Rev. AJ van Tine
revajvt.bsky.social
Rev. AJ van Tine
@revajvt.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist minister living and serving in Rochester, NY. He/him.
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“Protestors” often isn’t the right word. It’s mostly people protecting their neighbors and communities.
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Nurses are pissed.

This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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I am a single-issue voter and that issue is "Nuremberg Trials for Kristi Noem."
January 24, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Offering this prayer from UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt, as we continue to hold the people of Minneapolis in our hearts. Read the full text in UU World: www.uuworld.org/articles/min...

#UU #ICEOut #Prayer #UUSky
January 24, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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ICE transported witnesses to the building where they are detaining people and tried to block police from the crime scene.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week.

It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...
Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...
religionnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Speaking in #Minneapolis alongside MARCH, UU Rev. Ben Atherton-Zeman named why he answered this moment: morality and ethics in the face of illegal and violent enforcement. His words reflect UU witness and insistence on dignity. Updates: https://www.uuworld.org/

#ICEOut #UU #Solidarity
January 23, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Okay sorry one more shot:
January 23, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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🚨✈️ BREAKING: In -20° weather, over 100 clergy and faith leaders were arrested at MSP Airport as they gathered in peaceful, prayerful resistance to demand airlines stand with Minnesotans and say #ICEOutOfMN.

#DeICEFlights #ICEOutForGood #DayOfTruthAndFreedom
January 23, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Because Minneapolis is all of us…Because beloveds are being abducted…Because silence in the face of evil is not an option…Because 6,000 children and parents are detained…Because my Unitarian Universalist faith teaches no one is beyond Love’s reach…we demand #ICEOut #FreeFamilies
January 23, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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I'm in Minneapolis because we are all connected. I weep for my neighbors who are harassed and scapegoated. I love the next generation and want to leave them a country that is free of authoritarian rule. I'll keep fighting for them all. #ICEOUT
January 23, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.

Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.

Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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NEW from me: Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...
religionnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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UUs from across the country are in Minneapolis today alongside other faith leaders, responding to violence against immigrant communities and calling for an end to ICE operations. Read UU World’s developing coverage:

bit.ly/4jYZIHi
The Day of Truth and Freedom: UU Clergy and Laypeople Join Multifaith March in Minneapolis Against ICE
Developing story: Follow UU World’s live updates, including dispatches from Minneapolis.
bit.ly
January 23, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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I love every single thing about this.
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.

In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE
January 21, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Precisely.
January 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Voters in Virginia will decide later this year whether to repeal the state’s lifetime voting ban over any felony conviction.

“It’s time for us to not be the only state in the union that is doing this to people,” says Virginia Delegate Marcia Price.
“It’s Time”: Virginia Lawmakers Ask Voters to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They
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January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM