A while ago, I was part of an organization where one of the retired founders would come in occasionally to share his wisdom. When he spoke, he invoked nostalgia so effectively that people felt emotionally transported back decades to a time that felt familiar and safe. ⅕

When I was a pastor, I dealt with the fallout of MANY pastors (and church leaders and members too) who sexually abused people in just about every way imaginable. ½

This week: - Trump arrests journalists - Trump demands we pay him 10 billion - Trump is bribed by Bezos (via Melania propaganda film) 75mil - Trump is named in the (still redacted) Epstein files for raping lots of children - Trump dances in glee on the graves of murdered citizens his goons shot

On her livestream tonight, #IL09 candidate Kat Abughazaleh teased what appears to be a new 60-second-long campaign ad

Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested by federal agents earlier for reporting on the church protest in Minneapolis. She was live streaming when agents arrived to take her into custody.

I wonder where Trump heard that a politician could just fake a violent attack to gain sympathy? I’m all ears if anyone has an idea.

We must ascend past mere pragmatism and find a morally aspirational vision of our shared humanity powerful enough to lift us beyond the culture of fear and nihilistic cynicism that is currently killing us.

American Tech CEOs think the real fascism is any government regulation that limits their profits in any way in order to protect ordinary citizens rights, privacy, or jobs. They are ok with actual fascism for their customers and workers as long as they can continued make profit.

All these “Christians” really out there handing the nails to the soldiers at the crucifixion.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Fascism has a squishy meaning. It’s been used to mean anything politically “bad” from empathy to feminism to police state violence. In Germany people think Hitler but in the US - we don’t have a fascist “ikon” ½

Are we deleting our TikTok accounts or just the app? I deleted the app like a year ago - can I delete my account without downloading the app?

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."-Elie Wiesel

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chronologically: - ICE vehicle drives around victim vehicle. - additional ICE vehicle approaches. - ICE agents exit vehicle and confront the victim who is stationary. - ICE agent tries to forcibly enter victim vehicle. - ICE agent in front of victim vehicle moves aside and fires on the victim.

Either our constitutional rights mean something or they don’t. We’ve been in a constitutional crisis for 5 years. The 14th amendment has been essentially erased by the Supreme Court. Extra judicial killings at sea and now at home by a government agency. They’ve destroyed our democratic republic.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Everyone but him!

Why the fuck is Tr*mp on the NFL broadcast. I thought we were supposed to keep politics out of football?

Hey Siri, what is an autopen? Siri:

Billionaires are a malignant tumor in a democratic body

they should ALL be tried and i've been saying this whole time if we ever get another administration after this, america needs to be put under the jurisdiction of the ICC. no more safe haven for war criminals: foreign or domestic.

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

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.

Taylor’s Life of a Showgirl is 5 for 5 so far.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

In a world of Ezra Kleins and Jake Tappers - try to be a Ta-Nehisi Coates.

My dad was a huge NRA-for life gun-lover. A few years ago he was dividing up his collection and I let my brothers take them all - claimed his stereo instead. It’s all part of the liberal radicalization of my children to “love your neighbor as yourself”

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

American people: I have big feels - let’s see what happens if we give the insurrectionist party another go. Insurrectionists: thanks, let’s deport foreign-looking people, demonize lgbtq people, declare the 50% of US terrorists, excuse rape + pedo, and ruin the economy so we can collect bribes

In a world of Ezra Kleins and Jake Tappers - try to be a Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The problem with most American Christian’s is that they actually hate Jesus’ life and teachings… but have never realized this fact because they don’t know much about Jesus’ life and teachings.

Me: this CK quote is terrible. Them: “you leftist assholes keep taking it out of context” Me: (reads context)… you’re right, it’s way worse than I initially thought.

Dear politicians and political groups - if you text me , you get blocked and reported as spam. I don’t care what party you are from - find a different way.

One of the first things I was taught about planning funerals is that it’s unethical to “preach someone into heaven” or “make paint then as a saint” I thought this was weird advice at the time - but turns out many people try.

Violence has many forms - while some are obvious and loud, most violence is polite and respectable. All violence hurts and kills. As a society, collectively we have proven unwilling to address either type - and so violence remains deeply present in all facets of American life.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

Weird how there are multiple news stories about how Bluesky is kind of rude to centrists and almost no news stories about how Twitter is now so racist it would make a Klan rally blush.

I’m unsure whether “smirking” or “unshed-tears” is the most overused word in fantasy literature #reading #booksly

🥂Bridget & Kevin’s Atrium Wedding is on the Blog🥂 #wedding #photography #marriedinmilwaukee #roostmke www.roostmke.com/blog/bridget...

It’s crazy that there is an extreme likelihood that the President raped 13-14 years olds on Epstein’s Island and that it won’t have any consequences for him personally or politically.

The Onion dropping hard truths. @theonion.com #epstein

9 very slow miles Building the base 1 slow mile at a time. #strava #runsky #running strava.app.link/VuQe0C9exVb

Smoky Four 9’s SPM Training with a short recovery period between miles. #strava #running #runsly #runner strava.app.link/vB1pWjQexVb