The US Government just created and videotaped a FAKE RIOT in Portland, Oregon ~Senator Jeff Merkley

These people would crack me up if they weren't so evil. André Rieu is Dutch. Someone tell ICE they need to check his visa.

Love this.

This is how you stop waterborne drug smuggling. Coast Guard seizes 100,000 pounds of cocaine through Operation Pacific Viper > United States Coast Guard News > Press Releases share.google/U86C6z4cj4ed...

Credit where credit is due. Drummond is right on this issue. Oklahoma's AG calls homeowner's insurance rates unacceptable share.google/baScHtn1GCRu...

The letter from Lutheran bishops in opposition to Christian Nationalism. clintschnekloth.substack.com/p/a-letter-f...

Once again, Revised Common Lectionary for today provide a reading that is appropriate for the time.

A lot of bad things are happening now, but there are some good things too. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, known as the whitest denomination in America, installed its first black Presiding Bishop today. If nothing else, at least watch the sermon. www.youtube.com/live/uc7KzC2...

There are no depths to which the cowardly punks at ICE will not go.

How can they have sunk so far?

Republicans don't want to continue the ACA subsidies which aid poorer people. Instead they want to continue the tax breaks for the wealthy. The readings assigned by the Revised Common Lectionary for last Sunday speak directly to that.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I just learned that Tulsa has an NYU campus. The others, in addition to New York City, are in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. www.nyu.edu/tulsa.html?c...

Mentally healthy people don't want to kill. But people in the military are prepared to if they must. Many come back from war suffering from moral injury because they had to do things they didn't want to do.

This discussion between 2 Lutheran pastors, @clintschnekloth.substack.com and @angeladenker.bsky.social is enlightening. They talk a lot about Christian Nationalism and associated movements and show how progressive Christianity is different. clintschnekloth.substack.com/p/live-with-...

This is about more than that. It's about how the system creates victims and then blames them for being who they are.

That is KTUL, Channel 8 in Tulsa.

I don't watch much over the air TV, but I am definitely no longer watching Channel 8 in Tulsa, which is owned by Sinclair.

STOCHASTIC TERRORISM‼️ #StochasticTerrorism

David Rose, 33, police officer killed by gunman at CDC in Atlanta, GA. Charlie Kirk, 31, white supremacist shot and killed. For the racist: Flags to fly half-staff through Sunday, then posthumously award Presidential Medal of Freedom. tRump forgot to say or do anything about David's death...

Charlie Kirk isn’t a martyr. He’s a casualty of the violence he incited.

Can Oklahoma's senators sink any lower?

I am thoroughly disgusted that Sen. Lankford said the blessing at the dinner on the Pedo Plaza. He claims to follow Christ, but instead, he follows a felonious,pedophile, rapist. www.facebook.com/share/r/14Jy...

He first says it is not true no birthday card, then he says not my signature! Just like he didn’t know Stormy but he did. Didn’t sexually assault Jean but he did! Didn’t cause Jan 6th but he did! Didn’t keep Covid from us for months but he did. Didn’t make famous call asking for votes but he did!

The Tulsa World placed this piece in the right category.

Why can't we have trains like this?

Putin and Trump have the same interior decorator. Trump wants to be like him so much. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Atheists like this read the Bible in the same way that fundamentalists read the Bible, taking everything literally and of context. They also don't know how to distinguish between allegory and non-allegorical sections. Like evangelicals, they cherry pick the Bible. They both pick the wrong cherries.

Here's a very timely tidbit from the current issue of Philosophy Now magazine. We're seeing this played out now.

Occupation & Ethnic Cleansing doesn’t differentiate between Muslims & Christians; Israel doesn’t want you to know that Christian villages & churches built over 1,000 years ago are being destroyed & Palestinian Christians are facing the same fate as all Palestinians

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

I'd be there if I lived closer.

Putin reminds Trump who's in charge. Putin knows that Trump won't retaliate.

SCOOP: As the National Guard takes over the streets of DC, military officers are now going to be detailed to prosecute civilian criminal cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

For the good of the country, somebody needs to take Trump bird watching.

The dementia gets worse and worse.

Here is a letter from the ELCA's Presiding Bishop to Trump and Congress on the horrors being perpetrated in Gaza and the West Bank. www.elca.org/news-and-eve...

Statement from religious leaders in the DC area about what is going on in DC. cathedral.org/blog/dc-reli...

Ryan Walters wants to inflict PragerU on OK public schools. I'm not surprised that Trump likes Prager. After all, based on comment he made about his daughter, isn't the Trump family motto, "Vice is nice, but incest is best?"

Thanks. My first piece on this beat, decades ago.

Insurance companies have to base their decisions on facts and science. You will find that they are not global warming deniers. www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/cata...

This is what Ryan,"What Nekkid Women", Walters wants to inflict ob Oklahoma public schools.

The ELCA is, as the interviewer points out, the whitest church in America yet we elected a black Presiding Bishop. We also elected a black woman as Secretary of the ELCA. That is the second highest position on the denomination. This will be good for us. news.wttw.com/2025/08/07/e...

I stream with a Roku. If I turn the TV off with the Roku remote, the Roku goes to the home screen. If I turn the TV off using the TV remote, whatever is playing on Roku continues to play. If I was watching a movie when I turned the TV of, the movie is still playing when I turn the TV back on.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

We were raided by the Israeli army and settlers last night. Here is what happened (and what it has to do with pseudoarcheology) 📍Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, Palestine

People come to my door occasionally trying to sell me pesticide service for my lawn. This is one reason that I send them away. Plus the birds need to eat.

My church has a print the original collage hanging on the wall just insid the main entryway.