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Catholic priest (RCWP). Fierce for repro rights + co-conspiring to uproot systems of oppression. Focused on the intersection of religion & public health at BUSPH OLMPH. If I’m not hyper-focusing, I’m probably on a side quest or sky gazing. She/her.

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There are also children who receive SSI payments because they are born with qualifying disabilities and the income helps their low-income parents survive and provide for them. The ignorance slashing and hacking at our systems is deadly.

11.04.2025 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Indianapolis HANDS OFF!

05.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 771    🔁 108    💬 7    📌 12
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Breaking Jars, Shattering Judgments: A Gospel Guide to Lavish Love A homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent 2024 — celebrated in solidarity with Catholic Women Strike.

Whether it's faith, wisdom, or science that guides you—radical love practiced together changes everything. Let's lean in. #PublicTheology #LoveAsResistance

05.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last weekend I preached in solidarity with the #CatholicWomenStrike, reminding myself (and maybe you, too) that lavish, collective love is our best antidote to quiet cruelty, especially the cruelty within.

05.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🚨ATTENTION PUBLIC HEALTH ALLIES!🚨

We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.

Please spread the word!

#courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor

22.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 780    🔁 233    💬 13    📌 22

I'm voting NO on the Republican shutdown bill.

NO on handing Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blank check to spend your taxpayer money however they want.

NO on cutting funding that helps families put food on the table and crack down on wealthy tax cheats.

We need to push back.

13.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 19815    🔁 2653    💬 1562    📌 261
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OK #HoosierSky so this is happening

Share amongst your peeps

Those who are in science
Those who like science
Those who have been helped by science
Those who value truth and facts

Come hang with the cool kids and say hi to some rad scientists

27.02.2025 01:59 — 👍 101    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 5

Absolutely disgusting.

25.02.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Horrifying trend.

25.02.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Medicaid work requirements are yet again a hot topic. Let’s see what’s behind that, shall we? 🧵
#medicaid #insurance

24.02.2025 19:28 — 👍 434    🔁 93    💬 26    📌 11
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Medicaid Cuts Threaten A Key House Vote On Trump’s Agenda Today—Here’s Why The GOP Is Divided Trump has endorsed the House budget, but has also vowed that his administration would leave Medicaid intact.

It's a DISASTER, and the GOP knows it. Please call. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

25.02.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Protect Medicaid Funding ⭑ 5 Calls Medicaid is a health insurance program serving 72 million low-income and disabled Americans that is jointly funded and administered by …

5calls.org/issue/protec...

25.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“Unprecedented” Medicaid Cuts Could Cripple Health Program, BU Experts Warn As Republicans weigh cuts to program that most benefits the poor, BU Medicaid Policy Lab leaders say there are other options to reduce Medicaid spending

Need more info? Impactful information from @busph.bsky.social Medicaid Policy Lab:

www.bu.edu/articles/202...

25.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Need a script? Download the 5 Calls app to make calling your congresspeople easier.

5calls.org

25.02.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Find your rep: www.house.gov/representati...

25.02.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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10 Things to Know About Medicaid | KFF At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, Congress may consider big ...

Medicaid is on the chopping block today. Call your House Rep in the next few hours and tell them to oppose Medicaid cuts. Health care for 83 Million low income and disabled Americans, including nearly 40% of US children, is at stake.

1-800-224-3121

www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

25.02.2025 16:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hoosier families are not ok. This article states one of the justifications for rolling back child labor laws is “parental rights.” Parental rights to what? To force kids to work? Note the U.S. is the only UN member who hasn’t ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

25.02.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Praying for safety for you, your spouse, kiddo, and all. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

25.02.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Human beings deserve human rights.

All of them.

Even ones whose governments and/or representative bodies commit atrocities.

Even ones who--yes-- commit atrocities themselves.

You don't lose your right to human rights, ever.

That's why they're called inalienable human rights.

23.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 788    🔁 176    💬 14    📌 3
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Let This Radicalize You Workbook Check out Let This Radicalize You Workbook - <p>This workbook is intended as an extension of our book <i>Let This Radicalize You</i>. It was created to feature resources that we couldn't fit in the bo...

Don’t forget the workbook bookshop.org/p/books/let-...

23.02.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let This Radicalize You Audiobook on Libro.fm What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...

And if you like audiobooks, find it on Libby through your library or buy it from libro.fm to support local bookstores!
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

23.02.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

p.s. support local bookshops by getting your copy here instead of one of those billionaire owned places bookshop.org/p/books/let-...

23.02.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is an excellent resource!! I have the book and workbook and am going back for a second read. Who wants to work through it together? Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for sharing their wisdom this way.

23.02.2025 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

God of blessing & woe, disturbing the deadly order of the world: give us faith tested in poverty, hunger for what truly satisfies, eyes softened by tears & hearts ready to laugh at what is false & pompous that we might protect the dignity of all people; thru Jesus, who turns the world upside down.

15.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 118    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.

Nope.

Christian friends. 1/x 🧵

This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

08.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 3350    🔁 1039    💬 124    📌 170
Quote of the day from Insight Timer featuring words from Tara Brach: “The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”

Quote of the day from Insight Timer featuring words from Tara Brach: “The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”

We have to ask ourselves what limitations to our collective freedom we’re willing to accept. And then we have to hold fast to our boundaries.

08.02.2025 01:05 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

⚠️ Another nightmare dimension of the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and shutdown of USAID: thousands of participants in clinical trials around the world are in limbo without essential monitoring or care, raising major ethical concerns. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

07.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

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