It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

I again made my 500 words for #DissertationWriting. #PhDLife I am, nonetheless, very much not a happy camper at this moment, quire the fucking opposite. [shrill screaming resumes]

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

I am simply not fucking okay with yet another liberal plea to sacrifice the lives of trans people on the same day we find the Trump regime caused another one of our sister's death and is blaming us for 42 million people losing SNAP benefits.

Explaining to 2014 me that the gamergate guys somehow came out ascendant and that Brianna Wu is now an influential figure in that faction.

Apparently "Resolved, that this 115th Convention of the Diocese of Olympia affirm there is to be no use of Large Language Models in the creation of sermons, prayers, liturgies, or in the offering of pastoral care in the Diocese of Olympia; and be it further" was both not clear enough (enforceable?)

The irony of a professed Christian who deadnames trans people but insists on calling Saul of Tarsus "Paul"

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

These are the merely the first set of people on Fifth Avenue that they've decided to shoot.

Finding it very difficult to have a charitable word for tax collectors in a world with ICE snatching people off the streets. ⚓

I get so, SO tired of this. No, none of this is legal. NONE of it is legal, but what’s becoming INCREASINGLY clear is that IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER. What the FUCK does it matter if it’s legal? They’re doing it, and nobody’s stopping it, so WHAT IS THE DISTINCTION? God DAMMIT, y’all.

Mayor Johnson is cooking

Is anyone else not really fussed about gafcon leaving the Communion? They’ve always wanted to claim some ownership over what orthodoxy means, and that’s just not a good way to stay in community together. It’s always been so paternalistic, which I guess has always been the point. Ciao, I guess 🤷‍♀️

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

we renounce Satan

Congrats to the manufacturers of inflatable frog suits on their unexpected windfall.

Had a lovely time at St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis yesterday. The liturgy was gorgeous, and the church building is simply breathtaking. I couldn't keep my eyes off of the wooden reredos or the stained glass ⚓

Aaron Boone, if you're feeling guilty about 2003 and you really want to make it up to Boston, go ahead and pull this kid after 100 pitches. You'd be doing them such a solid.

Bluesky is awesome, and I wonder if we were living in more precedented times if I'd be able to hang out here more. As it is, my HR goes up by about 10% after 5 minutes on here, so I have to do this thing very lightly.

Is there a running list of names of the disappeared that churches can be praying for? 🕯️

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

When this is over we need to just make the worst conservative fears come true. Amnesty. Ongoing DREAMER naturalization for any minor arrivals. North American union with Schengen-style rights to free movement, indefinite stays, unlimited right to work. Free legal representation in immigration court.

TEC FOLKS: CHURCH PLANTING AND REDEVELOPMENT GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE NOW LIVE. www.episcopalchurch.org/grants-and-scholarships/new-episcopal-community-grants THE DUE DATE IS SEPT 23. GET ON IT, BABES. ⚓

Assault with a deli weapon

jury nullification is a powerful tool against fascism right now.

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him

Nah, take 97% of his money and net worth and assets, then use that to help those who need it most.

So it's been 3 months since I've logged on? Cool, cool. Anyway... I need to talk with someone who knows about The Process in ECMN (formerly Dio Minnesota). And then pretend I have no mutuals in my home diocese... 🤦‍♀️ (Goodness, but I wish one could just communicate like a person sometimes)

If you refer to trans women as biological men and trans men as biological women you have failed as an ally. Full stop. Do better

You know how a coach will say about a player "I think she's got 60 minutes in her?" That was all of #GothamFC today. We had 60 decent minutes.

Welp. #GothamFC

Not a fun game to be a #GothamFC fan lol

I think #GothamFC might be a bit tired.

Portland playing like they've figured out Gotham's tells #NWSL #PORvGFC

Ugh. Hell of a goal by the kid. That one was coming... #NWSL #PORvGFC

If Gotham doesn't win this, Arnold's got to get a lot of the credit. #PORvGFC

See below.

How is it that Portland gets a full(ish) house on a random Tuesday evening? Say what you like about the twee-ness of Cascadia soccer, but this is amazing #NWSL

reflect on same-sex relationships

I don't care much what these people do, but firing a black queer woman because you're worried that she's going to embrace "the politics of division" says all you need to know about who they think is expendable and who they think requires constant and dutiful placating.

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Just literally put my AGAB as a footnote in this application autobiography. They want to know who I am? I don't see a more accurate way of presenting myself.

PEOPLE ARE BEING ABDUCTED FROM THE STREETS AND PEOPLE ARE IN THE STREETS AND YELLING ABOUT IT, SOMETIMES AT GREAT PERSONAL RISK. SORRY THE US ISN’T PERFORMING ‘IN THE STREETS’ TO YOUR SATISFACTION.

‘Why aren’t people in the streets’ *stares in the tune of people showing up on a few hours notice all over the country to protest state kidnappings*

"first they came for the protestors and brown people, and i said nothing, because fuck them, they criticized my infallible candidate who ran a perfect campaign, and they're why she lost, haha"

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