@thechrisbarron.bsky.social I had this text exchange the other day with a childhood camp friend. I thought you'd enjoy reading it. Was it Blessid Union of Souls who joined you that day? Will Spin Doctors consider coming to Charleston, SC sometime? I think you'd love playing The Refinery.

Will the Commander in Chief be required to perform a PT test twice a year, or is that just for the secretary and the top brass on down?

Slightly diminish a band: Tiptoed by Turtles

Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.” It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle. Trump? Hardly a peep. When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.

Karen Diamond was an 82-year-old woman from Boulder Colorado. She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother. She was not part of the Israeli government & was not holding any hostages. But she was still set on fire & murdered by a domestic terrorist. May her memory be a blessing & may she rest in peace.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

I thought today how I used to waste perfectly good hours listening to Car Talk, which led to the realization that the country has gone to shit since the Magliozzi brothers retired

we could have had Kamala we could have had Kamala we could have had Kamala we could have had Kamala we could have had Kamala we could have had Kamala

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

"Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor." -- Senator Cory Booker

When literature gladly hands you a response.

Only billionaires would want this. The people who voted to "clean the swamp" were bamboozled.

Reflecting on my time in the Dominican Republic with @ajws-humanrights.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

🔥 Meirav Solomon KILLS IT, placing responsibility for antisemitism exactly where it belongs: "it is not student protesters, but the bloody legacy of Pittsburgh and Poway, Charlottesville and the Capitol riots... Trump has highlighted and platformed neo-Nazis and white supremacists."

LRC is very excited to partner with the EcoFaith Summit to join this movement to care for God's creation with concrete action and birthing hope for the world in a time of climate crisis. April 5, 2025, in Duluth MN and Online. www.ecofaithnetwork.org/ecofaith-sum... fmi #CreationCare

The Zoom etiquette was established long ago that people don't need to say bye or wave at the end. I love that groups from my congregation (and certainly many others) who still use Zoom are like, "F*** that. We love each other, and we're going to wave and say goodbye like there's no tomorrow." 👋

It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

Read this and try not to fume. Especially as you think of 47 wasting taxpayer money at the Super Bowl, Daytona and while playing golf half his presidency.

We had a two-part #lefse party at my church this weekend. Some of us have Norwegian heritage, some of us don't, but we all had a great time together, and all of us walked away with new knowledge. We're definitely doing it again.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

2001: "I paid $0.99 for this Linkin Park song to be my ringtone." 2025: "I have not had my phone off of vibrate-only for ten years. People who have audible ringtones are psychopaths."

I'm in a "gotta watch V For Vendetta" mood

Friends: I do not want to see any kvetching about people on the left who didn't vote for Harris. Those mistakes didn't decide this. White supremacists & whoever else wouldn't vote for a Black woman did this. Misogynoir. The enemy is WHITE SUPREMACY and FASCISM. Solidarity time. Now. Shore up.

Did someone tell Trump that the "execute" part of the Constitution's demand that the President's role is to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress means the President can kill those laws? That seems to be his interpretation of execute. More importantly, will 6 justices allow this?

Flynn and Musk are severely misinformed on the work that Lutheran service organizations (and similar charities) do for our communities and have done for decades. Their rhetoric is false, accusatory, and it imperils how vulnerable people in society receive basic care.

Could a Reagan actor please make a video of his speech after the Challenger explosion, except this time he blames that tragedy on Democrats and diversity initiatives? Plenty of MAGA still revere Reagan, and they must be confronted with the fact that only Trump would degrade a national tragedy.

A Statement on Hope in Action from the Bishops of Region Nine. As leaders of Christian traditions across many states from Virginia to the Caribbean, we are people of hope. Read more... scsynod.com/news/a-state...

Bishop Budde’s sermon for the Inauguration Prayer Service models effective prophetic preaching. Let’s break it down. A thread 🧵. 1/19 www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...

Wisdom from his many years.

So the #NOLA killer intentionally drives a truck through a crowd, at this point killing 10 and injuring 30+, then fires on officers, and an improvised explosive device was found. Someone at the FBI says this "is not a terrorist event." Yet, a targeted murder of a CEO is #terrorism.

Yes. I released an album that is all country, Jewish and Black too.fm/y0njnjo

I'm new here, and the algorithm is trying to figure me out. Does BlueSky push photos of foxes onto everyone else's feed? It's weird, and I have no clue why it assumed I would like that.