FJ staff writer Sharlee DiMenichi spoke with Twin Cities Quakers about the ways they've responded to the Trump administration's deployment of ICE and Border Patrol agents in their communities. She also talked to Friends around the nation mobilizing in case similar operations come to their cities.
As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq)
Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.
Sea Level
xkcd.com/3135/
If straightness and cisness are so “natural,” why yall enforcing it with jail and guns?
At #Quaker Meeting, we will "hold ___ in the Light," similar to how others will pray for people and situations.
Today we held bees in the Light, and I think that's just a quintessential Quaker tableau.
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Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace and mercy this evening grant...
• peace to the stressed
• healing to the sick
• rest for the weary
• presence for the lonely
• hope for the despairing
• strength for the weak
• comfort for the grieving
Grant us Your grace. Amen
We all need to discern our calling concerning Gaza. Genocide is not something we should look away from; we need to be guided on how we can best help stop the genocide.
So cool to have been a part of this most recent episode of Quakers Today with @petersontoscano.bsky.social and @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social ! Very excited to be in the same line up as these guys 😁 Check it out on YouTube or wherever you get podcasts!
I really wish Marvel would pivot from the MCU to the XCU. X-Men and Mutants make more sense without the Avengers and the 40+ projects that have come before. X-Men deserve a fair shot, not to be shoehorned into the end of an era.
"Two Google users could type the exact same question and get two different answers," Heather Brady writes at @sojo.net. "We’re not necessarily getting the best information; we’re getting exposed to the answers and information AI thinks we want to receive."
Can we trust AI to deliver sound theology?
Quakers insisted on fixed-pricing because of their deeply-held sense of equality. Their integrity in business is why so many companies wanted to brand as a "Quaker company".
Fixed-pricing won because it is right. "Customized pricing" is prejudice.
On July 28, @afsc-org.bsky.social, @fcnl.bsky.social, @quaker.org.uk, and other Friends issued a joint statement: "We believe with moral clarity, and in line with the definition of the crime of genocide, that the current actions in Gaza perpetrated by the Israeli government, constitute genocide."
Do your work. Call others to do theirs. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #7
Hear the Quakers, everyone.
“Eight Quaker organizations… have published a statement expressing our belief that “in line with the definition of the crime of genocide, that the current actions in Gaza perpetrated by the Israeli government, constitute genocide.”
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
A man at a protest holds a sign that says “quakers resisting tyranny since the 17th century!”
Quakers against authoritarianism! All across the country, religious Americans are taking it to the streets today to say #NoKings in the USA ❌👑🇺🇸 #NoKingsDay
📍: La Plata, MD
Brick painted rainbow colors with the text "PRIDE WAS A RIOT"
#Pride2025
I’m old enough to remember 20 years ago when fundamentalist preachers were all saying don’t get involved with any Harry Potter media because JKR is using it to indoctrinate people by promoting destructive satanic influences to a whole generation
And if that ain’t the world’s biggest stopped clock
"You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and what thou speakest, is it inwardly from God?" — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #2
Mary statue with a dandelion crown
close up of crabapple blossoms
crabapple tree in bloom with Mary statue at the base
the vibes? immaculate
The History, Present, and Future of LGBTQIA+ People in Quakerism.
www.quaker.org.uk/events/the-h...
The Helix Nebula, looking an awful lot like the eye of God.
The eye through which I see God
Is the same eye through which God sees me
My eye and God's eye are one eye
One seeing
One knowing
One love.
— Meister Eckhart
Photo: Helix Nebula
Bryan Johnson got famous for trying to live forever, and for insisting we all could beat death. But what should we do with our eternal life? He has no idea. He, like the whole ruling class, have nothing to offer when it comes to the meaning of our lives.
My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/who-wants-...
NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
