RevWilker
@revwilker.bsky.social
Spouse, parent, neighbor, pastor, marathon runner & US citizen in Decorah, Iowa. Working for truth & healing with Indigenous leaders, welcoming migrants & refugees, loving LGBTQ+ family and friends, dismantling racism.
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When Viktor Orbán advocates for "peace" that means absolute and total capitulation of Ukraine and agreement to whatever terms Vladimir Putin asks for. When he changes his demands, so does Orbán. This is what sock puppet means. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Viktor Orbán begins ‘anti-war roadshow’ as Hungary gears up for 2026 elections
PM makes opposition to support for Ukraine central to Fidesz campaign as it loses ground over cost of living crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When Viktor Orbán advocates for "peace" that means absolute and total capitulation of Ukraine and agreement to whatever terms Vladimir Putin asks for. When he changes his demands, so does Orbán. This is what sock puppet means. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
Polish PM says railway track blast was 'unprecedented act of sabotage'
An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track on a route to Ukraine was an "unprecedented act of sabotage", Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, and he vowed to catch those responsible for an incident he said could have ended in tragedy.
www.reuters.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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Watch this.
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Watch this.
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To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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Many of his comments this year suggests he consumes a ton of popularist content and very little pointing out the many flaws in that thinking. I assume his peer group is the audience that consumes popularist content, so he would need real intentionality to get other perspectives.
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Many of his comments this year suggests he consumes a ton of popularist content and very little pointing out the many flaws in that thinking. I assume his peer group is the audience that consumes popularist content, so he would need real intentionality to get other perspectives.
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Charlotte showing that the #BraveOfUS will stand up to this regime. Thank you.
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Charlotte showing that the #BraveOfUS will stand up to this regime. Thank you.
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Now: Thousands of people in Charlotte have gathered to let Border Patrol & ICE know they’re not welcome here. We will not bow down in the face of Trump’s terror tactics. When our communities are under attack we stand up and fight back!
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
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(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Now: Thousands of people in Charlotte have gathered to let Border Patrol & ICE know they’re not welcome here. We will not bow down in the face of Trump’s terror tactics. When our communities are under attack we stand up and fight back!
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
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ICE (more likely CBP but unclear) snatched a man from a Charlotte church today. His wife and child were there and they opened a closed gate to trespass on the property. Reporting from @charlotteobserver.com
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
ICE (more likely CBP but unclear) snatched a man from a Charlotte church today. His wife and child were there and they opened a closed gate to trespass on the property. Reporting from @charlotteobserver.com
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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Brian Krassenstein
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brian Krassenstein
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
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CBP begins grabbing people in #Charlotte
“About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals.”
“About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals.”
Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship
Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
CBP begins grabbing people in #Charlotte
“About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals.”
“About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals.”
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A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid. The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them. Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not.
This is wrong!
This is wrong!
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid. The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them. Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not.
This is wrong!
This is wrong!
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I’ve been in Toronto at the #astmh meeting these past few days and last night some very good news was presented here: A new malaria drug has proven efficacious in a large trial and could soon be approved.🧪
My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial
As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’ve been in Toronto at the #astmh meeting these past few days and last night some very good news was presented here: A new malaria drug has proven efficacious in a large trial and could soon be approved.🧪
My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Superb reporting from Jonathan O'Connell -- Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayor’s battle to keep Trump at bay www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayor’s battle to keep Trump at bay
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has worked behind the scenes to appease President Trump more often than has been publicly known since his reelection.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Superb reporting from Jonathan O'Connell -- Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayor’s battle to keep Trump at bay www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Angels visited Decorah tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Angels visited Decorah tonight.
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The latest capitulation by Senate Democrats is another sign that the party needs new leadership. newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The latest capitulation by Senate Democrats is another sign that the party needs new leadership. newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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This is a reminder that Kristallnacht is still in living memory.
Living memory.
And yet we forget.
Living memory.
And yet we forget.
I post this thread on Twitter every year on #Kristallnacht. I’ll post the unrolled version here. My dad is 89 now, still doing great, although pretty gloomy about the election.
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threadreaderapp.com/thread/10609...
Thread by @MikeGrunwald: "My dad’s first memory is hiding under a table 80 years ago tonight, when Nazis took his dad to Dachau on . His parents, my Omi […]" #Kristallnacht
Thread by @MikeGrunwald: "My dad’s first memory is hiding under a table 80 years ago tonight, when Nazis took his dad to Dachau on . His parepi, always considered themselves more German than Jewish, s...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is a reminder that Kristallnacht is still in living memory.
Living memory.
And yet we forget.
Living memory.
And yet we forget.
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The most literal definition of a leader is to go first. Thank you @indivisible.org for your steadfast leadership, courage & clarity about what this moment requires.
indivisible.org/statements/i...
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Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The most literal definition of a leader is to go first. Thank you @indivisible.org for your steadfast leadership, courage & clarity about what this moment requires.
indivisible.org/statements/i...
indivisible.org/statements/i...
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JFC George - don’t accept the premise
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump says we're taking in "trillions of dollars" from tariffs. Is that true?
BESSENT: Uh. Over the course of the next few years, we could take in trillions of dollars
S: Are you worried though that the president's focus on revenue is going to hurt you at SCOTUS?
B: Not at all
BESSENT: Uh. Over the course of the next few years, we could take in trillions of dollars
S: Are you worried though that the president's focus on revenue is going to hurt you at SCOTUS?
B: Not at all
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
JFC George - don’t accept the premise
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses.
Frame the question the right way.
It’s not a damn true/false
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Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
On The Gateway Pundit podcast, Stewart Rhodes announces he is relaunching the Oath Keepers
www.mediamatters.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
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Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Got new book mail 🥰✊🏽 thanks to @haymarketbooks.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Got new book mail 🥰✊🏽 thanks to @haymarketbooks.org
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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A quota of crimes against humanity
A "quota" of crimes against humanity.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A quota of crimes against humanity