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Katie Davis-Crowder
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mother + partner. Ignatian-inspired minister-educator. singer. writer on spirituality, social justice, + the arts. lover of pups, nature, + musical theater.
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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
Before you light you’ll crackle and hiss ... A poem for the Triduum? #meistereckhart from “Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets”🙏📚♥️
April 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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dylanfreedman.nytimes.com
Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides

www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
Goran World - yesterday As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.
February 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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jamesmartinsj.bsky.social
Cardinal Cupich sets the record straight.
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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ignatiansolidarity.bsky.social
Funding freezes for international humanitarian organizations like #Catholic Relief Services (CRS) enormously impact lives and livelihoods. CRS contributed this prayer to our library of resources at Education for Justice. For more resources on #CatholicSocialTeaching visit igsol.net/efj-explore
February 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon
February 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Trump's top border goon whined that Chicagoans are so educated about their rights that it's messing with ICE's raids. Today in @thenation.com, organizer Raeghn Draper tells us how the city is resisting—and how you can too. A great reminder—we're NOT helpless! www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Think There’s Nothing You Can Do to Stop ICE? Think Again.
Chicago’s years of organizing against immigration raids are a blueprint for real resistance to Trump’s attacks—as even his top goons acknowledge.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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markpmckenna.bsky.social
It would be great to see just one Democratic Senator do something about this.
wyden.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Feb 1
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
senatefinance.bsky.social Senate Finance Committee @senatefinance.bsky.social · Jan 31
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Just a truly gutting piece from @christianitytoday.com about when ICE agents came to a church to arrest an immigrant last week.

The whole thing is worth reading, but this section asks the big question: why was it necessary to arrest him there? www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/shou...
Media accounts largely agree about the day's events: At roughly a quarter past noon, an usher standing in the church entrance saw a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside and locked the doors. Wilson was listening to the sermon when his phone rang with an unknown number. When he silenced it, his ankle bracelet-known in Spanish as a grillete, or shackle-began buzzing. His phone rang a second time, and Wilson rose, flustered, slipping out the back of the sanctuary. The usher met him and said there were agents in the parking lot, asking for Wilson by name. Moments later, Kenia's phone flashed with a message from her husband: Come outside. Running into the daylight, Kenia found him handcuffed in the back of a law enforcement vehicle. "What's happening to my husband?" she asked the agents. Her mind raced to make sense of the scene. Wilson had made all his required check-ins at an Atlanta ICE office. He had the government's permission to work and had an appointment on a court docket. He was deported once nearly 20 years ago-a significant strike on an immigrant's record-but otherwise had no criminal record. The agents told Kenia they were looking for people with ankle bracelets, then they drove Wilson away. Back inside, her pastor, Luis Ortiz, tried to reassure his congregation. He encouraged everyone to be calm, he told local media. "But I could see the fear and tears on their faces." After the service, Kenia lingered a while in a daze. When she finally went home later that afternoon, she closed herself in her room and prayed through sobs: "God, take control of my husband's life." "It's disrespectful, what they did," Kenia told CT in Spanish. She doesn't know why ICE would arrest her husband at church. "With the bracelet they could find him anywhere."
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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commonweal.bsky.social
"Cruelty remains the point for Trump and his people, as it was the first time around."

@dominicpreziosi.bsky.social on the Trump administration’s campaign of psychological terror:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-fear-m...
Weaponizers of Fear
Fear is the tool of cowards. Only cowards have the need to resort to it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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sojo.net
"If the influential Catholic writer Thomas Merton were alive today, he would likely have strong words about police brutality and racial profiling."
Calling on Thomas Merton for Racial Justice and Healing
His words echoed May 16 among black pastors at a conference, titled Sacred Journeys and the Legacy of Thomas Merton, hosted by Louisville’s Center for Interfaith Relations.
sojo.net
February 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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theatlantic.com
"When you are selecting not only for loyalty, but defining that loyalty to mean affirming morally odious values and factually absurd premises, you are reducing your hiring pool to the shallowest part," Jonathan Chait writes:
Is There Anything Trump Won't Blame on D.E.I.?
The president is promising a return to meritocracy—while staffing his government with underqualified loyalists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
Happy birthday, Fr. Louis.
#ThomasMerton (1915-68)
January 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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ignatiansolidarity.bsky.social
#Catholic Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago has issued a message of solidarity with immigrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and across the country. The full message can be found here: www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
January 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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chioroplast.bsky.social
How long will they mouth haughty speeches,

go on boasting, all these evildoers?

They crush your people, LORD

torment your very own.

They kill the widow and alien;

the orphan they murder.
nutedawn.bsky.social Nute Year, Nute You @nutedawn.bsky.social · Jan 30
I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!
January 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM