Michele Madigan Somerville
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Poet/author. 3 kids, 3 books, 2.5 K ex-students. Harvard Div., CUNY, SUNY. KAMALA for PRESIDENT !
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“‘...I’m not sure the mom living in her car with her kid because they can't afford rent for an apartment will get much hope from a rose garden renovation that includes “the addition of a 3-foot-wide limestone walking path bordering the central lawn.’”
@MollyJongFast
on
#MaryTrump
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The US Roman Catholic Church is absolutely to blame for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It is important to be clear about this.
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“... imagine if, instead of resigning in disgrace and retiring from public life, Nixon slugged it out, forced his party to walk the plank for him, and then took a victory lap ... lots of sniffing and some Stage 3 dementia.”
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“Republicans pretend to love states’ rights. Let's see how they like it when blue states decide to fight back. Democrats might feel powerless, but it’s because they’re relying on an outdated playbook.”
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This is great. (I confess a soft spot for any political analysis that starts w/Akhmatova citation, stops at Taylor Swift, then uses “cryptofascist” & “lickspittle” to characterize Federalist Society.) 1/
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“Tim O’Brien, told me: ‘The lesson Trump drew from it was that he could endure a grotesque personal debacle, which he set in motion by his cheating on Ivana, and come out the other side even more an object of interest than he was before.’ 1/
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“If Ukraine is able to push through Russian defenses all the way to Melitopol, they will have cut the so-called land bridge to Crimea Russia has been using to resupply its military along the southern portion of the front lines in Eastern Ukraine.” 1/
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1/“While a lot of people have been counting the 76-year-old out, Trump is once again planning to rise like a democracy-killing orange phoenix from the ashes of the red puddle midterms. He’s back at it with a new fundraising apparatus, >
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Brava,
@MollyJongFast
!
It was supposed to be an event on fighting antisemitism, but like so many things in Trumpworld, it quickly turned into Donald Trump just engaging inantisemitism.
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“... Should Queen Elizabeth II be succeeded by Charles, her dour and unpopular eldest son, or by her genial grandson, William?
My answer is: I don’t give a shit.”
A most entertaining history lesson here!
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It’s happening.
"There is no longer a public sphere, but there is a public flat earth."
On paywalls and disformation:
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Listen to this. First time I’ve heard anyone (other than me) talk about the extent to which the anti-abortion campaign is not about really about abortion. Abortion is a means— vehicle for an imposing Christofascist integralist worldview. 1/
All About Leonard Leo, the Reactionary Legal Activist, Radical Catholic Zealot & Dark Money Maestro Who Captured the Supreme Court (with Tom Carter)
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@TheRocketGuy
Man! Kudos to
@sarahkendzior
&
@AndreaChalupa
@
@gaslitnation
who had this all —McGonigal, Manafort, Deripaska & have been sounding an alarm on these men, these criminal alliances 6-7 years ago.
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“Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he > 1/
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I love & subscribe to Olear’s Substack. It’s so rare to get such expansive thinking w/such sharp political analysis.
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“We do not have to choose between rigorous lesson and a culturally responsive one. Our current political moment, and indeed our nation’s history, demands both.”
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“a never-heard-before audio recording made by one of Kavanaugh’s Yale colleagues—Partnership for Public Service president and CEO Max Stier—that not only corroborates Ramirez’s charges, but suggests that Kavanaugh violated another unnamed woman as well.”1/
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This is an opinion. ⬇️
Women can never be Catholic priests..
Do you know why ?
Because when Jesus selected his apostles, we selected only men and the Catholic Church lives by tradition
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As a person who adores children, as a teacher w/ 2000-2500+ students (who were between ages 4 and 86 at the time they WERE my students) & a mom who spawned 3 kids in 4 years & still craved more, I must say natalism is deranged. 1/
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Pope Francis signed off on every one of these. They’re taking trad / orthodox/ boys b/c they’re the only ones interested.
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Quite a story!
Atlantic City casinos were given a huge tax cut last year, even as revenues had returned to pre-pandemic levels.
The state offered little evidence this break was needed.
