Susie Hayward
@sohayward.bsky.social
Religion, violence, & peace scholar-activist. Minneapolis-based justice organizer and UCC pastor. Formerly with US Institute of Peace, Harvard Divinity School. Views mine but I share.
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Susie Hayward
@sohayward.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Here for community & connection, global & local justice solidarity & mobilization, thoughtful takes (esp from the margins), weird religion humor, cats, rock music, prince, human rights updates, joy as resistance. I take the work of love in the public square far more seriously than I take myself.
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Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
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I wrote a thread about the Indigenous protests at COP30 informed by (and linking to!) the really excellent reporting on the ground by @climatedesk.org journalists.
If you are looking to catch up on what is going on, here is the recap.
If you are looking to catch up on what is going on, here is the recap.
DAY 5 of COP30: Indigenous protesters blockade Cop30 summit entrance. Why? Let's dig into it. ⬇️
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I wrote a thread about the Indigenous protests at COP30 informed by (and linking to!) the really excellent reporting on the ground by @climatedesk.org journalists.
If you are looking to catch up on what is going on, here is the recap.
If you are looking to catch up on what is going on, here is the recap.
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Latest episode of American Unexceptionalism by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social @sohayward.bsky.social is out- this time they talk to folks about the South Korean martial law attempt by then President Yoon. For the real ones- Che Ahn mentioned! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
003: South Korea: K-Pop Demon Hunters IRL
Podcast Episode · American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism · 11/06/2025 · 1h 12m
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November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Latest episode of American Unexceptionalism by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social @sohayward.bsky.social is out- this time they talk to folks about the South Korean martial law attempt by then President Yoon. For the real ones- Che Ahn mentioned! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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St. Paul voters on Tuesday handed a historic election victory to state Rep. Kaohly Her, who will be the first woman and first Hmong person to serve as mayor.
Her upset her former boss, two-term Mayor Melvin Carter, to win the election.
Her upset her former boss, two-term Mayor Melvin Carter, to win the election.
Kaohly Her wins historic election, will be St. Paul’s first Hmong mayor
Her, who entered the race in August, defeated her former boss Mayor Melvin Carter in his bid for a third term.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
St. Paul voters on Tuesday handed a historic election victory to state Rep. Kaohly Her, who will be the first woman and first Hmong person to serve as mayor.
Her upset her former boss, two-term Mayor Melvin Carter, to win the election.
Her upset her former boss, two-term Mayor Melvin Carter, to win the election.
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The US has a long history of military intervention in Latin America -- but the US campaign against Venezuela goes beyond all precedents, according to a scholar who recaps the history: buff.ly/95slpmI
Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The US has a long history of military intervention in Latin America -- but the US campaign against Venezuela goes beyond all precedents, according to a scholar who recaps the history: buff.ly/95slpmI
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The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.
He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…
…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…
…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.
He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…
…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…
…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
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Listen to @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and the Rev. Susan Hayward interview two scholars of Brazilian religion on the parallels and divergences of our twin insurrections. How did Brazil defeat a Christian nationalist authoritarian?
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October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Listen to @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and the Rev. Susan Hayward interview two scholars of Brazilian religion on the parallels and divergences of our twin insurrections. How did Brazil defeat a Christian nationalist authoritarian?
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New podcast out from @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Axis Mundi- American Unexceptionalism by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and @sohayward.bsky.social - the whole Axis Mundi back catalogue is worth your time- VERY excited about this! First episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
001: It's Time to Leave American Exceptionalism Behind
Podcast Episode · American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism · 10/23/2025 · 31m
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October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New podcast out from @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Axis Mundi- American Unexceptionalism by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and @sohayward.bsky.social - the whole Axis Mundi back catalogue is worth your time- VERY excited about this! First episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
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NEW: Rev. Bautista spoke with @haydenroyster.bsky.social about his harrowing experience being shot in the face with a pepper round by IVE.
“I immediately felt burning pain,” he said. “I was in shock, disoriented and terrified that I might stop breathing altogether.” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...
“I immediately felt burning pain,” he said. “I was in shock, disoriented and terrified that I might stop breathing altogether.” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
NEW: Rev. Bautista spoke with @haydenroyster.bsky.social about his harrowing experience being shot in the face with a pepper round by IVE.
“I immediately felt burning pain,” he said. “I was in shock, disoriented and terrified that I might stop breathing altogether.” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...
“I immediately felt burning pain,” he said. “I was in shock, disoriented and terrified that I might stop breathing altogether.” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...
