John Elwood
@jmelwood.bsky.social
Constructive theologian, ecorealist, lover of trees, hands in the dirt, practicing death.
170,000 vulnerable Americans about to be kicked out of their homes. Just another day in Trumpland.
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Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
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November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
170,000 vulnerable Americans about to be kicked out of their homes. Just another day in Trumpland.
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Maybe the billionaire dictator’s legal demand that he is allowed to starve 42 million hungry Americans will finally arouse us from slumber.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Maybe the billionaire dictator’s legal demand that he is allowed to starve 42 million hungry Americans will finally arouse us from slumber.
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"Could it be that this crisis invites us to reimagine our faith, toward one not wed to dreams of triumph and happy endings, but, like the Christ, faithfully and resolutely drinks the cup of the experience of God’s beloved world—the world to which we belong?"
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Letter to a Climate Veteran on the Eve of the Global Summit in Brazil
…To Lowell Bliss, director of the Christian Climate Observers Program
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November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Could it be that this crisis invites us to reimagine our faith, toward one not wed to dreams of triumph and happy endings, but, like the Christ, faithfully and resolutely drinks the cup of the experience of God’s beloved world—the world to which we belong?"
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The stench of authoritarianism
This is what you see on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC
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October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump has defied a court order and sending troops to Portland based on Fox News disinformation. Now is the time for everyone to take a stand.
NO KINGS protests everywhere on 10/18. Please find one near you in this link.
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NO KINGS protests everywhere on 10/18. Please find one near you in this link.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Trump has defied a court order and sending troops to Portland based on Fox News disinformation. Now is the time for everyone to take a stand.
NO KINGS protests everywhere on 10/18. Please find one near you in this link.
mobilize.us/s/6tVpxVr
NO KINGS protests everywhere on 10/18. Please find one near you in this link.
mobilize.us/s/6tVpxVr
Is this just wishful optimism, or is America—finally—waking up?
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The sleeping giant is awakening
After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump
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September 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Is this just wishful optimism, or is America—finally—waking up?
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I never before thought that it was dangerous to speak truth in my country. Those days are gone. Will we ever get them back?
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The Reichstag Is Burning
How an aspirational dictatorship makes use of a horrible murder
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September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I never before thought that it was dangerous to speak truth in my country. Those days are gone. Will we ever get them back?
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Maybe we just keep our heads down and say nothing. Stay out of trouble. Love the mild weather? Me too! Genocide? Fascism? I don't know anything about those words out of history books. But the Bake-Off is back! And such lovely weather!
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A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
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September 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Maybe we just keep our heads down and say nothing. Stay out of trouble. Love the mild weather? Me too! Genocide? Fascism? I don't know anything about those words out of history books. But the Bake-Off is back! And such lovely weather!
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Talking About Genocide
What happens when victims become perpetrators?
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August 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The Atlantic has looked closely at what the MAGA president is doing to American science & tech leadership, It's scary.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Atlantic has looked closely at what the MAGA president is doing to American science & tech leadership, It's scary.
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Here's Trump's new BLS data guy, right there storming the Capitol. Welcome to Trumpland.
#ICYMI: You can spot E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, in the crowd of Capitol rioters via our archive of 500+ Jan. 6 videos.
Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
August 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Here's Trump's new BLS data guy, right there storming the Capitol. Welcome to Trumpland.
Every empire eventually collapses. Only a few do so because of the madness of their ruler. Welcome to Trumpland. It's ironic that its dictator popularized the term "sh!th0le country," isn't it?
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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Every empire eventually collapses. Only a few do so because of the madness of their ruler. Welcome to Trumpland. It's ironic that its dictator popularized the term "sh!th0le country," isn't it?
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I plant my hope here, dear friends: Love will count, no matter what, even on the last day of the world. I will not always live up to that hope. But, I believe, you will help me.
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Epilogue: The MAGA Assault on a Livable World
Where can we search for hope now?
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July 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I plant my hope here, dear friends: Love will count, no matter what, even on the last day of the world. I will not always live up to that hope. But, I believe, you will help me.
