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I've been in such a good mood ever since Tuesday night. Now Chuck Schumer is sabotaging every bit of leverage we'd accrued. I hate it when people say they don't vote because it makes no difference and both parties are bad, but my god, do you have to give them justification?
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I've been in such a good mood ever since Tuesday night. Now Chuck Schumer is sabotaging every bit of leverage we'd accrued. I hate it when people say they don't vote because it makes no difference and both parties are bad, but my god, do you have to give them justification?
It's so interesting that when the Iraq war started, non-Muslim Americans criticized Islam by saying that it subjugates women, but now women's subjugation is treated as unquestionably Christian.
September 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's so interesting that when the Iraq war started, non-Muslim Americans criticized Islam by saying that it subjugates women, but now women's subjugation is treated as unquestionably Christian.
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Aimed at a Jewish audience, but worth reading for those meeting opposition from Christians who believe we must support the government of Israel for theological reasons. If a Jewish Rabbi can’t persuade you, who can?
I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Aimed at a Jewish audience, but worth reading for those meeting opposition from Christians who believe we must support the government of Israel for theological reasons. If a Jewish Rabbi can’t persuade you, who can?
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"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
snyder.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
Christianity is fundamentally anti-imperial. I don't recognize it in Mike Johnson. Or MAGA.
July 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Christianity is fundamentally anti-imperial. I don't recognize it in Mike Johnson. Or MAGA.
I get that it's a marathon, not a sprint, but the extent of the damage that's being done real quick while we laboriously call our (oblivious) reps, record individual ICE raids, and scrabble in the sofa cushions for money to send refugees--it's horrendous.
June 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I get that it's a marathon, not a sprint, but the extent of the damage that's being done real quick while we laboriously call our (oblivious) reps, record individual ICE raids, and scrabble in the sofa cushions for money to send refugees--it's horrendous.
Des Moines Iowa No kings
June 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Des Moines Iowa No kings
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Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
March 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
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1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
February 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”
Jimmy Carter, may his memory be a blessing.
December 29, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Jimmy Carter, may his memory be a blessing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ve been thinking that we were maybe experiencing civilizational collapse, and here’s this article. I really, really think the only way to cope is by being kind and generous.
I’ve been thinking that we were maybe experiencing civilizational collapse, and here’s this article. I really, really think the only way to cope is by being kind and generous.
‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable?
Academic Danilo Brozović says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction – today’s society needs radical transformation to survive
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ve been thinking that we were maybe experiencing civilizational collapse, and here’s this article. I really, really think the only way to cope is by being kind and generous.
I’ve been thinking that we were maybe experiencing civilizational collapse, and here’s this article. I really, really think the only way to cope is by being kind and generous.
I don't have any followers so probably no one will read this. But. Our democracy is dying (slowly, then all at once) because of money in politics. It's so expensive to run for office that politicians depend on oligarchs.
November 19, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I don't have any followers so probably no one will read this. But. Our democracy is dying (slowly, then all at once) because of money in politics. It's so expensive to run for office that politicians depend on oligarchs.