The Empire killed Jesus.
God raised him anyway.
Easter is God's protest against violence, injustice, and death.
A holy uprising of love, liberation, and life.
You can't legislate resurrection away.
You can't crucify hope forever.
Christ is risen.
The Nazis didn't just target Jews. From early on, they went after people of various ethnic groups (notably Romas) & made examples of those who were in political opposition to the regime.
They targeted queer & trans & disabled people from early, too.
This is a uniquely USian fascism, but it's here.
Dorothy Day, City Hall Park Marching Against the Atom Bomb https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/156497
"A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed - what gospel is that?"
- Archbishop Oscar Romero
It’s not about illegal immigrants anymore and never was
As of 3/31/25 at 10:40 PM PST, there are 935 protests planned for the April 5 day of action:
thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/1-day-1-mi...
#SocialJustice #ÓscarRomero #oscarromero #AdvocacyForThePoor #FaithInAction #liberationtheology
Hey everyone, if you want to support a teacher today - there is a 50% match on Donors choose!
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
-- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls, 1941
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
Erik Prince and Steve Bannon floating a $26 billion plan to use private planes, mercenaries, and camps to deport 500k people per month to get to the 12 million deportations Trump promised by the 2026 midterms. The worst people alive, man. This is how they want to spend your social security money.
#oscarromero #socialjustice #liberationtheology @propheticimage.bsky.social
My colleagues and I from UUSF (United for Undocumented Students and Families) are holding a Know Your Rights training this Thursday at 6:30 pm EST. It will be on the constitutional rights that one has while dealing with ICE and provide resources for emergency planning for immigrant communities.
Translation: they're anticipating building and running concentration camps. And if you think you're safe from being sent to one, no you aren't
"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor." #DorothyDay #LiveTheGospel #PrayForAmerica
Our struggle will persist until Israeli apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide end.
Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.
It's brutal.
And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.
Always cuts for social programs. Never cuts for military spending.
“As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.”
Dorothy Day
You know, as long as we're talking about papal interventions in politics, the pope also had a lot to say about Gaza during another very recent presidency--cumulatively more, even--and somehow liberals weren't rushing to share that...
Who did, honestly?
