Adlai Amor
@bisdak.bsky.social
Recovering journalist, faith leader, joined eXodus, and nonprofit executive now on my encore career. Happily married (not looking for love) and I have a financial adviser (not into crypto). Blue.
Let us push harder and make sure the tipping point leads to a change in Congress this year and save our democracy.
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America has reached a tipping point on fascism – and on opposition to it | Robert Reich
A chance encounter reminded me: there are two ways to look at what’s happened in Minneapolis
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January 27, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Let us push harder and make sure the tipping point leads to a change in Congress this year and save our democracy.
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Documentation - using our cell phone - is the weapon we have against tyranny.
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Opinion | The Best Weapon You Have in the Fight Against ICE
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January 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Documentation - using our cell phone - is the weapon we have against tyranny.
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Bovino should not only be demoted but also prosecuted for the carnage in Minneapolis.
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Gregory Bovino demoted after Minneapolis shooting | The Jerusalem Post
According to CNN, Bovino and a group of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar with the discussions.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Bovino should not only be demoted but also prosecuted for the carnage in Minneapolis.
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It is never too late to speak out against violence, oppression, and tyranny.
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‘Wake-up call to every American’: Obama, Clinton slam Trump administration after killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton condemned the killing of nurse Alex Pretti by a federal agent, urging Americans to speak out against Trump’s immigration crackdown, as the White House accused Obama of st...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:19 PM
It is never too late to speak out against violence, oppression, and tyranny.
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It is because of the Clean Air Act that we are breathing healthier air. We should resist all attempts by this administration to dilute or eliminate our environmental protections.
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Now Thinks Clean Air Is Worthless
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January 26, 2026 at 4:21 PM
It is because of the Clean Air Act that we are breathing healthier air. We should resist all attempts by this administration to dilute or eliminate our environmental protections.
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We name them as we remembers them. We pray that justice for them will roll down like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
We name them as we remembers them. We pray that justice for them will roll down like a river and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
We need more nurses to care for our sick, not to murder them. Holding Alex J. Pretti's family, friends, and colleagues in the Light.
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
We need more nurses to care for our sick, not to murder them. Holding Alex J. Pretti's family, friends, and colleagues in the Light.
I could not agree more with my Quaker friends. Justice, not terrorism by ICE!
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We mourn state killings and demand justice, not terror | Friends Committee On National Legislation
We are devastated, outraged, and profoundly alarmed by the escalating state killings, violent kidnappings, and the horrific response to those peacefully calling out injustice in Minneapolis and around...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I could not agree more with my Quaker friends. Justice, not terrorism by ICE!
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Snowed in and my thoughts drift to Mahatma Gandhi. Non-violence is our response to the violence exercised by ICE in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
January 25, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Snowed in and my thoughts drift to Mahatma Gandhi. Non-violence is our response to the violence exercised by ICE in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
This made me smile especially at a time when we are burdened with so many attacks on our freedoms.
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Can’t sing? Neither can they. That hasn’t stopped the Tuneless Choir.
The Tuneless Choir was co-founded by a woman who was told as a child: “Please stop singing, you are spoiling it for everyone else.”
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January 25, 2026 at 7:22 PM
This made me smile especially at a time when we are burdened with so many attacks on our freedoms.
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We have to be vigilant and protect our voting rights. Technology -- and the billionaires who own them -- is making it easier to suppress our constitutional rights.
This week brought a stunning revelation about the Trump administration co-ordinating with election deniers to put voters’ personal data at risk. And Democracy Docket played a key role in pushing the story forward.
This week at Democracy Docket: DOGE, True the Vote, and blackmailing Minnesota
This week, we learned the Trump administration worked with election deniers to put voters’ personal data at risk. And Democracy Docket played a key role in pushing the story forward.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
We have to be vigilant and protect our voting rights. Technology -- and the billionaires who own them -- is making it easier to suppress our constitutional rights.
We will not forget all the evil that the current administration has visited on us.
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Takeaways from Jack Smith on his case against Trump, 'so many witnesses' and the threats ahead
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified publicly for the first time on Capitol Hill about his investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:48 PM
We will not forget all the evil that the current administration has visited on us.
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Thank you for your courage, Claudette Colvin!
RIP and THANK YOU!
Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86
Source: The Associated Press
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86 - NewsBreak
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil r
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January 14, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Thank you for your courage, Claudette Colvin!
Our carbon sinks -- or forests -- are burning faster than originally estimated.
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Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires
Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change
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January 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Our carbon sinks -- or forests -- are burning faster than originally estimated.
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Another way to combat ICE - boytcott their corporate collaborators.
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Another way to combat ICE - boytcott their corporate collaborators.
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Here is a comprehensive look of how #MAGA is rigging the elections so that they can remain in power #resist
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Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Here is a comprehensive look of how #MAGA is rigging the elections so that they can remain in power #resist
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I had hoped that our judicial system would be a bulwark against authoritarianism — but not with federal appeals judges like these.
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Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
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January 11, 2026 at 12:05 PM
I had hoped that our judicial system would be a bulwark against authoritarianism — but not with federal appeals judges like these.
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I mourn the loss of a fellow Presbyterian at the hands of an iCE agent in Minnesota.
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Presbyterians learn of Renee Nicole Good’s connections, work within denomination — Edgewater Presbyterian Church
Rev. Jihyun Oh, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PCUSA, expressed the "heartbreak and outrage" felt across the Church. In a formal call for accountability, the Stated Clerk reminded us ...
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January 11, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I mourn the loss of a fellow Presbyterian at the hands of an iCE agent in Minnesota.
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It's a consequence of cutting staff and budgets without thinking it through.
JUST IN: The remote Army base is responsible for shooting down nuclear missiles targeting the US.
Exclusive: DOGE cuts prompt scramble to feed troops at remote US base
The remote Army base is responsible for shooting down nuclear missiles targeting the US.
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January 8, 2026 at 11:31 PM
It's a consequence of cutting staff and budgets without thinking it through.
I bet you next will be to tear down the Oval Office and build a bigger one to match the occupant's ego.
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Trump plans to make his ballroom addition as tall as the White House itself
The president’s architect disclosed the change as federal review panels begin a fast-track review of the $400 million project.
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January 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I bet you next will be to tear down the Oval Office and build a bigger one to match the occupant's ego.
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Like the president, he lives in an alternate universe.
All the rightwing SCOTUS justices are corrupt but roberts is obscenely so. Despite his attempt to gaslight us by saying the country and the Constitution are alright, because of him, we are not.
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John Roberts, Stop Gaslighting America
Roberts Continues to Claim All Is Well While Americans and the World Witness the Wreckage of Trump’s Impunity
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January 8, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Like the president, he lives in an alternate universe.
Another illegal federal prosecutor bites the dust. When will they ever learn to obey the law?
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Judge disqualifies U.S. attorney in Albany investigating Letitia James
John A. Sarcone III is the fifth Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney who has been disqualified from serving in such a role.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Another illegal federal prosecutor bites the dust. When will they ever learn to obey the law?
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.