Lydia H
@purplemerchant.bsky.social
Theology, Fantasy, Youth Ministry, Cats, and whatever else strikes the fancy.
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Watch this, it's astonishing.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Watch this, it's astonishing.
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Via @rns.org: Judge stops Noem from ending Haitians' protected status, but fear of ICE remains.
Also: "DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin (told RNS) the government would appeal the decision …"
“Supreme Court, here we come,” she wrote. religionnews.com/2026/02/02/j...
Also: "DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin (told RNS) the government would appeal the decision …"
“Supreme Court, here we come,” she wrote. religionnews.com/2026/02/02/j...
Judge stops Noem from ending Haitians' protected status, but fear of ICE remains
(RNS) – Monday’s ruling came just over 24 hours before TPS status was set to expire for some 350,000 Haitians.
religionnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Via @rns.org: Judge stops Noem from ending Haitians' protected status, but fear of ICE remains.
Also: "DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin (told RNS) the government would appeal the decision …"
“Supreme Court, here we come,” she wrote. religionnews.com/2026/02/02/j...
Also: "DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin (told RNS) the government would appeal the decision …"
“Supreme Court, here we come,” she wrote. religionnews.com/2026/02/02/j...
Praise God! We’ve been PRAYING for our Haitian neighbors 💜
BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Praise God! We’ve been PRAYING for our Haitian neighbors 💜
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im never making fun of shitty comics worlbuilding where a single guy is behind all the worlds societal evils ever again. this epstein shit has me apologizing to the MCU
February 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
im never making fun of shitty comics worlbuilding where a single guy is behind all the worlds societal evils ever again. this epstein shit has me apologizing to the MCU
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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lol if Isaac Chotiner says "I see" to you, your reputation as a person of any merit is done. Kaputt. Over. Chotiner's "I see" is Vinnie saying "He's gone and we couldn't do nothin' about it" in Goodfellas
February 1, 2026 at 11:46 PM
lol if Isaac Chotiner says "I see" to you, your reputation as a person of any merit is done. Kaputt. Over. Chotiner's "I see" is Vinnie saying "He's gone and we couldn't do nothin' about it" in Goodfellas
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Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”
I may have a stroke.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
January 31, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”
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Josh Naylor says he’s trying to lead an effort to get a group of Seattle Mariners teammates out to support the Seahawks at the Super Bowl.
#TridentsUp #SeattleMariners #Seahawks
#TridentsUp #SeattleMariners #Seahawks
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Josh Naylor says he’s trying to lead an effort to get a group of Seattle Mariners teammates out to support the Seahawks at the Super Bowl.
#TridentsUp #SeattleMariners #Seahawks
#TridentsUp #SeattleMariners #Seahawks
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Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.
January 28, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.
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Reading Oscar Romero:
January 25, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Reading Oscar Romero:
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Ss. Perpetua and Felicity ora pro nobis
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Ss. Perpetua and Felicity ora pro nobis
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“The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. … No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression.”
- St. Óscar Romero
- St. Óscar Romero
January 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
“The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. … No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression.”
- St. Óscar Romero
- St. Óscar Romero
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Matthew 25 is what got him. Then:
"I dont want to believe in hell. I dont want to believe youre going there. But this is what Jesus says. You can walk away. You can choose justice. You can use your skills and training for good. You can be a protector. But right now you're not."
"I dont want to believe in hell. I dont want to believe youre going there. But this is what Jesus says. You can walk away. You can choose justice. You can use your skills and training for good. You can be a protector. But right now you're not."
Preaching at CBP officers about justice and repentence and one started crying and had to walk to a different area
January 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Matthew 25 is what got him. Then:
"I dont want to believe in hell. I dont want to believe youre going there. But this is what Jesus says. You can walk away. You can choose justice. You can use your skills and training for good. You can be a protector. But right now you're not."
"I dont want to believe in hell. I dont want to believe youre going there. But this is what Jesus says. You can walk away. You can choose justice. You can use your skills and training for good. You can be a protector. But right now you're not."
WA people tell Patty Murray to make a new deal and defund DHS (she sits on appropriation)
Link to phone numbers for the field offices: www.murray.senate.gov/office-locat...
Office Locations - Senator Patty Murray
Everett Office 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Ste. 9DEverett, Washington 98201Phone: (425) 259-6515Fax: (425) 259-7152 Seattle Office 2988 Jackson Federal Building915 2nd AvenueSeattle, Washington 98174Phone: (...
www.murray.senate.gov
January 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
WA people tell Patty Murray to make a new deal and defund DHS (she sits on appropriation)
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”
www.thenation.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
hearing the Lord’s Prayer brought me to tears
As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
hearing the Lord’s Prayer brought me to tears
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This is the giveaway that it has zero to do with criminals. Cops aren't about to stop arresting a serial killer if there was a large crowd booing them and honking. ICE is trying to menace a community. Inflict violence and terror.
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
January 23, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This is the giveaway that it has zero to do with criminals. Cops aren't about to stop arresting a serial killer if there was a large crowd booing them and honking. ICE is trying to menace a community. Inflict violence and terror.
Her name is Karla. She should still be in Spokane, going to elementary school while her dad gets his LEGAL VALID asylum case heard. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Border patrol detains 10-year-old Spokane girl and her dad, sends them to Texas detention center
Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.
www.spokesman.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Her name is Karla. She should still be in Spokane, going to elementary school while her dad gets his LEGAL VALID asylum case heard. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
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That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.
I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂
January 19, 2026 at 3:17 AM
That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.
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Abolish ICE.
If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.
If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.
Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.
A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.
www.inquirer.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Abolish ICE.
If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.
If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)