Joan
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Joan
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I am on the ground meeting with volunteers and knocking doors to ensure Elon Musk doesn't buy the WI Supreme Court. Already met a Dem with a cool Star Wars tattoo 🤩 Let's get Judge Crawford elected!
March 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A large group of clergy have gathered in front of the Supreme Court, calling on Congress to pass a “moral budget” and particularly protesting proposed cuts of Medicaid.
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Via me and @yonat.bsky.social: Trump admin abruptly cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles —> religionnews.com/2025/02/28/t...
Trump admin cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles
(RNS) — 'Our status as a resettlement agency based on this termination notice is over,' Danilo Zak, director of policy for Church World Service, told Religion News Service.
religionnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Another thing buried in here: folks didn't make as big a deal of it as when Musk went after Lutherans, but Musk *also* went after Church World Service — which resettles refugees and does other things as a cooperative ministry of several Christian denominations — in a tweet yesterday.
February 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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NEW: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton is releasing a video, saying the church remains “steadfast” in its work & accusing Musk/others of of spreading “misinformation” and “casting baseless doubt” about “funding that supports Lutheran (orgs) across our country.”
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Hey Lutherans, isn’t it time to stop being “nice”?
February 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My latest: A prominent Lutheran leader invoked the story of a martyr while defending work to help the needy after Elon Musk described federal funding for Lutheran aid orgs as “illegal” over the weekend.

"Be of good courage, Church, and let us persevere," she said. religionnews.com/2025/02/03/m...
Musk spotlights federal funds for Lutheran aid groups, calls them 'illegal payments'
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, accused Musk and others of spreading 'misinformation' and casting baseless doubt on longstand...
religionnews.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Pete Buttigieg responds to Trump’s vicious nonsense.
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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1. A quick thread about what you're seeing here from Charlie Kirk and Vice President Vance (note: multiple falsehoods in these screenshots): Conservative ire directed at religious orgs that aid migrants and resettle refugees has been years in the making, and can trace its origins to the far-right.
January 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: In letter, a broad group of influential Jewish groups urge Trump not to enact "widespread persecution of immigrants" —> religionnews.com/2025/01/27/i...
In letter, Jewish groups urge Trump not to enact 'widespread persecution of immigrants'
(RNS) — 'Please do not enact policies that would turn places of solace into places of fear,' the letter reads.
religionnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference.

They are DEIA hires.

Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
January 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM