holy love

Just to be clear, that $7.8 billion is now coming out of *your* pockets, my fellow Americans. Tax cuts for the rich means the cost of living rises for the rest of us.

Ramadan Mubarak! Remember you are but dust. They sound like rival statements, but really, we ought to find joy that this time remembering our mortality and the frailty of human bodies is shared between sister religions who have too often been set as rivals instead of friends.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Let loving one another come before even our attempts to be holy.

Hey friends, Lent starts this week! So if you're new to Lent or have spent a lot of time worrying that your Lenten practice is 1) not good enough or b) not something you actually can commit to doing, here are some tips from someone who has very much so been in the same boat!

It's wild that we're not talking about the fact that Jim Jordan, the man made famous for covering up for a pedophile, is the man in charge of the Congressional oversight on the investigation of the pedophiles.

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is that we should be more concerned about immigrants possibly being criminals than we are about those in the highest positions of power, who wear crosses, quote scripture, while actually just using Christianity as a tool to perpetrate injustice.

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I like translating "kavod," as weightiness; it's the feeling of the presence of someone before they arrive, the warmth of their body combined with the feeling of someone looking over your shoulder. It's God's fat, the extraness of God, not as a negative, but as the physical embodiment of God's love.

If saving another person's life is a mistake, may we all be mistaken. If saving another person's life makes you a terrorist, may we all become terrorists. Imagine what the Wall Street Journal would have said about Jesus Christ.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

It's hard to write a sermon on the current moment when everything you want to say was already said by @socialistdogmom.bsky.social but better.

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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

I don't have a conclusion here. I just hate it. And love that so many religious people of every religion are making it crystal clear that they do too.

And all those arrested clergy know that. And JD Vance pretending to be a catholic convert while spreading doctrine that goes against both catholic theology and the catholic church should be laughable. All these people should be laughable. Instead they have access to institutional power.

The state uses religion as a tool to enforce fascism, and they do so badly, all over the world. Most religions boil down to "be good to each other" and most of the religious people I've met in my life know that.

I ended the night as the guest of queer, observant Jews who have been organizing nonstop against ICE. Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests. An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator. Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.

But 100 clergy members were arrested protesting ICE yesterday. The vast majority of the people arrested during the general strike were there in the name of their god or gods.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Cancel your subscriptions to the New York Times and support the journalists actually reporting the news.

May every person of faith have the courage to stand up against this tyranny. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

Matthew 25 is what got him. Then: "I dont want to believe in hell. I dont want to believe youre going there. But this is what Jesus says. You can walk away. You can choose justice. You can use your skills and training for good. You can be a protector. But right now you're not."

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

If Dems can't take the obvious W by campaigning on and then actually abolishing ICE, they do not care enough about democracy to preserve it.

On MLK Day, just re-upping this detail from a little-known speech King gave in 1966. It also includes this passage, where King says this line: "I think the earth is the Lord's, and since we didn't make these things by ourselves, we must share them with each other."

They're angry because Jesus showed up in that church for the first time.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." - Abraham Lincoln

ICE abducted a man in minneapolis on january 6. by january 14, he was dead in a concentration camp in texas. victor manuel diaz was 36 years old. they say he did it to himself. ICE murdered him.

I actually talked about this with my therapist this week - the dichotomy I felt at the bishop’s comments between, “YEAH LET’S GO!” And “Wait, I don’t want to die.” But I do believe that death has been conquered in Christ. And there is risk in defending the vulnerable.

oh yes, our secret police are morally superior to the protestors because we pretend they're locally sourced. Thank God for people in bathrobes and from out of town and flying in from every other city they've attacked to help protect our neighbors.

Not the point of the metaphor, but: the story is probs about the division of the United Kingdom of Israel into the kingdoms of Judah (South) and Israel (North). It's basically telling the stupid kings who caused the division in the first place not to go to war and destroy the child in the process.

not supporting abolishing ICE is tacit support for things like this, just fyi

Impossible corn dogs are better than regular corn dogs. As a bit of a connoisseur, I am more surprised than you about this reality.

This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

I got to talk with @aaronjsmith.net and Mat about the Spirituality of Fatherhood, what it means to call God Father, and the way that our experiences as fathers transformed our understanding of God, grace, and our callings as fathers. ⚓ open.spotify.com/episode/4i15...

I will, with God's help.

liberate the lonely