A Christianity that begins to believe authoritarianism is the way is a Christianity that has stopped believing in the way of Jesus.

Even the Mennonites are organizing. And you’re welcome to join in. Finally found folks who know how to organize broadly and implement a PLAN! 👏🏼 Next training is Sat (Jan 31) for actions over the next two weeks.

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Matthew 25 tells us that when Jesus returns and judges between the righteous and unrighteous, he doesn't judge them based on their orthodoxy, their patriotism, or their individual definitions of morality. He judges them based on their compassion towards vulnerable people.

PSA: They still haven’t released the full Trump - Epstein files❗️ Now 38 days overdue.

Resistance messaging is getting better by the day. Video in replies.

Cause some pretti good trouble.

Pretty surreal listening to this - recorded after the murder Renee Good, basically predicting what would come next. (Alex Pretti - may their memories be a blessing.) Now, back to our history lessons for informed action.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Documenting history has always been considered a crime in fascist regimes. They want to be able to create their own reality and have that version be considered the Truth.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Release the Trump Epstein files. PS: A handful of Congress people can stop this madness AT ANY TIME and yet they choose COMPLICITY.

⚠️ Citizens' Impeachment action alert: The American people could not be any clearer about what they want. And our representatives could not be any clearer that they are not listening.

This is one of the best guides I’ve seen yet. Make sure to bookmark this one. Each area clearly listed with small and bigger steps to take. Categories for preferred approaches (bold, quiet, techy etc.) Share this with leaders you know to come up with a strategy where you are.

Check the video in this thread if you want to know how MAGA is spinning the latest public killing.

Everyone, call your House reps now. Today. Leave a voicemail telling them how angry you are that the paramilitary goon squad is executing Americans in the streets. DEMAND IMPEACHMENT

The entire thread is insightful, and validating.

With TikTok now under new ownership that is favorable to this White House, I decided to launch a podcast feed on Apple Podcasts! Can you do me a favor and rate it 5 stars if you can: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... And spread the word!

In a time of monsters, there are also heroes.

Most here are aware, but good to have the receipts handy.

Q: Did you uncover evidence to prove Trump knew his claim the election was stolen was false? SMITH: Yes Q: And Trump claimed it was stolen while he privately acknowledged he lost? SMITH: Yes Q: Yet on the 5th anniversary of J6, Trump still promoted the stolen election theory on a govt webpage

Liam’s cubby at school. It has a stuffed turtle and a blanket for a nap. He is 5 YEARS OLD and now reportedly taken to Texas. Alone. 😭😡

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

In Maine. 😥❤️‍🩹

Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than using cosmic and political power to force the world to obey him will forever be the greatest critique of any Christian movement that seeks to secure power in order to ensure that the world conforms to their will.

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Only TWO DAYS until Jack Smith testifies publicly before Congress. Americans will hear directly about the historic Jan 6 case which led to an indictment of Trump. Smith believes he'd have proven guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Whatever distractions Trump engineers, let's not get distracted from this.

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U.S. history shld be a primary context used to undrstnd U.S. present day framings, actions, impacts As @jemartisby.bsky.social says: “…learning only frm Europe’s fascism archives narrows our survival toolkit” 👇🏽episode spits #FACTS & learnings many white ppl ignore open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...

The refusal to learn from that history and the people who lived it is one reason for the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. today. If you want specific examples of Black people resisting authoritarianism, here’s a good place to start. 👉🏾 bit.ly/spiritofjustice #SpiritofJustice

Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE: - 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year), - 29% at least one prior conviction* - 28% at least one pending charge *most common are traffic and immigration offenses.

How it started/how it's going

👇🏿 👇🏻 👇🏾 👇 👇🏽 👇🏼 ARE WE ALL DISTRACTED FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES YET? 👆🏿 👆🏻 👆🏾 👆 👆🏽 👆🏼 (forget the million new files found. release what you've had all along, now, without any further delay!)

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

fascism. It's here and for all of us not in Minnesota, the question is now on us -- They came for the people of Minnesota, but I didn't live there ... "

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws

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This seems like a good place to kick off a general strike. Everybody in Minneapolis shelter in place at home. Shut it down. The rest of Minnesota should follow and then the rest of the US. Shut down the economy. The bad guys love money over people, so f*ck their money up. #GeneralStrike

“We can be Christians today in only two ways, through prayer and in doing justice among human beings.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here. Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.

If you can’t be the realm’s Frodo, maybe you can still be somebody’s Sam

How about we just go ahead and release the rest od the Epstein files as required by law

“Authoritarianism does not arrive all at once. It advances by inches…” THIS is what we’ve been trying to get everyone to see. Wake up people!