Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD
@marlenagraves.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Spiritual Formation-AOS: U.S. cultural history; religion, politics, and inequality in Am. history; Christian nationalism; public memory; political/public theology historical trauma. Seeking our flourishing Rochester, NY🇵🇷
Pinned
Hoping to reunite with friends/make new ones here! I'm a Puerto Rican writer, speaker & professor with a focus on Christian spirituality & Christian nationalism. One of them is not like the other. My PhD is in Am. Culture/Social History-race, gender, immigration-trying to love *all* of my neighbors.
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Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
November 2025
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~ William Blake
#michigan #puremichigan #scape #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #photooftheday #landscapephotography #landscape
November 2025
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~ William Blake
#michigan #puremichigan #scape #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #photooftheday #landscapephotography #landscape
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ann Arbor, Michigan
November 2025
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~ William Blake
#michigan #puremichigan #scape #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #photooftheday #landscapephotography #landscape
November 2025
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~ William Blake
#michigan #puremichigan #scape #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #photooftheday #landscapephotography #landscape
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The food pantry where I help has seen their customers double over the past 3 weeks. Many of them have jobs are do not receive SNAP. They cannot afford groceries.
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The food pantry where I help has seen their customers double over the past 3 weeks. Many of them have jobs are do not receive SNAP. They cannot afford groceries.
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This is America today. It doesn’t have to be this way.
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is America today. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)
This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥
substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Speaking tomorrow night --> 6:30-8pm @ Ohio State University's Christian Studies Center: Memento Mori "Remember Your Death."💀. Seems morbid but helps us prioritize + more! Here's the information. Make sure to RSVP if you're in the area & you can come! ❤️ to see u!
www.carmenhouse.org/speaker-seri...
www.carmenhouse.org/speaker-seri...
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Speaking tomorrow night --> 6:30-8pm @ Ohio State University's Christian Studies Center: Memento Mori "Remember Your Death."💀. Seems morbid but helps us prioritize + more! Here's the information. Make sure to RSVP if you're in the area & you can come! ❤️ to see u!
www.carmenhouse.org/speaker-seri...
www.carmenhouse.org/speaker-seri...
Um, my daughter is that age and she is a girl. What is wrong with these people. Are there now levels of pedophilia? Seriously. There is a huge difference in justice for the rich and the guilty and the poor and the innocent.
In case anyone was still wondering if the Esptein files would be causing MAGA to end their support for this US Admin.
The only things that matter to MAGA are Eugenics, racism, and the sheer hatred of those who dont conform to their worldview. The rest is just quantum levels of hypocrisy/outrage.
The only things that matter to MAGA are Eugenics, racism, and the sheer hatred of those who dont conform to their worldview. The rest is just quantum levels of hypocrisy/outrage.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Um, my daughter is that age and she is a girl. What is wrong with these people. Are there now levels of pedophilia? Seriously. There is a huge difference in justice for the rich and the guilty and the poor and the innocent.
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How does a couple live and serve and lead in the US for 35 years, only to be suddenly sent back to a country that no longer feels like home?
In-depth, complicated, and heartfelt reporting by
@andyrolsen.bsky.social for @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...
In-depth, complicated, and heartfelt reporting by
@andyrolsen.bsky.social for @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...
They Led at Saddleback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe. - Christianity Today
A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?
www.christianitytoday.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
How does a couple live and serve and lead in the US for 35 years, only to be suddenly sent back to a country that no longer feels like home?
In-depth, complicated, and heartfelt reporting by
@andyrolsen.bsky.social for @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...
In-depth, complicated, and heartfelt reporting by
@andyrolsen.bsky.social for @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/ice-...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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In the face of the current authoritarian take over, I see folks here sometimes say, "What can be done! What can I do?"
I've compiled some suggestions. Let me know if you need links for any of these.
I've compiled some suggestions. Let me know if you need links for any of these.
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In the face of the current authoritarian take over, I see folks here sometimes say, "What can be done! What can I do?"
I've compiled some suggestions. Let me know if you need links for any of these.
I've compiled some suggestions. Let me know if you need links for any of these.
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Thank you, and keep fighting with us! We won't be fooled into thinking we are powerless. 5calls.org/issue/cfpb-f...
Restore CFPB Funding to Protect Consumers from Wall Street Fraud (UPDATED 11/5) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates November 5, 2025: Trump’s head of CFPB, Russell Vought, is refusing to use $466 million in CFPB funding that became available October 1. CFPB …
5calls.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thank you, and keep fighting with us! We won't be fooled into thinking we are powerless. 5calls.org/issue/cfpb-f...
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Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
Will the released Epstein files, showing Epstein and Trump and Maxwell to be pedophiles, be the breaking point for white evangelicals? Shawn doubts it, but hopes he is mistaken.
open.substack.com/pub/christia...
open.substack.com/pub/christia...
Trump and Epstein: will this time be different?
I doubt it.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Will the released Epstein files, showing Epstein and Trump and Maxwell to be pedophiles, be the breaking point for white evangelicals? Shawn doubts it, but hopes he is mistaken.
open.substack.com/pub/christia...
open.substack.com/pub/christia...
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It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn
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AI is already driving up your electric bill.
It could soon control every aspect of your life — and put you out of a job.
We must put up guardrails before it's too late.
It could soon control every aspect of your life — and put you out of a job.
We must put up guardrails before it's too late.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
AI is already driving up your electric bill.
It could soon control every aspect of your life — and put you out of a job.
We must put up guardrails before it's too late.
It could soon control every aspect of your life — and put you out of a job.
We must put up guardrails before it's too late.
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Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill.
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill.
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
I fought hard along with many others to keep the CFPB from attack and from closing - especially when we lobbied against predatory lending. The CFPB stood by us. Travesty upon travesty. They are opening us up to financial predators, not protecting us.
The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I fought hard along with many others to keep the CFPB from attack and from closing - especially when we lobbied against predatory lending. The CFPB stood by us. Travesty upon travesty. They are opening us up to financial predators, not protecting us.
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It’s all of them, every last one of them
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s all of them, every last one of them
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best
Thank you @paulgp.com
Thank you @paulgp.com
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
I am trusting that evangelical friends who have started anti-sex trafficking initiatives and ministries will not support or defend the president's pedophilia.
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I am trusting that evangelical friends who have started anti-sex trafficking initiatives and ministries will not support or defend the president's pedophilia.
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
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Dems are extraordinarily powerful. They broke a system they have no control over. WOW
And there it is. They don’t want to release the dismal inflation or jobs numbers for October and are claiming that it’s the fault of Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dems are extraordinarily powerful. They broke a system they have no control over. WOW