James Ernest
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human being, publisher, theologian verbasparsa.org
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Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist
The solemn ceremony has become an annual tradition for him.
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-honors-those-who-helped-others-3ef?r=2xpn00&utm_medium=ios
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I can't log in to Claude --the email that's supposed to arrive with a code does not arrive.
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Just one more Trumpster dumpster fire. But it’s our money, and America’s international influence, that Kari Lake is burning.
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What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/kari-lake-maga-future/685906/?gift=c6OZbnopoObR0fSqzaH89b26-Zl4qeC7lRTL8E9vwz8
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As Trump Weighs Iran Strikes, He Declines to Make Clear Case for Why, or Why Now
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As Trump Weighs Iran Strikes, He Declines to Make Clear Case for Why, or Why Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-iran-military-strikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlA.T3jn.4MprkDaOKUel&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Crude. But a slight perspective adjustment can sometimes make reality snap into focus.
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The United States has had good presidents and bad presidents. It currently has its first fascist president. Conservative commentator Jonathan Rauch explains why “fascist” is the right word. Gift link. (You do not have to pay to read this article.)
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/?gift=c6OZbnopoObR0fSqzaH89YIT3qGM1qMXFu5jF_lY0z4
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Tech created by Palantir for IDF use against Palestinians now being used by ICE>
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From Facial Recognition to Geolocation: Inside the Tech Powering ICE Raids | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Just dropping in to say that Congressman John Moolenaar (R-MI) has not responded.
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Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis while he was restrained and unarmed, just weeks after an ICE agent killed Renée Good. Senior officials have denied what the videos plainly show and blocked meaningful investigation. It's time to speak up.
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The hour of decision
Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis while he was restrained and unarmed, just weeks after an ICE agent killed Renée Good. Senior officials have denied what the videos plainly show and …
https://verbasparsa.org/2026/01/26/the-hour-of-decision/
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By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
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The Trump regime is straight-up fascist.
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Caledonia Democrats
Caledonians: Read this account of life now in Minneapolis. Do we want this across the country? In Grand Rapids? In Kentwood? If not—what are we prepared to do about it? Perhaps elect a member of...
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Police-state racist fascism
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Peter Wehner has been right all along but he keeps getting righter:
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MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/maga-christians-betray-ethics-ice/685679/?gift=Ui3D8jM4Z4ZXU8i1gCuyQjGoJBMI5Nmt-GmuZdouF-k
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Masha Gessen, who saw this happen in Russia, tells us what to do to resist it here: claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. I am providing a gift link to Gessen’s text into this post, which I commend to your reading.
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Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVA.9RAE.WbNVHBevj7Z6&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Amid everything else, it’s important to remember that the man is a constant liar.
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The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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Every servicemember, from the highest-ranking officers to the lowest ranking enlisted: if your superior orders you to invade or attack Greenland, it is an illegal order, and you must disobey.
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The president of the US is insane, unfit, and surrounded by sycophants too craven to remove him. These things are obvious truths. Don’t be cowed by anyone who denies them.
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Y’all on Proton Mail yet? Should be. At least enter the sweepstakes.
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“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
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Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-versus-trump-and-epstein/
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Munther Isaac: God is near; God is love.
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We all saw what the Israelis did to Gaza. Here’s what they are doing to the other part of the Palestinian Territories: the West Bank. Gift link to a well documented and illustrated report from the NYT:
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Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (Gift Article)
Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/20/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlements.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.Fg9n.QliOdVTPn0hS&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Trump lets crooks off the hook to build his own power.
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Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals
Why would the Trump administration choose to set aside consequences from criminals whose actions threaten the stability of the broader American economy?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/21/trump-white-collar-criminals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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“His defenders insist he’s a . . . self-promoter and showman, and that it’s a mistake to pay too much attention to his words. In fact, it’s a mistake to ignore them. Trump’s malignant narcissism is the most essential thing to understand about him.”
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Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying
When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trump-rob-reiner/685280/?gift=Ui3D8jM4Z4ZXU8i1gCuyQiRBNLAssdq9LyYvu9ii27I
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Yes, there is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Definition: the psychological and social set of pathologies accompanying the dysfunctional decision to ignore or excuse the derangement and dementia of Donald Trump.
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The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
A view from our neighbor
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump?r=2xpn00&utm_medium=ios
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A Frank assessment of what the Trump regime has done to American credibility on the international stage.
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Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
https://substack.com/@mattgurney47/note/p-181065561?r=2xpn00&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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And the Stasi didn’t have Palantir.
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A bleak December
It was a rough week on the democracy front
https://open.substack.com/pub/kristindumez/p/a-bleak-december?r=2xpn00&utm_medium=ios
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THE TATE-TRUMP RAPE-CULTURE ALLIANCE A major investigative report by the New York Times. Gift links. The quick summary:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
The full report:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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Pearl Harbor Day. A good day for remembering that anti-fascism is a core American value and wondering why we are currently tolerating a fascist regime in DC.
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BEST CHRISTIAN OP-ED ON A CURRENT PUBLIC ISSUE Seriously. You’ve heard of taking a gun to a knife fight? Phil Klay brings St. Augustine to a gladiator show in Trump Colosseum. Must read. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/opinion/trump-boat-strikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k8.YAuV.7E5dbI1UCfDw
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MORE TRUMP-REGIME CORRUPTION EXPOSED “Why does Witkoff appear to have so heavily favored Russia during the negotiations? The answer may be buried in Witkoff’s 33-page financial disclosure form, quietly posted to the White House website in September.”
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Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire
Steve Witkoff coached a top Putin aide on managing Trump and created a peace plan that mirrored Russian demands
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/top-trump-negotiator-retains-partnership?r=2xpn00&utm_medium=ios
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Another revelation from the DC branch of the Putin administration
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Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
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Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/politics/dhs-agents-reassigned.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.FB_h.-fJyIkbTRSG2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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I happened across this short entry this while looking for something else in the Congressional Record:
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Donald Trump intends to turn the United States of America into a Putin-style dictatorship. And he is well on his way to doing so. Peter Wehner has just published the clearest, most concise warning I have seen you should read it. It is here:
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