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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

Also, church leaders have been REALLY unified in their interpretation of Catholic social teaching. The basic gist: the US has a right to secure its borders and it's ok to deport criminals. BUT it's not ok to deport people whose only crime was coming to the US illegally looking for a better life.

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

What do I want the church to do? If it comes to it, they need to start excommunicating the architects of this policy, starting w/ Vance. I also would like a little more direct action (as would Dorothy Day), tho I doubt we are going to see priests on the front lines of protests. But I can hope...

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

and you can tell that a ton of bishops/parish priests are subsequently feeling emboldened to speak out, it's not just upper-level church leaders. The church is PISSED (as it should be), not least because these raids are overwhelming targeted specifically at Catholics.

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

this has been....Archbishop Watch! Since late summer the American archbishops have gotten more directly critical and less conciliatory (and I want to single out Wenski, Archbishop of Miami, who is EXTREMELY conservative and has been relentlessly critical about 'Alligator Alcatraz') +

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

🚨ARCHBISHOP WATCH: Archbishop of Milwaukee Jeffrey Grob gives interview & says he's "considered" granting dispensations to not attend Mass to undocumented immigrants who are afraid to go. This is annoyingly weak tea and I award Archbishop of Milwaukee Jeffrey Grob only 1/10 Dorothy Day Points (TM)

Milwaukee archbishop open to granting Mass dispensation for migrants

Milwaukee could become the third U.S. diocese to lift Mass obligations for immigrants fearing deportation.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

Also this image of a stack of letters (many by children) sent from El Paso to the Pope (about how they are afraid of being deported) fills my heart with fury and sorrow. And Leo met with this immigration org / bishop and publicly said he wants the American church hierarchy to get even more vocal!

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h

🚨BISHOP WATCH. El Paso bishop Mark Seitz brings tranche of letters and short videos from terrified undocumented immigrants to Pope Leo. I award El Paso bishop Mark Seitz 5/10 Dorothy Day Points (TM) for this action. This has been REGULAR BISHOP WATCH

El Paso bishop delivers desperate letters to Pope Leo from immigrant families in Trump's crosshairs

El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz also showed Leo a video detailing the plight of migrants, and told the Associated Press afterward that Leo vowed to 'stand with' them and the Catholic leaders who are trying ...

www.latimes.com

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 6h

🚨ARCHBISHOP WATCH. A scorcher of a sermon(by archbishop standards) from Robert McElroy, Archbishop of DC, directly condemning the Trump admin's targeting of non-criminal undocumented immigrants. I award Robert McElroy 5/10 Dorothy Day Points(TM) for this action. This has been ARCHBISHOP WATCH

Strong words from Washington’s archbishop about immigration crackdowns

YouTube video by WTOP News

www.youtube.com

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 6h

my oldest sister's neighborhood high school in Chicago has been asking community members to come surround the students every day at dismissal in case they are targeted for deportation. No words.

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 6h

Pigs on the porch just made things hotter!!!

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 9h

I know other people who swear by this! Kind of like the pomodoro method....I'm so bad at short-burst writing and should practice this

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 9h

I think I'm going to take the advice on this thread, make a big inviolable writing block (no more treating writing time as 'flex time') and when people ask, instead of saying "I'm not available then" (vague and sounds like you're weaseling out) I'm going to say "that is my big writing block"

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 9h

This seems like really good advice. I often kind of schedule meetings willy-nilly (don't want to be difficult!) but I think that I need to just set aside one big block a week as inviolable. I completely am guilty of teaching writing time as "Flex Time"

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 13h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 18h

Job! Judaic Studies & the Medieval/Renaissance Center at Binghamton are looking for a Talmud/Medieval Rabbinics specialist! I have long been part of the Med/Ren group myself and I can vouch it is very active, supportive, and functional. Good people!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

binghamton.interviewexchange.com

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like everyone I know who does this has kind of a permanently angry energy lol

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 19h

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 20h

I was feeling extremely exhausted today and was bitching about work and then I saw a local news alert about someone who went up like a human torch while stealing copper wire from a local electrical substation. and the moral is: be grateful because your day could be a lot worse!!!!

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 22h

Leonard Woolf lived to see Woodstock

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

detailed local reporting on one particularly horrifying ICE raid in Chicago. Something that stood out to me: America had already failed a lot of these people in multiple ways even before ICE showed up. Forcibly bussing migrants. Housing crisis.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

for @eparpillee.bsky.social

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

This is really interesting, @roperlou.bsky.social. I was working in the Harley papers a couple years ago at the BL and there's TONS of Tangier stuff---Robert Harley sort of wriggled out of going there in the early 1660s

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 2d

Today's MEMOries archived blog post from guest contributor L.H. Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) takes a look at Tangier and the problems it posed for the English crown:

memorients.com/articles/tan...

Tangier: Morocco and the Limits of Empire in the Reign of Charles II | MEMOs

Perhaps counterintuitively in imperial terms, Tangier’s prospects suffered from its unique institutional position.

memorients.com

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 2d

What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.

www.historyworkshop....

Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 2d

the true horror of wanting a sweet treat after dinner and the only acceptable thing containing sugar in the house is RAISINS

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