Audrey Luhmann

God hears the @MidwestAnglican bishop's secret complaint about "rumors, reports, or allegations" affecting his character. @The_ACNA Province falls silent, their only public report now kept hidden. The little girl is forgotten. There is a new abuse story. The victim: the bishop.

Despite the heaviness of our conversation, this episode gave me joy. It was time for @PostCnsumrChris to tell his story, and I was honored to help him share it and paint a picture of what the Church could be.

@esaumccaulley @autumnvandehei Unfortunately, it does not matter for *every* other job. We all know men who fall upward. This president has certainly made such behavior more acceptable, though.

I am so tired of character and decorum mattering for every job except the highest elected office in the land.

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration w/ @CalMatters Evident and @bellingcat

@Ferndiggity Only in Trump’s America do plumbers with an associate degree in construction tech lead sensitive national security and DHS operations.

The new Director Of Homeland Security:

Our federal servants. This is not okay.

As ICE moves to massively expand immigration detention through the purchase of warehouses around the country, the best example of what these places might look like comes from Camp East Montana, which opened in August and now holds over 3,000 people per day in terrible conditions.

@JayMallow3 It happened again today.

Remember when republicans were so upset that ICE agents made a place of worship unsafe for families and children? Remember when they called out ICE for attacking Christianity? Oh right, that didn’t happen because they are hypocrites.

@ArlieColes @anglicanink Gross understatement. @The_ACNA exploited this position, creating a human shield & powerless pawn by which they could defend all criticism: "We have a safeguarding officer." Who could do what? Feel our pain. Nothing more. I desperately hope she speaks, but my guess: NDA.

"Supporters of Ms. Butler tell @anglicanink she was not properly resourced by the ACNA and her work did not have the support of the church’s top leaders – leading to frustration from victim advocates and from current and former ACNA staff."

From @anglicanink, ACNA Director of Safeguarding Stepping Down: "A spokesman ... stated the present director of safeguarding was leaving her post. Tiffany Butler 'felt increasingly called to pursue a career in research, education, and to explore a calling to monastic orders.'"

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block. Let’s be very clear about what that means… This wasn’t a federal courthouse. This wasn’t federal property. This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people. That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes. Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance. And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas. That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings. Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is. Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions. Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods. And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all. Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets. So what we’re watching is federal agents: • acting outside their role • performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction • firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods • and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm. This isn’t public safety. This isn’t lawful enforcement. This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it. That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents were caught on camera admitting that following and filming them is LEGAL… and then illegally threatening U.S. citizens with arrest anyway, in Minneapolis. In the video, two agents approach the people filming and say, “You need to stop following us. This is your first and last warning.” The filmer responds, correctly, “That’s not illegal.” An agent then says the quiet part out loud: “I know.” But immediately pivots to, “It’s illegal to impede.” The citizens point out they are not impeding anything, which the agents themselves had already acknowledged. Filming and following on a public roadway is legal. The agents admit they understand this… and still issue a “warning” anyway. When pressed to explain what law is being violated, the agents falsely cite 18 U.S.C. § 111, which does not criminalize public observation or filming. When challenged, they back off, walk away… and then escalate again. One agent yells, “Next time I pull you over, you’re going to get arrested.” Arrested for what? He can’t say. Only after repeated questioning how they are impeding does the agent suddenly claim “impeding traffic.” Even though the citizens were only stopped because the agents unlawfully confronted them in the first place. That’s the point. This is the same pattern we saw when they murdered Renee Good: • Illegal stops • Manufactured violations • Escalation created by the agents themselves • Threats, intimidation, and force justified after the fact They corner people, provoke a situation, then use the situation they created to claim authority… even when they admit no law was broken. This isn’t law enforcement. It’s entrapment, intimidation, and a reckless abuse of power… And we’ve already seen where this pattern leads.

@ArlieColes "so that future episcopal leadership reflects the highest standards of spiritual maturity, integrity, and pastoral wisdom": any thoughts on how to address the _present_?

Show the work. I am tired of hearing, “Trust the process,” and, “Trust us, we looked into it. Nothing to see.” @The_ACNA

"Episcopal authority is not a credential one holds behind the scenes; it is a public reality that either gathers trust or corrodes it. When leadership itself becomes a point of dispute, the office is already impaired." @voicefromflorence/note/c-193556869?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=208it0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@voicefromflor…

"New canons may tidy the wreckage, but they cannot generate what was never cultivated (moral authority, local gravity, the courage to risk the institution for the truth). Without these, governance becomes theater, reform cosmetic, and victims collateral." substack.com/profile/413537…

A certain former ACNA provincial representative told a vestry member that a problematic financial practice was quite common in the province.

Don’t worry, @The_ACNA investigated itself and concluded that there was nothing to be concerned about after all. Carry on, per usual. And please, do not bother to ask further questions.