“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
the "prophetic task" of the Church does not involve seeing into the future. It demands gospel commentary on the present. Walter Bruggeman nails it here, and the Pope is practicing the prophetic task. Step up pastors...blasphemy from the President and SecDef mounts higher day by day. #OnEarth
the wicked outcomes of this "gospel" cannot be overstated...
"Hegseth has made clear that every missile the United States fires, every bomb it drops, every Iranian it kills, is for Jesus. Praise be the Lord, who has given America the power to wipe out an entire civilization." #giftarticle #OnEarth
Look at the women at NASA.
They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.
And they are doing it all with joy.👇
Indeed George!
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.
This is brilliant, daunting and true. Read this piece, and act on it...
"You don’t lose a country all at once. You lose it in pieces, so slowly that most people don’t notice until the place they loved is gone." Heather Delaney Reese #OnEarth
The US blockade-no fuel shipments to Cuba for over three months. Hospitals can't run generators. 11 million people in darkness. Meanwhile, we're telling Iran that restricting energy flows is unacceptable. Evidently blockading energy is an act of aggression — unless we're the ones doing it. #OnEarth
Out-of-date intelligence fed into a strike decision is not a battlefield accident. It is a choice made in advance: a choice to be insufficiently careful with other people's children. Right intention is not satisfied by good wishes. It requires the effort to make those wishes real. #OnEarth
"Despite immense cost in lives and treasure, both the American and Iranian people seem, for now, to be in a worse place than before Trump started the war." #OnEarth
Please read and share. The “grassroots” support for the SAVE America Act is a lie. The campaign pushing this bill is being run by Cleta Mitchell and Scott Presler, two of the most notorious election deniers in the country.
Across roughly 150 U.S. military installations — Camp Lejeune, Ramstein, Quantico, and scores of others — there are elementary schools. Children of service members, learning to read, learning arithmetic, growing up inside the perimeter.
In Minab, Iran, there was a school like that too. #OnEarth
The Church has always held that war which cannot distinguish a soldier from a schoolgirl has already lost its moral standing.
A war which cannot protect the innocent forfeits any claim to justice — and the children of Minab are proof that this one never had it. #OnEarth
Now we know for certain. In the first hour of America's war of choice, our Tomahawk killed ~175 girls in their school in Minab, Iran. This is not an aberration - this is what choosing war looks like. Trump won't own it, but he chose this...and now we own it. These children are ours now. #OnEarth
Perhaps one day we’ll know what price Lindsay Graham had to pay…
"Millions of Americans — from white collar to blue collar, entry level to executive — may soon find themselves jobless and without prospects." - worth reading, from Gina Raimondo. #OnEarth #giftarticle
Trump likes to assert he has accomplished things no other president has. With the opening of his military assault against Iran, he has achieved another distinction: He is the first president in the era of modern polling to take the United States to war without the support of the public. #OnEarth
“ that is an objectable fact…!” 😂😂😂
Well, worth reading…
#GiftArticle #OnEarth
There have been plenty of muddled and at times outright false justifications offered by presidents for past American wars, but it's something different to have no coherent rationale at all, no comprehensible stated goal, and no meaningful attempt to rally public opinion.
I never thought it would be Christians who led the attack on fundamental Christian values, but here we are...as many in MAGA (Christianity) decided that cruelty was a virtue, decency a vice — and worst of all — that empathy was a sin. Now we live in the harsh new world they made. (David French)
Just one dimension where Trump is killing future humanity too…
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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The White House disinvited two people from a pair of events held during the National Governors Association. One of them is Colorado’s Jared Polis, the nation’s only gay governor. The other? Our very own Wes Moore. Everybody else is straight or white. #OnEarth
On the same day he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast, the President shared a video depicting the Obamas as apes. This is not politics. This is textbook racism—the kind that has justified atrocities for centuries. For any who would shrug this off I ask, “When is enough, enough?
President of the United States shared a video portraying former President and First Lady….as apes.
When is it enough?
"You can’t humiliate someone who so consistently and thoroughly humiliates himself. 'Bad advice' is a plausible excuse only if the person you’re trying to excuse had little to no part in picking his advisers or had reason to believe they weren’t who they turned out to be." #giftarticle #OnEarth
