Melissa Florer-Bixler

Wordle in 3, purple connections on 3, perfect Strands. Is this what it is like to slay?

Just started Matt Elias’ book and I don’t know….

Across the ecumenical divide, Pope Leo and I build a bridge of unity that is tweet dunking JD Vance.

Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppleganger and I’m being COVID retraumatized. The chill that went through me when I heard Plandemic

An older adult in my spin class gave a shout for our first song (Van Halen) and announced that he loved this song and because it reminded him of his first girlfriend and a summer of “serious lapses in morality”

Tommy Orange 🤝Kaveh Akbar

Is the main character alive
at the end?

Empty tomb, absent Christ, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia Painting by Salvadoran folks artist, Fernand Llort

"And so the women, the dependent, the victims, seek for what is not there; and it is only because they seek, it is only in their seeking, that the risen Christ appears to them." @melissaf-b.bsky.social quoting Frei Betto. melissaflorerbixler.substack.com/p/empty-tomb...

Happy Easter, fellow Radical Left Lunatics! Jesus is risen!

And I’m listening to Ezra Klein again so I guess that’s how badly things are going

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

I think it’s fine for men to preach but Luke 24 does give one pause!

My algorithm is just a series of different angles on Bernie at Coachella

THIS HAPPENED TO ME!

BREAKING —>

The US media is biased against Palestinians Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to...

“I invite you to know and remember, as an act of compassion and humanization, the names of Palestinians who suffer under Israel’s repression.”

– @melissaf-b.bsky.social

www.christiancentury.org/voices/us-me...

Wait have I been saying economist wrong for four decades???

Not unlike most religious traditions. You’ve got Sinead O’Connor (of blessed memory) and Pope Benedict - both Catholic!

Karl Marx Was Right: A Reading List Karl Marx was right about the cruelty and irrationality of the capitalist system, and the economic and political crises inherent to its profit-above-all model. Marx's writing has helped i...

Karl Marx was right.

Guess who offered to relocate the public talk? Columbus Mennonite Church, a congregation that also provided sanctuary during Trump 1.0

Multiple Columbus speaking events canceled for doctor who treated Palestinian bomb victims Oxford University's Dr. Nick Maynard was supposed to speak about how Israel's bombing of Gaza is also an attack on healthcare workers there.

www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

Not superstitious but got the Wordle in 3, and a perfect Strands so it’s going to be a great day

Going as a Winnicott book for Halloween

Maybe I’m too emotionally fragile to be reading The God of Small Things right now

empathy's fantasies Politics after subject/object

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Why can’t my Oura ring tell Duolingo that I’M Too Sick For Spanish????

Come to the United States, where you’ll be kidnapped in broad daylight because you wrote an op-ed.

Preaching on the parable of the prodigal son and on behalf of oldest children everywhere - how dare you, Jesus

Almost done with the Elon Know Your Enemy pods which present the clearest case of “men will do anything but go to therapy” to date

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.