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Follower of Christ, husband, father... I've served on the school board and the deacon board and believe we're only going to fix things by making genuine, local connections with people who disagree with us.
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My five accomplishments this week 1) Served at a men's breakfast at church 2) Listened to an aggrieved federal employee who craved someone safe to vent to 3) Helped care for my 97 year old mother-in-law 4) Reached out to an old friend who is having health issues 5) Hugged my dog

Good words here. When Rs break with Trump on an issue like this let’s encourage it.

To cope: Pray Triage Speak only truth Love your neighbor Make art Evil withers in the presence of beauty.

Friday fantasy: if Trump is out early (25th, impeachment, temper tantrum abdication, etc) we get Vance. Is it possible for JD to morph back into a pre-MAGA version of himself to become plausible leader? I'm thinking that the damage is irreversible.

Here's my thinking, whichever governor (red or blue) spends the next two years running their state with integrity and actual fiscal responsibility should be the #1 pick on the ballot in 2028. Anyone with the skills to navigate this mess has my vote.

I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

One thing that keeps me going is my sincere hope that when this is all over, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aaron Sorkin get together to write: "Trump! The Musical"

Add Hagan Scotten to the roster of 2025’s American patriots.

"The most important thing Christians need to do in an authoritarian moment is to recognize who is actually king, who is actually the ruler, who actually holds history in his hands." - @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social

Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Mark 7: 6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.

Suppression of our First Amendment rights by the dictatorial regime is already happening.

Funny, but sadly accurate: youtu.be/SZ2L-R8NgrA?...

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

This is Ping. Ping is a good boy. Ping is a smart boy. Ping doesn't rage-post or feel sorry for himself just because he's limited by his lack of thumbs. He's a dog. His heart is pure. Instead, he loves and protects every human he comes in contact with. Let's be more like Ping.

Y'know, I think that our real protection against Musk's frat bros is the certainty that somewhere in the bowels of the Treasury system is 40 year old COBOL code running on an IBM System/360 emulator. You need to be born sometime before 1963 to crack that algorithm.

Look you can align yourself with the world's richest man and the world's most powerful man or you can align yourself with the poor and the refugee. And I'm just saying if you read the Bible for even 20 seconds, you can see which outcome does better for you in the eternal sense.

Are we reliving Jeremiah 18? Is the Potter poised to smash the clay, then shape a more pleasing vessel? Are we, like Judah, sacrificing to false gods; evil in our ways and stubbornly unrepentant?

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Elon Musk was not elected, is not a Federal official, and DOGE is not a real agency. Congress must act.

Make America Great Again? In two week's time we've been turned into a small, selfish child.

My fear right now isn’t that Trump is in control of this mess; it’s that he isn’t. I’m sure he blessed the 2025 plan at the outset, but I’m not sure he has the ability to reign in his flying monkeys anymore. Musk & Miller et al are running the show.