Rev. Becky Rokitowski
@beckyrok.bsky.social
I am a United Methodist Pastor, a wife, and a mom. Florida native, Wisconsinite by choice.
I want to remind Christians, during this holy week, that we worship Jesus... who was executed by the state, unjustly and without evidence, and the most powerful person with the ability to stop it ordered his death and washed his hands. "Are you a gang member and a criminal?" "You say that I am."
April 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I want to remind Christians, during this holy week, that we worship Jesus... who was executed by the state, unjustly and without evidence, and the most powerful person with the ability to stop it ordered his death and washed his hands. "Are you a gang member and a criminal?" "You say that I am."
My parents watch Fox news. This week I let them know how upset I was that Elon Musk gave Nazi salutes on national television and everyone still seems cool with him in leadership. My mom said she heard about it but hadn't seen it herself. Hadn't seen it?! What is the news even reporting on?!
February 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My parents watch Fox news. This week I let them know how upset I was that Elon Musk gave Nazi salutes on national television and everyone still seems cool with him in leadership. My mom said she heard about it but hadn't seen it herself. Hadn't seen it?! What is the news even reporting on?!
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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.
Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership | CNN Politics
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and...
www.cnn.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
The text this Sunday includes "turn the other cheek". This is not a call to be a doormat for violence. This is a call to resist returning hate with hate or violence with violence. It is not our nature... but grace is God's nature.
February 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The text this Sunday includes "turn the other cheek". This is not a call to be a doormat for violence. This is a call to resist returning hate with hate or violence with violence. It is not our nature... but grace is God's nature.
Genesis 1 is used in anti-trans rhetoric: "gender is binary". God creates light and dark, yet we enjoy twilight and dusk. Water and land, but we have marshes and bayous. We celebrate diversity of animals yet deny diversity in humanity. Stop using scripture to justify your judgement and your hate.
February 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Genesis 1 is used in anti-trans rhetoric: "gender is binary". God creates light and dark, yet we enjoy twilight and dusk. Water and land, but we have marshes and bayous. We celebrate diversity of animals yet deny diversity in humanity. Stop using scripture to justify your judgement and your hate.
The government has been removing all references to transgender people from all its websites. All uses of LGBTQ+ have been replaced with LGB. They just removed the trans references on the Stonewall website. I am so enraged by this attempt to erase, not just history, but trans people themselves.
Park Service erases 'transgender' on Stonewall website, uses the term 'LGB' movement
The website deleted all mentions of "transgender" and "queer" in its history of the Stonewall riots, and only referred to the riots' impact on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The government has been removing all references to transgender people from all its websites. All uses of LGBTQ+ have been replaced with LGB. They just removed the trans references on the Stonewall website. I am so enraged by this attempt to erase, not just history, but trans people themselves.
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Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…
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February 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
I just had a group of boys show up to my house on bikes. They were my son's friends. They heard he hadn't been feeling well, so they rode to the grocery store and bought him a small cake. They were dropping it off for him. On their bikes.
February 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I just had a group of boys show up to my house on bikes. They were my son's friends. They heard he hadn't been feeling well, so they rode to the grocery store and bought him a small cake. They were dropping it off for him. On their bikes.
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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
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The "radical ideology" of *checks notes*
...Jesus.
The way they tell on themselves.
...Jesus.
The way they tell on themselves.
January 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The "radical ideology" of *checks notes*
...Jesus.
The way they tell on themselves.
...Jesus.
The way they tell on themselves.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
As a pastor, I have always seen myself as bringing people together. Crossing the aisle. Finding the middle ground, the reconciliation and the loving compromise. I don't know how to do that right now. It feels like being in an abusive relationship with someone gaslighting me the whole time.
January 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
As a pastor, I have always seen myself as bringing people together. Crossing the aisle. Finding the middle ground, the reconciliation and the loving compromise. I don't know how to do that right now. It feels like being in an abusive relationship with someone gaslighting me the whole time.
First post! I am slowly going to shift from Facebook to here. What is your favorite thing about Bluesky?
January 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
First post! I am slowly going to shift from Facebook to here. What is your favorite thing about Bluesky?