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Delco guy in Indiana expecting the lowly and the mighty to swap seats at the Lord's promised feast of fatty foods & rich wine. Also: Lutheran pastor (ELCA), immigration, Latin America, Star Wars, Army veteran, LGBTQIA+, Phillies, Eagles, human decency
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It’s possible.

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

DOGE sucks and all, but in this case - let’s go DOGE!

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

New — I wrote about the injustice unfolding before our eyes as rich reality stars are pardoned for their crimes while law-abiding immigrants are rounded up and caged by ICE, and the way communities are rising up to say fuck no.

There is an entire plaza built for community right next to Gainbridge and the infrastructure to support walking or biking to walk up and yet they decide to gridlock the entire mile square for hours during rush hour. Smooth brain stuff

The fee-ification of our nation: wonder if baggage fees and seat licenses are next.

jesus christ

He's rage-tweeting at Trump right now? Who cares. He ended tens of thousands of good, talented public service careers and may have contributed to hundreds of thousands of deaths overseas. That's what matters.

Texas mandates that high schoolers be taught the benefits of free markets. By government mandate. If you don’t see the irony, reread that slowly.

These people aren’t serious about governance.

Too on the nose

The problem with traditional news reporting is that the form doesn’t really allow for the all caps THIS IS BATSHIT CRAZY analysis that such news certainly deserves.

Back with the totals and a recap…

Phillies, what the heck is going on?

We fought a war so we wouldn’t have a ruler who wanted majesty. It’s the people’s house, not a palace or a tacky casino.

If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

What happens next is lawful immigrants stop following the rules for fear of being nabbed when they show up as required. And this trend will be used to "justify" nabbing more people, more fascism. This is built in.

Pacers! Yes’cers!

Not gonna lie. It took me all season to understand the “yes ‘cers” Pacers marketing tagline this year. I’ve seen it on billboards and other media all season … never said it right in my head until tonight.

So, wow. She’s a callous jerk … in the name of Jesus. Lovely.

TNT loves showing Tom Thibodeau’s incredulous face.

Indianapolis vs. Oklahoma City sounds like a competition to host the 1978 World's Fair

The 7th Sunday of Easter is still the Easter Season. So … bring on the lamb cake! Better late than never. Before:

Football score. Sigh.

"They are a bunch of shits"

It’s kind of our own damn fault for electing a President who isn’t interested in (or capable of) reading.

Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?

“In the president, ‘I saw the same thing that I saw when I interned at the Innocence clinic: someone who was getting railroaded by the system,’ Halligan says.”

wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. econofact.org/steel-tariff...

I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

The bad guys in government are going to do “more worksite enforcement,” reminding us that millions of undocumented immigrants are hard working people (and doing so without the benefits of eventually receiving social security).

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

ICE kidnapped 55/60 construction workers in a massive raid today in Tallahassee, Florida. Naturally, one of their MAGA buddies think they didn't vote for this. They did.

Bedeviled by this blunderbuss of a budget bill which bears the blatant branding of all the back-scratching backdoor billionaire buy-ins that broker tax breaks for big business while ballooning the budget. You can bet your bottom bitcoin there’ll be a backlash for all these billionaire bootlickers.

Erik Prince, lawless American mercenary allied with Trump Administration, conducts operations in Haiti. Lordy.

They don’t care if you’re a citizen anymore. They enjoy torturing us.