“Western modernity is culturally and spiritually ill. Our way of seeing is deeply unbalanced, and it is wrecking our culture and our world.” — Kingsnorth, Paul. Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (p. 268). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

When the world "collapses" www.planetcritical.com/when-the-wor...

The first act of divine revelation is creation itself. The first Bible is the Bible of nature. It was written at least 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment that we call the Big Bang, long before the Bible of words. 1/ from buff.ly/DCS0Aaa

"If the Trump admin', or any admin', wants to take this passage seriously, the takeaway isn’t that God is sitting on standby waiting to restore national greatness if the right group says the right prayers. It’s this: Power is accountable. www.facebook.com/marksandlin/... 1/

I'd love to open up a can of that look on not only him, but Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Johnson, for starters. Classic. Enduring. Needed.

So the famous passage about "humbling ourselves (as a people)" is read by the President with a total lack of any sign of any humbling of himself. Nothing says "performative" and "oblivious" and "hypocrite" any better.

It's not the Pedos! It's the "peace" thing! That they can condemn!

The biggest condemnation imaginable for these creeps.

Performative blasphemy. These people are oblivious to the message, and to see these people, wreaking havoc around the world and at home, hiding behind their inane "Bible interpretation", which is nothing but appropriating it to create a narrative palatable to THEIR Empire. 1/

No desperate search needed. Only Eyes and Ears and a Conscience (even a working brain).

The Trump Administration is the real threat, as Israel has only been unleashed by the profound lack of sanity of this Administration in permitting the escalation of Israeli , heretical-to-Judaism lust for war and conquest. 29th and 21st century "Zionism" is NOT Judaism. 1/

Wondering why Al Jazeera would announce this using a Trump Social Post. I had to immediately go verify or check it, as it is well known that Trump has this tendency to lie or greatly exagerrate, or even hallucinate.

They have an "I am like Jesus" complex. It isn't going over very well. There's this concept of blasphemy, that even the most legalistic and fundamentalistic of his base can smell a mile away. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

It's important that the world understand the MAGA/Trump White House and Administration and majorities in government to be a global threat.

Yeah, this guy knows about "truth". B.S. He is promoting and traveling the world to represent lies and evil. But this is what evil does. It masquerades as "truth". Wolves in sheep's clothing. Apostles of hell. How's that for "theology" ? www.facebook.com/reel/1242001...

“The Department of Justice is taking the position that since she was subpoenaed as attorney general and no longer holds that position, the subpoena was no longer in force. ” — Heather Cox Richardson These people are complete idiots! www.facebook.com/heathercoxri...

Not only is MAGA/Project2025 NOT a "fundamentally Christian view of culture and economics", it is DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED to any notion of what Jesus taught concerning the "Kingdom of God" that was the central vision of his life and teaching. MAGA/Orban/Trump/GOP is ANTI-Christ.

“I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do,” Leo said buff.ly/oDJIlLu I love that Leo is also consistent and clear about what he presents as "the message of the Gospel". 1/

The Foreign Minister of Iran outclasses the Trump Administation, by light years.

“The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times.” — Bruce Springstein buff.ly/r5T4M7f

Say it plain, Professor Lessig: “When the history of this moment is written, the focus will not be on the malignant narcissist who stands at the center of our government. The focus will be on those who let him stay, or who, by not resisting, gave him power. 1/

Vanity. Pompiety and decadence ahead of the common welfare. No excuse for this. Inappropriate. Remove him from office. And his swamp appointments.

I'm watching a crime thriller/drama, and someone says: "These are erratic, irrational, amoral people, it's hard to anticipate anything"....and, of course, my mind immediately goes to this Trump Administration clusterf**k. What we CAN anticipate is that they will become more so, and ....1/

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Good Lord, these people are delusional

“This is not politics. This is powers and principalities.” — Anthony Smith in the post: www.facebook.com/share/p/18Nv...

Enemies of the world. They have been waging World War (along with Putin). The world needs to band together to stop them and save their citizens from these evil people who have taken their governments into massive war crimes.

