As Patricia McBee writes, the refugee families she has worked with "have been an inspiration to us," and "their vulnerability is a source of sadness and shame for those of us who have come to know and love them." We must honor sacred protections for refugees and resist efforts to thwart them.⬇️

Working with Refugees Has Stretched Our Hearts | Friends Committee On National Legislation

I became involved with refugees by accident. It was the fall of 2016. I was new in town and wanted to get engaged in the community. A woman in Newtown (PA) Friends Meeting was deeply upset by the anti...

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Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 16h ago

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

wow really

As @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social writes in @rns.org, our country is facing a moral reckoning a year after President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" slashed food assistance, healthcare, and other vital programs. "For Quakers, this is not partisan language but a matter of conscience."

One year later, people of faith should reckon with Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

(RNS) — These policy choices are not merely budget decisions. They reveal our national priorities.

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Imagine thinking so little of yourself that you just let this half sentient rotten potato talk to you like this. I don't care if he's president, have some self respect.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

"Quakers have long insisted that the way we spend our national resources is a moral statement about what we value." While the struggle is far from over, more lawmakers than ever are pushing back against endless money for war at the expense of human needs. ⬇️

FCNL@fcnl.bsky.social · 5d ago

The annual NDAA would authorize the largest military budget ever -- $1.15 trillion. But this year, it is facing more bipartisan opposition than ever. Lawmakers are pushing back in ways that they have never done before. buff.ly/LyjxdEI

"They are murder victims." 🚨 Sen. Tim Kaine is continuing to sound the alarm over the Trump admin.'s outrageous strikes on civilian boats, demanding an end to this "illegal, costly, and ineffective operation.” Thank you @kaine.senate.gov for your leadership and moral clarity.

‘They Are Murder Victims,’ Sen. Tim Kaine Says of People Killed by Trump Boat Strikes | Common Dreams

Sen. Tim Kaine accuses Trump admin of murder with boat strike campaign, killing 221. Calls for halt to costly, ineffective operation.

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“We were doing civilian-based defense. We were defending ourselves from an occupying army, and in this case the army that was occupying us was our own federal government.”

FCNL@fcnl.bsky.social · 3d ago

When ICE occupied their city, these Quaker women knew that they had to move forward to protect their neighbors. buff.ly/zQpFJAj

He cites users' ability to mute & block folks as a positive, which is good. It's also why right wing chuds thankfully can't get a foothold here - b/c they violate community norms & get nuclear blocked out of normal people's timelines. Bluesky isn't a *liberal* bubble - it's a *decency* bubble.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

it's so fucked up in so many ways including the many times where it's like "haw haw you will be so miserable being deported to this hellhole full of mud people" and then the people there actually show them humanity and compassion not possessed by us americans

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d ago

These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

If I lived in Ohio, I'd be calling Sen. Moreno's offices every day to ask why he's obsessed with the doctor who led our fight against COVID -- which killed 44,000+ in Ohio -- but refusing to say a word about the man his daughter said abused her and his granddaughter. www.moreno.senate.gov/contact/

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d ago

Did Fauci throw scalding water on your daughter, though? Did he put a gun to her head? Did he break your granddaughter's collarbone? Has your daughter just put out a restraining order against Dr. Fauci? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

this might actually be how we achieve world peace

(do note the post is 4 months old, btw)

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can they transfer us to the right department. 🤡

OK, fine, but: @hormuzletter? Who? An account that was started in December, is based in Europe and has changed its username twice, including in April? Just because it says what you want to hear doesn't mean you should listen.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

President Toddler

ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.

On Thursday, ICE needlessly detained Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history. This is a man who is married to an American citizen and with deep ties to our local community who was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.

I am so mad the $12 coffee maker I bought from Walmart makes tastier coffee than my $100 coffee maker from Oxo that died. What has the coffee industry done to us?

reminder that Bernie Moreno used the F word today in part because he’s trying to fix the SEO around not doing anything about his daughter being allegedly abused by her GOP Rep ex husband.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last wk.

Scalded her with boiling water Put a gun to her head Punched her in her face Broke your grand daughters collarbone And Bennie Moreno ain’t beat his ass yet???? Every time i see you in DC it’s on sight

This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.

GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

This is not limited to trans issues either. If I had a nickel for every "I didn't think ICE would deport *MY* abuela when I voted for Trump!" article, I could at least buy a Happy Meal.

Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.

ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)

Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.

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