John Wakefield ♱
Episcopal priest now in South Haven, MI, USA. 📕 YSR. 3x Girldad. Ex-sportswriter. Leeds United fan. LOTR & Narnia, of course. STL-SEA-DET-CLT-WMI. fthrjohn.com
Find me in real life at @epiphanysouthhaven.org.
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- Honoured to be in the House of Lords yesterday as Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, took her seat, alongside the Rt Revd Dr Joanne Grenfell, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The Rt Revd Debbie Sellin, Bishop of Peterborough & I were present for oaths of allegiance to the Monarch.
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- NEW: I spoke with this bishop, who offered more context for his (entirely unprepared!) remarks. Turns out other bishops (e.g., in MN) agree with him, and he recalled the moment he told local priests to get their wills in order. “There was a little gasp,” he said. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...
- This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting. In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old. www.kare11.com/article/news...
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- "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret arrests or secret police," Maine Gov. Janet Mills said at a news conference, adding state officials do not know where detainees are being held. to.pbs.org/3O0qWBe
- This is what oligarchy looks like: Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump. Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.
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- i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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- There is video, do not seek it out, it clearly shows an execution.
- “Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
- ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
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- If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- They shot Renee Good in the face. They kidnapped Liam Ramos. They just executed a man on the street. Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.
- Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
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- Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.
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- Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
- The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment. www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...
- BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
- This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.
- So, remember that Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire that told priests to get their wills in order because “we are entering a new era of martyrdom"? I ran across historical precedent for that today. It's from a radio transcript @rns.org produced about a Lutheran bishop in Denmark… …in 1943.
- NEW: I spoke with this bishop, who offered more context for his (entirely unprepared!) remarks. Turns out other bishops (e.g., in MN) agree with him, and he recalled the moment he told local priests to get their wills in order. “There was a little gasp,” he said. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...
- White-Cain of WH Faith Office at the NPB on Trump: "No president in modern history, or perhaps all of history, has done more, structurally, substantially, and sincerely, to elevate and protect religious liberty." Note: Trump admin is currently being sued by dozens of religious denominations/groups
- I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
- What Trump posted would get just about everyone fired if you did that at your job. I’ll never get over that we have lower standards of conduct for the Presidency than any other job
- This is him screaming the n word at his predecessor
- They’re really going with the “Liam Ramos is no angel” strategy
- The people whose names literally show up thousands of times in the Epstein files want you to think a 5-year-old refugee and star kindergarten student is the problem with this country rather than the white pedophiles in charge of it who keep stealing American money and assaulting American children
- Come again, Lord Jesus, burn it with fire
- crypto wouldn't be falling like this if trump was president
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- Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
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- “I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
- This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
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- Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
- road to gold for USA women's hockey is ON
- I really really want these athletes to have a great experience, be competitive and perhaps win a gold medal, but, honestly, the thought of hearing "USA!USA!USA!" during their games kinda makes me cringe. If we were any other country the IOC would ask us to march under the olympic flag.
- The Future of Media is a $250 million national newspaper devoted solely to the debate over cooking at home vs delivery.
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- That’s basically what’s left of my local newspaper
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- The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do
- Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them
