David B. Gowler
@dgowler.bsky.social
Pierce Chair of Religion, Oxford College/Emory University. Latest books: Howard Thurman & the Quest for Community; Parables after Jesus; WATSA the Parables?; & Howard Thurman, Sermons on the Parables. #COYS. New Testament / Reception History of the Bible
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David B. Gowler
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Howard Thurman and the Quest for Community
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Yes, it’s my book, but now’s a good time to revisit #HowardThurman’s insights about social action to oppose discrimination & oppression, build compassion & community, & not be consumed, like MAGA/Trump, with hatred that ultimately destroys oneself & community: www.paulistpress.com/Products/569...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
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If you read only one more thing about what happened in Minneapolis, read this @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
If you read only one more thing about what happened in Minneapolis, read this @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Total growth in non-farm payrolls, by year:
2016: +2.3m
2017: +2.1m
2018: +2.3m
2019: +2.0m
2020: -9.2m (covid)
2021: +7.2m (covid recovery)
2022: +4.6m
2023: +2.6m
2024: +2.0m
2025: +0.6m
2016: +2.3m
2017: +2.1m
2018: +2.3m
2019: +2.0m
2020: -9.2m (covid)
2021: +7.2m (covid recovery)
2022: +4.6m
2023: +2.6m
2024: +2.0m
2025: +0.6m
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Total growth in non-farm payrolls, by year:
2016: +2.3m
2017: +2.1m
2018: +2.3m
2019: +2.0m
2020: -9.2m (covid)
2021: +7.2m (covid recovery)
2022: +4.6m
2023: +2.6m
2024: +2.0m
2025: +0.6m
2016: +2.3m
2017: +2.1m
2018: +2.3m
2019: +2.0m
2020: -9.2m (covid)
2021: +7.2m (covid recovery)
2022: +4.6m
2023: +2.6m
2024: +2.0m
2025: +0.6m
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On this day in 1961, white students yelled racial slurs and hung in effigy Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes after they became the first Black students to integrate the University of Georgia.
Jan. 9, 1961 | White Mobs Riot in Protest of Integration of University of Georgia
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1961, white students yelled racial slurs and hung in effigy Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes after they became the first Black students to integrate the University of Georgia.
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January 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Current DOJ use of force policy states that even if the ICE officer did what Trump, Vance and others are claiming he did, that's still not allowed. From the policy here: www.justice.gov/archives/ag/...
January 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Current DOJ use of force policy states that even if the ICE officer did what Trump, Vance and others are claiming he did, that's still not allowed. From the policy here: www.justice.gov/archives/ag/...
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The guy known for stiffing his contractors, stealing from charities, cheating on his wives, lying pathologically, trying to steal an election, trying to blackmail foreign leaders, and proudly sexually assaulting women? That morality?
President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The guy known for stiffing his contractors, stealing from charities, cheating on his wives, lying pathologically, trying to steal an election, trying to blackmail foreign leaders, and proudly sexually assaulting women? That morality?
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A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident.
The industries that illegal immigrants often work in — like landscaping and construction — are far more deadly and dangerous work than being an ICE officer.
The industries that illegal immigrants often work in — like landscaping and construction — are far more deadly and dangerous work than being an ICE officer.
If you’re scared of a Honda Pilot driving less than 5 miles an hour, with its wheels pointing away from you, you should not be working in law-enforcement…
You shouldn’t have a gun. You shouldn’t have a badge. You should find a new line of work.
You shouldn’t have a gun. You shouldn’t have a badge. You should find a new line of work.
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident.
The industries that illegal immigrants often work in — like landscaping and construction — are far more deadly and dangerous work than being an ICE officer.
The industries that illegal immigrants often work in — like landscaping and construction — are far more deadly and dangerous work than being an ICE officer.
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Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
Devastatingly accurate.
Abolish ICE. Abolish CBP. Demilitarize the police. Prosecute those within them and in the Trump administration who are breaking the law.
Abolish ICE. Abolish CBP. Demilitarize the police. Prosecute those within them and in the Trump administration who are breaking the law.
January 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Devastatingly accurate.
Abolish ICE. Abolish CBP. Demilitarize the police. Prosecute those within them and in the Trump administration who are breaking the law.
Abolish ICE. Abolish CBP. Demilitarize the police. Prosecute those within them and in the Trump administration who are breaking the law.
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Excusing murder with “you voted for this” is so dystopian. The prominent cross just the cherry on top. Jesus wept…
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Excusing murder with “you voted for this” is so dystopian. The prominent cross just the cherry on top. Jesus wept…
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
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She was not alone.
Immigration agents have shot at least 14 people over the past year. That includes:
-3 people who were observing ICE.
-5 people who were driving away.
-4 people who’ve been killed.
-5 people injured.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
Immigration agents have shot at least 14 people over the past year. That includes:
-3 people who were observing ICE.
-5 people who were driving away.
-4 people who’ve been killed.
-5 people injured.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
She was not alone.
Immigration agents have shot at least 14 people over the past year. That includes:
-3 people who were observing ICE.
-5 people who were driving away.
-4 people who’ve been killed.
-5 people injured.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
Immigration agents have shot at least 14 people over the past year. That includes:
-3 people who were observing ICE.
-5 people who were driving away.
-4 people who’ve been killed.
-5 people injured.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:32 PM
"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
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Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.
ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Minnesota Reformer
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January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
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Gov Walz vows justice
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Gov Walz vows justice
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.
January 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
It appears ICE murdered someone in cold blood today and their plan is — per usual — to create a fog of lies so the killer does not face justice. We simply can't let that happen. The shooter has to be arrested and so does Bovino. They can't just kill people on the street.
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they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.
MPR News is live right now bringing you updates on this. mprnews.org/listen
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
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Under orders from dictatorial leader Donald Trump, agents enforcing the regime's racist anti-immigration policies shot and killed an observer. The regime spokesperson, who has repeatedly lied about these confrontations, then released another lie-filled press statement covering up for murder.
January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Under orders from dictatorial leader Donald Trump, agents enforcing the regime's racist anti-immigration policies shot and killed an observer. The regime spokesperson, who has repeatedly lied about these confrontations, then released another lie-filled press statement covering up for murder.