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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – JULY 15, 2025
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July 15, 2025
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_ ICE vs USA _
, Aïda Amer/Axios
* Reproductive Police
* Going to Work For ICE
* Volunteering Against ICE
* Military Insubordination
* A Fourth of July Message From 1828
* Church Corner
* Flood? What Flood?
* Movement Building
* Country Music’s Walls Come A-Tumblin’ Down
* Affording Meat
REPRODUCTIVE POLICE
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By Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung
Abortion Everyday
Almost no one is getting an abortion in Indiana. So why pour all
this state money, manpower, and energy into policing a tiny handful of
abortions? The whole point is to scare the hell out of anyone
considering abortion, or helping someone get care. It's about building
formal state systems that make pregnancy surveillance and policing
look normal.
GOING TO WORK FOR ICE
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By Yanis Varoufuckice
N+1
The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be
wanderlust. Granting that the banality of evil, as an explanation, has
itself become banal, it was hard to know what else to make of all
this. The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to
inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering
violence on innocent, impoverished people.
VOLUNTEERING AGAINST ICE
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By Julia Lurie
Mother Jones
Fuerza is one of countless rapid response groups that have sprung up
to document arrests and warn other immigrants to stay away. In Waltham
MA, when someone thinks they see ICE activity, they call a
volunteer-staffed hotline run by a statewide immigrant rights group.
Flyers for the hotline are everywhere in Massachusetts, online and on
the streets.
MILITARY INSUBORDINATION
• SOLDIERS ARE TAKING A STAND
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By Liza Featherstone, The New Republic
• VETS DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
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By Marc Steiner, The Real News Network
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By Alexander Willis, Raw Story
A FOURTH OF JULY MESSAGE FROM 1828
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By Mary Giovagnoli
Ms.
Almost 200 years ago, Frances Wright, an early feminist,
abolitionist and utopian visionary, gave a Fourth of July
address that celebrated true patriotism as the embrace of change,
moving always toward the improvement of humanity.
CHURCH CORNER
• EPISCOPALIANS SAY KEEP THE STATE SEPARATE
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By Caleb Maglaya Galaraga, The Living Church
• OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN ZIONIST LOBBY
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By Jaisal Noor, Waging Nonviolence
• EVANGELICALS DIVIDED OVER IMMIGRATION
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By Marianna Bacallao, NPR
• UCC: THE PROPHETIC AND THE PASTORAL
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By Hans Holznagel, United Church of Christ
• POPE LEO AND DECLINING CATHOLICISM
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By Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY
FLOOD? WHAT FLOOD?
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By Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica
On July 4, the Guadalupe River in Texas rose by more than 26 vertical
feet in just 45 minutes. The rapid onset of disruptive climate change
— driven by the burning of oil, gasoline and coal — is making
disasters like this one more common, more deadly and far more costly
to Americans, even as the federal government is running away from the
policies and research that might begin to address it.
MOVEMENT BUILDING
• WHAT DO SUCCESSFUL COALITIONS HAVE IN COMMON?
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A. Dwidar, Convergence
• TAKING INSPIRATION FROM NATURE
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By John Paul Lederach, Waging Nonviolence
• HOW INCLUSIONARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SUCCEED
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By Colin Greer, Observatory
COUNTRY MUSIC’S WALLS COME A-TUMBLIN’ DOWN
• BEYONCÉ CLAIMS THE FLAG
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By Darryl Robertson, MSNBC
• DRUNK ASS COUNTRY STAR TAKES OFFENSE
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By Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone
• SHABOOZEY SPEAKS
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By Tamara Palmer, Grammy Awards
• 20 BLACK COUNTRY HITS
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By Jacquez Printup, Yardbarker
AFFORDING MEAT
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By Alexandra Emanuelli
Huffpost
With grocery prices sky-high (and set to keep rising thanks to
unpredictable tariffs, shipping delays and supply chain gaps),
shoppers are rethinking their meat purchases in real time — trading
down, buying less or skipping meat altogether.
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* US Soldiers
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* Fourth of July
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* Frances Wright
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* Episcopal Church
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* Separation of Church and State
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* Christian Zionists
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* evangelicals
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* Immigration
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* United Church of Christ
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* Shari Prestemon
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* Pope Leo XIV
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* Catholic Church
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* Texas flooding
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* movement building
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* Nature
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* country music
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* Beyonce
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* Gavin Adcock
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* Shaboozey
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* Blacks in country music
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* meat prices
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