Rev. Jen Butler
@RevJenButler
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CEO of Faith in Democracy https://t.co/DbUafQKm4c ON BLUE SKY: @revjenbutler.bsky.social
Atlanta, GA
Joined April 2011
so much to hide…..
NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records
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Beautifully put.
Columbia, South Carolina. Thousands of people turned up. No rage. No slogans. No spectacle. Just people standing respectfully, quietly, kindly.
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More on the oil. To understand autocracy follow the money always.
The Venezuela story everyone missed. The U.S. just sold $500 million of Venezuelan oil. But they deposited the money in Qatar. Not the U.S. Not Venezuela. Qatar. Here is why that satisfies detail changes everything you think you know about what just happened. Venezuela owes
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Not worth it. She will be betrayed in the end. Perhaps compromising one’s values is not the way to defeat a corrupt autocrat.
Machado says she 'presented' Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal
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Exfiltration, word of the day!
A possible kleptocratic operation. In Russia, Gazprom was sacked and profits funneled to offshore accounts (this is called exfiltration). Here it is a foreign country being targeted but it is key to have a third party involved.
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Awesomeness!
This is Josh Krehbiel, a pastor in Minneapolis, speaking out about the horrific rhetoric coming from some within the church regarding ICE. He also calls out the President for his racist rhetoric, describing it as “anti-God” and “anti-Gospel.” This is how it’s done. 👏
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Francisco Paredes served his Minnesota Catholic parish faithfully for years. Then ICE arrested him in the church parking lot and deported him before Christmas. Weeks later, masked agents returned during Sunday Mass. The parish priest says it feels like a war zone. Now
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A Minnesota church is reeling after immigration agents staked out Sunday Mass and deported a beloved staff member.
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Trump-evangelicalism is a cult. It is a theological heresy. It’s just a new version of the old-school emperor worship of Caesar. Some people calling themselves Christians are actually more in love with Trump than with Jesus. Whenever we stop letting Jesus transform us into
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Surprise. (Not)
Expanding on my reporting from a couple of weeks ago, Ron Lauder was the one who prompted Trump to pursue acquisition of Greenland. What isn't reported here is Lauder's proximity to Putin and former KGB head Kryuchkov, who also recruited Trump. https://t.co/xZqmsLQo4e
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This is very informative. I didn’t fully understand this until now.
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"The cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. "AOC exposes Trump's ICE funding scheme.
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After the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security has rolled out a new slogan as it defends the lethal action: “One of Ours, All of Yours.” This will not lead anywhere good. @skyejethani🎙️Holy Post 703 (tune in at the link
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Renee Good was a martyr for her faith, like MLK, say Presbyterians
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(RNS)— The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness, part of the Presbyterian Church (USA), says Good is part of ‘a sacred lineage of faithful witnesses who have risked and lost their lives in defense...
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This is interesting. After Renee Good was killed, a DHS memo reminded agents that personal insults and other acts like those seen on the Good videos are legal.
Immigration officers received a "legal refresher" reminding them that personal insults and rude gestures are legal, per documents leaked to me: https://t.co/N0QowpTMie
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The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
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My latest dispatch from Minneapolis: On the Sunday after Renee Good’s killing, Minnesotans grieve through worship and song, finding strength — and organizing power — in community
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(RNS) — Worshippers took a moment to pause, mourn and sing, even as they continued to organize resistance efforts against ICE's escalated presence in Minneapolis.
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We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
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George Retes is an American citizen who was born and raised in California. He is also an Army veteran who deployed to Iraq. While driving to work, ICE agents shattered his car window, pepper sprayed him, and took him to a detention center where he was held for 3 days.
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I worked with the Biden White House and DOJ to develop a policy on when can federal police shoot at a moving vehicle. DOJ adopted it in 2022, and as far as I know, it hasn't been repealed. Here's what it says: "Firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles.
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