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Nope. This important decision simply says you need to follow due process. We are not an authoritarian country.

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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.

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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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“Make school board meetings boring again” - Maxwell Frost

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“Project 2025 is Florida 2024 and 2023” - Maxwell Frost

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“Before we were us we were them” - Barack Obama #UU #Immigratiionjustice

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Donald Trump fired Doug Emhoff and other Biden appointees from the Holocaust Museum board and replaced them with a Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member, a Mar-a-Lago member, and a Fox & Friends producer. It’s unprecedented and disgraceful. Holocaust remembrance should never be politicized.

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Text to my sermon - "The Values of Unitarian Universalism include the use of the democratic process in society at large and that every person is inherently worthy. I will explore why Facism is antithetical to our values.

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A Responsive Reading I wrote for an Interfaith Vigil marking 100 days (and used in Service today)We Are Here To Support Each Other open.substack.com/pub/jaywolin...

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Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

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"Terrible things are happening outside… poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart… Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." —Anne Frank, January 13, 1943 And today in America #fascism

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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

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Well that’s not something you see often.

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

submitted 36 days ago • 374 comments

A poem about the wilderness and illusion

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#HandsOffProtests

submitted 40 days ago • 461 comments

Sarasota Florida answering the call!!

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@revjay.bsky.social and I are with a HIGE CROWD in Sarasota FL!!!

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"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now. Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.

submitted 42 days ago • 113 comments

This helps me make sense of why he imposed tariffs.

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On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/WMbHhr5G

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If you can make it illegal to #protest for #Palestine You can make it illegal to protest Think long term.

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March 20 is International Happiness Day — a day that the United Nations had dedicated to the celebration of joy. We asked photographers around the world to share a picture that can bring bliss.

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My sermon from a couple of weeks ago about Dietrich #Bonhoeffer and the need for religious leaders and people to speak against Immorality of #Fascism.

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Kennedy King Dinner for #Democrats #Hogg #Whitehouse

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I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

submitted 58 days ago • 773 comments

The Soviet system never commemorated the Holocaust. One reason for this is that once you define and identify one genocide, you can recognize other genocidal crimes. The Soviet empire didn't want us to learn our history.” —Victoria Amelina, "Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened"!

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WTF

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At least 50 of us coming together to watch this movie and plan to work for #Immigration Justice.

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