happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back

Know the story of person on a roof in a flood & someone comes by in a kayak then canoe then helicopter & they refuse b/c they're praying for God's help?

Then they die & ask God why he didn't help & he says I sent a kayak, canoe, & copter!

#GOP owns the canoes & copters & are still just praying.

This is human trafficking

They are having strange men come in to schools to take small children

Walter Brueggemann has died

“I was hungry” and you cut SNAP.

“I was thirsty” and you cut funding to ensure clean water.

“I was sick” and you cut medicaid.

“I was a stranger” and you deported me.

“I was in prison” and you just left me there to rot.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

A parable for our time. Pooh and Piglet are convinced they are tracking Woozles with hostile intent, becoming more and more frightened as the tracks multiply. Only when Christopher Robin calls to them from the tree above do they realize they’ve been following their own tracks around and around.

James Baldwin said Black Americans have the advantage of “having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen.” #cowboyapocalypse exposes this myth.

“In God’s kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor and the marginalized are not at the edges fearful and alone. They are at the center of the Gospel story … They are the bearers of the salvation of the world.”

— Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe

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For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.
O, let America be America again—

Langston Hughes, born Feb. 1, 1901

What we need isn’t more allies. We need co-conspirators. We need people willing to risk their comfort, create tension and make the comfortable uncomfortable until justice is achieved.”

"They say I died a virgin, but
then they say every martyred
woman was a virgin. I want"

From 'The Vanishing Song'

I will note that pulpit from which the Bishop gave her sermon is not only the one from which Martin Luther King Jr gave his last sermon on the Sunday before he was killed, it also contains a panel of a man being martyred, paired with an exhortation for God to open the eyes of a tyrannical leader.

Since this is making the rounds. Just.... no. After Jesus says, "Love your Neighbor," someone asks, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds with the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which he tells the audience that the ethnic group they hate the most are their neighbors. ⚓ #ActuallyReadTheBible

Love this quote!

Resistance

Just in case I forgot to post Daniel Hunter's fantastic guide here. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...