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Stephen Simpson ProperGander
@bamastephen.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Speaker, Encourager, Networker, Neighbor, Traveler, Seeker, Dreamer, Doer, Pastor, Weather Geek. Love God, family, neighbors.

Location: Mobile, Alabama 🌺
Alabama didn’t win the NCAA Football National Championship in 2025, but we did win the Super Bowl!

#FlyEaglesFly #RollTide
#PhiladelphiaCrimsonTide
February 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Beautiful job with “America the Beautiful” by Lauren Daigle and Trombone Shorty; wonderful rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Jon Batiste. New Orleans, Louisiana, knows how to host a Super Bowl. ⚜️

#SuperBowlLIX
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
OK, everybody, time for your Super Bowl predictions! Get yours in before kick-off. Here is mine … please don’t hate me, KC friends!

#FlyEaglesFly 
#SuperBowlLIX 
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Paraphrasing Neil Young, “Musk Never Sleeps.”
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Trump is a greedy hotelier with the mind of a sadistic toddler. A “toddelier,” if you will.

#Gaza #EthnicCleansing
February 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“American Pie” by Don MacLean has been running through my mind a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
🚨 Nobody elected Elon.
February 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
- Frederick Douglass

#BlackHistoryMonth
February 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My NEW February Pastoral Letter • “Love is Bigger” • READ (free link) ➡️ csmpublishing.org/february-202... • I’m not talking about any old casual love. This is about God-sourced, Jesus-lived, Holy Spirit-empowered love; the kind of love that is rooted, modeled and sustained in Him.

#Empathy
February 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Proposal: Instead of the Musky USA taking over Greenland, allow Greenland to buy and annex us while we’re still worth something. Every US citizen gets $5000 and a tin of caviar. We could become the Third Municipality of Greenland and a member of the Danish Realm. Long live King Frederik X! 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇸
February 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Donald Trump is a perfect storm of incompetence, mendacity, and sadism.

God save us all.
January 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Today’s disastrous Trump Press Conference regarding the tragic air crash in Washington DC only proves once again that Trump understands even less about Imago Dei than he does about DEI.
January 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
As an American and an Alabamian, I remember and honor our WWII heroes, the Tuskegee Airmen. May their service to our nation and to the cause of freedom never be forgotten, minimized, or belittled. Their history is our history.
January 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If we see a bully hatefully attacking a loved one or an innocent, the Lord leads us to intervene as an act of mercy and justice. One of my heroes is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man of peace who also resisted evil. Speaking out may be costly. Be strong, even in the face of fear. Heaven smiles on courage.
January 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
And as long as I am on your timeline, you will continue to see flakes!

Oh wait … you meant snow.

Never mind.
January 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
‘“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien “The Fellowship of the Ring”
January 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Remembering the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this #MLKDay.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” — MLK

May it be so, Lord. 🙏
January 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If, GOD FORBID, a violent mob should storm the Capitol on January 20, couldn’t they just claim to be patriotic tourists?
January 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The first volume of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the January 6 Trump Insurrection has been released to Congress and media outlets.

Despite Trump’s obstructive efforts, the American people will at long last have the rightful opportunity to see the report.

#J6
January 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
When asked why I wouldn’t watch this 2025 Trump Inauguration, my answer was simple: because I made the mistake of watching Trump’s 2017 ghastly Inauguration. I concur with George W. Bush’s caustic and succinct assessment of that one.
January 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Grieving and praying with you, Beth. My heart hurts for the entire Los Angeles region.
January 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
When I was the Associate Pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Houston, I was at an event where I was billed … well, let’s just say I had to remind folks that the proper abbreviation for “Associate” is “Assoc.”
January 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
May I ask a favor from my friends?

(See note below)

#California #Wildfire
January 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
PERSONAL SURGERY UPDATE FROM TODAY

+ Plus, deluxe frame able glamour shot of moi

📷 6AM this morning, pre-surgery waiting, while I was still clothed and in my right mind
January 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“Players only love you when they’re playing…”
January 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM