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Every attack by maga on the mainstream is a preemptive defense of what they've already done. –abortion is murder –human trafficking –muslims are terrorists –anti white racism is real –mexicans are rapists Let's talk about who is functionally inhumane; who opposes defining human rights inclusively.

Speaking to evangelicals who don't support the prevailing definition of Christianity in America. What are you going to do about it? Join the barricades Give to a charity Subvert the system I'm for subverting the system, we do that by enforcing the meanings of words to how Jesus defined them. +

the person mentioned 38000 times in the redacted epstein release knows you be outraged about his pathologically broken sense of truth for 24 hrs at which point he'll remind you again

"It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.” ― James Baldwin

M and I decided to get out for a walk before 15-20" fall tomorrow. Walking these carriage roads – why did people put a little bend where the road curvature doesn't suggest it. I thought it habit forming.

Monsters. He's selling the financial positives of a fully trained AI replacing every person with less than 20 years of professional experience; who is not yet smart. Capitalism sucks for you and you and you, but suits the people who would colonize Mars perfectly.

Not weird...the most perverted form of pragmatism. I could argue that since the end of the Civil War racism has increasingly been cloaked in denial. When *they* connect their racism to the past they lose the power of denial; it will be the last thing they do.

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

I keep coming back to the power of stating what’s observable.

Project MUSE - Journal of Southern History: Volume 92, Number 1, February 2026 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56354

Lol the fascist in chief is just going to transfer $10 billion to his so called Board of Peace but people can't get miniscule healthcare subsidies???

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

This is a really good question to think about. Jesus tells his disciples if they follow in his footsteps they will be hated and have a sticky end just like him. Why would he say that, he's all about loving your enemy. There is something unnerving about sacrificial love that exploitive people hate

I'm sure he has known this since he was a boy; but respectfully made no public judgements; based on what Maga has and is doing, its now a safe assumption to say they aren't christians. #Good

Frances Willard, once the most famous woman in the US, died #OTD in 1898. + President, Woman's Christian Temperance Union + Her 𝘋𝘰 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 policy pushed for universal suffrage, 8-hr workdays & free school lunches + First woman honored w/a statue in the US Capitol’s National Statuary Hall (1905)

Oh my broken heart.

gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Years ago, I bought a book on humility, and bought a copy for our pastor. After the sermon today on what it means to live in view of God's mercies, he said: "I'd like to close with a quote from @cahutch1990.bsky.social who wrote a book on humility."

how do you read the bible and come away thinking what a person believes doesn't matter. Integral to that is this God believes he is knowable and the people of God understand what he expects of them. When it became a tool for power, it abandoned the truth

Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching you just gotta listen

thing is, historically there have been three Klan risings, every fifty years {thereabouts} to take back America. Four if you count the Tea Party/maga/J6 movement. he seems like a good guy; he met his "line" and didn't shift it; props.

Important to add that, for post-war Germany at least, the vast majority of the people who inflicted this cruelty were quietly allowed back into society. Here's an interview with a 91 YO Auschwitz camp guard who lived a long life after overseeing systematic genocide.

Went to the Pequot Midwinter book sale, found a collection of writings about the war as experienced at the northern border with the Soviet Union/Russia translated from Norwegian of 'World War II in the borderlands' by Hans-Kristian Eriksen. Children of the War

Judge Reads Death Threats After Her Haiti TPS Ruling www.newser.com/story/383653...

When we think about where we are as a people: the values we hold in common (and don't), our aspirations for the future...the majority of us define good as treating others the way we'd want to be treated (the poor require special attention). What can make this "evil"? :self-importance, greed 1/2

This is beating an old drum too, I am so disappointed in evangelicals, you're fine saying outsiders aren't christian by their behavior, but where did you learn it's wrong to say insiders aren't christian by their behavior? You have an infinite well of tolerance for bad faith.

Community revolves around people or nations with mutual goals. Community is put under stress when someone or nation creates hierarchy and elevates themselves to extract 'their fair share' Only others of a similar bent, willing to use coercive force will want to be in community with the supremacist

Jeanne Socrates began sailing at 48. In 2019, she became the oldest person to sail solo, nonstop, unassisted eastabout around the world & staying south of all 5 Great Capes. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝟳𝟳! 😮 #inspiration #OTD in 2019, she was passing the Cape of Good Hope on her 339-day, 27,000+ nautical mile trek.

My wife and I watched the movie Groundhog Day the other night. I was reminded how the conversion Phil undergoes from thinking about himself first to thinking about others first parallels christianeze views. apologies if this ruins it for anyone-Groundhog Day through an evangelical lens. +

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed @konstanzem.bsky.social

📷 A Street in Üsküdar, Istanbul, 1854

roses are red, the sky is blue except in dread of Will fascists blew

I know there's a sizable chunk of conservatives who put their 'head in the sand' because that is the only way they can go about their day without facing what the republicans are doing. How mean do you have to be to cut healthcare for children, women and the poor? I mentioned the SAVE act; bad idea

What actionable thing can you do today? Use christian nationalism and white nationalism carefully. White nationalism is the core value (beliefs) of white supremacists. Christian nationalism is the moral rhetoric white supremacists use to legitimize their beliefs. Cut their moral hamstrings.

✏️ An Ottoman Girl’s Autograph Book, 1918 “Nusret, I drew this flower in your notebook — the one you love so much, always free and cheerful. (...) May your joyful spirit always remain joyful, and may you become happy by attaining the hopes you keep alive in your dreams, my sister. [𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁]

I don't know ... some people deny there is a systemica problem with 85m people who voted for this ... How can you deny they think some people aren't entitled to being treated with the dignity and respect of a human life??

And don't call it christian unless your goal is to prolong its life. Call it what it is, "white nationalism" so we there's no ambiguity.

The 'lesser of two evils' comes to the morality police.

You cannot credibly claim to defend human rights while protecting ethnic cleansing and sexual traffickers from prosecution. We can argue about which rights belong in 'human rights' till the cows come home; why are white evangelicals the only religious group to overwhelmingly approve of this admin?+

whether we call it intentional immorality or amorality; the ultra right has hitched its wagon to maga. #ettd

Anti-elite rhetoric and moral inversion: Jesus's reversal themes (the last first, the humble exalted) can function like a pressure valve for populations who feel dominated by entrenched elites. That can rhyme with the moral psychology of radical protest movements. 🧵5/5

Sign up for Dorothy Day's Loaves and Fishes book club!

Group I and L seem tough.

I'm thinking a Bach fugue.

That is in what economist Richard Wolff has called America's "commitment to denial." We have serious problems in this country, but rather than address them, we (mostly white elites and their political support network) deny they exist. Like a clipper ship crew denying the rocks ahead are real.