Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Author of Auralia's Colors, its three sequels, & Through a Screen Darkly. Next one in 2026! Awarded “2024 Professor of the Year” by students at Seattle Pacific University. Find me at LookingCloser.org & Substack. My writing is 100% A.I.-free.
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.
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What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
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overstreet.bsky.social
As a film journalist, I encountered Diane Keaton once, briefly, as she dashed down a hallway in Four Seasons (Beverly Hills), while multiple film junkets were happening. I was startled as she passed. She was wearing a bathrobe. Had giant curlers in her hair. I cherish that. A perfect encounter. ...
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A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.
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richraho.bsky.social
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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clarajeffery.bsky.social
We will need Nuremberg-like trials
longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas
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chanda.blacksky.app
The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not
overstreet.bsky.social
I really enjoyed a deep-dive conversation w/ Eli Price about Spielberg's THE FABELMANS. I've thought of the film so often since I lost my father in December. (Fun fact: I mistakenly assumed we were only delivering audio! So I'm not particularly attuned to the camera here.)
overstreet.bsky.social
Perfection.
johndrew-sky.bsky.social
In a somewhat related note…

“Why are you unpopular with the Chicago police department?”
Charles Grodin mercilessly grills a Chicago based ICE agent.
overstreet.bsky.social
They're killing our freedom of speech.
They're killing our freedom of religion.
Pretty soon, it won't just be rubber bullets they're firing into peaceful protests.

What exactly qualified in America as "GREAT" that MAGA wants back "AGAIN"?
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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overstreet.bsky.social
What was that Jesus warned us would happen? "Many will come in my name . . . and deceive many."
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jeetheer.bsky.social
There is no army on earth that can defeat this.
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rincewind.run
that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation
govpritzker.illinois.gov
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
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golikehellmachine.com
lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.
courtneyvaughn.bsky.social
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Here's the Religion News Service report on the ICE shooting of a Presbyterian pastor in Chicago.
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johnrogers.bsky.social
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
kathleenclark.bsky.social
#KavanaughRaid
“federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning.”
dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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dccassandra.bsky.social
I think about what Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford said about her assault by him, that it was his and his buddies laughter that she couldn’t get out of her head.

What is happening right now is what rape culture looks like as government.