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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

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Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!! All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai

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"A real evil should not be fought against at the cost of greater misery." ~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"

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"Admission to Africana studies, Asian studies, data analytics, disability studies, Middle East studies, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish and women’s and gender studies programs has been suspended starting with the 2025-26 school year...." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/23/u...

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Good morning. ☁️ “In worlds such as ours and Paul's where power is manifested in self-assertion, acquisition, and domination, Christ reveals that God's power, indeed the triune nature, is made known to the world in the act of self-emptying... 1/x

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"tribes did not exist until constructed as such during the relatively recent expansion of European empires" bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/rethinking-t...

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"Democracy may bend, it may get bruised, but what 250 years has shown is it will not break." www.google.com/amp/s/abcnew...

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"The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday...he was told that shelves will be empty,” a source told the outlet [Axios]." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dramat...

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Thrilled to have this paper out!

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V. Y. Mudimbe (1941-2025), baobab of African Studies. He taught us that "Africa" is a product of a "colonial library."

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It is actually not a commencement address because there is no commencement. It happens a day before the graduation ceremonies and graduates are not required to be there. thecrimsonwhite.com/121142/news/...

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If it's possible for you and a few others in your communities to band together now and to start planning back to school free stores, children's clothing swaps, school supply giveaways etc... definitely do it. There's going to be a lot of need.

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The rich and powerful of the world are co-opting the cross of Christ for political gain when they bear none of it. They desecrate the cross of Christ.

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It's all good and fine to be for revolution until you discover that the people screwing your life are not at all revolutionaries. They're just doing ordinary stuff that hurt. Then you realize that doing ordinary stuff may look like a revolution.

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Today is Holy Saturday. Jesus Christ is dead and buried, and the forces of power and evil stand triumphant, mocking the hopes of the weak. But only for a while.... Jesus is buried. Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng

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Bonhoeffer at his existential best.

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Incredible!

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I will never forget how when Paul Biya was shooting at us in 1991 in Cameroon, he was awarded an honorary degree by a university in the United States for being an astute statesman. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

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Harvard Universty has trained students who have served in all kinds of dictatorships around the world, supporting all kinds of atrocities. Now, their students are serving in the United States' homegrown dictatorship and yanking their tax-exempt status.

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This book contains findings of a study on forgiveness carried out among Black and white Christians in Cape Town, South Africa. For Black Christians, forgiveness after apartheid should include economic redistribution. Not so for white Christians.

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I've seen a lot of 'if you wanted to collapse higher education in America, this is how you'd do it," and I don't mean to be rude, but that isn't a distant point: this is them literally, explicitly, and actively working to collapse higher education in this country, and doing it because they want to

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One man in CECOT "doesn’t even know that his child’s been born," his lawyer said. Another has muscular dystrophy affecting his right arm, per a court filing. The facts fit "every definition of an enforced disappearance under international law," an attorney told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

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There’s a lot going on, but this is still a big deal.

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"The words in this book, although they concern action, are not action itself. They can only allude to it. That is the only dignity they have. If what they refer to doesn't exist, they have no dignity at all - for author or for reader." ~Hugo Assmann.

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.

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Breaking News: A senior Justice Department lawyer was put on leave after questioning the administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador.

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The U.S. agricultural industry is bracing for the potential of tens of billions of dollars in losses after China on Friday announced a 34% retaliatory tariff on all U.S. products. China’s counterpunch to the Trump administration’s policies will hit American farmers hard.

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Eva Steege had been struggling for years to access student loan forgiveness, and given her years of religious service, she finally became eligible, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Then the Trump administration halted the agency’s efforts.

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Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax hike in American history on working families, plain and simple.

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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

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They’re basically creating ‘illegals’ by stripping people of visa’s without telling anybody, least of all, the visa holder. www.bridgemi.com/talent-educa...

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👏🏽👏🏽

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They don't play over in South Korea www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/a...

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Of course.... www.npr.org/2025/04/02/g...

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Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale

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Dang, law firms are caving! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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