Marianne Gallagher
mfitzg.bsky.social
Marianne Gallagher
@mfitzg.bsky.social
Ignatian Educator; Theology; Educating for Justice (whether they like it or not, and mostly they do not)
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December 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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regular US policing.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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And with that, the savage industrialized hatred that wiped out millions of indigenous people and inspired Hitler, comes back to us, each generation of bigots trying further to sanitize genocide through the language of innovation.
December 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Looks like Bondi's DOJ is just about finished with all the redactions/edits.
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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The Kennedys hosted Ella Fitzgerald, Pablo Casals, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein at the White House.

Donald Trump hosted Kid Rock.
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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"If you meet someone who knows everything and has understood everything, bid them a fond farewell and take another path." #PopeFrancis #Hope
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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"Like every goodness in this world, like every virtue, hope also has its enemies, who invite us to desist, to give in, to yield to the night, and often the first of these enemies is not outside us but within." #PopeFrancis #Hope
December 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Whoa … this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

🎁 link ⤵️

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.

Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"Selected outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized"
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil | Philosophy Break
For 20th-century German philosopher Hannah Arendt, most evil is committed by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
philosophybreak.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).

My prayers go out to her and her family.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alychamps, Autumn (1888)
🎨 Vincent van Gogh
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This isn’t just an improper blending of church and state.

It’s a twisted mockery of Christianity that ought to offend any actually devout Christian.

Showing armed soldiers moving into battle as you lip service “… as we forgive those who trespass against us” sorta misses the point.
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM