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MK / TCK advocate, speaker, novelist. Trauma & cancer survivor. French pastry connoisseur. Unapologetic (but slightly cynical) rêveuse. Anti-hate, pro-compassion, still-learning follower of Jesus. "Pieces of Purple" coming 4/25. www.michelephoenix.com.
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Follow up to last post about #HandsOff DuPage County: the tone was so positive! Counter-protestors tried to drum up conflict, but were met with rolled eyes and giggles. Can this day of action be the beginning of a national shift back to the power of the people…? #thereishope 🇺🇸

First time participating in any kind of protest. HUGE turnout! I went with trepidation, not sure what I’d find. It was Hope, and love, and resistance, and good trouble. A spiritual experience in so many ways. #handsoff2025 #DupageCounty

This.

So grateful that this book is finally out in the world today. ♥ Available as paperback and for Kindle. 📖💻 On sale today only. ⏳ amzn.to/4iPwFEx [Please share in your #MK, #TCK, and #Ministry networks. 🛜]

If you get C-SPAN2, flip over to that channel now. Sen. Cory Booker is still speaking—using statistics, truth, and lived experiences to support his understanding of the damage that will be done by cutting 880B from Social Security. He has vowed to keep speaking as long as his body holds out.

Got home from #Canada a week ago and can confirm. Proud of my family and friends in the Great North Strong and Free. #ElbowsUp

We are not OK, America. Speak out, then we will have hope! 🇺🇸

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social says it so plainly and accurately. This is exactly the role Fox News has played and the destruction of humaneness it has wrought. I've got a pretty good imagination, but I'm having a harder and harder time picturing a way across this divide.

I’d appreciate your read and your take: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

So...he adores Israel but hates Jewish politicians? That tracks. Israel = power/money. Jewish men like Schumer = pushback/uncompliance.

Can it be any clearer that Trump wants to do to sovereign nations what he's admitted to doing to women? Just grab 'em and see if they put up a fight. Hey, hoser. Canada's not afraid to kick you where it hurts. #OCanada #TrueNorthStrongAndFree

As always, clear and compelling historical analysis by Heather Cox Richardson. (If you subscribe to her daily news email, you'll be better—and smarter—for it!)

Important read about the real-world fallout of losing USAID and other programs, from a doctor serving as a missionary in Malawi. The "the church can fill the gap" mentality is myopic. religionnews.com/2025/02/25/j...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I’m certainly not in agreement with everything happening in the True North Strong and Free, but I will always side with the victim in an unjustified attack. Canada has been a sacrificial friend & ally in the worst of times, and this is unconscionable. Trudeau’s fact-filled response: bit.ly/4knoMrg

I mean...given the choice...

This man displayed the kind of strength he speaks of here throughout his life. Are there any Jimmy Carters left in politics?

Today confirmed this devastating truth. #AshamedToBeAmerican

This.

Zelensky is a hero. Trump is a coward. Slava Ukraini.🇺🇦 Shame on America. NATO/freedom/democracy are good. Putin/Trump/authoritarianism are bad.

Stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

The shame I feel for this. Causing death rather than using less than 1% of our federal spending to save them.

DT posted this on his Truth Social today. This is not a joke. It is sick, dehumanizing, sadistic, and anti-Christ. (Watch the first minute for the video ad he loved enough to repost.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fPm...

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

Pro-tip: insert a Tim-the-Toolman grunt into any footage of Trump (and his minions) saber-rattling to bring it down to its appropriate middle-school-menace vibes. www.tiktok.com/@oceanna_/vi...

“We now have a president of the U.S. who subscribes to the same worldview of coercive conquest as the president of Russia.” And one who tramples the Constitution domestically. It’s not too late to turn this around. But the 2026 midterms are our last best hope www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

"But she laughed weird..." (And don't bring up abortion. They demonstrably go DOWN under democrats because people aren't terrified of the present and the future.)

About USAID's hold—written by a surgeon at a top hospital in Malawi. thehill.com/opinion/5154...

This idea is not original to me, but it rings true. The past few weeks have felt like watching those planes hitting the towers over & over & over & over again...with no end in sight. It's okay to prioritize your mental health, friend. To turn off the news. To meditate. To up your meds. It's okay.

Love me some Liz Cheney. "Rage-quit the Republic" is. a. word.

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

"If a picture paints a thousand words..." Appalled and enraged today—again. The lies and manipulation are so blatant and the supporters are so blind.

You can't be bellowing from the rooftops that "God is in control" during the dumpster fire of this Trumpocracy if you spent the past four years railing against Biden and carrying nooses to big buildings you invaded at the cost of lives lost. Unless you believe God is a Repub... Ohhhhh. Right.

I repeat…

There is so much to say about Musk turning our collective backs on the poor and helpless, and now Trump is planning to prostitute our name and history on the Red Square by validating an abusive tyrant...? We've reached the bottom and picked up a shovel. It hurts in my bones and spirit.

Contemplating Psalm 146 today and pondering ways I can step boldly into these truths, not just in agreement but in embodiment. And realizing that Jesus has already shown the way: show up, stand up, speak up, act up.

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!