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Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. --C.S. Lewis

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I knew @matttebbe.bsky.social when he was a seminary student once upon a time. Each one of us have put some serious highway miles on our faith and practice since then. It was an honor to reconnect in this lively conversation: gravitycommons.com/podcast/mich...

Two years.

Turning the military on citizens. Attempting to rig elections. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Gov. Pritzker: “There is no insurrection here…Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation’s cities.”

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

So here is my question. Let’s assume Miller & Co. are successful, i.e., they deport, jail, kill, all of the “undesirables.” What do they think society is like then? Like, what happens when they realize there’s still crime, drugs, and no one around to do half the jobs, from manual to skilled labor?1/

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement. Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

Might be time to send missionaries to share the gospel with the white evangelical church in America.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

This shit is dystopian. Blackhawk helicopters, zip-tied kids, and racial segregation vans. ICE is terrorizing communities.

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

Nah, he’s not a pathological liar…

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

Trump calls Democrats ‘The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan.’ Just days after Trump tells military leaders he needs them to attack Democrats which he calls the "enemy within," he now dehumanizes Democrats. This is genocidal rhetoric. Pls Understand he wants us dead. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

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Trump just called American citizens “the enemy within,” encouraging the men and women of the armed forces to use OUR cities as military training grounds. It’s time to wake up, put aside our differences, and create a united front to oppose Trump’s unconstitutional and illegal abuse of power.

Genuinely curious: Was the Hegseth meeting today something that needed to happen in person?

He wants to dictate what the press can say. What a university can teach. Whom a company can employ. And to whom the law shall apply. He who wants all this is not a president, But strives to be a dictator. And all who succumb are not citizens, But subjects.

Because even MAGA wouldn't vote for 👇🏻

For a long time, I pondered theologianPhyllis Tickle’s observation that about every 500 years or so ,the church has a rummage sale to purge the accumulation of theological garbage and clarify the church’s identity and mission for new generations. 1/2

That’s Ben Hodges as in the former U.S. Army Commander in Europe. But hey, silver linings, right? World must be so peaceful that the “Secretary of War” has nothing better to do than hang out on Twitter, trolling retired officers who outranked him.

I honestly don’t care about James Comey. But I want to live in a democratic republic. His indictment proves we live in a banana republic, where the autocrat personally orders indictments of his political enemies, and when his own officials refuse he finds new ones that will.

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

magine what it would be like to live in a place where everyone thought, acted, dressed, worshipped, and voted the same way. Of course, the only way this could happen is if all theological, ideological, and political opponents were no longer allowed to exist there. Would you want to live there?