With a little help from our UCC friends in Akron.
18.10.2025 20:18 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jimnaughton.bsky.social
Formerly: Episcopal comms guy, NYT Sports, WaPo Style, Daily Orange. Currently, thrilled about my new granddaughter, trying to write something. He/him
With a little help from our UCC friends in Akron.
18.10.2025 20:18 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Grand tour cycling, or it doesnβt count
18.10.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am waiting to see whether the departures include any provinces not already boycotting the meetings. If not, this is just an attempt to rebrand an existing reality. If so, it might be worth some reconsideration, depending on the size of the movement.
18.10.2025 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(What tips the scale for me...)
Will it be an entry point into more meaningful direct action and community organizing? Absolutely, for some.
Does it help people in red states felel less abandoned? I think so.
Is it a free outside hang on a sunny day that pisses some truly terrible people off? Yep!
This was murder for propaganda. Everyone involved should be prosecuted.
18.10.2025 18:17 β π 26 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
18.10.2025 17:52 β π 12346 π 2469 π¬ 130 π 102This Episcopalian is grateful to the United Church of Christ for this sign. #NoKings #Akron
18.10.2025 18:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A man and a woman dressed in inflatable baby costumes. The woman has a sign that says no crybaby kings in America. The man has a sign that says Trump needs a time out.
Committing to the bit here in #Akron ##NoKings
18.10.2025 17:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#nokings NYC
18.10.2025 17:38 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A person in a penguin suit waving a sign that says ice isnβt cool
Say what you will about George Soros, but he really knows how to work a disguise. No Kings. #Akron
18.10.2025 17:39 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Protesters in Akron, Ohio, holding signs and waving flags. βOne day our grandchildren will ask us what we did.β
The grandchildren thing gets me every time. We are leaving the world worse than we found it. No Kings. #Akron
18.10.2025 17:36 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Rearview of a man holding a sign in which an ICE agent has JesΓΊs in handcuffs. Sign says: For I was a stranger and you sent me to a prison in El Salvador.
We are underway in #Akron. No Kings!
18.10.2025 17:04 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0You are just right about this. The Chicago Consultation (2007- ~2018) worked closely with African leaders who support LGBTQ Christians. Its gatherings in Durban (2011) Limuru, (2013), and Elmina (2015), drew together dozens of African Anglicans who have actively disputed this false narrative.
18.10.2025 16:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All of mine were slow! Itβs nothing to be ashamed of. But Iβm sure you know that.
18.10.2025 16:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No Kings at Portage Crossing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This is actually the edges of the protest. Most people are down the block at the intersection of Portage Trail and State Road.
18.10.2025 16:36 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Good luck tomorrow!
18.10.2025 16:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time youβre inclined to write an area off because βthey voted for this.β
At least in Charlotte, the demographic is probably 50% elderly white liberals, 40% Wine Moms with their kids, and 10% high school/ college kids. This is not a threatening crowd.
18.10.2025 15:47 β π 1377 π 183 π¬ 23 π 10Seriously, though - people keep asking "what are the protesters asking for, and what's their strategic plan to get it?"
I think what they're asking for is for America to be restored and Trump to subjected to the law. And I think the plan to get it is to demonstrate that there are so, so many of us.
#NoKings Miami!
18.10.2025 15:56 β π 24768 π 6316 π¬ 145 π 186Ann Marie VillafaΓ±a lead line prosecutor, drafted an 82-page Epstein prosecution memo directed to Acosta, his deputy, Sloman, & Menchel, who was then head of criminal division
In memo, she proposed a 60-count indictment of Epstein on sex trafficking charges.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Been sort of wondering if the proper response to this announcement is just to wait and see whether it speaks for any province not already boycotting the meetings of the instruments of communion.
18.10.2025 14:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...
#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
Why would they do this nowβwhen the news that Bessent is giving $40 billion to Argentina to ostensibly help bail out a palβand DT is sharing details of his opulent ballroom? You canβt help but get the impression they arenβt worried about winning over voters ever again.
18.10.2025 05:05 β π 518 π 222 π¬ 2 π 02/ Here's the initial @chicago.suntimes.com piece revealing the ICE lies about the Martinez shooting:
"Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent ...shows an officer saying, βDo something, b----,β before pulling over and shooting the woman five times"
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
A big part of this story has gone unnoticed: At this point, the guardrails for DHS agents are incredibly weak and oversight mechanisms for them have atrophied. Trump's paramilitary forces are operating with little constraint.
Murphy's letter addresses this, too. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
There have been 12 players to hit 3+ HR in a Postseason game.
There have been 16 pitchers to have a Postseason game with 6+ IP, 2 hits or fewer, 10+ K, and 0 runs allowed.
Only one did both on the same night.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: βIf the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
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