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John Terry

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this photo in particular is doing something to me

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility reut.rs/49lQnWS

Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility

Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, the latest sign of tensions over the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement push.

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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox.bsky.social

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

this is as powerful and righteous a witness to the teachings of jesus christ as you can find in 2025

hucksgiving @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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hucksgiving

@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

speaking as someone whose child will never remember her wonderful grandmother..............fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this.

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 13h

New insult to life itself just dropped

November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Denny Carter

@dennycarter.bsky.social

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform.

If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

excellent work on this thread both for pulling out the main excerpts from former UVA president jim ryan and @bakerdphd.bsky.social's commentary on it

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h

Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Jim Ryan letter

www.documentcloud.org

November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

every time I hear a student say "ai slop" i get a little spring in my step

November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

what a fucking day to be Offline

November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM

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American Medieval

@americanmedieval.bsky.social

AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!

Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Public Medievalism with Eleanor Janega

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/12/2025 · 57m

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November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

new procrastination activity just dropped: crowdsourcing a ginkgo finder in metro ATL. provisional title: "holding out for a ginkgo."

November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM

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Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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mattachine meowppy machine

@spookybiscuits.com

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Jason Kirk

@jasonkirk.fyi

"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."

November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

thanks to a colleague I just learned about isaac rosenberg's haunting "break of day in the trenches" and I think you should learn about it, too, on this remembrance day www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg
The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver—what heart aghast?
Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe—
Just a little white with the dust.

November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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Joanne Freeman

@jbf1755.bsky.social

Gift article for Veteran’s Day

If Only More Americans Could See This Place
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Opinion | If Only More Americans Could See This Place

www.nytimes.com

November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM

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Jules Suzdaltsev

@jules.su

this is literally never not accurate

November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

is there any such thing as a free emailing platform for ~1000 people?

November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM

John Terry

@johntrterry.bsky.social

is there any such thing as a free emailing platform for ~1000 people?

November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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American Medieval

@americanmedieval.bsky.social

This week this week this week this week

American Medieval @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 15d

welcome to AMERICAN MEDIEVAL! Sorry, didn't mean to shout but I'm excited!!!

this is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. Each week, @profgabriele.com will be joined by expert guests to explore either...

November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM

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Kate Messner

@katemessner.com

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...