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Hold up I've seen this film. SARUMAN: "The old world will burn in the fires of industry; the forests will fall; a new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fists of the orc..." But then the Ents wake up and find that they are strong.

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Abuse of power is a cancer in the body of Christ. How Christendom uses terminology regarding gender is sometimes an aspect of the disease. We need to let the light of a holy God expose us and our systems. A man named Jesus had nothing to do with these ways.

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Good morning, beloved. In a world with increasingly limited options, liberation is—in part—the ability to choose your own adventure. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Ding ding ding!

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Good idea.

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My first real post from Substack.

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I say this as a member of the clergy now: Clergy have a duty to display courage by standing in solidarity with the bullied and oppressed - especially when the rest of the Church and the world lacks the courage to do so. Right now, that’s the people of Ukraine. Lord have mercy.

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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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To donate to Ukraine you can go to war.Ukraine.ua/donate This is an official donation site supported by Zelenskyy (and USAID-that-was). We donated. #SlavaUkraini

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 8 days ago • 1334 comments

🇺🇦

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Oh, definitely.

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Actually, I doubt "a lot" of Americans have any problem with what President Zelenskyy wears. We have a whole lot more problems with our own president who doesn't respect the office, period!

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Of all the stupid going on in Stupidville right now, this is right up near the top.

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Elon Musk has siphoned off more money in taxpayer dollars since November than the entire USAID annual budget. He is the real welfare queen. #fireelon

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Ah, Friday. We had a great time answering your questions last night. And reading all of your acts of micro-resistance is giving us life this morning. REMEMBER: Today is an economic blackout. Try to avoid spending where possible. Patronize small businesses otherwise. Use cash.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

This whole administration is based on destruction, chaos, cruelty, and power, and as always when that's the case, it is "the least of these" who suffer. Kyrie eleison.

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Everything is so completely backwards from what it should be.

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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Rep Tom Suozzi: “Very simple. Putin is a dictator. Zelenskyy is not.” What’s so hard to understand about that?

submitted 11 days ago • 737 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 12 days ago • 493 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 15 days ago • 812 comments

Found some peace in this.

submitted 15 days ago • 158 comments

Amen.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

My first real post from Substack.

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We must not assume that our family, church, community, country, or organization is always right just because the people in it use the right words. We must never agree to “protect” the name of God by covering ungodliness.

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On Twitter, JeremyWingert79 asked how we stay sane through the next few years. Here's my answer -- a 🧵: --Focus on the local, things within your sphere of influence, and your ability to impact. --Cultivate unplugged times. Awareness is important, but this is a marathon, not a sprint. 1/4

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Exploitation of the vulnerable person tells us about the exploiter, not the victim of that exploitation, and is always an abuse of power.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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“You’ve gotten rid of all of the staff, all of the institutional memory, all of the trust and confidence, not only in the United States but in the dozens of countries in which U.S.A.I.D. works. Those things have taken decades to build up but two weeks to destroy.”

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Eva M. Noles: The first African American woman in Buffalo to train as a nurse She earned a Bachelor's in Nursing & a Master's in Education from University at Buffalo She went on to serve as Director of Nursing at Buffalo's prestigious Roswell Park Cancer Center www.roswellpark.org/cancertalk/2...

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BREAKING: 27 Jewish/Christian groups standing up against Trump's inhumane immigration policy to allow ICE to raid places of worship: 12 national denominational bodies/reps 4 regional denom. bodies 11 denomin. & interdenominational assocs. Read lawsuit here: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...

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When I call you beloved, I’m reminding me and you that you are loved by God. Even when we don’t like each other.

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JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A petition to ask the administration to revoke its rescission of the ICE policy that restricted agents from conducting immigration arrests in or near “sensitive locations” like hospitals, schools, and houses of worship. It is a policy that has been in place in various forms since the 90s.

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@jonbatiste.bsky.social, who just sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, is one of the Kennedy Center board members Trump is trying to remove who « do not share our vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. » Let’s show him some appreciation here.

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Everyone needs a little kitty and puppy play time. These two are inseparable. #caturday #cats #dogs #joyscrolling #dogsky

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The reason that any Christians are able to believe that this administration is pro-Christian (and therefore vested in rooting out anti-Christian biases) is that many people in the USA have been reared in a Christianity that looks nothing like Christ and were baptized into Caesar.

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Farmers slammed. “American farms… supply about about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency sends around the world.” And “hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone.” wapo.st/3WSo7nI

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"in bombed-out Sudanese cities, Kenyan clinics and Mauritanian refugee camps, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, money, country, and future, tell your elected officials that you wanted something else. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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