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United Methodist Deacon, immigration advocate, justice-seeker, pastor, chaplain, full-on Dad
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Anyone, anyone.......

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

I agree.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Don't get distracted by his culture wars. The stock market and higher prices are the story that will erode his base. Remeber the old Clinton lesson: it's the economy, stupid.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“if we define someone as living paycheck to paycheck if they either say they do not have three months of emergency savings or say they cannot afford a $2,000 emergency expense,” then 59 percent of American adults are “living paycheck to paycheck.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We published this on Monday, and within minutes, there were already a bunch of new stories we needed to add to it. Now, five days later, there are dozens. We will update this list every month for the remainder of Trump's term.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 87 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 11 days ago • 673 comments

Today, the administration terminated the contract that funded legal representation for unaccompanied children. Please sign this letter and send it to your elected representatives asking that funding be restored. actionnetwork.org/letters/rest... Also donate here: donorbox.org/new-england-...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the Trump administration scrutinizes legal immigrants who have expressed opposition to its policies. It has prompted American allies to update their travel advisories.

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

When the wisdom of the saints is spiritually nourishing, politically necessary, prophetically convicting + missionally inviting. #stpatricksday

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A "fire sale" of government resources at Rock bottom prices, she says. Get ready for an economic crash, folks.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

When you make a gift on UMCOR Sunday, March 30, you ensure that we can swiftly respond to disasters worldwide and serve as a source of hope and healing to the most vulnerable. Learn more and give generously: umcmission.org/umcor_sunday/ #BeUMC

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

New national and state level statistics about immigration were just released. You can filter for your county and metro area, too. map.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/locations/na...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Remember, friends, that tomorrow (Feb. 28) is not only my birthday, it's a nationwide boycott of large corporations. Don't use your credit cards and don't buy anything except from small businesses. We are sending a message that we do not consent to the dismantling of our democracy.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

So... if Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE according to President Trump and he's not receiving a paycheck, can he be prosecuted for impersonating a government employee? www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

This

submitted 42 days ago • 214 comments

At today's briefing, WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who has banned the AP from covering Presidential events, was bragging about the success of Trump's anti-immigration efforts by citing a report from... the AP. She then went on to brag about a Judge refusing to block her banning of the AP.

submitted 41 days ago • 118 comments