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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 1d

I can still rattle off my home phone number from childhood, plus a bunch of my friends’ numbers. Apparently they made it into long-term memory.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 3d

From my Episcopal priest in the same SF neighborhood where Thiel hosts invitation-only gatherings: “I wish Thiel would consider meeting Jesus as he is—a marginalized radical at the outskirts of an empire, friend of the poor and sick, who was crucified for threatening the powerful.”

I’m a priest. Here’s why you should reject Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk

The cynicism of the billionaire venture capitalist stands in deep contrast to the true values of Jesus.

sfstandard.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a monstrance - the Blessed Sacrament - a very big sacramental deal to Catholics (and many Anglicans and other high liturgy folks also). A powerful statement about the Body of Christ, which includes the immigrants being held inside that facility.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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TransEpiscopal @transepiscopal.bsky.social · 3d

On this #NationalComingOutDay:
we’re glad we can say that there is a place in the Episcopal Church for us to be our whole selves, wondrously made as we are. For history, connection, and resources, this page is a good place to start: www.episcopalchurch.org/organization...
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LGBTQ+

Trouble viewing? Click to view stream mirror. ON THIS PAGE For decades, LGBTQ+ Episcopalians and allies have worked to make The Episcopal Church a place of belonging and inclusion. We have prayed, stu...

www.episcopalchurch.org

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 3d

This is beautiful

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 3d

lol

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

lol!
Anyway, it was Crawford who singled and got himself to third on the throwing error. Since my teams are out, I’d love to see the Mariners finally win this ….

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

Mariners win!

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

A bunt would’ve been a good call but do they teach bunting now?

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 4d

It's fitting to read Dilexi Te on this the feast of Vida Dutton Scudder, founder of the Episcopal Church Socialist League and strong advocate for the poor and for the working class! ⚓️

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

Jonathan Daniels - Wikipedia

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 4d

Convicted in absentia of nothing more than association and speech, after 8 months of detention without charges.

churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 4d

Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.

Concern expressed after Israelis imprison Layan Nasir

The 25-year old Anglican Palestinian was convicted, in absentia, last month

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a village. A village with many hills and one especially big hill right in the center.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

A rector in US Episcopal context is an administrative title for a priest in charge of a particular parish, in shared governance with an elected lay vestry. Perhaps called a vicar if it’s a mission congregation. Separate convo from the Q of being an ordained priest, a sacramental order of ministry.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

Contrast Pope Leo in “Dilexi Te,” his first apostolic exhortation, calling for solidarity with the poor, with Peter Thiel’s deeply heretical ramblings against tech & billionaire regulation aka what he calls the Antichrist. ⚓️

Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

"There is no shortage of theories attempting to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything," Leo wrote. “[But] the dignity of every human person must be respected … and extreme poverty … should constantly weigh upon our consciences." ⚓️

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

"There is no shortage of theories attempting to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything," Leo wrote. “[But] the dignity of every human person must be respected … and extreme poverty … should constantly weigh upon our consciences." ⚓️

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

Essential, frontline labor! Despite the low-to-no pay. I actually wrote a GC resolution on care work during the pandemic. EPPN has done some work based on it.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

care work is labor!

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

Layan Nasir, Anglican from Birzeit in the West Bank, is imprisoned on a conviction based on unclear charges, even with hopes for a ceasefire, release of captives. She was previously released after global appeals including from the Archbishop of Canterbury. ⚓️

episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/09/r...

Religious leaders welcome Gaza ceasefire, lament Israel’s imprisonment of Anglican Palestinian

[Episcopal News Service] As a potential ceasefire takes shape in Gaza, Episcopalians and Anglicans hopeful for peace are also lamenting the news that an Anglican Palestinian woman has been imprison…

episcopalnewsservice.org

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 5d

TRO in the case or the Presbyterian pastor who was shot in the head with a pepper ball while praying ⚓️

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some of the key elements:

1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless
Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement,
' President Trump, one of the named Defendants, is not included in this Order.
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as long as the Journalist has an objectively reasonable time to comply and an objectively
reasonable opportunity to report and observe;

b. Issuing a crowd dispersal order requiring any person to leave a public place
that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6,
2023), Sections III.F and XII.E;
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For purposes of this Order, a crowd dispersal order is a lawful command
given by a Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area when three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct that are likely to cause substantial harm in the immediate vicinity;
d. Using riot control weapons including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PIS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns,
Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs) - on members of the press, protesters, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others;

To facilitate the Defendants' identification of Journalists protected under
this Order, the following are examples of indicia of being a Journalist: visual identification as a member of the press, such as by carrying a professional press pass, badge or credentials; wearing distinctive clothing or patches that identify the wearer as a member of the press; or carrying professional gear such as professional photographic or videography
equipment. Other indicia of being a Journalist under this Order include that the person is standing off to the side of a protest, not engaging in chanting, sign holding, shouting slogans, or otherwise protesting, and documenting protest activities, although these are not
requirements. These indicia are illustrative, and a person need not exhibit every indicium
to be considered a Journalist under this Order. Defendants shall not be liable for unintentional violations of this Order in the case of an individual who does not wear a press pass, badge, or other official press credential, professional gear, or distinctive clothing that identifies the person as a member of the press.

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a
uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official
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duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence
will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when
wearing riot gear.

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