So
@ProPublica
and
@ThePressOfAC
went to work. (THREAD)
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1/ I want to keep saying this. The Roman Catholic political project in the US is not fringe. Nor is the Opus Dei cult fringe. This prelature has permeated US financial institutions, elite universities, some Catholic colleges, most Catholic media has long been predominant in >
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“Because the mind of the octopus evolved in a completely different fashion from ours, it makes sense of the world in ways we can barely imagine. An octopus has 500m neurons, about as many as a dog, >1/
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Been thinking so much of this essay over the course of the last almost 24 hours.
From November 18, 2016:
“We’re heading into dark times — this is how to be your own light in the age of Trump”
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4/ What we are seeing is the lifting of the veil on “pro-life” teaching itself. It was never about “the babies.” It was always teaching redesigned to target women. They (hierarchy) are not interested in policing abortion when it doesn’t entail
#misogyny
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Sister Corita Kent ! “... began thinking about consumerism, branding and text, and how to incorporate them into her practice, which was largely figurative and spiritual...adopted silk-screening around a decade before Warhol popularized the medium.”
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Roman Catholics in general seem to know that in US orders & dioceses are scraping the bottom of the barrel for seminarians. A consequence of the priest shortage & the
#Catholic
#ClergyChildRape
crisis & cover-up. 1/
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“Alexander Lightner, tapping away on his Samsung Galaxy, announced his intention to commit mass murder, according to federal court records. He used the coded language of a new breed of neo-Nazis who call themselves Accelerationists.”
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@MollyJongFast
If he is certain about these laws, he might consider linking to them here. Most MDs don’t have comprehensive knowledge of state-by-state laws—in 50 states— many of which, as we all know too well, are currently in flux.
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1/“Anyone who can get pregnant is at serious risk in a Catholic system, where even the ‘direct abortion’ of an ectopic or otherwise unviable pregnancy is likely to be denied no matter how critical the patient’s condition. >
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“Brandon Darby, the editor of Breitbart Texas, is one of several conservatives who has compared Dunn & Wilks to Russian oligarchs. “They go into other communities and unseat people unwilling to do their bidding,’ he says.’You kiss the ring or you’re out.’”
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I’m a
@GaslitNation
super fan, but I especially loved
@AndreaChalupa
‘s interview w/ Holland which had contained novel/imaginative ideas about addressing patriarchy!
.
@AndreaChalupa
: "Where do you find your hope?"
Agnieszka Holland: "Women. Women's movements and strength. Women who really care about the project rather than ego and power."
Listen to more of this
@gaslitnation
episode here:
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OK. Heart a little bursting, right now, over my former student (Midwood HS,
#Brooklyn
) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries !
#ImpeachmentTrial
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What a great episode! I loved Amy’s book on Comstock! Comstock Laws in US triggered misogynist Roman Catholic campaigns against women in the west.
#ReproductiveRights
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@gareth_gore
The priest who converted him flags ties to the Augustine Institute at Princeton. JD Vance had close ties to Scott Hahn, who write a book on his conversion to OD, and founded the St. Paul Center Opus Dei at Franciscan Univ. in Steubenville, Ohio which is lousy w/ Opus Dei.
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“‘He's not smart, or articulate.’” Those were the words used by a top Amazon lawyer to describe former warehouse worker Chris Smalls.”
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Gov Mike Parsons (Missouri ) is a Christian (Baptist) who, at present, appears to be ready to allow the State of Missouri to murder a man convicted of capital crimes in the absence of proper evidence. 1/
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“This is nothing but a ploy to get rid of Mother Teresa and close the monastery,’ Johnson told the Business Press. ‘He wants the property.’’
Bingo!
via
@fwbusinesspress
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#TrumpCrimeFamily
needed some R&R “... taxpayers picked up the tab for the couple's security detail. Federal records showed that the bill amounted to nearly $60,000 — $32,064 for a "VIP VISIT" to the Amanera resort in Rio, San Juan, and $26,280
#MAGA
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“The right’s vehement opposition to Black Studies is predictable. Black Studies has been under attack since its formal inception on college campuses in the late 1960s, and repression of all knowledge advancing Black freedom goes back much further. > 1/
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1/“It’s long been clear that the widespread use of false, inflammatory, and dehumanizing anti-trans rhetoric by right-wing activists and politicians generates a feedback loop that enables the proliferation and escalation of anti-trans legislation. >
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Please read this thread about Joseph Garcia.
