Mark Winters
@liberalbeliever.bsky.social
Pastor, writer, dad, husband, lives in Edgartown, MA, Dad jokes always welcome
Look, believe what you want. I don’t judge. But it’s hilarious when people think they can offend me by calling the Bible “fiction”. Some of the truest stories humans ever told are fiction. Being a product of someone’s creative imagination doesn’t diminish them in any way.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Look, believe what you want. I don’t judge. But it’s hilarious when people think they can offend me by calling the Bible “fiction”. Some of the truest stories humans ever told are fiction. Being a product of someone’s creative imagination doesn’t diminish them in any way.
Just for the record—Republicans have shut down the government now for almost a month because they are that committed to the idea that health care ought to be a privilege for those who can afford it, not a right for everyone. It’s immoral.
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just for the record—Republicans have shut down the government now for almost a month because they are that committed to the idea that health care ought to be a privilege for those who can afford it, not a right for everyone. It’s immoral.
Being perpetually outraged, even at the legitimately outrageous, is exhausting. Take care of yourselves. Be gentle and kind with the people next to you. Laugh. Do fun things. Read some history, and/or historical fiction, to get your head out of the present. This could be a long ride.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Being perpetually outraged, even at the legitimately outrageous, is exhausting. Take care of yourselves. Be gentle and kind with the people next to you. Laugh. Do fun things. Read some history, and/or historical fiction, to get your head out of the present. This could be a long ride.
So, Conservatives are triggered and are demanding their own safe space for…<checks notes>…a halftime show at a football game? Wow.
October 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
So, Conservatives are triggered and are demanding their own safe space for…<checks notes>…a halftime show at a football game? Wow.
Another Republican opposed to republicanism. They should really just rename themselves the Tory party.
This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
October 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Another Republican opposed to republicanism. They should really just rename themselves the Tory party.
Some of the world is apparently just learning this week that it hurts to lose someone you care about to gun violence. Took longer than I expected, but hey, here we all are. Can we now work together and do something? We don’t have to live like this.
September 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Some of the world is apparently just learning this week that it hurts to lose someone you care about to gun violence. Took longer than I expected, but hey, here we all are. Can we now work together and do something? We don’t have to live like this.
I didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was. In the clips and quote I have seen since yesterday, he seems like a real jerk. But being a jerk doesn’t mean you deserve to get shot. No more than going to school, or shopping, or going to a movie or concert or place of worship—no one deserves to get shot.
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was. In the clips and quote I have seen since yesterday, he seems like a real jerk. But being a jerk doesn’t mean you deserve to get shot. No more than going to school, or shopping, or going to a movie or concert or place of worship—no one deserves to get shot.
This is important. globalsumudflotilla.org
Sail to Gaza - Collective Action for Gaza
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September 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This is important. globalsumudflotilla.org
Republicans have another opportunity to realize there are no “liberal” or “conservative” diseases. Everyone benefits from a competent Center to Control Disease. Just like everyone is hurt by a lack of such control. (Same with public policy generally, fwiw, but let’s start here with germs.)
August 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Republicans have another opportunity to realize there are no “liberal” or “conservative” diseases. Everyone benefits from a competent Center to Control Disease. Just like everyone is hurt by a lack of such control. (Same with public policy generally, fwiw, but let’s start here with germs.)
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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
If someone objects to #FlagBurning because Veterans faught/died “for the flag,” they are not only worshiping a false idol, they also clearly don’t realize what the flag actually symbolizes. #FreedomOfSpeech #ThanksVets
August 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If someone objects to #FlagBurning because Veterans faught/died “for the flag,” they are not only worshiping a false idol, they also clearly don’t realize what the flag actually symbolizes. #FreedomOfSpeech #ThanksVets
Make America White Again www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BygxvK/
Texas just passed the most racially gerrymandered map since before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, diluting Black and Latino voting power to flip up to five Democratic-held seats — all at Trump’s request....
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August 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Make America White Again www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BygxvK/
Re: Dobson’s passing…I don’t believe in conventional ideas of hell. I think James is experiencing the acceptance & love which he cruelly withheld from so many. This may torment his soul, as he walks the streets of heaven, encountering the departed saints he hurt. But God doesn’t hurt. God loves.
