"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0U...
pretty much what he promised to do, i guess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0U...
“christianity”
"While Esther is able to survive and rise to power in this system, even saving her people, the edicts that harm girls and women are not reversed, and the story ends with the glory of Mordecai (10:3).
The story begins and ends with, or sustains, gender oppression."
Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.
Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war
“Here is my work permit,” Mayllazhungo said to an agent who was arresting him. “And he told me, ‘I don’t care.’ They told us, ‘You are criminals.’”
Great local journalism is advocacy journalism: Advocacy for decency.
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold.
As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.
i don't think this protest is helpful or effective. first and most importantly, this church has the right to worship freely and that appears to be interrupted. also this is the kind of protest that will energize right-wing christians and support their belief that they are the ones being persecuted.
dear pastors who remain “apolitical”,
although it would have been better if you spoke up a year ago, or five years ago, or ten years ago, it’s not too late. please address and call out this blasphemy. don’t bury your head in the sand, care for your congregations as you have been called to do!
Although DHS has been co-opting Bible verses in several videos (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-bible-...), this is 1st time they used words of Jesus or any New Testament verse. That, of course, makes this video even more theological problematic! Here's what they've used over last several months:
despicable
Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good:
"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
more of this please!!
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said:
“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
@jemartisby.bsky.social and others have long warned: it’s easy to imagine federal agents with limited training opening fire, dozens killed/injured, which leads to martial law being declared, which results in future elections being cancelled.
what "law enforcement officers" film their activities on a cell phone?
@laurarbnsn.bsky.social once again captures everything so well, on the other platform:
this administration is built on lies upon lies — the demonization of immigrants, the going after the “worst of the worst”, it’s all led to this.
and it will only get worse.
Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good
Just saw a picture of stuffed animals in the woman's car and man...I really am struggling to find the words right now. This is all just so unspeakably devastating, and I don't know how we come back from it.
Morrison: "The president & Noem are asking us to not believe what we're all seeing with our own eyes. It's incredibly irregular for the secretary to come out making pronouncements before victim had even been identified. We didn't even have her name & she was already calling her a domestic terrorist"