@GovAbbott
Texas plans to execute Joseph Garcia on Tuesday. The jury at Joseph's trial only heard bits and pieces of his life story. Juries should know the truth about a person's background before making a life-and-death decision. Here's the full story that Joseph's jury never heard:
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2/“If you see my insistence that toxic Christians are in fact Christians as a defense of them, you’ve internalized the false assumption that Christianity can only ever be a force for good…”
@C_Stroop
@RDispatches
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1/ “I am here to point out that many terrible people, including Boebert, are Christians—Christians who often do harm by acting on their Christian beliefs… > which is possible because Christianity comes in many interpretive varieties >
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5/“the toxic theology of the Christian Right that denies the validity of queer existence and teaches that women must submit to men is behind both the online bullying I experienced from evangelical leaders last month, and the political assault on LGBTQ rights happening in Texas…”
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Great Thread
The Electoral College is outdated and undemocratic. The two most disastrous presidents–GW Bush and Trump–lost the popular vote. It’s within reach to finally reform the Electoral College to ensure one person/one vote picks our president, not a few swing states🧵
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“The system’s failures are costly as only 35% of people successfully complete a program and stay out of the criminal justice system for at least two years, according to state data from 2009 to 2021. 1/2
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Thanks for this urgently necessary episode,
@AndreaChalupa
&
@JeffSharlet
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Folks, please listen!
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3/No parent does it perfectly, but K-12 classroom teachers get a good look at bad parenting in action. Movements that militate to force ppl to give birth, oppose sex ed for adolescents and use of contraception are sinister and anti-child. It should >
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4/surprise no one ever that the same folks pushing for over-zealous breeding & other forms of Narcissistic parenting are the same ones who oppose gun control, push for the demolition of public education, the torture & derision of trans kids & cuts in food programs for poor ppl.
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2/It is so essential for people to have children because they really, really want them.
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2/“The point I’m trying to get at here is that both queerness and any deviation from prescribed gender roles inevitably destabilize patriarchy, and those committed to a patriarchal social order will therefore respond to gender-nonconformity as a threat. “
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4/“In short, the evangelical men who chose to bully me and Du Mez on Twitter aren’t remotely fringe—they have power and influence. And it is they and their flocks who are making life increasingly difficult and, frankly, dangerous, for transgender Americans…”
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1/This is great
@mudpuppy_16
I’m a poet, & OK religion scholar/researcher but — not a reporter—who did a bunch of similar (less compressive!!) connecting of the dots that led me to begin pointing to Leo’s Opus Dei blogs in about 2017 (check notes?) on my Indie Theology platform.
Many people have said that Leonard Leo is Opus Dei. I’m the type of person who enjoys doing their own research (not when it comes to, you know, global pandemics 😉), so I’m now convinced that Leonard Leo IS Opus Dei. Follow along, so you can understand why I’ve come to this
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@nhannahjones
@jfranklin566
The guy with the dog profile pic thinks everyone should do it as he does. It’s borderline bootstraps thinking. (I did more or less what he did—public schools…worked F/T/almost F/T). I taught in public colleges for 11 years; the learning is very different under those conditions.
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2/“Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, privately heaped praise on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court — efforts sparked, in large part, by her husband’s ethical lapses.”
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We're all inundated w/requests for support, but Cliff & I have been friends for 50+ years. He was working as a professional driver and can not work at present. He has been supporting his partner through a serious medical condition for several years. 1/
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It is rare to find a person with interest in religion who is as stupid as Candace Owens is. I hope all of the blindly allegiant Roman Catholics who welcomed her to the fold are happy to have this bitter antisemite among them/us.
Candace Owens goes on an endless rant about how the Star of David isn't actually a symbol of Judaism, but comes from magic and sorcery.
She then implies Jews are demons.
Very cool, Candace, not unhinged at all.
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1/ “TERFs’ rhetoric …further contributes to the erasure of the transmasculine folks directly harmed by the Christian Right’s assault on abortion access, an erasure that should be of concern to those of us who care about social justice >
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I want this fir
#Christmas
also.
All I want for Christmas is for people to stop equating “Christian” with “good”
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