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This is my 6th in a 6-part series covering the MAGA assault on our world. This one—Hobbling the Protectors—looks at the Trump program of mass firings, draconian budget cuts, rescinded health standards, and lawsuits—leaving the public defenseless against polluters.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is my 6th in a 6-part series covering the MAGA assault on our world. This one—Hobbling the Protectors—looks at the Trump program of mass firings, draconian budget cuts, rescinded health standards, and lawsuits—leaving the public defenseless against polluters.
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Friends, I've been alarmed at the steamroller that has shut down American science funding and silenced its dissemination. I've done my best to make it clear and short, but sadly, not-so-sweet. Please take a look. Thank you.
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Silencing the Science
Research warns the public. So shut it down cold. (#5 of 6 posts on the Trump ecological wreckage)
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July 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Friends, I've been alarmed at the steamroller that has shut down American science funding and silenced its dissemination. I've done my best to make it clear and short, but sadly, not-so-sweet. Please take a look. Thank you.
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My series on the MAGA assault on our planetary home continues. We turn here to the strangulation of clean energy in America.
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Trump’s Attack on Clean Energy
How the MAGA budget subsidizes pollution and strangles fast-growing American clean energy (#4 of 6 posts on the MAGA ecological wreckage)
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July 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My series on the MAGA assault on our planetary home continues. We turn here to the strangulation of clean energy in America.
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We own a collective sadness this July 4th:
July 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We own a collective sadness this July 4th:
What day is this? Independence Day? Or the day after we lost our last shreds of decency? I thought this might be the day to remember what our country just did. Please, take a moment to read.
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Well, We’re All Going to Die. (Whoopee!)
There’s a more honest name for the horrific “Big, Beautiful” thing
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July 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
What day is this? Independence Day? Or the day after we lost our last shreds of decency? I thought this might be the day to remember what our country just did. Please, take a moment to read.
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2 months ago, I wrote about my homeless friend, “Bryan,” naming him among what I thought would be 8.6 million Americans thrown off Medicaid. I had no idea he would be among 14 million souls left to suffer and die.
This is July 3, 2025. 7/3/25. Remember this day.
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This is July 3, 2025. 7/3/25. Remember this day.
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I'm sorry Bryan, but the rich need more money
My personal story of Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse
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July 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
2 months ago, I wrote about my homeless friend, “Bryan,” naming him among what I thought would be 8.6 million Americans thrown off Medicaid. I had no idea he would be among 14 million souls left to suffer and die.
This is July 3, 2025. 7/3/25. Remember this day.
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This is July 3, 2025. 7/3/25. Remember this day.
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The MAGA abandonment of a world facing climate crisis may be its most lasting crime.
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Trump’s America Walks Away—Again
The Paris Agreement was imperfect. Now it’s moribund
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July 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The MAGA abandonment of a world facing climate crisis may be its most lasting crime.
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You don't want to read all Trump's orders and actions to vandalize the Earth. I've done it for you! Here's the first of six short posts laying it out there clearly.
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Will You Survive Trump’s Environmental Blitzkrieg?
A six-post series explaining what MAGA is doing to your planet. #1: The “Emergency”
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June 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
You don't want to read all Trump's orders and actions to vandalize the Earth. I've done it for you! Here's the first of six short posts laying it out there clearly.
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Trump's pardons, demanding nothing but loyalty to him, taught me something important about my inherited religion.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Trump's pardons, demanding nothing but loyalty to him, taught me something important about my inherited religion.
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“Everyone will be affected by his actions, but the most vulnerable among us, our kids and grandkids, will suffer the most.” Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
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Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits
More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades
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June 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“Everyone will be affected by his actions, but the most vulnerable among us, our kids and grandkids, will suffer the most.” Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
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A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
June 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
If you don’t like the science, fire the scientists.
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said he decided to retire the 17 independent vaccine experts from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices because the panel has become a “rubber stamp” for vaccines.
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RFK Jr. purges every vaccine adviser on CDC panel, will pick replacements
Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of experts who recommend vaccines, has been "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest."
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June 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If you don’t like the science, fire the scientists.