De operibus apum

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

“***Breaking news*** We've just gotten word that Yuensoo will be released from ICE detention. Her mom is on the way to meet her. Please pray for Soo's safe release. We will update as soon as we have more information.”

From the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York:

'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries (RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.

When church is no longer a refuge. Great reporting by @jackjenkins.me religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

a man in a suit and tie is saying " boom easy as that " ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying " boom easy as that "

Paramount+ sub = $60 a year

Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Japanese Grandparents Create Life-Size Totoro With Bus Stop For Their Grandkids Best. Grandparents. Ever.

There is still good in this world.

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Λειτουργία της εξόδου κινδύνου

Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.”

Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”

That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples,

We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. ⚓

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.

Standing room only! (Or floor-sitting, in my case.)

Hell of a photo

"A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."
--Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Seminary life: nbd, just over here translating a book of the Bible

Rev. Dr. William Barber is a real one ✝️🙏🏼

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you?

Goodnight 💚

“God hasn’t forgotten about you.”

Martin O'Malley just mentioned state attorneys general filing state kidnapping charges. Just imagine the collective cheer in this country if state troopers pulled over, arrested and cuffed a van full of masked ICE fascists.

The most important piece I have read lately on what is happening now, why, and the choice that stands before us.

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?

Never again is now, friends.

Don't look away.

We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch.

Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities?

If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.

A corrupt, authoritarian government seizes an innocent man, tortures and jails him on trumped-up charges that change during a manipulated "legal" process. The prisoner is left at the mercy of dehumanizing politicians & jailers to do with what they please.

Holy Week then. America now.

No one should be above the law, most especially the President.

Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.

They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

Horrifying and unconscionable.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

How about human trafficking?

Awww yeah, DC!! 🤩🙌🏼