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While others debate who is most corrupt and/or the truest friend of the gays, allow me to introduce you to my friend the squeaky clean, down to earth, steady, experienced, normal guy pastor with a gay husband, DeWayne Davis.
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
While others debate who is most corrupt and/or the truest friend of the gays, allow me to introduce you to my friend the squeaky clean, down to earth, steady, experienced, normal guy pastor with a gay husband, DeWayne Davis.
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Thrilled to announce my new project: my friend @sohayward.bsky.social & I have a new podcast series!
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
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AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
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001: It's Time to Leave American Exceptionalism Behind
Podcast Episode · American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism · 10/23/2025 · 31m
podcasts.apple.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thrilled to announce my new project: my friend @sohayward.bsky.social & I have a new podcast series!
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
Yesterday, one of my congregants- a parent of two kids who survived the mass shooting at #Annunciation, shared his heart and story at a prayer vigil at the MN State Capitol. We will keep demanding a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines until God’s will be done. So our kids may live.
October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yesterday, one of my congregants- a parent of two kids who survived the mass shooting at #Annunciation, shared his heart and story at a prayer vigil at the MN State Capitol. We will keep demanding a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines until God’s will be done. So our kids may live.
Hard to overstate as a Minnesotan how much this upsets me. Senator Hortman, her husband, & dog were not killed by antifa. They were killed by a far-right Christian nationalist who had a hit list targeting Dem legislators and others who support reproductive rights. He was a proud Trump supporter.
Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hard to overstate as a Minnesotan how much this upsets me. Senator Hortman, her husband, & dog were not killed by antifa. They were killed by a far-right Christian nationalist who had a hit list targeting Dem legislators and others who support reproductive rights. He was a proud Trump supporter.
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The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.
Wild rice binds this tribe together. It’s under threat from every direction.
Inside the Ojibwe’s fight to preserve a plant and the extraordinary traditions around it in northern Wisconsin.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.
Once again, a so-called Christian leader throwing out a centuries’ old Christian tradition. This time, the just war tradition that began w Augustine, was built on by Aquinas, & reformed in important ways by Las Casas. A long Christian tradition of “rules of engagement” to limit violence in war.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Once again, a so-called Christian leader throwing out a centuries’ old Christian tradition. This time, the just war tradition that began w Augustine, was built on by Aquinas, & reformed in important ways by Las Casas. A long Christian tradition of “rules of engagement” to limit violence in war.
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On November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM ET, AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion will host a webinAAR on “The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding." Register now: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...
The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding – AAR
Hosted by AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion "Jesus saves" banners at the January 6th insurrection. Evangelical elevation of President Trump as God's elect. Claims of religious…
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September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM ET, AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion will host a webinAAR on “The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding." Register now: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...
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God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism
God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism
Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism
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Think of the waste this involves
New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.”
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Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics
Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Think of the waste this involves
Just saw this in Whittier. Send out the catsignal, @wedge.live? A cat this dapper is clearly meant to be indoors. #bringcilantrohome
September 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just saw this in Whittier. Send out the catsignal, @wedge.live? A cat this dapper is clearly meant to be indoors. #bringcilantrohome
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NEW: We joined a coalition of nonprofit orgs and charities urging the administration to stop its escalation of political division, and the unjustified targeting of orgs and people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Full statement via @publiccitizen.bsky.social
🔗 https://protdem.org/3I9KZLk
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September 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NEW: We joined a coalition of nonprofit orgs and charities urging the administration to stop its escalation of political division, and the unjustified targeting of orgs and people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Full statement via @publiccitizen.bsky.social
🔗 https://protdem.org/3I9KZLk
🔗 https://protdem.org/3I9KZLk
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
I can’t overstate how anti-Biblical this is. If there’s one issue the Bible is unequivocal about, it’s care for the immigrant/refugee/foreigner among you. Bc you were once strangers in Egypt, bc you could be entertaining an angel unawares, bc the ethic of hospitality requires it. Full stop.
It's one of many posts by the agency since June invoking religious imagery to promote its efforts to arrest and deport immigrants.
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DHS is using the Bible to promote ICE, claiming ‘righteous’ fight against immigrants
(RNS) — The agency refers to Scripture as it seeks to recruit agents who are pivotal in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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August 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I can’t overstate how anti-Biblical this is. If there’s one issue the Bible is unequivocal about, it’s care for the immigrant/refugee/foreigner among you. Bc you were once strangers in Egypt, bc you could be entertaining an angel unawares, bc the ethic of hospitality requires it. Full stop.
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This paragraph is haunting.
How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...
How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...
August 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This paragraph is haunting.
How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...
How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...