Absolutely sickening. And unsurprising. Stand up. Speak out. Get in the way. Let us love and protect and show up for our immigrant neighbors.

President Maduro of Venezuela has urged the people of the United States to stop the “reckless hand” giving the orders for bombings “Stop the war! No to war! The people of the United States must play a decisive role in preventing a tragedy for all of the Americas.”

This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration. They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.

There’s a lot of discussion about why Trump suddenly pushed for an investigation into Democrats named in the Epstein files and one possible motive keeps coming up.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

WSJ reporting he was mentioned in a whopping 1,670 of the 2,324 email threads. 72%!

ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem. She was Native American. ICE— the agency supposedly tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants — just tried to deport an Indigenous woman whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years. Leticia Jacobo born in Phoenix,

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Also, the HHS Secretary sold cocaine in college and was a heroin addict for 14 years so it is RICH whenever they go after people for old drug offenses.

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

I’m pretty sure none of the eight who flipped are up for reelection next year. Which is why I think a lot more than eight were ready for the shutdown to end – and the eight who could afford to stepped out.

What the Senate Democratic defectors did is like the Montgomery bus boycotters calling it quits after 40 days because city leaders promised to “review” bus seating policies. History teaches us the status quo doesn’t change because of vague promises, it changes because people persist in resisting.

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees. If your plan is for 100 years, educate children. - Ricardo Tavárez #ccda #weareccda

Tax the Rich!

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

My day yesterday: 10 am: teach election law class about the shameful history of legislative districts drawn to dilute/suppress urban voters 10 pm: see the new proposed Ohio map, and what the Ohio GOP wants to do to Cincinnati

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Michael Jordan is criticizing current NBA players for load management. I agree with some of his critiques, but it's a bit ironic given that Jordan took a 17 month break to play baseball (and grieve), had a 1/2 year break due to a lockout, and stepped away from basketball a 2nd time for 32 months.

"Today, the question has simply changed form: “Are they here legally?” is the new “Who is my neighbor?”" - Jonathan Haskell, Knoxville,TN #ccda

What is the average length of an empire? #chatgbt

It’s estimated that 8 out of 10 immigrants at risk of deportation in this country are Christians. So why are so many Evangelicals cheering as ICE agents brutally round them up, pull them away from jobs and family, throw them in unmarked vans and send them off to be deported? Jesus wept.

7. The system usually allows the wealthy to decide what to do about the poor. Interestingly enough, the Bible has a few things to say about that, as well. If you've never been poor, you don't understand just how expensive it is to be poor, especially in America. P.S. Read "Poverty, By America."

6. Corporations (Walmart, oil companies, defense contractors) get tax subsidies every year. So do certain families. Somehow this gets a pass. Tax subsidies are, in fact, "government handouts."

🚨THOUGHTS on Christians and SNAP🚨: 1. If you want the government to pass "biblical" laws on things like abortion, then why not on feeding the hungry? 2. The Bible is filled with laws about taking care of the poor. (2,000 verses or so.)

A significant component of modern iterations of ableism is a capitalist market logic and neoliberal value system defining the economic productivity of individuals as a moral and social good, and foundational to the social and moral “health” of societies.

They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor... -Tupac Shakur A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. -Dr. King Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me. -Jesus

DENOMINATIONS BY MEMBERS' INCOME LEVEL I always thought it was protestant mainline = the richest, holiness pentecostal = lowest income. I was close. From @ryanburge.bsky.social Check out his page.

They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...

Jesus’ strongest words were for those religious leaders who used the words of God to crush and destroy humanity.

Donald is notoriously indifferent to American heritage. One example: secretsofmanhattan.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/t...

It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

This is the beauty of BlueSky. No-one will be force-fed this via algorithm. Trolling draws blocks rather than amplification.

My book American Idolatry uses data and history to tell Christians 1: the best way to love God is to love your neighbor and to define neighbor as broadly as possible And 2: Christian nationalism keeps you from doing #1 b/c it demands you idolize power, fear, and violence

We must always be aware that both secular and religious systems easily draw us in by the use of words and the glitter of power, calling us to serve the kingdom of man rather than the kingdom of God.

Solid, fascinating lineup right here.

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

Don’t make me tap the sign.

For people of faith, please read this thread. 👇🏼 May God grant us ears to hear, and the courage to respond in ways that are bold and faithful to Jesus.

He is being thrown to the ground, wrongfully detained, deported, and tortured. He is crying out for His mother and father who are being ripped from Him as He's being picked up from school. He is having slurs and derogatory jokes made about Him as He's rounded up with other Black and Brown people.