Brother Warnock lays it plain.

This week, Maine became the twenty-second state to adopt a “red flag” law for regulating guns, with the approval of nearly 59 percent of voters. It will allow families to petition a judge to remove firearms temporarily from a family member who appears to pose a threat to themselves or others.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

On this All Saints Day, let us remember all those people who have come before us who have shown us the way to hope and love, who did so with courage and decency. Let us celebrate a communion of those saints doing the same today in a world in need of so much more light.

My newsletter on Sunday is called, “Blessed are you who hunger, for you will be satisfied.” In it, I invite us to reflect on how the poor and hungry are being treated by the current status quo and how Jesus’ words in Luke 6:20-31 call us to respond. Join: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile?fbcl...

When modern Christians say “it’s not the government’s job to help the poor,” they’re not echoing Jesus, Paul, the prophets, or the early church. They’re echoing figures like Ayn Rand, who despised Christianity’s communal ethic of compassion and called altruism a “moral evil.”

The withdrawal of American troops in Eastern Europe leaves our NATO allies vulnerable and sends a dangerous signal. This allows Dictator Putin to have his way as Russia continues its illegal aggression in Ukraine. President Trump must rethink this decision before it is too late.

Dusty Hill, Frank Beard, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top at Soldiers And Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, TN, on October 23, 1973. Photo- Tom Hill/WireImage.

The House hasn’t been in session for more than a month and now Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune say that it is a “waste of time” to vote on legislation to ensure SNAP food assistance reaches more than 42 million nationwide including over 185,000 in NW Ohio next month. The time to act is now!

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

A Christianity that causes the hungry to go without food, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be mistreated, and God’s creation to be ravaged, all while the greedy and cruel satisfy their every desire, is a Christianity that can no longer claim to follow Christ.

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

🧵 Veterans, like everyone else, are being hurt by this reckless shutdown. VA hospitals stay open, but GI Bill payments are stalled, casework is ignored, and thousands of veteran federal workers are missing paychecks. Our heroes deserve stability and respect, not to be used as a means of leverage. 1

I think ranchers understand plenty: their livelihoods are threatened by high production input costs, low herd volumes, and tariffs choking the US Farm economy. Maybe it’s the $40 Billion you’re sending to Argentina to prop up its markets that’s got them a little out of sorts, Mr. President.

While Secretary Hegseth is out joyriding on $25,000 per hour fighter jets, we have enlisted troops on track for missed paychecks while families are worried about how to afford to put food on the table. Help me make this make sense!?!? Speaker Johnson needs to call the House back, now!

Demolition at the White House to build a fancy ballroom as a monument for and to Billionaires is a stark contrast as millions of Americans are soon to lose their health insurance.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

🔥 TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Cornyn & Paxton don’t stand for freedom, family, and faith… they stand for control, cruelty, and corruption.”

One reason your electricity bills will go up: simple laws of supply and demand, as data centers dump huge demand obligations onto local utilities without bringing their own supply to the grid. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A people who refuse to despise one another are immune to authoritarians because an authoritarian’s power depends on certain groups of people despising other groups of people. This is why there’s so much power in Jesus’ words, “love your enemies.” It is an act of resistance.

A Christianity that believes it needs a president, legislation and a government to ensure its survival is a Christianity that is centered on the worship of its own power rather than faithfully relying on the power of God. God is just its mascot for its political ideology

James Talarico: There is something brewing in the state of Texas. There is a backlash growing against the extremism and the corruption that we've seen at all levels of government. We’re ready for a campaign that can bring us all together

Swear her in!

President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered on Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/48y72pQ

We need a modern Edward R. Murrow. For the most part, U.S. corporate media has been silent about the constant stream of power abuses the current regime continues to create.

150 children in South Carolina are in quarantine because of measles a disease we beat decades ago. Not because the vaccine stopped working, but because people stopped listening.

From Annie Hall to Something’s Gotta Give: Diane Keaton was the quintessential comedy queen

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My newsletter tomorrow is called “They Are Us. We Are Them.” In it, I invite us to ponder the concept of “foreigner” through the lens of Luke 17:11-19 and how God consistently calls us to be in solidarity with all who the world considers “foreign.” Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

Thank you all so much. 💐

The bottom line: professed faith without action to protect and heal others is an empty gesture, and policies that knowingly endanger lives demand accountability.

“I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down…”

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Campbell Soup violated Clean Water Act 5,400 tmes.