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Mom in the ADK, Jesus follower, Refugee Advocate, Defiant Optimist. Love big, pack light.
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Important watch. It’s important to see the impact this tyrannical government is having on individuals. Individuals of honor and good will. I applaud Ms. Levine. She upholds the honor of the profession. Ed Martin, Pam Bondi, and Trump’s other cronies do not.

It's that all of this is being done in the name of Christ that makes me weep

Amen. May his memory be a blessing and may we carry on his legacy.

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

This

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

I know a lot of US citizens only care about US citizens, so I'll just go ahead and point out: when ICE arrests you, the due process would be the point where you prove you can't be deported because you're a US citizen. Without it, there's nothing stopping them from sending you to CECOT forever.

So much damage

#MorningPrayer Gather us, Lord, as your disciples, that we may learn again your lesson that greatness lies not in power and position, but in giving and grace, not in serving ourselves, but in kneeling to wash feet, in following your commandment to love one another as you love us.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

As a pastor of a church of refugees, I am fully convinced that this government would love to find ways to deport all of them back to places where they would be murdered and most Christians would celebrate it.

Say it enough, and they will believe anything.

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

You cannot go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending. ~C.S. Lewis

White House “Coal Miner" Is Actually a Supervisor for a Company That Recently Laid Off 165 Zachary Erdeljac wore a red MAGA hard hat, safety gear and praised Trump's tariffs meidasnews.com/news/white-h...

“The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.” -C. S. Lewis

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

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller

One of the more galling aspects of the Liberation Day nonsense is that they couldn’t even find it within themselves to delay the 45% tariffs on Myanmar, which is currently dealing with an earthquake that killed more than 3,000 people and displaced countless more on Friday.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador.

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

I saw a man and a leader tonight command attention—and respect around the world—without chainsaws, theatrics, toxicity, without mocking anyone. He did it with sincerity and passion. He did it with stories, and by calling people in, shared spotlight, by saying I love you.

People worth standing 25 hrs and 5 min for: Widows: Seniors relying on Social Security to survive. Orphans: Kids depending on school meals to eat. Sojourners: Migrant families seeking safety. Poor: Those who need aid for food and medicine. Keep standing for them.

It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

But based on his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.—2 Pet ‭3‬:‭13‬ His promise, our hope: One day all things will be made new.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

FINNERTY: We're hearing reports that 20 million people could lose Medicaid. Do people right now need to be concerned? REP. GREG MURPHY: If we don't do something, this nation's finances spiral out of control. (That's a "yes")

Until we get these "BIG DONORS" out of our elections, America is sure to be infiltrated by more of the same mess. Not trusted, certainly not free and fair.

When you demonize and harm the immigrant, the poor, the sick, and the marginalized with oppressive laws, you don’t need to tell me about your religious beliefs. You've already shown me what they are by how you're mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the sick, and the marginalized.

Our Lord cracked a whip and turned tables over because in what was meant to be God’s house and a safe place for His sheep was a place of exploitation of the lambs. They were being robbed of a refuge in the house of God.

We forget that anything done in the name of God that does not bear His character through and through is not of Him at all. In our forgetting, we are more loyal to the words of humans than to the commandments of God.

I stand 100% with Jack Schlossberg and his Grandfather.

This, right here..

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘️ Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit, Christ when I stand, Christ in each & every neighbour.