Andrew Wetzel
@circlereader.bsky.social
Human first, then: curious, Christian, parent.
Other Evangelical.
#YouCannotServeGodAndMammon
#TheKingdomOfGodIsNotAPoliceState
He/him.
🔗🌳/CircleReader
Other Evangelical.
#YouCannotServeGodAndMammon
#TheKingdomOfGodIsNotAPoliceState
He/him.
🔗🌳/CircleReader
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One right after the other in my feed
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 AM
One right after the other in my feed
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May we all move with fierce love and solidarity in 2026. It's been a brutal year, but I am entering 2026 with more hope than I had at the end of 2024, because the people of my city gave me that hope. I love you, Chicago.
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
May we all move with fierce love and solidarity in 2026. It's been a brutal year, but I am entering 2026 with more hope than I had at the end of 2024, because the people of my city gave me that hope. I love you, Chicago.
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Welcome to A New Era, Emmy Liss and Kamar Samuels!
January 1, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Welcome to A New Era, Emmy Liss and Kamar Samuels!
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Journalist here 👋
Please stop writing that the Trump ballroom is being funded “entirely” by private donors and with “no” public money.
Not true.
Funds are being routed through a nonprofit to make the donations tax-deductible. So the public is losing the taxes that won’t be paid on $400 million.
Please stop writing that the Trump ballroom is being funded “entirely” by private donors and with “no” public money.
Not true.
Funds are being routed through a nonprofit to make the donations tax-deductible. So the public is losing the taxes that won’t be paid on $400 million.
White House lays out nine-week timeline to win approval for Trump’s ballroom
Trump is seeking to gain approvals for his ballroom in just over two months that have taken other large projects years to complete.
wapo.st
January 1, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Journalist here 👋
Please stop writing that the Trump ballroom is being funded “entirely” by private donors and with “no” public money.
Not true.
Funds are being routed through a nonprofit to make the donations tax-deductible. So the public is losing the taxes that won’t be paid on $400 million.
Please stop writing that the Trump ballroom is being funded “entirely” by private donors and with “no” public money.
Not true.
Funds are being routed through a nonprofit to make the donations tax-deductible. So the public is losing the taxes that won’t be paid on $400 million.
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Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants | via @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg
Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants • Kansas Reflector
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
kansasreflector.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants | via @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg
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Our book is the all-time bestseller at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social! Many thanks to everyone who ordered through PCB. I appreciate your support for my favorite bookstore, which is also an important community space in our city.
And #1, not just for 2025, but our all time bestselling book ever so far, READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART, edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, out from @akpress.org
Thanks to our community, we're able stock and sell books we believe in. Here's to reading and organizing together in 2026. ❤️
Thanks to our community, we're able stock and sell books we believe in. Here's to reading and organizing together in 2026. ❤️
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Our book is the all-time bestseller at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social! Many thanks to everyone who ordered through PCB. I appreciate your support for my favorite bookstore, which is also an important community space in our city.
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Full context: killingthebuddha.com/mag/sinners-...
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Full context: killingthebuddha.com/mag/sinners-...
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Christ’s description of the rearrangement of the cosmos represented by his advent is the abolition of the wage system.
— words and art: Ben Wildflower
Wishing you an liberatory, abolitionist new year. With mirth and mercy for us all!
— words and art: Ben Wildflower
Wishing you an liberatory, abolitionist new year. With mirth and mercy for us all!
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Christ’s description of the rearrangement of the cosmos represented by his advent is the abolition of the wage system.
— words and art: Ben Wildflower
Wishing you an liberatory, abolitionist new year. With mirth and mercy for us all!
— words and art: Ben Wildflower
Wishing you an liberatory, abolitionist new year. With mirth and mercy for us all!
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The Gospel is handouts for the least deserving, commuted sentences for the most guilty, equal wages for the unproductive.
Mercy is abolition. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is like a bunch of people working various hours in the vineyard but all getting full pay.
Mercy is abolition. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is like a bunch of people working various hours in the vineyard but all getting full pay.
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 AM
The Gospel is handouts for the least deserving, commuted sentences for the most guilty, equal wages for the unproductive.
Mercy is abolition. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is like a bunch of people working various hours in the vineyard but all getting full pay.
Mercy is abolition. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is like a bunch of people working various hours in the vineyard but all getting full pay.
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What is grace but anarchy? The message of [Christ] is that all debts are paid, all the captives are set free, there is no score board in the sky measuring your rights and wrongs.
The cross is the end of punishment and reward. There are no deserving and undeserving.
The cross is the end of punishment and reward. There are no deserving and undeserving.
