Nancy Gowler
@revnancyg.bsky.social
Clergy, wannabe musician, Doctor Who💙💙, dabbler in watercolors. Longtime resident of Cascadia trying to make sense of the wonders of Appalachia. Call me woke, feminist, heretic, professional agitator, wine mom...she/her Let's make this world beautiful.
All other issues and factors aside, this is a pretty stunning data point and result.
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 5h agoDr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary despite being massively outspent. Outside groups spent roughly $70 million backing his opponent, compared with about $3 million supporting El-Sayed.
I do not understand the appeal of the KY Fancy Farm event, and I find it morally repugnant that it is a major fundraiser for a church. However, Charles Booker rocked it this year. @booker4ky.bsky.social youtu.be/3NO2Nr5xELc?...
Charles Booker Full Speech at Fancy Farm 2026
YouTube video by Charles Booker
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With his clear incompetence, fanatical Christian nationalism, misogyny, and pathetic inferiority complex, it's easy to lose track of the many injustices Pete Hegseth has instituted. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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Clark County in southern Indiana has received more than $2.9 million since the sheriff’s office entered an agreement last year to house people for ICE.
Clark County has brought in nearly $3M from contract to house ICE detainees
The Clark County jail has served as a detention facility for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than a year.
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If you have overlooked Kentucky, look again. Mitch isn’t running. Andy Barr is a spineless fraud no one likes. Meanwhile, we have built coalitions from the Hood to the Holler. Lock arms with us. We’re flipping this Senate seat.
TMZ’s Harvey Levin Calls GOP Attacks On Dr. Fauci ‘Heartbreaking,’ Compares It to McCarthyism
TMZ’s Harvey Levin Calls GOP Attacks On Dr. Fauci ‘Heartbreaking,’ Compares It to McCarthyism
TMZ's Harvey Levin used his platform's social media channels to blast Sen. Rand Paul's pursuit of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a "heartbreaking" example of the Senator's years-long "witch hunt."
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The chances are quite good that the "number three" at DOJ who ordered Jim Comey to be illegally surveilled was Third Circuit judge Emil Bove. (He was nominated days later.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![6. The following morning, the Secret Service submitted an emergency request to
Verizon in which an agent represented that such surveillance “relate[d] to an emergency involving
danger of death or serious physical injury to a person, necessitating disclosure without delay of
information relating to that emergency.” Ex. E. [013475-77] The Secret Service agent who
completed the form signed an attestation stating: “I certify that the foregoing is true and correct
and understand that Verizon may rely upon this form to make an emergency disclosure to my law
enforcement agency … pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2702(b)(8) or 2702(c)(4).” Id. The declarant
advised the ATSAIC that he “was asked by the SAIC to ping the cellphone of James Comey via
exigency.” Ex. D. [013417] He further added that he did so “with hesitation.” Id. The same
document indicates that an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (“ASAIC”) reported that “the # 3
guy at DOJ ‘wanted to ping the cellphone via an exigency request.’”3
Id.
7. Secret Service case records provided in discovery show that Mr. Comey’s cell
phone was electronically tracked that day as he and his wife drove north on Interstate 95 (“I-95”)
from North Carolina toward his Virginia home. The Comeys were also physically surveilled
during the trip, but trailing agents lost contact when the Comeys exited I-95 at one point to drive
toward the cemetery where the Comeys’ son is buried. The electronic surveillance captured the
trip to the cemetery. (The Government later seized—pursuant to the challenged March 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreieobn5egqgq6vjid4fyzhfkbfdq7wbtqkelblvctdqwqaywzgeova)
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
"The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?...raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone?...Anyone? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.” share.google/YYxWQbjOvvAR...
U.S. Senate: The Senate Passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
1921: The Senate Passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
Soon come: Extensive reporting has established Alexi Lalas as abrasive and Thierry Henry as charismatic. The familiar contrast between the suave Frenchman and the "ugly American" only scratches the surface. What's been overlooked is the source of Henry's unique appeal.
Regardless of what happens in the 2026 World Cup, a tournament presided over by war hawks and billionaires, perhaps we should all look elsewhere for heroism.
The Struggle for the Soul of Argentine Football - Dissent Magazine
Why did so many fans feel betrayed by Lionel Messi’s visit to Trump's White House? The answer goes back to the history of his country’s football culture.
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"....Truth functions not just as a preacher but as a teacher, and viewers are led by the first-person narration of the titles in the series to see Black women, just like the persistent widow in Jesus’s parable, as subjects not objects, as powerful agents of justice not just victims of injustice..."
David B. Gowler@dgowler.bsky.social · 3w ago'The widow does not just seek justice; she embodies it': David B. Gowler. 2026. 'The Persistent Widow', in The Visual Commentary on Scripture ed. by Ben Quash. (London: The Visual Commentary on Scripture Foundation). [Accessed 16.7.2026] thevcs.org/persistent-w...
Lots of talk about Lindsey Graham this week but here’s an obit worthy of our attention. A life of service vs Lindsey’s life of self serving. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...
Mary Morello, Libertyville native, activist and mother of Rage Against the Machine's guitarist, dies at 102
In 1990, Ms. Morello founded Parents for Rock and Rap, a group that sought to protect the free speech of musicians in the face of a censorship movement.
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A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants
The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.
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Jayapal: I’m somebody who feels like it doesn’t matter what you want to call it, but we have to disband ICE. We have to melt ICE. We have to abolish ICE. Whatever word you want to use, what we need to get to is the end result: ICE should not exist as it exists. And DHS should not exist as it exists
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
PSA: It is always okay to to decline a golf invitation from a fascist.
Sigh. Did not have Harry Kane playing golf with TFG on my bingo card. www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...
'A pretty surreal experience': Kane confirms round of golf with Trump
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And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.
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