Dana
@danadefrocked.bsky.social
the internet is my pulpit now.
former pastor, current freelance writer living in the Blue Ridge mountains
danacassell.substack.com
former pastor, current freelance writer living in the Blue Ridge mountains
danacassell.substack.com
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With what Republicans are about to hand to ICE we could instead end school lunch debt, hire enough teachers, and keep the childcare system afloat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What $100 billion in new ICE funding would look like
The staggering increase is difficult to process. These numbers will help.
www.motherjones.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
With what Republicans are about to hand to ICE we could instead end school lunch debt, hire enough teachers, and keep the childcare system afloat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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9. If they were choosing patriotism, we'd be done by now. If they had the votes for Trump fealty, we'd be done by now. Instead, they are floundering, hoping that before this day is out they will find a way to hurt the American people as Daddy has demanded.
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
9. If they were choosing patriotism, we'd be done by now. If they had the votes for Trump fealty, we'd be done by now. Instead, they are floundering, hoping that before this day is out they will find a way to hurt the American people as Daddy has demanded.
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“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn
June 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn
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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main...
#Palestine #Israel
Mainstream obituaries are erasing Pope Francis’s deep concern for Palestine
Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.
mondoweiss.net
April 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main...
#Palestine #Israel
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Faith leaders gathered in front of the White House today for a vigil and prayer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Bring him home!
April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Faith leaders gathered in front of the White House today for a vigil and prayer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Bring him home!
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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
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With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including the power of ridicule, writes @daniel-hunter.bsky.social.
What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked?
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.
wagingnonviolence.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including the power of ridicule, writes @daniel-hunter.bsky.social.
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
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In addition to all the other horrible things, Trump's second term is like a Twilight Zone episode where his voters are told they can be as racist as they want except now groceries cost a trillion dollars.
April 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In addition to all the other horrible things, Trump's second term is like a Twilight Zone episode where his voters are told they can be as racist as they want except now groceries cost a trillion dollars.
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we all understand that this just means we have to yell at our reps more, right
April 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
we all understand that this just means we have to yell at our reps more, right
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do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?
April 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
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THE PRESIDENT CANNOT DO THIS BY EXECUTIVE ORDER
IT ONLY PURPORTS TO DO THIS
WHY DO THE COUNTRY'S LEADING NEWSPAPERS NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
IT ONLY PURPORTS TO DO THIS
WHY DO THE COUNTRY'S LEADING NEWSPAPERS NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring people to provide documents proving they are citizens when they register to vote, a mandate that experts said could prevent millions of Americans from voting.
Follow live updates here.
Follow live updates here.
Live updates: Trump says compensation fund under consideration for pardoned Jan. 6 rioters
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
THE PRESIDENT CANNOT DO THIS BY EXECUTIVE ORDER
IT ONLY PURPORTS TO DO THIS
WHY DO THE COUNTRY'S LEADING NEWSPAPERS NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
IT ONLY PURPORTS TO DO THIS
WHY DO THE COUNTRY'S LEADING NEWSPAPERS NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
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In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.
March 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.
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abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
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SCHUMER: Look… I know everyone’s worried about this statue facing our gates. But I see this as a chess match between us and the Greeks—and I know chess. Our best play is to move the horse straight forward.
TOWNSMAN: Are you sure you know chess?
TOWNSMAN: Are you sure you know chess?
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
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March 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
SCHUMER: Look… I know everyone’s worried about this statue facing our gates. But I see this as a chess match between us and the Greeks—and I know chess. Our best play is to move the horse straight forward.
TOWNSMAN: Are you sure you know chess?
TOWNSMAN: Are you sure you know chess?
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If you have power in your institution and your institution imposes rules limiting what you can do or say, please consider breaking those rules and doing so publicly.
March 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you have power in your institution and your institution imposes rules limiting what you can do or say, please consider breaking those rules and doing so publicly.
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Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...
apnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Carefully chosen instance to defy the courts. But if they get away with it, anything goes.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.