more resources and opportunities than I had.
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Truth.
Bankers and private equity wear suits while they rob us blind. Meanwhile volunteers to feed families this holiday season will be in sweatshirts and jeans.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Truth.
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
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I've had so many conversations with Christians who have expressed the fear they have in their church (or had in a former church) of speaking up about the Christian calling of justice and care for the oppressed and abused. The fear could look like direct hostility by other members or discipline
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I've had so many conversations with Christians who have expressed the fear they have in their church (or had in a former church) of speaking up about the Christian calling of justice and care for the oppressed and abused. The fear could look like direct hostility by other members or discipline
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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NASA was putting suppliers under extreme pressure to keep up with the flight schedule. You’d think safety would be the number one concern, the top priority, but instead politics was taking precedence over the engineering. Catastrophic failure of management.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
NASA was putting suppliers under extreme pressure to keep up with the flight schedule. You’d think safety would be the number one concern, the top priority, but instead politics was taking precedence over the engineering. Catastrophic failure of management.
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Will Zohran Mamdani's charm offensive keep Trump from meddling in New York? Journalist Ross Barkan reacts to Friday's "remarkable" White House meeting between the two leaders.
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Will Zohran Mamdani's charm offensive keep Trump from meddling in New York? Journalist Ross Barkan reacts to Friday's "remarkable" White House meeting between the two leaders.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
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Well that’s certainly something that has never happened before to anyone who’s done business with Trump, ever
Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers
In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital cu...
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well that’s certainly something that has never happened before to anyone who’s done business with Trump, ever
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📣 Palabra:
Arresting young Latino-looking
American citizens will make them anti-Republican voters for life.
“I’m a citizen” the teen told officers, but ICE proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him.
Boy: “But I’m a citizen.”
Officer: “Get out of the car… I don’t care.”
Arresting young Latino-looking
American citizens will make them anti-Republican voters for life.
“I’m a citizen” the teen told officers, but ICE proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him.
Boy: “But I’m a citizen.”
Officer: “Get out of the car… I don’t care.”
ICE agents detained a McMinnville High School
YouTube video by The Oregonian
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November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
📣 Palabra:
Arresting young Latino-looking
American citizens will make them anti-Republican voters for life.
“I’m a citizen” the teen told officers, but ICE proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him.
Boy: “But I’m a citizen.”
Officer: “Get out of the car… I don’t care.”
Arresting young Latino-looking
American citizens will make them anti-Republican voters for life.
“I’m a citizen” the teen told officers, but ICE proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him.
Boy: “But I’m a citizen.”
Officer: “Get out of the car… I don’t care.”
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There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
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Something's brewing in Venezuela.
www.flightradar24.com/multiview/-4...
www.flightradar24.com/multiview/-4...
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Something's brewing in Venezuela.
www.flightradar24.com/multiview/-4...
www.flightradar24.com/multiview/-4...
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👀 The unstable *sshole in the WH is about to start a war w/Venezuela, declaring a cartel a terrorist org. Rand Paul is sounding the alarm.
“I think by doing this, they are pretending as if we are at war. They’re pretending as if they’ve gotten some imprimatur to do what they want."
🧾 is.gd/Hskosf
“I think by doing this, they are pretending as if we are at war. They’re pretending as if they’ve gotten some imprimatur to do what they want."
🧾 is.gd/Hskosf
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
👀 The unstable *sshole in the WH is about to start a war w/Venezuela, declaring a cartel a terrorist org. Rand Paul is sounding the alarm.
“I think by doing this, they are pretending as if we are at war. They’re pretending as if they’ve gotten some imprimatur to do what they want."
🧾 is.gd/Hskosf
“I think by doing this, they are pretending as if we are at war. They’re pretending as if they’ve gotten some imprimatur to do what they want."
🧾 is.gd/Hskosf
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We are seeing this admin over and over again decide to target people who have become technically deportable through no fault of their own other than government delay.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
We are seeing this admin over and over again decide to target people who have become technically deportable through no fault of their own other than government delay.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
Niebuhr Society #AARSBL2025 “Christendom has achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.“
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Niebuhr Society #AARSBL2025 “Christendom has achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.“
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
- H. Richard Niebuhr
via Valerie Cooper
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Hours after Border Patrol swept through Charlotte, protesters filled uptown with courage, not fear. They marched peacefully, stood united, and refused to be intimidated.
Charlotte showed up.
And it showed strength.💪
#Charlotte #ICE #NotInThisCity
Charlotte showed up.
And it showed strength.💪
#Charlotte #ICE #NotInThisCity
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hours after Border Patrol swept through Charlotte, protesters filled uptown with courage, not fear. They marched peacefully, stood united, and refused to be intimidated.
Charlotte showed up.
And it showed strength.💪
#Charlotte #ICE #NotInThisCity
Charlotte showed up.
And it showed strength.💪
#Charlotte #ICE #NotInThisCity
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In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade.
It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.
It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade.
It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.
It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.
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Ok, but why did Trump post this solo photo of Zohran Mamdani on his Truth Social? And did Mamdani ask to be photographed in front of FDR, who is his favoite president?
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Ok, but why did Trump post this solo photo of Zohran Mamdani on his Truth Social? And did Mamdani ask to be photographed in front of FDR, who is his favoite president?
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Has anyone checked on Stephen Miller since the Mamdani meeting?
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Has anyone checked on Stephen Miller since the Mamdani meeting?