CBS airing Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors after Bari Weiss canned a segment on 60 Minutes that examined the Administration’s deportation policies puts it right up there with Xinhua, CCTV, and China Daily.

If you have a favorite non-traditional Advent song, what is it? I'll go first. I love the Trumpet Child by Over the Rhine. 🕯️ youtu.be/riLLdVLJauA?...

At a time when fearmongers are asking us to embrace the Islamophobia of Samuel Huntington, please let this message prevail.

At least the Neocons attempted to shroud their power grabs for natural resources with talk of securing democracy for the betterment of others.

“It’s ’affordability,’ stupid.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

What if we paused gun sales.

Mandatory reading and mandatory mourning - we elected this vile man twice. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Talking points memo from the Republican Congressional leadership: - When the press or public asks just respond with “I haven’t read [fill in the blank].” To which the press and public should respond with “We know you don’t read. That’s part of the problem.”

1. We get it. All your advertisers are AI solution company startups. 2. No.

Donald Trump has “concepts of a plan” on health care like I have “concepts of a plan” for cold fusion after watching the 1997 movie “The Saint.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

It’s like the American voter watched 101 Dalmatians then said let’s vote for the candidate most likely to put Cruella de Vil in charge of a federal agency.

ICYMI: SBTS Professor David Sills was okay with grooming an unmarried woman and student of his to perform sex acts on him while his wife was in the house but not okay with her preaching because that would be against the teachings of the Bible.

The cult just got a little more culty. www.amazon.com/vdp/055f092f...

“[H]ow can you expect us to believe you’re on the precipice of creating groundbreaking superintelligence if you can’t manage to comply with a handful of state laws?” - Amy Klobuchar: State A.I. Laws Keep Us Safe. Trump’s Next Move Could Upend That. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Even the untrained eye can detect the sources and methods of a coward in this video interview of House Intel Chair Rick Crawford.

If anyone needs me I’ll be dying a thousand deaths because earlier today I expressed my proclivity for Times New Roman over Calibri during a contract negotiation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Sit with this.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

*bangs on table* JD Vance should go back to where he came from and fix it. On second thought, he should just go back to where he came from and stay on the couch (apologies to all the couches out there).

The reign of Mitch McConnell is over. The future of Kentucky is ours.

brb gonna apply for citizenship in Kirkland

If Trump embodies Christianity then I’m convinced Jesus of Nazareth hates Christianity too.

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People who give to the Southern Baptist Cooperative Program voted in overwhelming numbers for this:

There are Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who still struggle with PTSD. There are Afghans and Iraqis who still struggle with PTSD. We need to focus on solutions for healing those who suffered the invisible wounds of war.

Super excited for all the freshly minted “Can’t be a war crime since we aren’t [well] actually at war” bros/experts.

A rare person of principle in the Republican party.

Federal court to Republican lawmakers in Texas: Don’t mess with Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Why aren’t the Founders fellas talking about their own houses and the SBC first? Let’s see them make the case that women, including their spouses, shouldn’t serve as Messengers or vote in congregational meetings. Because apparently the answer to “By What Standard?” is straight up misogyny.

Who knew that they love xenophobia more than they love free markets? Answer: All of us or at least all of us who have know this stands in the tradition of Jim Crow laws and redlining.

In honor of the squirrel that myself and two other deacons just chased out of the fellowship hall: music.apple.com/us/album/the...

We need more white guys who are willing to learn from their massive screwups like Lee Raybon. The Lowdown is brilliantly and beautifully human.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the invention of the Flux Capacitor. Without it, we would only be stuck in the present.

I make it a point to not speak ill of the dead. In other news, some people may find it noteworthy that Dick Cheney opposed Donald Trump. I’ll say this: grift knows grift.

Someone check on KBR.

BREAKING: White (nepo baby) woman in South Carolina is furious that she is not treated like a Black man.

New phone. Who dis?

If you’re inclined to think that the stock market equals the economy remember that major corporations can cut thousands of jobs and see their stock price jump. What’s good for shareholders doesn’t track with what’s good for American workers and their families.

I don’t know who needs to hear this (with the obvious exception of Ross Douthat), but there’s nothing conservative about destroying the East Wing of the White House.

Because of course Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense would receive private funding from someone trying to bury anything related to Epstein. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

The People’s House is now the Citizen’s United House - Mar-a-Lago Signature Series made possible by Mitch McConnell www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/p...

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

The SBC royalty protects its predators better than actual royalty.

30,000 people. Real people - many with families that they were supporting and leading and many were also Veterans. And the VA social media account uses them to score cheap points on the previous administration. I didn’t serve my country in war to see this grotesque partisanship from the VA.

In an increasingly consumeristic age, being a part of a small congregation evokes the familial - we didn’t choose this as much as we were born (or reborn) into it. Small really is beautiful.

Twenty freed hostages is good news no matter who the President of the United States and Prime Minister of Israel are.

I am not fundamentally opposed to the US allowing its allies to have bases on US soil. I’ve stayed at US posts in Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan, and honestly the rich irony of allowing Qatar to have a post in Doug Wilson’s backyard is kind of wonderful.

Anyone else listen to that Ross Douthat interview of Doug Wilson and think that Ross had to dig deep to avoid repeatedly laughing at Wilson for being an imbecile?

Trump: I actually think the president would be blamed if there is a shutdown. I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together

This mentality is why four Michiganders were murdered by a US Marine.