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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 1h

Join me at Saint Augustine's Episcopal at 8 or 1030 here in Phoenix this Sunday, in person or online. www.staugustinetempe.org

St. Augustine's Episcopal Parish | St. Augustine Tempe

www.staugustinetempe.org

Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 6h

Get ready Phoenix I'm coming! Diocese of Arizona, I think we're going to have an interesting conversation. All Saints Episcopal, there is a word to be proclaimed. #Narthex

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

PS I may have mentioned a time or two or twenty that white women only have value insofar as we support, police, & serve the white supremacist patriarchy.

And as I may have *also* mentioned a time or two or twenty, white supremacism actively depends on misogyny to function.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Sep 28

In the white supremacist construct, other races are weak AND brutish, wily AND stupid. Someone has to be endangered by that set of characteristics—but it certainly can't be white men!

So who is it? Has to be white women. And WW who refuse to be white supremacy's enforcers are a danger to it.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 20h

Tonight's timeline cleanse.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

religionnews.com

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 1d

One white man damn near burned down California. He should also be charged with 12 counts of murder.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

n.pr

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 2d

Please repost far and wide

Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine is calling for a workplace Stand Out for Gaza:

📅 Thursday 16th October 2025
🕐 during lunch (or other break)
📍 outside your workplace

Wherever you work, any sector any job, talk to your colleagues about a Stand Out for Gaza.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 1d

Arizona.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 1d

My second time here. It's going to become a habit.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 1d

The mule deer know they are safe on the property and don't mind being the subject of our photos at all.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 2d

Sedona

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I took a (guided) 4 1/2 mile hike at moonrise under the Hunter's Moon on the red rocks that are sacred to the Apache and many other peoples The moonlight was so bright when it was behind me it lightened the black sky but kept the stars in the photos. And a scorpion under black light.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 2d

Why is it just making national news. I put it as a statement and not as a question because I don't expect you to answer or have an answer. This is just all reprehensible. And waiting for these lawsuits and those of governors and mayors seems like more time than we have.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

Not only are undoc workers not to blame for the shutdown, daily costs are rising in part because the admin is busy attacking immigrant farmworkers.

“Immigration raids have hurt major growing areas, leaving crops unharvested at CA farms and scared off workers at dairy farms in NY and other states.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

Your friendly reminder that undoc workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.

In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽

americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/theyre-lyi...

They’re Lying, Dividing, And Distracting. Don’t Believe The GOP’s Shutdown Hype

“This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law," said Sen. Mark Warner. "It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 3d

Right now my life is a timeline cleanse.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 4d

Lots of people are (rightly) posting this quote but the replies tell the real story of how the Germans let it happen the first time and how white Americans are letting it happen this time.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d

Whenever someone posts the poem at me

I note they do not mention Afro Germans

And how they aren’t in it and how many spaces still say “ oh there was no concentrated plan to remove them” ….

Because they were years of oppression to build on hcofpgh.org/books-on-bla...

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. All of those commercials for cops who are frustrated at what they can't do to people on their jobs to join ICE where they can do what they really want to to people. It's all so much gasoline soaked kindling. A riot/revolt massacre just a sulfuric breath away.

Cole @lilgay.club · 5d

Really feels like trumps ultimate goal is to just get so many troops in American cities and hopes that one of them goes rogue and starts shooting

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 26d

Who keeps us safe?
We keep us safe!
Take a walk or a ride on those western streets, join in the fun, and keep an eye out for ICE. You know what to do.

4 panel graphic:

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)
Family Support Network
855-435-7693
Report ICE sightings and arrests, seek help with immigration & other legal services.

Cook County Public Defender's
Arrest Response Hotline 844-817-4448
Free lawyers to represent people in police custody in Chicago or any other city or town in
Cook County. 24/7/365.

First Defense Legal Aid Help Not Jail Hotline
1-800-LAW-REP4
(800-529-7374)
Trauma-informed hotline to find civil rights counsel for police misconduct, report federal law enforcement activity, connect to stationhouse defense & get referrals to community & legal resources.

County. 24/7/365.
Legal Support Hotlines for Responding to Possible Federal Law
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National Lawyers Guild
Chicago
872-4NLG-CHI
(872-465-4244)
Free lawyers to represent people arrested during protests or for political activity while in police custody or in court.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 5d

Today, masked agents (I assume to be BP or ICE agents from the badge) threw tear gas canisters toward civilians because they were blocked in traffic and were heckeled at

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6d

I went to the protest this morning at ICE facility in Broadview. Some photos if you wanna follow along. My guess is that at its height there were 300-400 people there, all protesting the inhumane treatment & illegal kidnapping of our neighbors. #broadview #iceprotest #abolishice #broadviewprotest

A protest with several hundred people at the ice facility in Broadview Illinois.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6d

ICE was always detaining Black people.

Black immigrants are some of the most deported

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 7d

I hold this outrage along with my outrage in Gaza. I do not have to choose between them. But I do choose peace. I choose justice. I choose dignity for all people.

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 7d

I do know that the largest expense in the community in which I pray regularly, is security.
The attack on the Manchester synagogue, murder and injury of congregants is reprehensible. The targeting of a synagogue on the Holi day of the year is beyond reprehensible.

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