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Michele Wallen
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Associate Presbyter, Baltimore. D. Min. Candidate, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Pastor, community organizer, neighbor. Queer. She/they
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wmisha.bsky.social
Our democracy is worth the fight.
February 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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kenkovacs.bsky.social
religionnews.com/2025/01/28/t...
The gathering force of Trump's religious opposition
(RNS) — We are seeing the beginnings of an interfaith protest movement the likes of which we haven’t seen since the March on Washington.
religionnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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schatz.bsky.social
We passed a law. They don’t get to force people to petition the king for mercy. We are still a democracy and this will be found illegal.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 28
Asked how organizations that rely on federal funding should make payroll, Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says they should call Russ Vought and make a case
January 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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democracyforward.org
BREAKING: Quaker meetings sue Trump admin to keep ICE out of houses of worship. We represent them in challenging this harmful policy, which reverses decades of protections and has already sowed fear in many congregations. Read the full statement: democracyforward.org/updates/sensitive-locations/
Faith Leaders Sue Trump Administration to Keep ICE Out of Houses of Worship
January 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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aljazeera.com
One person has been confirmed killed and three others injured in al-Rasheed Street as Israeli forces opened fire against Palestinians waiting to cross into northern Gaza, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s3c9de
January 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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mrianjohnson.bsky.social
NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure

The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:

"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
January 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Oh hey: @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social, who writes about Catholicism for @rns.org, is on Bluesky!

You’re gonna want to follow her, as she’s covering a lot of stuff that ends up becoming nationally relevant, such as Catholic pushback to Trump’s immigration policies: religionnews.com/2025/01/14/i...
In Newark, Catholic bishops host interfaith leaders to oppose mass deportation
(RNS) — On Monday, the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and the multifaith community organizing group Faith in Action held a day of prayer and dialogue with immigrant families at St. Lucy’s Catholic...
religionnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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breyeschow.com
I just started a new list: "LGBTQIA+ Affirming Clergy," for those willing to provide faith-based solidarity, support, and services. I make no assumptions, so please share widely and drop your handle if you want to be added. #FollowFriday #christian #jewish #muslim #buddhist bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 27, 2024 at 5:45 PM
wmisha.bsky.social
New platform, who dis?
January 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM