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Treating trans kids like real people is a radical and brave act for a politician in America these days—even in California. It shouldn't be.

What a game and win for the Valkyries #WNBA

Go Valkyries!

"The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization." - Magnifica Humanitas

So much for Episcopalians to discuss with regard to Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, but I hope we, both General Convention and our House of Bishops Theology Committee, will engage with his clear statement that just war theory is outdated. ⚓️ religionnews.com/2026/05/25/i...

This is a terrific piece, and I especially appreciated the reference to NC Congressman George H. White's 1901 valedictory address to the US House. There would not be another Black member of Congress for 28 years - and no Black member from an ex-Confederate state until Barbara Jordan in 1973.

The rural hospital crisis is killing people and rapidly escalating. The Republican cuts to Medicaid are basically going to be the end of hospital services in the rural US.

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Re the topic of Christian Nationalism, the Episcopal Church is clear this is heresy, apostasy, sin. ⚓️

Attended Sunday mass at my bishop’s former church, St. Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church in Rome; discovered it is beautiful and welcoming. Glad hear they were hosting a citywide ecumenical service for international day against homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia later in the afternoon. ⚓️

Jason Collins died of glioblastoma today. He was a wonderful person. This is awful

Happy Frances Perkins feast day (Episcopal Church calendar, May 13)! Witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, later FDR’s Labor Secretary; she wrote the Social Security Act in her church’s rectory kitchen. She pushed to admit Jewish refugees. Known as FDR’s conscience and author of the New Deal. ⚓️

One year later, still true ⚓️

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

Desperately need to know if this has ever happened before with any pitcher and number.

They never want to talk about the guns. Ever. Under any circumstances.

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it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

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Love your neighbour, love your God, save your soul and quit your job. (And then blow the goddamn whistle as loud as you can.)

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AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

This is: 1. Deeply moving. 2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV. Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

break them

okay MyShake definitely works!

The loud phone alarm for that earthquake came a good few seconds before we actually felt it in San Francisco - 4.9 near Santa Cruz - small jolt then shaking. Okay, now I am definitely wide awake. #quakesky

Happy #TDOV to all my trans, non-binary, two-spirit friends and family members and especially my @transepiscopal.bsky.social peeps. Wishing you love and joy. 💜💜💜 ⚓️

Infuriating. This is our labor history — the location of the Bread & Roses strike in 1912.

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

An administration of plutocrats pillaging public funds for themselves and their friends www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I do live in beautiful city

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

A budget is a moral document.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Action alert from the Episcopal Church’s Public Policy Network on the attacks on Iran today: “Condemn Attack on Iran and Assert War Powers” ⚓️ www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...

I can’t stop thinking about this.

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons. 5 miles away from his home. He never made it. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I would like to have a word with the insurance genius who decided that teeth don't really count as "health care"

🧵 - if these aren't local to you or hitting the right niche, find one that does. Engage in direct aid. Give your time & help & advocacy. Get involved in any way you can & help people.

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.