A red cardinal on the hood of a car looking inside the windshield

A cardinal landed on my car and tapped on the windshield while I was stopped at a red light

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

#justiceforcricket

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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A poem titled Communion There's no bread. The bakers have gone into hiding. The seats at the table are empty. The Twelve are out marching with the thousands. The streets are filled with a new song. Only Judas sits at Target Plaza, counting his silver, While Pontius Pilate issues a carefully-worded statement. Meanwhile, the centurians have quotas to fill. But out in the streets there's a Communion. Jesus takes the city in his hands and says, "This is my body, broken for you." Rob Hardy, Feb 2, 2026

Fr @cebm.bsky.social shared this on his facebook. Its a poem by Rob Hardy, a former poet laureate in Northfield, MN.

Powerful poem. ⚓️

Birmingham shines a light for Alex Pretti and all those killed by ICE @indivisiblebham.bsky.social

Five-year old client…without enough assets to be released

spilling out from the crevices
warming the shade.
This is the stubborn sun, choosing to rise,
like it did yesterday,
like it will tomorrow.
You have nothing to do with it.
The sun makes its own history;
light has its way.

(3/3)

You could make it your mission
to shut it out forever,
to crouch in the dark,
the blinds pulled tight—
still, in the morning,
a gleaming little ray will betray you, poking
its optimistic finger
through a corner of the blind,
and then more light,
clever, nervy, impossible,

(2/3)

“poem about light” by Kathleen Sheeder Bonnano

You can try to strangle light:
use your hands and think
you’ve found the throat of it,
but you haven’t.
You could use a rope or a garrote
or a telephone cord,
but the light, amorphous, implacable,
will make a fool of you in the end.
(1/3)

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

Do you have an instrument case for packing?

When did police start dressing like Fortnite characters? And what is camouflage good for in a city?

Dress is a form of speech and we need to pay attention to the message we’re being sent.

3rd grader is right! One of my absolute favorite books as a kid

Opinion | I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.

“If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk.”

I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All

“All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience.”

By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

"An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from—not toward—a federal officer when he opened fire."

Great video analysis of Minneapolis shooting from NYT. These frames show drawing of gun and exact moment of first shot.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Thanks, Shannan!

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor, said she “has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole.”

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

“Words are not violence, nor are they powerless”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

No, that is not the better way to put it. “Southerner” is not a synonym for right wing extremist. Plenty of Southerners are working for justice in our communities and states. We’re still Southerners. No state or region is monolithic.

Re: the idea that empathy or compassion is bad or even "toxic," a belief held even by some Christians today.

There is problem with that belief, and that problem comes from Jesus himself....

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild

In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/c...

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.