A SCOTUS spouse bankrolled the Jan 6 hate riot. Millions of my friends and I are holding a We Love the Real America rally this Saturday for free. Patriots, come join us!

@magachurchpastor.bsky.social Where've you been? Need you back on the front line (so we with foot mildew don't have to go there).

I guess she doesn't have any photo-taking drones in her fake beauty arsenal.

Much of the public, and apparently White House, doesn't know that many of the US military's general and flag officers are intellectuals. Study history and theory, get that war, politics, economics, and culture intertwine, etc. Or maybe the White House does, and that's what they're trying to change.

Hegseth today. All you who want a criminal military, say "sir, yes sir!" "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.

RIP philosopher John Searle (1935-2025). I was much influenced by his Speech-Acts and philosophy of mind work. As a theologian lamb among budding philosophical wolves, I took a class with him in my grad years. He was brilliant and caustic, beyond self-confident to insouciant and inhumane. 1/2

Never forget!!

DoJ has removed this study from the website, but here it is from the wayback machine. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

So, whoever you are who envision and organize our big resistance protests, since it is the Constitution that is threatened, how about planning the biggest protest ever at the Supreme Court *while it is in session*? Deliver a direct and very loud word to our purported "justices."

In other words, speaker after speaker is committing blasphemy.

Can someone describe for me what moral difference there is between "just killing" a homeless person, severing a voice box from a Fox idiot, or just allowing said idiot to blather on? Looks to me that each and their repercussions are morally monstrous.

SCOTUS was 1st envisioned as an institution that aspired to a unity of moral and legal leadership. That is no longer so. It leads only in the devolution of legal judgement away from once cherished Higher Law to the divorce of legalia from morality. Indeed, SCOTUS is now ambitiously immoral.

My sense of humor and resistance is weird even for me this morning. I'm considering going to a Cracker Barrel for breakfast after church. Is there a dress code?

National Guard members vow to defend the Constitution. If ICE recruits do, it is clear that they break their vows by the minute. With Guard called in to assist ICE, as in DC, is it possible that some Guard integrity would openly conflict with ICE fascism? May I hope for that?

Sing it. Trump’s soldiers in DC gunnin Once again we're on our own This time the troops are cummin From MAGA states like Ohio Gotta get down to it Trump's goons are keeping us down Should have stopped him long ago History has rhyme to it Next they'll be in our town This time we gotta stop his show

If I have a three day old unrefrigerated tuna sandwich on stale French bread, at whom should I throw it?

This is hope inspiring news, on one hand. On the other, acting on one's sound knowledge within the chain of command is still very difficult.

I wholly disagree with MAGAs. *EVERY* child rapist should be imprisoned for life without parole. And I think everyone who protects child rapists, including stifling victim voices, should be jailed too. Ask every Rep or Senator at town halls if they agree.

When someone receives a home as part of the compensation and is expected to live in it and provide hospitality (e.g., college presidents, military officers, clergy), that home isn't for the occupant to change physically as he/she wishes. So why does Trump have carte blanche with The People's House?

"Public Theology Question of the Week." What preacher here plans, most likely with maximal indirectness, to reference the South Park episode 27:1 "Sermon on the Mount" [punning on Paramount] tomorrow? If so, why and how?

Trump wants to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by 40%. But even a 10% cut would prevent an estimated 30 new medications from reaching the market over the next 30 years. “Make America Healthy Again.”

There's no getting around it. Every Republican senator and representative voting Trump's way today abets pedophilia. There is no moral line they will not cross if it is his will.

We’re at the stage where it’s still possible to pull back, but only if enough people recognize how serious it is and act. Think 1932 Germany. You can still vote. You can still speak out. But the authoritarian playbook is already open and in use. Midterms are reset points; we can't lose in 2026.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

"As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!' He then raised his arms in celebration after breaching the Capitol in a face mask... and escaped through a window..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.

My POTUS campaign platform, for a start. 1. DOJ that arrests, jails w/no bail, prosecutes all who broke constitution & statutory law 2. End Citizens United 3. Fix SCOTUS 4. Fair taxes 5. Strong humane Immigration law 6. Fed officials have same healthcare as public 7. Return taste & pets to WH

The tragic thing is that tens of millions of Americans could be spared immeasurable pain, suffering, and despair if only there were a literal handful of Republicans with a working soul.

The monstrous immorality of Trump's BBB: Rs are creating a massive concentration camp system; assigning a whole economic class to life of no healthcare; availing public land to Mordor-level destruction; making white fascist oligarchy the governing power. And they call this evil "good."

Happy Day. Received the author copies of my new book today, a postmodern constructive theology on a healthy way to relate religious faith with government; written from a Lutheran perspective, but applicable far more broadly.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

SCOTUS is 66.6% corrupt. In baseball metrics that's an unacceptable 666 (!) strikeout rate. It is imperative for basic human decency, civil rights, and democracy to be restored that this roster be exorcised of the MAGA Republican infestation along with the Oval Office and both chambers of Congress.

My book on a constructive political theology, after several years of writing, is now out.

My new book is finally out. It's "academic," but also (mostly) accessible to interested non-academics. Click link for more info. wipfandstock.com/978166671451...

A note for would-be Christians: I expect MAGA church attenders this morning gloried in heretical apocalyptic ecstasy over Mideast warring. But if your conflict-avoidant preachers wholly ignored the evil of war, they were unfaithful to the task. And relegation to a generic prayer line = inadequate.

This is correct.

I'll reserve final judgment as to the necessity of the US bombing of Iran's nuclear development facilities. Whether necessary or not, I gagged at Trump's puerile hoarking of triumph. Then to say "thank you God," as if he's Trump's good buddy. Please God, grant gravity and justice!

I’m surprised he decided go to war on a second country. You’d think destroying America would be enough.

“ICE is currently in parks on the Westside separating caregivers from kids…Children are being left alone while nannies are being handcuffed” (From a friend who is a parent, who posted the message below on FB) ICE is not only kidnapping folks, they are creating opportunities for other kidnappers…

Trump is looking for butts to fill his parade seats at $1000 a crack.

Your gentle reminder that if you take either originalist or textualist constitutional interpretation seriously then the only intellectually honest conclusion is that the US Army, as currently organized, is unconstitutional. For exactly the reasons that we witnessed this afternoon.

Trump just said this morning that were he Tom Homan he'd arrest Gov. Newsom. Of course he would, just as if he could have, he would have hung Mike Pence.