Finally hung stuff I’ve been collecting on my office wall and I sorta love it.

Anyone attend No Kings in Peoria? I have lots of pictures to share but don’t really know who to share them with.

I don’t regret my conservative past or past church affiliations. We all have to start somewhere and take each step. I do celebrate each expansive step forward. And If we keep expanding its normal to no longer fit in many smaller rooms we used to inhabit.

The most read article in the past 24 hours: Murphy’s Law: The Surprising Campaign of Rep. Francesca Hong

An observation: People’s politics shape how they imagine God a lot more than God shapes how people imagine politics. A caveat: once people have shaped a god to fit their politics, they will talk about god a lot in their politics - this often hides the origin of their convictions

if someone reads the Bible looking for ways it can justify their evil, the words they need will be there - but only because they were in their heart first.

If your God gives you permission to bomb and kill your enemies, then he really sucks.

The Jesus of Christian Nationalism needs to get saved.

The Jesus of American evangelicalism, needs to repent and get saved.

Add this to the administration pushing forward to reclassify all disabilities within the VA. You have the most anti veteran and anti service member administration in our nations history. Once again the push to send young Americans to war while ensuring the govt never pays out benefits. #Veterans

For what it’s worth - I specifically didn’t like Obama’s immigration crackdown nor his proliferation of drone violence. I voted for him in 08 (my first democrat vote ever) and was vocal during his Presidency about it.

Are the Bucks… good now?!

Blame the victims In the GOP's top ten things to do first

Preach

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is LOVE!” Bad Bunny Halftime Show!

“The only thing more powerful that hate is LOVE!” Bad Bunny Halftime Show!

Never measure your happiness using a ruler made of the things you don't have.

Twenty-some years ago I picked a scrap of paper in a Starbucks parking lot. The paper was from a quote-a-day calendar: “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anaïs Nin

The extent to which this administration personally targets and continues the assault on people who embarrass and shame it is particularly despicable.

Your maga friends think this is ok. Truly.

I suppose I am angry people are defending child rape and also that people are dragging Jesus into their excuses for horrendous evil… so I can own that.

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

Monday AM Vinyl soundtrack: SASASI, Banks, Lydia Night #vinyl #nowplaying #NowSpinning #vinylrecords #MusicSky #VinylSky #Music

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.