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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ

@kenhomansj.bsky.social

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Catholic, son, brother, Brother, Jesuit, weightlifter, woodworker, radical for Christ. Proudly putting the SJ into SJW. My tweets≠orgs I am part of. (he/him)

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · Aug 9

For my course day on music history, I'm going to let students pick a genre to explore music as a primary source. I'll have some songs they have to listen to, then they'll pick some of their own.

What are some "must know" songs or artists in punk, hip-hop, jazz, country, classical, blues, or folk?

bart simpson is wearing headphones and pointing at something

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you! That's one of the largest I've done and the instructions were "make it kinda wild." It's for fancy charcuterie at a fancy restaurant apparently.

Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 3h

Today I learned and managed to make some mortise and tenon joints for cabinet doors.

Then managed to waste $100 cutting plexiglass backing to the wrong size...

Decided to apply finish to the coffee table and cutting boards so I wouldn't bang my head on my workbench.

Need a cutting board?

Three checkered end grain cutting boards

Large maple and paduk end grain cutting board

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 11h

A dado a day keeps the fingers away.

Working on the doors for a credenza I'm building.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 17h

Thiel is the guy who sits in the front of the philosophy class who spends his whole time thinking he's clever but not actually learning anything. He makes half arguments. He's a major, but the faculty loathe him.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 1d

People do things, so our response should be to not do things.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon character with glasses and a yellow sweater is standing in front of a fire

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 1d

This #BannedBooksWeek, I'm reminded of one of the librarians at my high school.

She would assemble a HUGE display of banned books and information about the history of banning literature.

She also moderated the Young Republicans club.

I wonder what she thinks of the present Republican Party.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

They’re actively working to resegregate housing, and our “allies” refuse to name racism while they’re doing so...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 1d

Not to make this religious but it’s what I do.

The sustained assault on public empathy is bigger than genuine skepticism of performative empathy.

It’s a country where people’s anger for each other has become so intense that they gravitate toward that which will communicate hatred

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 2d

Did you hear about the church's new vehicle?
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It's a conversion van!

a cartoon of spongebob and patrick saying i 'm a..

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 2d

The #ceasefire in #Gaza “is an important first step, but it has to be sustainable,” our Jonathan Fowler tells TRT World.

There must be an unimpeded flow of aid, including the lifesaving supplies waiting in UNRWA warehouses.

People in Gaza need everything.

Lift the siege.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

Buried lede, almost last sentence:

"He had planned to fly to Spain on Wednesday night but said that shortly before takeoff, he was notified by the airline that his family’s reservations had been canceled."

Bray + wife & kids mysteriously blocked after getting boarding passes & going thru security.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 3d

Gym lifting buddy: I didn't recognize you!

Me: Is it because I'm wearing the uniform? (Clerics(

Gym: That and the lack of sawdust, glue, and paint stains.

a man with a beard is saying you made me feel seen

Alt: a man with a beard is saying you made me feel seen

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