This is a beautiful essay from @farahnazrishi.bsky.social on grief and what we carry with us. And birds. lithub.com/feather-by-f...

“We had whistles. They had guns.”

I have two thoughts today. The first is this: we are seeing people doing violence with glee and glorifying it. This is terrible! But the reality is that many other political leaders, even if they decry open violence, still support inherently violent practices of detention and deportation. +

BCP is 🔥🔥🔥 at today’s news

Episcopal response to the shooting in MN: livingchurch.org/news/news-ep... ⚓️

A prosecution won't bring justice nor will it deter nor will it change the fundamental nature of policing in this country.

Rev. Susie Hayward, a UCC pastor who was shoved by agents and exposed to pepper spray at the site of the ICE shooting in MN today shortly after it occurred, just sent me this from tonight’s vigil for the woman killed. (She said sign’s design isn’t hers, crediting instead the artist Libby Kercher.)

Hold multiplicity, beloved.

Pray, and prepare.

More like this! This level of clarity is necessary:

"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026

It’s all one evil system of domination, and the pathway to healing is building a better world based on better accountability to one another

I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.

When the cop murdered Philando Castile his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter were also in the car.

I wish I had something useful to say, but man, them killing a mom my age with a little kid like mine has just really upset me

read theory

I bought a wired mouse and keyboard. I adore it. I just plug it in and it works! No charging! No fighting the Bluetooth connection! Just electronic signal flowing

This is accurate and FASCINATING from a spatial perspective (and finding ways to make our other institutions into life-giving third spaces instead is a big part of what interests me in my scholarly work!)

The Book of Common Prayer (1979) provides the Supplication for use "in times of war, or of national anxiety", beginning on page 154. Here is the full text 📕 🧵

Anyway the ethos of this entire administration is domination instead of accountability (to the American people, to Congress, to the international community), and we have to be thinking about what it would look like to have a society built on accountability, not domination.

No. War. For. Oil.

WHAT you can’t just take over other countries

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Chapel. With an organ.

This book is essential reading:

Read it read it read it!!! It’s Little Miss Sunshine but with birds. It’s fun and poignant and lovely!!!

The “a-“ is an archaic intensifying prefix apparently from old English that when combined with a verb ending in -ing indicates that the action is currently ongoing. You can see the same construction in other songs like “Here we come a-wassailing” and— [Sean is dragged off by monsters]

It’s Like a Prayer and it’s not close. (Ok good night happy new year)

Today I saw the Future Imaginaries exhibit at the Autry Museum, which LITERALLY made my jaw drop. Breathtaking art and an astonishing work of museum curation with a clear and thoughtful point of view. The museum’s connections of the imagined West to the science-fictional are thought-provoking.

In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

Made salmon coulibiac for Christmas dinner! (Merry Christmas!)

Chains shall he break

concentration camps.

"In a country where white Christianity has become a weapon of authoritarian violence, anti-ICE nativities re-center the reason for the season: Christ’s humble beginnings amid political violence," writes Emma Cieslik. sojo.net/articles/opi...

Listen to the people reminding us that concentration camps and torture are immoral and wicked, and also that the conditions in our own nation’s prisons are similarly terrible. Incarceration is dehumanization.

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

Bad news on this front. (Especially since most of the non-violent offenders with whom I served time were there on pretty basic drug offenses.) bsky.app/profile/jool...

It’s the longest night of the year and the last night of Hanukkah (for family-historical reasons we celebrate Hanukkah). I’ve got my Solidarity is the Only Way Home shirt from @theradr.bsky.social and friends coming over for latkes. Let’s make some light.

I am attributing our existential exhaustion today to the solstice. Tomorrow the light starts coming back.

Sending asylum seekers to random countries is so unbelievably cruel.

I am wildly curious if this SFWA LLM-friendly Nebula policy is intended to allow certain specific works in (and if so, which ones do they want to be sure are included?), or if not, what sort of LLM use-cases they are imagining authors are using. Like, I'm actually curious about the reasoning!

Just LET PEOPLE LIVE

I am just so strongly team “let people live”

FWIW I am angry!!!

“It is my sincere prayer that all of us—myself included—be given the gift of repentance and a renewed conversion to the Christ who has promised he will be found among those who are oppressed.” Read this. ⚓️

See, a totally abolitionist response to police killings is to make it impossible for cops who have killed someone, for whatever reason, to work as cops ever again, anywhere. That's not carceral, it's not even PUNISHMENT. We could put our efforts here, rather than (rare, often failed) prosecutions!

Judith is my fave and this is amazing:

This book is ESSENTIAL reading:

I’m out sick, so I watched A House of Dynamite (it’s great)

Like I was saying last week! “There’s a simple truth here that I feel the larger publishing industry has forgotten: if you make cheap books, you will bring in more readers.”