August 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Re: Dobson’s passing…I don’t believe in conventional ideas of hell. I think James is experiencing the acceptance & love which he cruelly withheld from so many. This may torment his soul, as he walks the streets of heaven, encountering the departed saints he hurt. But God doesn’t hurt. God loves.
The logic of slavery is alive and well. Otherwise, the people whose labor generates the wealth ought to have more of a share in it.
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios.
At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024.
Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570.
That’s a ratio of 632 to 1.
How can anyone defend this?
At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024.
Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570.
That’s a ratio of 632 to 1.
How can anyone defend this?
August 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The logic of slavery is alive and well. Otherwise, the people whose labor generates the wealth ought to have more of a share in it.
This is what moral leadership looks like
Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.
August 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is what moral leadership looks like
Sorry Republicans, you can’t actually control reality. Saying Climate Change is a hoax won’t stop the climate from changing. Taking away boxes on forms won’t erase Transgender Americans. Firing the people who count things won’t change actual nos. Time to face reality www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner
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August 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sorry Republicans, you can’t actually control reality. Saying Climate Change is a hoax won’t stop the climate from changing. Taking away boxes on forms won’t erase Transgender Americans. Firing the people who count things won’t change actual nos. Time to face reality www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
For the record, if you don’t believe that #dueprocess and #equalprotection of the law are rights belonging to everyone, you don’t really believe in either one
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
For the record, if you don’t believe that #dueprocess and #equalprotection of the law are rights belonging to everyone, you don’t really believe in either one
Wasn’t @columbiauniversity.bsky.social originally known as “King’s College”? I guess their capitulation is going back to their roots.
July 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Wasn’t @columbiauniversity.bsky.social originally known as “King’s College”? I guess their capitulation is going back to their roots.
So…Medicaid work requirements…FTR, some of us don’t believe that #healthcare is something one should have to “earn”. Every human needs healthcare and deserves it. Period.
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So…Medicaid work requirements…FTR, some of us don’t believe that #healthcare is something one should have to “earn”. Every human needs healthcare and deserves it. Period.
Just as you do it to the least of these who are members of my family, you do it to me. #Matthew25 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/m...
Children of migrant farm workers lose access to vital education services amid Trump $6 billion funding freeze - The Boston Globe
The Migrant Education Program provides additional academic support for the children of agricultural and fishery workers.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just as you do it to the least of these who are members of my family, you do it to me. #Matthew25 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/m...
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Public Broadcasting: $1 billion
Tax cuts for billionaires: $4 trillion
Defunding Elmo is not going to fix our debt problem.
Tax cuts for billionaires: $4 trillion
Defunding Elmo is not going to fix our debt problem.
July 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Public Broadcasting: $1 billion
Tax cuts for billionaires: $4 trillion
Defunding Elmo is not going to fix our debt problem.
Tax cuts for billionaires: $4 trillion
Defunding Elmo is not going to fix our debt problem.
Why do Republicans keep wanting to make life harder?
Three Republican-appointed judges just made it harder to cancel subscriptions you don’t want.
It's absurd that you can't just click to cancel.
Lina Khan fought for that change.
But now companies can trap you in subscriptions and squeeze you for every penny.
It's absurd that you can't just click to cancel.
Lina Khan fought for that change.
But now companies can trap you in subscriptions and squeeze you for every penny.
July 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Why do Republicans keep wanting to make life harder?
I used to at least respect Republicans’ value of fiscal responsibility. Disagreed on spending priorities, but I respected the value. This Big Ugly Bill is the most fiscally irresponsible budget I think I’ve ever seen. It’s inhuman and nakedly greedy for billionaires. It’s absolutely disgusting.
July 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I used to at least respect Republicans’ value of fiscal responsibility. Disagreed on spending priorities, but I respected the value. This Big Ugly Bill is the most fiscally irresponsible budget I think I’ve ever seen. It’s inhuman and nakedly greedy for billionaires. It’s absolutely disgusting.
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If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."