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Bivocational #ccdoc pastor, local newspaper worker, public library trustee. I love coffee, pets, and people who care about others more than power or money. Dislikes: xenophobes and lima beans. She/her.
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Sean McGarvey, the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), calling for the return of "our brother" SMART (the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers) apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 🥲👏👏 x.com/nabtu/status...

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I have now experienced all three.

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I have been working through a cold which has now reached the extreme congestion stage. Unless something changes quickly, I will preaching a *Palb Subday* sermon tomorrow.

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Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.

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This #NationalLibraryWeek, celebration must come with action. 📚 Libraries are under threat—from book bans to budget cuts. ⚠️ Now, federal funding via IMLS is at risk. Here's how you can help ➡️ imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/ #SaveIMLS

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Timeline cleanser.

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On the morning of April 9, 1865, Hannah Reynolds, an enslaved woman, was mortally wounded at Appomattox, VA by Confederate artillery. By that afternoon, she was a free woman, when the Confederate surrender was signed. She died 160 years ago today, April 12, 1865. www.nps.gov/apco/learn/h...

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As I’ve said, yes, this was their aim all along. That’s why they didn’t just send these people to Gitmo. This is an attempt to find a step beyond Gitmo where the court says, “Well, our hands are tied.” It’s an awful, lawless gambit that must fail, but that is what they want it to be.

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Poor Trump, impotent to secure the release of even one innocent man from that El Salvadoran prison. Oh now the mighty have fallen.

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Trump is screwing over farmers BIG-TIME.

Tariffs are driving up the costs of selling their goods overseas, fertilizer AND farm equipment.

USAID cuts and soon-to-be SNAP cuts are taking away customers who would otherwise buy their produce.

It's just body blow after body blow.

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April 12, 11:30 Central time: I seriously need to finish preparing for Palm Sunday. If you see me posting here in the next several hours, please tell me to go away.

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Preparing my Palm Sunday sermon, hopped over to Habakkuk (because Hb2:11 ≈ Lk 19:40). I thought "It's short, I'll go ahead and read the whole thing." And now I'm crying. Qoheleth was right: there is truly nothing new under the sun.

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Libraries are without a doubt one of the greatest things humankind has ever done.

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“Hank, why are you spending so much time defending the freaking /minecraft movie?/“ Actually, I’m not defending anything, I am attacking the practice of dumping buckets of jaded misery on moments of goofy joy and I will absolutely die on that hill.

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Sean Duffy has apparently decided to stop being polite, and start gettin' real. #IYKYK

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