A sweet anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood to all who observe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_M...

Recorded the podcast today, and tried hard to steer away from full on “What do we say to death?” “WHERE IS THY STING?!? WHERE IS THY VICTORY, POWERS OF HELL?! ” But not sure I succeeded.

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

Christian schools in Jerusalem suspend classes to protest at Israeli restrictions - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/christian-schools-jerusalem-suspend-classes-protest-israeli-restrictions

The federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe. Now imagine 77 years of this.

My co-pay doubled.

Let’s review. If you (person with a conscience) are asked if you know where your neighbors of a certain ethnicity live, you have never met anyone in your life. You are but a baby kitten, knowing nothing, seeing nothing, retaining nothing.

For the love of God and all that's holy.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

Just way too on the nose here, 2026.

I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...

And all his works, and all his false promises.

Frances Perkins, architect of the New Deal, who is also on our Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints (May 13), would horrified and appalled by all of this. ⚓️

Hey guys I'm starting to think that if the state offers you relief from your own oppression by oppressing others, it's not true, they just wanna oppress us all

::taps sign:: This World Is Governed By the Powers of Death

ICYMI: here’s what I wrote yesterday. On why reactionary centrism in the Church is bad, actually. substack.com/@dajjimeg83/...

Its priests have done violence to my teaching and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Ez 22:26

For some context: Jonathan Myrick Daniels was from NH. Episcopal seminarian in the 1960s, he decided to join the Freedom Riders in AL. He was killed by a shopkeeper when he stepped between him and a little Black girl. Shopkeeper was aiming a shotgun at the girl, and shot him instead.

I got mad and wrote something. I’m over on substack now if youd like to read it dajjimeg83.substack.com?r=4ywp&utm_c...

In case you needed something lighter in your brain, people on the nail polish group I belong to are sharing pictures of their various “F€¥¥€K ICE” manicures as well as tips on how to translate that into Braille or Arabic if “you want to like be around kids or go to work or whatever.”

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

This is true. We may not be able to stop everything but we can sure as hell slow it down

look I am generally cautious about applying the language of martyrdom to contemporary events before all the facts are known, but everything that has come out in the last few days makes me feel only more comfortable using that language for what happened to Renee Good

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

I’m not going to share the latest video w sound. It’s there, if you care to see it. The power of death, and of nihilism is real, and it is among us, and we must fight against it, for God’s sake, for Christ’s sake, and for each other.

REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

Today has felt endless and soul-crushing, but in a very petty and banal way. The soul crushing couldn’t even muster up the decency for one big swing; we just get a slow drip of annoyances and frustrations within the first overall mess. I heartily dislike this.

I normally advocate ice floes, but pits are also an excellent option as herein explained.

Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Bishops, are you being paid in eels? If not, why not. We need answers.

I started reading William Stringfellow again and 1.) damn, does he hold up and 2.) the powers of death are strong again in our world but they will still lose. And we must resist them.

I reject those who worship death.

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

Chotiner sliding in to make everyone involved explain in their own words how dumb and awful they are.

The Episcopal Church includes the diocese of Venezuela and has this to say: ⚓️ www.episcopalchurch.org/ogr/episcopa...

Here is your reminder that a thing called Just War theory does exist, and one of the things it says is you cannot start a freaking war without being materially and substantively attacked. (“My feelings were attacked!” specifically does not count). This is a thing in ethics!

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

On a serious note, today is a day I am really grateful to repeat the Creed to myself. It’s always defiance, but never more so when the empire asserts itself so broadly. In whom do you believe? In horses, in guns, in preemptive strikes? I believe in God, the Father, Creator of Heaven and earth…

regressing to my youth (walking around occasionally reminding myself that my right-wing government is waging an illegal war)

I’m old enough to remember when you didn’t invade sovereign countries just because. Jesus Christ.

See? It’s not just me who goes through Ancient Vestry Minutes.

I know Bluesky has serious issues but its not infected with a chatbot that creates CSAM on demand so, I dunno

PREACH.

Watching HP2, and again reminded that though I wish my celebrity doppelgänger was someone cool, I am actually Moaning Myrtle.

Hardly the most important thing about it, but I’ve been pondering recently how to tell a more holistic version of history in the church. The new Ken Burns does a fairly good job of this, I think. At least better than previous mainstream “American History Your Dad Likes”tends to.

Transitioned the calendar from the one from the Amish general store by my dad to an ITYSL one. 2026 already hitting very different around here.