He's a Clear and Present Danger. I suspect it was he who actually wrote the message that Trump posted today. Sounds like him. That Trump trusts him and puts him in a position with the authority to run amuk through personell and decisions and squelch dissent and dismiss ACTUAL knowledgable ...1/

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” — Wendell Berry, an intro page in Kingsnorth, Paul. Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (pp. vii-viii). ...1/

“Michael R. Gordon and Alexander Ward of the Wall Street Journal reported today that Trump’s aides have been telling him Iran’s civilian infrastructure is a legitimate wartime target, despite the understanding among experts that such attacks are illegal.” buff.ly/sWLP0Sy

Time to go all Pentagon Papers on all this s***. (Of course, it's doubtful that a full on media expose full of facts will move the needle much on this insane Administration or it's clueless lackeys and followers).

Uhhhhh.....yeah. They are. But I cannot call them "the U.S.". This is the Trump Administration. They don't even qualify as "the government". They are what we saw on Jan. 6, 2021. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. 1/ www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Republicans, this is YOUR President. He is NOT a leader. He is a danger to us and the world. Thanks again for this gift to us all. Your party has descended to the depths of depravity.

Grown up children playing with their existentially threatening toys. Not in and of themselves, but as representatives of the oblivious human population of "advanced economies" where people can "afford" this "leisure" which simply adds to our oblivious disregard and denial.

Re-watched "The Post" recently. With the present war operations being carried out by this irresponsible and inept Administration , I am wondering what kind of "Pentagon Papers" will arise and represent the exposure of the extent of this insane incursion (aka shit show) ...1/

50 years into eco-consciousness, but delays and doubling up continues with war, bigotry, hegemony of the 1% as these evils keep sapping resources and attention away from the greatest crisis of all. Evil knows no bounds. Except perhaps for the boundaries where enough of us stand and say NO MORE.

Renewables are hitting an inflection point.

“There’s a song that wants to sing itself through us, and we’ve just got to be available.” — Joanna Macy , quoted in Solnit, Rebecca. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change (pp. 140-141). Haymarket Books. Kindle Edition.

“If you wanted to permanently damage American democracy, sabotage the American economy, and undermine the health, prosperity and security of the American people, you couldn't design a better tool for doing that than this administration. ” — Alex Steffen on Facebook buff.ly/fsnm6wu

“Over the last quarter century, “creation care” and “earth spirituality” movements have gained widespread traction among Christians. Environmental stewardship is arguably the fastest growing expression of public concern in North American churches, initially among mainstream ...1/

"Minnesota Rep. Mary Franson dismissed scientists’ warnings because her Christian faith taught her the crisis is irrelevant." No. It didn't. The Idols she substitutes for God did that convincing for her. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/my-faith-i...

Very likely, almost assuredly even more. It's literally priceless what's being done. It defies economic measure, particularly because of how un-ecological our economics are. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This relatively new practice of putting links to shared articles in the comments rather than link directly from the thumbnail is really off putting. Many times the comments themselves are a little difficult to get to on Facebook's rapidly degrading UI. 1/

Saw the news about the first female Archbishop of Cantebury. Google her and clicked into a few articles about her concerns. When I saw hardly anything about Ecological matters, I was once again hit with the astonishment I feel that has been growing over the past 12 years that ...1/

Positive, but far less so than what we should be doing, much less what we COULD be doing. But this is "debunking" for the idiotic notions of deniers or renewables naysayers who try to discredit the advantages of going renewable. From the article: 1/ abcnews.visitlink.me/FMfzQr

“Interdependence is seen as a weakness in those who depend on it (though we all do) or as burdensome and stifling for those who imagine they don’t.” — Solnit, Rebecca. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change (p. 74). Haymarket Books. Kindle Edition.

“Protecting the environment is cast, by the right, as interference with freedom, since in many right-wing versions, freedom means the freedom to harm, while oppression is defined as loss of that particular freedom. Which clarifies, of course, that freedom is ...1/

"In Warren County, Kentucky, the school district saved more than $2 million in utility costs since retrofitting five schools with solar panels and introducing other energy efficiencies." 1/ buff.ly/UT79c1c