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Elaine Ellis Thomas

@reveet.bsky.social

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Priest, lover of critters, baseball, and Jesus

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · Jan 10

To my new followers: Welcome! I’m assuming you stopped by because your attention was arrested by a picture of Ella, my Great Pyrenees. Understandable. I’m an Episcopal priest who loves God, baseball, and my husband. I’m fiercely on the side of the underdog and those for whom life is hard.

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 21h

Talk about a dystopian nightmare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 21h

@fetterman.senate.gov He is sending troops to attack citizens in the streets and bombing Venezuelan civilians, but yeah, tell us more about what a peacemaker he is.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 2d

When we said people would die, we meant people would die, including children. It is evil.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 3d

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, born today in 1931

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 3d

That frog looks vicious, you know.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 7d

And there was great rejoicing in the heavens!
www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...

'Hatred and racism cannot tear us apart,' first woman Archbishop of Canterbury says

Dame Sarah Mullally addresses

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 8d

Lord, have mercy.

Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police

The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 8d

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born on this date in 1869

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 10d

What an embarrassment.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham

European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down

www.theguardian.com

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 10d

Mornings with Ella (who will be on vacation for the next couple of weeks - she will be back). ❤️

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 11d

Joseph. Made it out. My kingdom for an edit button.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 11d

Well, next time they trot out Romans 13, tell them that if Jospeh and Mary had obeyed the government, Jesus wouldn’t have made it of childhood.

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 12d

Mornings with Ella. ❤️

Giant fluffy, white dog, standing in a doorway, with a darkened room behind her.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 12d

Same.🙂

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 13d

Mornings with Ella. 🙂

Close up of a giant, fluffy white dog, lying on a hardwood floor in a kitchen.

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 14d

Mornings with Ella. ❤️

Giant fluffy white dog lying on a wood floor in a living room with a fireplace and bookshelf behind her and a blue rug next to her.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 15d

Mornings with Ella. 🩷

Giant fluffy, white dog lying on a dark wood floor with a dark room behind her.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 15d

I would join that fight.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 15d

A senior foreign diplomat posted at the U.N. texts me,” Tharoor wrote, “‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’”

Thanks, @hcrichardson.bsky.social for putting this all in one place.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16d

September 23, 2025

In New York City this morning, the United Nations opened its General Assembly, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations itself.

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Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 15d

Mornings with Ella. ☔️

Giant fluffy, white dog standing in a yard with trees behind her.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 16d

I did not make my daughter a Nazirite (yes, I know it doesn't work that way), but I did baptize her, and she still accuses me of taking away her agency in that with the "marked as Christ's own forever" language. She's right. I'm not sorry though.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 16d

This fits right in with the Season of Creation we are celebrating this month. Reclaiming the prairie on behalf of all of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land.

www.nytimes.com

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 17d

Mornings with Ella. 🩷

Close up a giant, fluffy, white dog’s head. She is lying on a wood floor with white cabinets behind her.

Elaine Ellis Thomas @reveet.bsky.social · 17d

Sending good wishes to all my Jewish friends as Rosh Hashanah begins this evening.

L'shanah tovah tikatevu ve-tehatemu!

May you and your loved ones be written and sealed for a year of goodness and blessing!