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"The support I've had from evangelicals, Christians and everybody, people of faith really has been incredible. I believe it's been unprecedented," says Trump, whose admin is facing 5 lawsuits from dozens of faith groups, including entire Christian denominations. religionnews.com/2025/03/18/j...

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I remember the short era when Twitter looked like it would be an open protocol to power a thousand different uses. It’d be lovely if Bluesky could follow the path not taken.

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world." ~ Seamus Heaney

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Wow, Sandy Spring Friends School to close. At around 600 students, it’s around the median size for a US Quaker school. dailyvoice.com/md/olney/san...

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Great and challenging article from UK Quaker Craig Barnett arguing that the future is fewer, bigger, younger Quaker meetings. I think there's pluses and minuses to this but there's certainly food for thought here. quakerrenewal.substack.com/p/fewer-bigg...

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there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

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I'm reminded of the old quip that reality has a left-leaning bias.

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Lawyers for more than two dozen faith-based plaintiffs, including Friends General Conference, argued in federal court that Trump administration immigration policies pose an “imminent threat” to their religious practices by creating an atmosphere of fear among the immigrant communities they serve.

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Apropos of nothing: Hire more religion reporters.

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i mean, there's no getting past the inherent stupidity of this whole degenerate Fox world. But taking it on its own terms, as manhood and masculinity goes, being protected from competition is, at least as a general matter, a weird way of becoming more manly.

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It's such bullshit that men think just being around us is what's giving them estrogen. We actually spike your food and drinks for that, and just like most feminized work, the maintenance/upkeep involved is really difficult and undervalued. Stop erasing women's labor

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wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...

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The National Park Service has restored the changes to its website about the Underground Railroad following public outcry www.nps.gov/subjects/und...

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I think about this a lot. Good policy is often invisible—and helpless against emotional and anecdotal critique.

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my offer to america: we bring woke back

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Compass went to the salon and came back so sleek and chic.

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Rain has brought water to the often-dry creek in our back yard. I hope it wakes up the frog eggs so we have a lot of little hoppers in a few weeks.

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Life comes at you fast:

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Trueism: Presidents don't have a lot of impact on the economy. Fine Print: Because most don't do totally insane things.

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A great article by Gail Cornwall in @theatlantic.com on Quaker attitudes toward child-raising and schooling, chock-full of links to great Quaker resources (including two @friendsjournal.org articles and a Quakerspeak video).

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Oh, this is gonna make the rounds. 🤡 #PenguinTariff 🐧

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We put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins but not Russia. Very normal administration we have here.

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OMG. I was wondering that as the tariff numbers made no sense, but this is even dumber than I thought. I mean, this is "fail your econ 101 class and have to go meet with the professor" bad.

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Hey hi The government sold a man into slavery in El Salvador They now admit they messed up And are refusing to figure out a way to get him back

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The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

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Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

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A thing about Booker: he's one of the most consistently on-message politicians I've ever met. He told me this in 2018: "Every speech I give, I will not yield from talking about that revival of civic grace. Talking about revival of the civic gospels. Talking about the need to love one another."

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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

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The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

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Booker on Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here in spite of his speech. I'm here because as poweful as he was, the people were more powerful."

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"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

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We could do a lot worse (are doing a lot worse) than a President Booker in 2028.

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Go go Cory, make NJ proud!

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This line of lightning strikes up the East Coast is wild.

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This is awful. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Majority of Americans Support Replacing Pete Hegseth With Jeffrey Goldberg

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All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

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