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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 14h

Confidentiality is obviously important, and possible. But honest answers please - should we try something like this or keep energy focused on getting financial donations to food pantries (which is what I've personally been working on so far)? (3/3)

Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 14h

do you think there's capacity / interest in a double mutual aid approach to create a list of menus from restaurants owned by families especially at risk of harm under this administration, and then have people with means donate to a fund where we'd buy and deliver meals to families in need? (2/3)

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 14h

There have been so many thoughtful ideas posted lately about how to support families who will be forced to make impossible choices if SNAP benefits stop Nov 1. Brainstorming and sincerely asking, (1/3)

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 22h

The Florida concentration camp is still operating. People of faith, including United Methodist clergy, are still protesting.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

‘Sunday church in the Everglades.’ Faith movement grows at Alligator Alcatraz protests

They’re out there, deep in the Florida Everglades every Sunday evening — rain or shine — holding signs, singing songs and praying.

www.miamiherald.com

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United Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 2d

In a pastoral letter, the #UMC Council of Bishops laments how the ongoing U.S. government shutdown is causing harm and calls on members of the U.S. Congress and all elected leaders to set aside partisanship and work for the common good.
Read letter www.unitedmethodistbishops.org/newsdetail/c...

COB Pastoral Letter on US Government Shutdown

As a people called United Methodists, who proclaim God’s justice, peace, and care for all people, we lament the ongoing government shutdown in the United States and the harm it is causing to countless...

www.unitedmethodistbishops.org

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 6d

Being outside with my kids is the best 🍁♥️🍂

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United Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 9d

With warm faith, pastors seek to counter ICE

United Methodists in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, are striving to lead courageously by protecting neighbors, sharing their Christian witness and setting the record straight on what’s happening in their cities.

www.umnews.org/en/news/with...

With warm faith, pastors seek to counter ICE | UMNews.org

United Methodists in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, are striving to lead courageously by protecting neighbors, sharing their Christian witness and setting the record straight on what’s happening in the...

www.umnews.org

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 11d

Always good to be in Springfield and see so many dedicated people in the halls advocating for justice and progress!

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 14d

Absolutely horrifying.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 15d

Download and print your own sign here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I.C.E. Plant Signs - Google Drive

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 15d

My mom put this up outside her house today. She said attendance has been low where she teaches after two students from the community college were abducted by ICE last week. Every day I see more people speaking up and taking a stand, and it gives me hope!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17d

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops into Chicago.

This ruling reinforces what we already knew: It is illegal for the president to use manufactured emergencies to send soldiers into our cities.

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 17d

So proud of the moral courage of many people of faith, especially my United Methodist clergy colleagues quoted here!

Sojourners @sojo.net · 17d

A particularly powerful chant, which stood out to Aronson, directed at ICE agents, goes, “Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul, and quit your job.”
sojo.net/articles/new...

Chicago Faith Communities Say ‘Joy’ Is Key to Resisting the Feds

“Ultimately, this administration can’t take away our joy,” Joanna Arellano-Gonzalez said. “The more that we can deepen in joyful, nonviolent resistance, the more clarity it offers for us to keep…

sojo.net

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18d

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

A Facebook post by Jaime Andrade promotes a tamales and champurrado sale for Ms. Maria on Thursday, October 9th, at Kedzie & Byron to support her family. The flyer features tamales, a mug, and contact/payment info.

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 18d

Feeling hopeful and inspired after getting to see @johnfugelsang.bsky.social in Chicago tonight! A sold out crowd with a sold out book - this guy is on to something...

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 18d

Waukegan, IL has a weekly pro-democracy protest and today my parents and I got to join. Thank you to everyone out there fighting for justice in whatever ways you can.

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 23d

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24d

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 25d

In Ps. 26:11 today: 'Save me! Have mercy on me!' In South Shore Chicago last night armed agents knocked down doors & disappeared men, women, & children, in box trucks, not even with time to dress. Zip-tying children in the US. Have mercy, Lord. Have mercy those who love God. Mercy is my work today.

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · 25d

A powerful witness:

“The Epistle of James says that we should care for the widows and orphans,” Butler told The Washington Post. “I wanted to make sure that we were taking care of them, and thousands of people, it turns out, agree with me.”

Mormons raise $200,000 for family of gunman who attacked their church

In the days after a shooting at the LDS Church in Michigan, members of the church raised money for the families of the victims — and the family of the shooter.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Violet Johnicker @violetjohnicker.bsky.social · Sep 26

Just about every expert says our attention span is 30 seconds or less, but I believe in a radically countercultural Jesus... so here's 30 minutes of conversation between me and my pastor, Bishop @danschwerin.bsky.social I think it'll give you some encouragement.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDP8...

Bishop Schwerin and Pastor Violet on United Methodist theology for 2025

YouTube video by Violet Johnicker

www.youtube.com

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · Sep 21

In Ps.37:6: 'He will make your vindication shine like the light.' The conceits of Christian Nationalism will not stand. Truth will come to the light. Racism is incompatible with Christian teaching. God will use a remnant to teach love of neighbor. Shine is my work today.

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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · Sep 18

In Ps.40:2 today: 'He lifted me out of the pit of death, out of the mud and filth..' In the psalms, the pit is a metaphor for distress, danger, despair, and death. We are in a pit of eroding freedoms, but we have an Exodus God. Out is the direction of love. Out is my work today.

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