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MD, MDiv - white-privileged genderqueer physician, Ecumenical Catholic priest - ‘1619 Project’ book study facilitator - ARC platelet/plasma donor- Love James Baldwin and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ACLU, NPR, and EJI - Loved by G*d
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Call your Reps & Senators on Tuesday. Tell them your views on the President acting lawlessly to thwart appropriations passed by Congress. Call them: 202-224-3121

The new 8.5-foot telescope is set to launch this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a clear objective: to explore the origins of the universe.

For everyone worried that the Democrats aren’t using the filibuster, they just shot down the trans sports ban bill. It’s worth knowing that while the BS executive order is still in place, executive orders only last for the length of that presidency. This would’ve created a long-term law.

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

POV: Zelenskyy wasn’t shouting. He was focusing in a calm and serious but assertive manner and fielding initially wide-ranging fly-balls of criticism being shouted at him simultaneously by president and vice president.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

This is important. Anybody wanna go half-sies on a tractor with me?

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, *and* full explanations of their chains of command.

The state of Arkansas wants to eliminate PBS and move to have all libraries under state, not local control. I thought our state didn't like oppressive big government, but that's what we're getting. Arkansas is well ahead of Project 2025 nationally, watch our regress as an example of what's coming.

Tomorrow I join a “No Kings on Presidents’ Day” rally to promote the vision of Beloved Community biblically represented in the parable of the Good Samaritan. In Luke’s gospel, chapter 10, it is Jesus’ response to the question, “Who is my neighbor [whom G*d commands me to love as I love myself]?”

A statement from Robert B. Fiske Jr., John S. Martin Jr., Mary Jo White, James B. Comey, David N. Kelley, Geoffrey S. Berman, and Audrey Strauss:

So important.

Thanks to the 13,000 participants who joined me for our telephone town hall this week to discuss violations of the rule of law and escalating threats to key federal government programs, federal workers and vulnerable communities. We’re fighting back. Check it out below.

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Well, the NFL clearly removed “end racism” from the end zone so that they could blindside all the anti-DEI folks. They have not done a single commercial that wasn’t entirely about the importance of diversity equity and inclusion www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...

Holy shit. The NFL is not playing. This is a fucking strong message right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkji...

Vance went on record in 2022 that they should ignore the Supreme Court.

www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Hit em from every angle. We have rules for a reason. If you can’t follow them you have no business in federal government. www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

AND:

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

the point is not that it's fast -- the point it that it's systematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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