Amy Peterson

the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way

What an insult to honor and conscience to tell people serving in the military that they shouldn’t try to follow the laws of war

Children left short of clean water and sleep amid ‘prolonged’ detention by Ice, watchdog groups allege Legal experts speak of ‘cruel’ and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facility

📍 𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐘, 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒:

At the South Texas Family Residential Center, ICE is detaining children for weeks or months, denying them clean water, disrupting their sleep with constant lighting, and delaying medical treatment — all while treating them like prisoners. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

This piece has commentary from the priest and deacon of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, who were witnesses ⚓

(Pray for St. Matthew's; for the man arrested, witnesses, and all people who are targets of violence; for those who do violence to repent and be healed)

In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

An ICE agent threw a mom to the ground.

You know how she can file a complaint with DHS?

SHE CAN'T. Trump closed that office.

www.propublica.org/article/home...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Thank you!

I have not been able to find one of these for sale! Can you tell me where they got it?

The Candidate and The Way We Were 💔

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one

Cure thy children’s warring madness.

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Cause apparently everyone from Columbia to A&M is submitting

So where are the schools that don’t have politicians calling the academic shots?

It’s a really weird time to be thinking about sending a kid to college!

My alma mater. So grievous. Also: having worked in higher ed for years, the last thing you want is a non-faculty Board overseeing academic decisions.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The full write up is here:

Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

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checking in on this it is interesting to me that the handful of examples people have — a handful weighed against hundreds of thousands of words of communication — are three to five years old and come from budget documents or t-shirts or people who aren’t even in office anymore

A new UC Riverside report sounds the alarm: brutal immigration enforcement is fueling a public health crisis for kids in mixed-status families.

Detention, deportation & raids are leaving children, immigrant and US-born, traumatized w/anxiety, disrupted development, and fear of losing their parents.

Thank you, @amypete.bsky.social, for your early review of Suicide and the Communion of Saints as "a slim, gentle, and wise pastoral guide to thinking about suicide theologically." ⚓️

“FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those 3 states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did DC. More than 1.2 million live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to DC to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents”

CW: Sexual assault

Men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. This is one of many reasons why we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Tell your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...

Federalization of DC Police and National Guard Deployment "inhumane, unnecessary, provocative, and ineffective..." But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence. Jeremiah 22:17 (NRSVue) Washington, DC - The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) affirms that every human being is created in the imago dei— the image and likeness of God-and deserves to be valued and treated as such. Doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with our God (Micah 6:8) is a mandate for those who profess to serve God.

The current administration's decision on Monday to federalize the DC Police and deploy the National Guard in our Nation's Capital to patrol streets and round up people experiencing homelessness is antithetical to that biblical mandate and our ecumenical Christian values. This inhumane action is unnecessary, provocative, and will be ineffective in addressing crime and homelessness in the District. According to the DC Metropolitan Police Department's statistics, violent crime is down 26 percent since 2024, after a spike in 2023. Property crimes have decreased by 4 percent. While more work needs to be done in this regard, taking over the DC Police and deploying the National Guard does not make DC safer.

This move reeks of authoritarianism and is deeply vexing. The DC Police takeover for up to 30 days signals an unwillingness on the part of this administration to work with DC's elected officials to continue their progress in making the Nation's Capital a safer place to live where all can thrive. Engaging a federalized police force is especially detrimental in light of the damage done by recent legislation cutting social safety net programs and the elimination of Department of Justice grants for violence interrupters who work in local communities to de-escalate volatile situations. Additionally, using police force to corral people simply because they do not have housing does nothing to provide them with the dignity and support they deserve.

We cannot help but ask: Did Jesus say, "Round up the poor and put them in jail," or did he call his followers (Matthew 25:35-36) to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, visit those in prison, and clothe the naked? Let us not be distracted by misrepresentations and misdirection meant to turn our focus away from the work of compassion and justice to which we are called as people of faith and as a nation.

INBOX: The National Council of Churches, whose member groups represent ~30 million US Christians, issues scathing statement condemning Trump’s federalization of DC police, calling it “antithetical” Christian values.

“We cannot help but ask: Did Jesus say, ‘Round up the poor and put them in jail…’”