Will the American super-Christians support this, too? Or is it just the cowards in Congress who don’t know what to do, other than nodding to anything from the president? And yes: I mean anything. They are meant to be concentration camps: sites to hide away the unwanted. I recognize. So should you.

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

ethics professor here, can confirm

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

My favorite annual pun

Also my Christian clergy peeps, I’d be WILDLY grateful if you were game to share this on your colleague /denomination listservs / FB groups / slacks / whatever since every year it seems like nobody knows it exists? 🙏🥺💕

yeah, so Fallout nailed it

Five classes I took in undergrad: Rock Ensemble Method in Theology Philosophy of Religion God on Film Studio Art

Church Life Journal. Discusses the place of legality within the moral framework of human dignity and dire need. - by Terence Sweeney. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/on-...

Remember that in addition to arresting reporters, the regime deported journalist Mario Guevara after detaining him while covering No Kings Day protests. “His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.”

ICE detains Oglala Sioux members at historic Fort Snelling

No shade to Jack here, but as a theological matter, the USCCB isn’t really a real thing and I have come to the opinion that everyone would do better to give what it does or does not do less weight or interest.

There’s an important little check-in acronym for this: HALT Am I… H ungry A ngry L onely T ired

Spirits up, feel good, but we don’t call the game til that final whistle.

The wickedly brilliant, funny, talented, and wonderful Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social joined our podcast to talk about the weirdest games we've ever played. And we sold her on Frog Fractions!!! videogame.town/2026/01/26/t...

Also check out his MOTU series “Sword Of Flaws”! Issue three just came out and it’s incredible.

Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.

Update: our family friend was deported swiftly to his home country (as in, maybe that same day), where he reunited safely with relatives there. His wife and kids remain here in the U.S. Thanks for the advice.

the bot accounts pretending to be resist libs going all in on “it’s going to come to violence, prepare yourselves” on a dime is telling me everything I needed to know about who’s running those accounts, or at least what they are for

This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.

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Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

Today’s escapism: More kithkin shenanigans. Community matters. 7-0 sealed. #mtglorwyn

Today’s escapism: I do love some Green-White kithkin good times! (Opponent in pic 3 conceded the next turn). #mtglorwyn

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.

"For all their military gear and unchecked power, the federal agents flooding this city....seem unprepared for what they are facing here. ... A state full of ordinary people...who've decided that watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin."

DOD is making moves to strip the US military’s main newspaper of its independence and turn it into a propaganda machine.

“Oughtposting vs isposting” is immediately load bearing for me

‘Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. An unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. … I refuse the prison of “I” and choose the open spaces of “we.”’ Toni Morrison

NewFrierenTomorrow!

'“The tribe does not intend to enter into an immigration agreement with ICE or Homeland Security,” Star Comes Out said in a letter. ... [He] said the detention of the four tribal citizens is a direct violation of federal law, various treaties and the constitutional protections owed to citizens.'

Brilliant article by @jdbeety.bsky.social, give it a read open.substack.com/pub/whitechi...

NEW: My dispatch from *inside* Minnesota's Whipple building today (the facility where ICE has rooted its operations in the region), where a group of clergy attempted to offer pastoral care to immigrant detainees. They were denied — an emerging national pattern. religionnews.com/2026/01/13/f...

who tells us where they will stop? History: „after resistance fighters assassinated SS officer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, Adolf Hitler ordered the extermination of the Czech village of Lidice – an act of retribution in which every male villager was executed and the rest deported or killed[5][6]“

It me.

syllabus writing like, “but what if i don’t want to have any assessments? what if i just want to meet my students twice a week to learn about some cool stuff, to give them *some* space where what they learn isn’t immediately commodified?”

A friend of my family, a man who I just spoke to on Saturday, was picked up by ICE last night. I don't have a lot of details yet, but if anyone has a short list of "must-do" steps to advocate for folks, I'd appreciate the help. The support network in red western Iowa is thin.

"What can we do? Well, I am tired. I am personally tired about the double-talk about Governor John Patterson's freedom to beat me up. Now it is time to create new standards. ... The tragedy of this country now is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care." James Baldwin

It is the first day of Spring Semester for me and I continue to have hope because I get the privilege of working with undergrads. The kids, they really are quite alright. Moreso even.

Happy Monday.

As the old socialist Catholic Dominican theologian put it: "As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing." -- Herbert McCabe, O. P.

I have good news for you if you like magic the gathering

Much has been made about a purported "revival" of Christianity led by Gen Z and Millennial Americans. There is no basis for it.

When you start teaching, nobody tells you how much of your semester prep is gonna be just typing the class schedule. 13 years after teaching my first course, I always forget how long this takes. Anyone have a good shortcut?

Painting Goldspan Dragon after an illustration by J. R. R. Tolkien himself. He was born on this day, January 3rd, 1892.

Just filling your feed with MTG. Not the congresswoman.