Thanks so much everyone! Overall great experience considering sitch. High level breast center in larger cancer center means fully coordinated & rapid treatment plan with host of resources.

https://twitter.com/drlauragrimes/status/1901787217556603286

Biopsy Wednesday, diagnosis via GP Thursday, prompt return call & booking at their weekly 3 hour clinic with 4 patients seeing rich rotation of providers with business cards for more:

@GovWhitmer step up & protect Michiganders, especially trans ones, by saying & following through analysis of laws is to legally challenge the numerous deadly unconstitutional ones not just “we will follow all laws.” @dananessel step up and promise & prioritize & follow through with analysis discovering & taking action against every unconstitutional law. Unconstitutional deadly laws are hate crimes & you break it if you obey instead of resisting.

Ascension health system, which keeps gobbling up smaller hospitals—frequently closing maternity departments & worsening deserts—cites Catholic teaching to justify forcing a husband to drive a bleeding out miscarrying woman to an ethical hospital with a *bucket & towels*. A systematic, not exceptional, denial of care, they call “religious freedom.” Because they answer to a “higher authority” than laws & official health care agencies protecting citizens from dangerous malpractice violating professional standards of care. 1)

I wish my brother Joe took his Catholic faith more seriously. Like devout Methodist Hillary Clinton expressing her faith by advocacy for women & children he’s the actual impressive Christian in/should have been in Oval Office. 1)

https://twitter.com/jimbretzke/status/1872134929561383386

Taints good legacies by violating Constitution, Church teachings, & human decency with 3 needless hence unjust executions, i.e murders. Especially Dylann Roof, whose judge refused competency & informed consent hearing to self represent despite major mental illness indications.2)

Crucial information about prosecutorial conduct secretly bargaining away far greater & actually illegal failures by Ethan Crumbley’s school than his parents. 1/ Changed my mind. Even more so: obvious in charging & sentencing him as an adult at 15 while charging parents for failure to restrain a minor child. 2/

Transphobes & misogynists: “Hardly any men! How dare you say our p*nises are weapons to be feared. We are heroic protectors & women who deny it should be mauled by the bear or meet a (racist slur) in a dark alley (guffaw).” 1/

https://twitter.com/karlykingsley/status/1858652427018277019

Also transphobes & misogynists: “Poor babies! Of course you tremble in triggered fear of a deadly weapon: suspected p*nis (if present possibly smaller & more flaccid from hormones, or absent altogether) in a closed stall ten feet from a public hallway! We’ll save you!” 2/

Actually the martyrdom of 13 year old schoolgirl Celina Ramos (always last & least), her mother, housekeeper Elba Ramos, & their Jesuit employers. 1/

https://twitter.com/jamesmartinsj/status/1857815897382994349

Good job Jesuits for listening to true experts on liberation theology, the people living it, & using your male & clergy privilege to amplify message by travel, writing, & teaching. Helped that they cooked your food & cleaned your toilets of course. 2/

@MRibnek @rtrolly Here too. My personal story & vocation as theologian & spiritual director double helix of building & spreading trauma- & actual intersectional justice-informed Ignatian spirituality & fighting like hell against the full & partial abuse inflicting & enabling versions. @MRibnek @rtrolly Recent pilgrimage to Montserrat, Manresa, & Loyola was quite the processing mix of glorious & hideous & in between interactions & experience with Jesuits.

To my trans friends & followers & your loved ones:

I am so angry & so grieved at the evil that has gained power & the evils it aims to impose.

I believe a loving Higher Power—however that might look for you—is even more angry & grieved. 1) Especially at the sacrilegious misuse of religion for mortal harms to people wondrously & beautifully made in the divine image.

I would be honored to hold you in prayer if you would like. You can respond here or by DM, including any special intentions. 2)

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Just heard my first anti-Harris Gaza ad. Yet another screamingly obvious hypocrisy except to his cult members. Obviously from Trump campaign—leftists who actually oppose genocide are speaking out in various outlets but aren’t paying for ads AFAIK. Stein not mentioned. 1) Trump wasn’t mentioned either. All it said was Harris is spilling blood in Gaza & putting Israel over “us.” Zero claim Trump would do anything different, so one lie they actually skipped since he would obviously be at least as bad & probably worse even just on this. 3)

I couldn’t be more pro choice & more furious at bans & lies. But gloatingly claiming that miscarriages are abortions is not just cruel to those of us who have had them, but scientifically incorrect. 1) Abortion is shorthand general medical term for a pregnancy that ends without live birth before roughly 20 weeks, after which it is called stillbirth. But full correct term for chosen procedure is induced abortion, while miscarriage is spontaneous abortion. 2)

Worst thing about refusing to restore female diaconate is massive denial of crucial ministry to God’s people. Second worst: it reveals corruption of imperialist infallible magisterial claims. Because both JP2 & B16 knew it was wrong, refused to change, & concealed truth. 1) John Paul the Not Great & Benedict had plenty of moral failings, especially enablement of clergy sexual abuse. But were both excellent scholars, who departed from usual practice & wrote all their own documents instead of various quantities of editing before rubber stamping. 2)

Pope Francis is awesome for women! Because he denies even historically & theologically proven deacon ordination. Which would degrade us by “masculinizing” the church. 1) I.e Victorian “Angel of the House.” It’s sheep, not pigs, who are the animals more equal than others. (Animal Farm quote, folks, not 1960s insult). And we’ve always been at war with Eastasia. Confused? Read on. 2)

So promising—praying so hard Hamas accepts & Netanyahu won’t try to sabotage again. And Biden & Harris will strongly & immediately support. And finally stop enabling him if he doesn’t. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The IDF —whose leadership has wanted a permanent ceasefire for some time—just admitted they probably killed 3 hostages last November. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Today’s not all men fun: 1. Previously good follow made tired stereotypical sexist claim about all women.

1/Which may be genuinely happy. Or, in no less numbers than today, may conceal physical, sexual, & verbal abuse. Possibly more, given lack of escape for wife & children due to financial & employment injustice & stringent divorce requirements.

https://twitter.com/tradingmaxisl/status/1825969080580649364

2/Or, if the mother is the one abusing children, lack of belief & intervention by law enforcement, churches, & grandparents & other extended family.

1/This is who anti abortion people & churches call murdering slut for trying to escape pointless torment for them & partners & children. And preserve their lives, health, & fertility by promptly & painlessly releasing desired & beloved ones to —in most slanderers’ belief—heaven.

https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1825784820187750607

2/Where I & most of them believe that, like my son lost to miscarriage & nursing toddler daughter lost to dangerous driver, enjoy perfect happiness. Praying for & awaiting beloved mamas, papas, & siblings, whom they rejoice were spared suffering & death via prompt medical care.

1/Passionate trans ally & progressive theologian here with a different perspective than many of my tweeps, whose reactions I totally respect. 2/France claims laïcité = total secularism as a key national value. Primary way it’s expressed:

8 years of constant gibberish from an elderly unhealthy man, including night he activated disability Biden manages so competently that poor performance shocked. And contrasted sharply with several fantastic speeches & interviews ignored by drama seeking 2016 that elected MM. 1/

https://twitter.com/jojofromjerz/status/1814282389012517154

Totally respect reasoning, some fellow Dems. But very competent so far, & I believe honestly willing to cede to excellent VP if at any point in term. (Which is obviously a huge reason fueling dishonest garbage on one side & honest deadly garbage on the other). 2/