This is my interpretation, too.

Former Weather Service Leaders Warn Staffing Cuts Could Lead to ‘Loss of Life’ The former agency directors say current employees will face an “impossible task” to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.

Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.

May Day protesters will rally nationwide against the 'war on working people' May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on T...

May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.

Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts.

President Trump says he can bring a Marylander home to his family—but won't. Sounds like he has contempt for the law and the court. "Where law ends, tyranny begins."

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ NEW: Homeland Security Investigations & U.S. Secret Service served a criminal search warrant in an upscale Irvine neighborhood this morning, targeting the suspect they believe was responsible for posting fliers w/ the names, photos, phone numbers, & locations of ICE agents in SoCal in February. The target wasn’t home, and an arrest wasn’t made. We are told he lives at home with his parents, and was previously arrested at UC Irvine during an on-campus Pro-Palestinian protest. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons was on scene for the operation, telling me he took it personally that someone would try to put a target on his agents in an effort to interfere with them and put them at risk. Says person responsible will be held accountable. We will not be identifying the target unless an arrest is made. PHOTOS: Underneath are four splashy media photos from the operation.

Picture of the flier, which has photos of four people, along with their names and phone numbers for some of them (which Fox News redacted), which a message in Spanish saying that these individuals are working in Southern California to carry out immigration arrests, accusing them of terrorizing local communities and kidnapping residents, and saying many people have died while in jails, prisons, and detention centers.

In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents.

I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

Cheyanne is a top 5 unhinged character and I’m obsessed with her and need another season of the antics. #Etoile

Not enough people are talking about #Etoile and I need them to because it cannot get the same treatment as Bunheads.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

When God Hides: Divine Absence and the Book of Esther — Earth and Altar It comforts me to know that God is everywhere. Psalms 139:7 (NRSVue) says, “Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?” The Incarnation of God as Imanu-El , God with us...

“The book of Esther is not simply a story with a moral, teaching us to seek out the Presence when God seems absent, rather Esther calls in our courage to resist evil, even though the abandonment we sense is real.”

Today’s essay is by Joshua Maria Garcia

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It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

As boycotts are happening it’s important to look at past successful boycotts, like the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It took over a year. And it was in part successful because of the help people gave to each other.

Icon of Frederick Douglass by Kelly Latimore. Douglas stands clothed in a brown suite, older in age with gray hair and beard, holding a lit candle in the darkness, his finger pointed up to the Heavens.

Today the Episcopal Church remembers Frederick Douglass, who died on this day in 1895. He was the father of liberation theology, in my opinion; and in fact the founder of the Civil Rights Movement in America.

Psalm 105:1-22
Psalm 105:23-45

Lessons

Isaiah 65:1-12
1 Timothy 4:1-16
Mark 12:13-27

Check out the SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast with co-hosts, @jenniferbb.bsky.social and @jerusalemgreer.bsky.social. We are at 46 episodes and counting.
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it’s going to be a tough competition for which Trump constituency he’s going to screw over the most but I feel like farmers might take the crown

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Alaska lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging President Trump to abandon his plans to rename the continent’s largest mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley. #ISTANDWITHDENALI

How come captured Israelis are called hostages but captured Palestinians are called prisoners? 🤔

Submissions — Earth and Altar

Call for Papers: Faithful Resistance

Earth & Altar is calling for submissions that equip people to identify and combat the various forms of Christian Fascism that seek to dominate the world around us.

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Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,

Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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Okay, if this is an algorithm on here can it please bring me all the Swiftie Jesus-feminists who love summer camp and crafting and Kamala and the Episcopal Church?
Also, please invent BlueSkygram.

Episode 46: Jesse Zink, Principal at Montreal Diocesan Theological College Podcast Episode · SpadeSpoonSoul · 01/22/2025 · 47m

New SpadeSpoonSoul podcast with @jerusalemgreer.bsky.social and Jesse Zink from Montreal Diocesan Theological College