“restoration of sacramental communion between our churches, sought for so many years, simply isn’t going to happen now,” said Msgr. Michael Nazir-Ali, who was one of several Anglican bishops received into the Catholic Church in 2021. ⚓ www.osvnews.com/catholics-ar...

#nevermind ⚓ www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Lars Jonung examines archival material from the Nobel Committee in Oslo to understand why, despite being nominated three times in the 1920s, John Maynard Keynes did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for writing “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Gafcon is taking its ball ⚽ and going home. No girl cooties. ⚓s away 🛥️ www.reuters.com/world/conser...

By @arliecoles.bsky.social "Observers who spoke to @livingchurch.bsky.social described the online backlash to the advertisement as immediate and widely critical of perceived feminism in the church." ⚓ livingchurch.org/news/cancell...

Trump's FTC chairman just sent a threatening letter to Tim Cook because the Apple News app doesn't feature enough right-wing news. reason.pub/4trS4cK

A call to action. ⚓ youtu.be/pgcgvbnO_Qo?...

Kind of weird for a president to come out against affordable housing.

ICE Withholds Congressionally Mandated Detention Data open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

The cliché explanation for how authority is more efficacious than coercion: "if I say I'll shoot you if you don't clean the blackboard, you'll only do what I want when there's a gun to your head." Trump is reaping the threat-adjustment-threat death spiral of doing FP exclusively through coercion.

Bishop Stevenson, Diocese of Virginia, speaks out against an ICE detention center. ⚓ www.facebook.com/share/v/1Q8J... “Introducing a detention facility into our community shifts our focus away from love, care, and welcome, and toward surveillance, hostility, and fear.”

⚓ substack.com/inbox/post/1...

episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/01/22/i... ⚓ Be brave, do good

About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty: A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."

As insane as this is, it's also instructive: 1. Placate a bully, and you'll encourage him to hit you again 2. Trump's trade deals are worthless 3. US "emergency"/natsec tariffs are a joke & clear example of why unbounded exec power is bad (cc: SCOTUS) 4. Hey Congress: DO YOUR 🤬 JOB

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

this is what patriotism looks like

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Our 1939 moment. ⚓ www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffair...

Mother Jones named several heroes of 2025, but they rightfully included Bishop Budde. Remember her sermon in Washington National Cathedral in January? She the book on How to be Brave. Literally. ⚓ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Church of England launches holiday ad to counter far-right Christian nationalism ⚓ www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n...

Rick Steves, mensch.

They’re actually redacting Trump’s name AFTER the release.

So glad my Congresswoman the Honorable Joyce Beatty is here to set the record straight.

"I want to extend an invitation for you to bring your questions and concerns to our next Provincial Office Hours tomorrow, December 19 at 12:00pm EST. Those who register will have an opportunity to submit questions or comments in advance" Julian Dobbs, Dean of #ACNA ⚓ mailchi.mp/anglicanchur...

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren

#acna Ruch found not guilty anglicanchurch.net/court-for-th...

The Court for the Trial of a Bishop expects to render its verdict and issue a final order in the matter of The Rt. Rev. Stewart Ruch III, #ACNA Bishop of the Diocese of the Upper Midwest,, no later than 6:00 pm EST today, Tuesday, December 16, 2025 ⚓ 1/2

#ACNA Board of Inquiry finds that there is probable cause to present Archbishop Wood for trial. ⚓ 1/2

A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned to Washington in recent days and has been wandering the neighborhood of Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin — alarming police and prosecutors, who urged a judge to immediately jail him.

Americans' views of the job market are the most negative Gallup has recorded since the closing days of Trump’s first term, in January 2021 during the pandemic.

This, from 2016, feels very quaint now. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Which members of #Gafcon will actually "reorder" and disassociate from the Archbishop of Canterbury? The AP has a new report. ⚓ apnews.com/article/angl...

Since so many people did not grasp that the code name "peril" was a reference to a racist term, here ya go. The Wikipedia article is very long, starting with the history of the term beginning in the 19th century. I'm very sorry it, once again, has relevance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_...

This is what evil looks like.

Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, said he would step back from public commitments after documents showed he asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice on pursuing an extramarital relationship with a female mentee. on.ft.com/3X1QGyM

At least the size of the checks takes into account that the domestic economic harm of a tariff exceeds the revenue collected. As we teach in Econ 101.

The executive has encouraged the legislature to compel the executive to release files the executive holds and has chosen not to release despite calls from legislators. It's unclear whether the executive will veto the legislature's bill, and whether the legislature will over-ride the executive's veto

Of course the White House is leaning into this. Because apparently they don't realize we exported more higher ed last year than natural gas & coal *combined*

Leadership changes continue to rock #ACNA. Julian Dobbs is new dean. Archbishop Wood is inhibited over sexual harassment accusations. No mention previous dean was a close associate of the archbp or what the college of bishops should have known r.e. Wood. Dobbs letter: ⚓ mailchi.mp/anglicanchur...

Complainants say they tried to advance accusations against Steve Wood for more than a year, and question the possibility of a fair hearing. #churchnews #Anglican #ACNA #news

#ACNA is not having a good year. ⚓ Gift article and 🧵 from the good folks @acnatoo.bsky.social. @washingtonpost.com subhead accuracy is improving.

The Most Rev. Ray Sutton, Dean of the Province of the Anglican Church in North America, has stepped temporarily into the role of ACNA’s archbishop and primate—but a group of chaplains has objected, calling him unfit to lead the denomination. - @livingchurch.bsky.social ⚓ #acna