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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

Spirit of understanding, open our eyes to systems of oppression and neglect, so that we can counter their brutal legacies.

- @sojo.net

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

Woe to those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

- Isaiah 10:1-2

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

Apartheid was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a matter of power, not justice.

- Jose Antonio Vargas, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” (2018)

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

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Why Faith Is a Threat to Autocracy

Because our tradition prepares us to resist tyrants, from Pharaoh to Caesar.

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

www.blueamp.co/p/3-fascist-...

3 Fascist Groups Are Attacking America; How We Take Them All On

From child labor to Christian theocracy, the MAGA right’s “master plan” is unfolding—and Wayne Besen blows the whistle.

www.blueamp.co

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

endlessurgency.com/p/senator-co...

Senator Cory Booker on the Collapse of American Community, the Government Shutdown, and Polynesian Folk Music

A bonus episode of Endless Urgency with Mike Nellis.

endlessurgency.com

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

www.thebulwark.com

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 8h

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-...

Pope Leo's Brothers — A MAGA Florida Man. A Chicago Liberal. And The Vicar of Christ.

They grew up in the same house, but ended up in wildly different corners of the ideological map and. Now they’re back under one roof — at the Vatican.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 15h

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How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 10/15/2025 · 1h 8m

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16h

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Mark Zuckerberg on the AI bubble and Meta's new display glasses | ACCESS

Podcast Episode · Pivot · 10/14/2025 · 1h 21m

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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 16h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · 17h

I just signed a letter of solidarity and gratitude with Faithful America to show the public that these protestors are demonstrating because of their faith. Will you sign with me?

act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/clergy-...