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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · May 13

Wordle in 3, purple connections on 3, perfect Strands. Is this what it is like to slay?

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · May 8

Just started Matt Elias’ book and I don’t know….

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · May 8

Across the ecumenical divide, Pope Leo and I build a bridge of unity that is tweet dunking JD Vance.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · May 1

Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppleganger and I’m being COVID retraumatized. The chill that went through me when I heard Plandemic

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 28

An older adult in my spin class gave a shout for our first song (Van Halen) and announced that he loved this song and because it reminded him of his first girlfriend and a summer of “serious lapses in morality”

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 25

Tommy Orange 🤝Kaveh Akbar

Is the main character alive
at the end?

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · Apr 21

"And so the women, the dependent, the victims, seek for what is not there; and it is only because they seek, it is only in their seeking, that the risen Christ appears to them." @melissaf-b.bsky.social quoting Frei Betto. melissaflorerbixler.substack.com/p/empty-tomb...

Empty tomb, absent Christ, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Painting by Salvadoran folks artist, Fernand Llort

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 20

Happy Easter, fellow Radical Left Lunatics! Jesus is risen!

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 18

And I’m listening to Ezra Klein again so I guess that’s how badly things are going

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Apr 16

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 15

I think it’s fine for men to preach but Luke 24 does give one pause!

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 13

My algorithm is just a series of different angles on Bernie at Coachella

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 13

THIS HAPPENED TO ME!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Apr 10

BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds district court order that the Trump administration "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was improperly sent to El Salvador.

More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The application is granted in part and denied in part, subject to the direction of this order. Due to the administrative stay issued by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, the deadline imposed by the District Court has now passed. To that extent, the Government's emergency application is effectively granted in part and the deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective. The rest of the District Court's order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term "effectuate" in the District Court's order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court's authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated.

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · Apr 10

“I invite you to know and remember, as an act of compassion and humanization, the names of Palestinians who suffer under Israel’s repression.”

– @melissaf-b.bsky.social

www.christiancentury.org/voices/us-me...

The US media is biased against Palestinians

Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to...

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 9

Wait have I been saying economist wrong for four decades???

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 9

Not unlike most religious traditions. You’ve got Sinead O’Connor (of blessed memory) and Pope Benedict - both Catholic!

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Apr 9

Karl Marx was right.

Karl Marx Was Right: A Reading List

Karl Marx was right about the cruelty and irrationality of the capitalist system, and the economic and political crises inherent to its profit-above-all model. Marx's writing has helped i...

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 9

Guess who offered to relocate the public talk? Columbus Mennonite Church, a congregation that also provided sanctuary during Trump 1.0

nerdpsyche.bsky.social @nerdpsyche.bsky.social · Apr 9

Ongoing efforts to silence testimony to human rights abuses in Gaza. This incl. violence against healthcare workers and hospitals. An account from Maynard (March 2024):

"When I was in Al-Aqsa Hospital, we were forced to withdraw two days early, because there was a missile attack on the ICU."