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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 1d

Redford washes Streep’s hair in scene from Out of Africa.

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 6d

I’m thinking that cormorant was channeling Dracula with his cape 🧛🦇

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 6d

My best guess is still that we will get through to the other side with our democracy intact. The question for university leaders is whether they want to live with the shame of having been on the wrong side of history.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 6d

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Lutherans Restoring Creation @lutheransrc.bsky.social · 7d

We give thanks for the life of Dr. Jane Goodall, lover and protector of Creation.

On the left is a picture of Jane Goodall from Amy Martin Photography. She is an elderly white woman with a slight smile. The text reads: "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves," attributed to Dame Jane Goodall, born 1934 and died 2025.

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 7d

New: Today, FCNL's @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social joined 100+ faith leaders speaking out against the growing normalization of violence & the rise of authoritarian threats to democratic freedoms in the U.S. ⬇️

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks. I don't doubt *anything* you're saying about the signage & the atmosphere there. But an ELCA church in Renton WA is posting an educational series of that name/on those dates on FB. Definitely anti Xian Nationalism. So these folks are allies (& maybe endangering themselves).

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 10d

Renton--what state?

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 10d

I don't know where this church is, but one need not assume that they are promoting Xian Nationalism. They could well be studying it over that period of time, as it is manifesting now, so their members are well informed.

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 18d

The second I saw this photo, I thought how wonderful it would be to have a ship with a figurehead inspired by this fierce bird!

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 19d

Join us for our Friday faith sharing and Bible study today on my Facebook page at 3 PM ET, when we will discuss this Sunday's readings, including the first reading, from the Book of Amos: "Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!"

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · 23d

Would love to read more about this, Governor Evers, but the link is still broken as of 7:24 CST . . .

Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · Aug 6

I mentioned my surprise about this to the author of the study guide. He suggested that leaders could find appropriate images to use (spread out on a table, say, for people to look at) for the very first lesson. I said using pics of actual nature, as long as we still have it, would be good. Sigh.

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · Aug 6

THANK YOU—it made me crazy when I saw that!

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Neil Alan Willard @neilwillard.bsky.social · Aug 4

CNN is reporting that Yeonsoo Go has now been taken from New York to the Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana. ⚓️

Neil Alan Willard @neilwillard.bsky.social · Aug 3

According to my friend and divinity school classmate Bishop Matthew Heyd of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Yeonsoo Go, daughter of an Episcopal priest, is being detained at a facility with no beds or showers or hot food. ⚓️

Screenshot of a public Facebook post by Clara Mun (wife of Bishop Suffragan Allen Shin of the Episcopal Diocese of New York):

“Please pray for YeonSoo Go, daughter of Rev. Kyrie Kim, Episcopal priest in The Episcopal Diocese of New York!
YeonSoo is student at Purdue university and was detained by ICE after her visa interview at federal immigration court.
This is wrong!
#FreeYeonsoo #FreeKetty #Freethemall”

Photo of Yeonsoo Go with her mother who is wearing a clerical collar, both smiling, as they stand in front of the altar in an Episcopal church that is decorated for Christmas.

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · Jul 29

The article says “multiple synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, including those in New England, the greater Milwaukee area, southwest California, and southwest Texas” signed on.

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North/West Lower Michigan Synod ELCA @mittensynod.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today is the start of the 2025 Churchwide Assembly! For those interested in following along at home, plenary sessions and worship services will be live-streamed at www.elca.org/CWA. A full schedule is available online and worship materials are available in the CWA Guide app!

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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · Jul 22

Happy Lobby Day! Please help support our citizens lobbyists at their 400+ meetings today. It only takes five minutes to make a phone call to your reps, but the impact is huge.

Use our easy Click-to-Call tool at cclusa.org/callin ☎️

CCL volunteers in front of the U.S. Capitol
Building. Text says “support our citizen lobbyists. Call Congress today.”

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Brett Cease @brettcease.bsky.social · Jul 21

Good morning ☀️ there’s over 850 climate advocates gathering together today for the #CCL2025 @cclusa.org conference here in DC getting ready for our 400 lobby meetings tomorrow and building political will for a livable world! We are #inspired and ready for #grassrootsclimate action! 👏

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Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social · Jul 16

Today marks 80 years since the Trinity test—the first ripple in what became a global arms race—with more than 2,000 nuclear detonations, arms buildups, and threats of annihilation. Ploughshares is proud to support the communities pushing for justice & a better future.

https://loom.ly/3s9HLgg

Eighty Years After Trinity: A Legacy of Fallout and Reckoning & Building the Movement Forward - Ploughshares

In the early hours of July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb—known as the Trinity test—marking the dawn of the nuclear age.

ploughshares.org

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WisDems @wisdems.org · Jul 16

TONIGHT! Join us in La Crosse for a People's Town Hall.

We're speaking out against the big UGLY bill that Trump, Derrick Van Orden and the GOP just passed.

We'll see you there!

The People’s Town Hall in La Crosse!! · WisDems

Trump, Derrick Van Orden and the GOP just passed the big UGLY bill. This bill will take away vital services from working class families — just to give more to billionaires who already have it all.…

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · Jul 14

Maybe you’re remembering this op-ed?

Opinion | Wisconsin’s Radical Break (Published 2011)

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · Jul 14

Yes to both your points—see this (unlocked) article from March 2011

Wisconsin Professor’s E-Mails Are Target of G.O.P. Records Request (Published 2011)

www.nytimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jul 6

Joanna Macy is dying. I've learned how to be better as a human being because of her. Grateful to her family and community for allowing those of us who do not know her personally to share our feelings about her. I come back to her 5 vows all of the time: alokavihara.org/wp-content/u... - Thank Joanna

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jul 6

There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.

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Kate Hale Wilson @katehw.bsky.social · Jul 5

Last seen in the news back in the winter when the VP wanted to take a ski trip—our home away from home, the Mad River Valley 🙌🏻

AltReclamation 💦 @altreclamation.altgov.info · Jul 5

Here’s hoping your local 4th of July celebration looked like this one.

Leave it to Vermonters — who live in a state that is dreary & cold most of the year — to turn up the brightness with kindness, & turn up the heat by speaking truth to power.

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