I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
This “big, ugly bill” is dangerous and will destroy rural health care. In Kentucky alone, 35 hospitals are under the threat of closing, stripping care from families, cutting jobs and crippling local economies. 1/2
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
And what is Congress doing about it? People have lost a lot of their retirement thanks to tariff stunts and now they’re going to lose their social security. And no one is stopping him. Who thought having a dictator in the US would be so easy?!
Even Mickey Mouse will be out protesting.
Thank you for truly representing the people. I live in Indiana and I appreciate those who have the courage when so many members of Congress do not.
BIG WIN: Voters in Wisconsin have elected Susan Crawford to the state Supreme Court, securing a pro-equality majority on the court.
Not only does this win help protect LGBTQ+, reproductive, & voting rights in WI, it also sends a clear message: We won’t let Elon Musk buy our courts.
#dogsofbluesky
#dogs
May we all be the people our dogs think we are.
I am considered “self employed” by the IRS as clergy and pay my 12.4%. It is rough on top of taxes for the entire thing but it is my money and I am entitled to it when I need it.
If they only cared about protecting children from school shootings as much as they do about protecting vehicles and charging stations…
Timeout for a pupcup today with Pearl & Gizmo
Notice how many criminals are in the current administration and what they think is fair for cars being vandalized. If that’s for cars, then what do those running the country deserve for their sexual assaults, stealing, and bad business deals?
Trying to remember when I signed MPNs with the Small Business Admin. and not the Dept. of Ed.: 🤔
They’re moving it so people can’t have income driven options. This will ruin even more lives including mine. I needed an MDiv to be a pastor in my denomination but pastors don’t make a lot of money.
Me trying to remember when I signed promissory notes with the Small Business Administration and not the Dept. of Ed.: 🤔
They’re moving it so people can’t have income driven options. But hey, who cares about the working class, right? Who cares about people who needed degrees for their jobs, right?
Sanders: We are not a poor country!
There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.
Gov. Beshear attends a church in my denomination. He’s highly respected because instead of “playing Christian,” he acts like one. He is people focused instead of finance (for personal gain) focused. His faith guides him but he doesn’t attack others with it. We need more leaders like him.
Let’s go Duke! #MarchMadness
#Duke
When I was 22 years old, I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.
The only oath Elon Musk seems to have made is to his billionaire buddies and his own bank account.
Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days.
That is beyond unacceptable.
This and the student loan forgiveness announcement makes it clear that vengeance (for every wrong they make up) is the goal.
Myself & millions of Americans won’t be able to pay our student loan payments when private lenders buy our federal loans & jack up monthly payments without the option of income based repayment. This will cause bankruptcy, lost homes, lost cars, and probably people resorting to desperate measures.
May our Lenten journeys convict us and call us into action. #AshWednesday #Lent #ChristianChurchDisciplesOfChrist
“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends-weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world-all while cynically waving the American flag.” President Reagan
Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!
Donald Trump stood in front of Congress tonight and reinforced what we already knew: He’s a corrupt megalomaniac lunatic who is running our country to the ground. These are not normal times. Everything is not fine. We are in crisis.
I don’t think he actually knows what that sentence means.
Rep. Al Green is a national treasure and will always fight injustice and be on the side of the American people. 👏🏻 #RepAlGreen #AlGreen
So, he and Washington are the greatest presidents ever? I bet Washington wouldn’t think Trump is great. Even if we don’t name anyone from the last 25 years…He really thinks he’s better than Lincoln & FDR? He could definitely learn something about humbleness and empathy from the two of them…
Thanks for being sane.