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 AM
What is grace but anarchy? The message of [Christ] is that all debts are paid, all the captives are set free, there is no score board in the sky measuring your rights and wrongs.
The cross is the end of punishment and reward. There are no deserving and undeserving.
The cross is the end of punishment and reward. There are no deserving and undeserving.
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Did people not know this?
I really don’t mean that sarcastically.
But people like today or yesterday believed this was just immigrants? Or “illegals”/criminals?
Like, seriously? We have to tell people this?
I really don’t mean that sarcastically.
But people like today or yesterday believed this was just immigrants? Or “illegals”/criminals?
Like, seriously? We have to tell people this?
They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
January 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Did people not know this?
I really don’t mean that sarcastically.
But people like today or yesterday believed this was just immigrants? Or “illegals”/criminals?
Like, seriously? We have to tell people this?
I really don’t mean that sarcastically.
But people like today or yesterday believed this was just immigrants? Or “illegals”/criminals?
Like, seriously? We have to tell people this?
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We’re sleepwalking into a disaster
5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found.
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 AM
We’re sleepwalking into a disaster
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January 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
The Transmission Ministry Collective transmissionministry.com has a matching grant tonight! Help them build interconnected ecosystems of care, rooted & grounded in the love of God and community, among trans & gender-expansive people within a Christian context!
www.giveoutday.org/organization...
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Eric Adams is going to use cryptocurrency to fight antisemitism. Eric Adams is going to use samurai swords to fight food waste. Eric Adams is going to use 100 rubber duckies to fight prostate cancer. I would believe literally any combo of words hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-s...
Eric Adams Says His Next Gig Is Fighting Antisemitism With Cryptocurrency
How? Don't ask.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Eric Adams is going to use cryptocurrency to fight antisemitism. Eric Adams is going to use samurai swords to fight food waste. Eric Adams is going to use 100 rubber duckies to fight prostate cancer. I would believe literally any combo of words hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-s...
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A hopeful story about the diligent horticulturists at the NYC parks dept's Plant Ecology Center and Nursery on Staten Island.
Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc
Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc
Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold
At a Staten Island plant nursery, Parks Department horticulturalists nurture the nubs of future plants and trees through hard winter, rebooting life’s cycle.
www.thecity.nyc
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A hopeful story about the diligent horticulturists at the NYC parks dept's Plant Ecology Center and Nursery on Staten Island.
Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc
Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc
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The New York Public Library's excellent research library and archive on Black culture is named for Arturo Schomburg, whose Qur'an Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The New York Public Library's excellent research library and archive on Black culture is named for Arturo Schomburg, whose Qur'an Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on.
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Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
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As we look back at 2025, CPJ holds deep gratitude and honors the courageous Palestinian journalists reporting from Gaza. Despite Israeli targeting, they continue to report and bring the world vital coverage from the Strip.
cpj.org?p=538024
#2025Highlights
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#2025Highlights
Amid the loss of war, this media center stands by Gaza’s free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
For years, Bilal Jadallah was the quiet force defending independent journalism in the Gaza Strip — a mentor, protector, and the architect of rare safe spaces for Palestinian journalists working under…
cpj.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
As we look back at 2025, CPJ holds deep gratitude and honors the courageous Palestinian journalists reporting from Gaza. Despite Israeli targeting, they continue to report and bring the world vital coverage from the Strip.
cpj.org?p=538024
#2025Highlights
cpj.org?p=538024
#2025Highlights
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I love making this list every year, and I never have any trouble coming up with 50 things I think were genuinely wonderful.
50 wonderful things from 2025
Each year, critic Linda Holmes looks back on the year and compiles a list of the things that brought her joy.
www.npr.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I love making this list every year, and I never have any trouble coming up with 50 things I think were genuinely wonderful.
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This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”
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Adams appoints a Charter commission with about eight hours left in his mayoralty, puts (by my count) five current or former members of his administration on it.
Stated remit: Open primaries and/or non-partisan general elections -- www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Stated remit: Open primaries and/or non-partisan general elections -- www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Mayor Adams Announces New Charter Revision Commission to Create a More Inclusive, Thriving Democracy
www.nyc.gov
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Adams appoints a Charter commission with about eight hours left in his mayoralty, puts (by my count) five current or former members of his administration on it.
Stated remit: Open primaries and/or non-partisan general elections -- www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Stated remit: Open primaries and/or non-partisan general elections -- www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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4-year-old told me “I like you more than space likes planets” which as I understand is a huge honor in his culture
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
4-year-old told me “I like you more than space likes planets” which as I understand is a huge honor in his culture