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I am on the ground meeting with volunteers and knocking doors to ensure Elon Musk doesn't buy the WI Supreme Court. Already met a Dem with a cool Star Wars tattoo 🤩 Let's get Judge Crawford elected!
March 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A large group of clergy have gathered in front of the Supreme Court, calling on Congress to pass a “moral budget” and particularly protesting proposed cuts of Medicaid.
A column of clergy marching down a sidewalk. One holds a sign that reads “Medicaid Cuts = death to 36 million people.” Clergy gathered in front of the Supreme Court. A large crowd of clergy in front of the Supreme Court.
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Via me and @yonat.bsky.social: Trump admin abruptly cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles —> religionnews.com/2025/02/28/t...
Trump admin cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles
(RNS) — 'Our status as a resettlement agency based on this termination notice is over,' Danilo Zak, director of policy for Church World Service, told Religion News Service.
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February 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Another thing buried in here: folks didn't make as big a deal of it as when Musk went after Lutherans, but Musk *also* went after Church World Service — which resettles refugees and does other things as a cooperative ministry of several Christian denominations — in a tweet yesterday.
Elon Musk @elonmusk Subscribe Under the Biden administration, billions of dollars were shifted from helping Americans in need to facilitating illegal immigration. Super messed up! DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican Subscribe XI • .. While debugging, I found an interesting UEl—not USAID, but HHS, including FEMA-heavily tied to refugee programs. No wonder we ran out of money for Helene victims! Church World Service Inc. Active Awards: $376,134,024 UEI: KNKPMDF9EUB8 Reported Government Grants: $186,438,735 (2022) EIN: 134080201 One grant stands out: located in Kenya, with a description stating "PROVIDE REGIONAL REFUGEE PROCESSING SERVICE IN AFRICA FOR ALL US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS." - Does this mean the U.S. has been processing refugees directly from Africa?
February 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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NEW: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton is releasing a video, saying the church remains “steadfast” in its work & accusing Musk/others of of spreading “misinformation” and “casting baseless doubt” about “funding that supports Lutheran (orgs) across our country.”
"Despite misinformation and baseless doubt cast today on funding that supports Lutheran organizations across our country, the ELCA remains steadfast in our commitment and work with our many Lutheran partners and expressions of our church. The ELCA is also concerned for other faith-based communities and organizations who have similarly come under attack." ELCA Presiding Bishop Eaton
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Hey Lutherans, isn’t it time to stop being “nice”?
February 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My latest: A prominent Lutheran leader invoked the story of a martyr while defending work to help the needy after Elon Musk described federal funding for Lutheran aid orgs as “illegal” over the weekend.

"Be of good courage, Church, and let us persevere," she said. religionnews.com/2025/02/03/m...
Musk spotlights federal funds for Lutheran aid groups, calls them 'illegal payments'
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, accused Musk and others of spreading 'misinformation' and casting baseless doubt on longstand...
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February 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Lutherans Hammer Against Misinformation by Michael Flynn & Elon Musk
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Lutherans Hammer Against Misinformation by Michael Flynn & Elon Musk
We might need to update that famous saying by German Lutheran theologian Martin Niemöller. First they came for the Episcopalians … then they came for the Catholics … then they came for the Lutherans.
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February 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Pete Buttigieg responds to Trump’s vicious nonsense.
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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1. A quick thread about what you're seeing here from Charlie Kirk and Vice President Vance (note: multiple falsehoods in these screenshots): Conservative ire directed at religious orgs that aid migrants and resettle refugees has been years in the making, and can trace its origins to the far-right.
Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 • •• Allow me to explain how the government sanctioned so-called refugee resettlement "non-profits" really work. These are large companies that make more money from taxpayers the more "refugees" the government lets in. It's another cog in the mass migration racket. They build in margins for each refugee they resettle, so when we stop admitting people, so does their financing. This represents an existential crisis for them. So they misrepresent the scriptures, and they emotionally blackmail Americans on Sunday shows and in op-eds to gin up controversy and sob stories to game the refugee programs against our national interests. It's a financial racket that Trump just slammed shut. We will not be manipulated anymore. MARGARET BRENNAN: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week condemned some of the executive orders signed by President Trump, specifically those allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter churches and to enter schools. Do you personally support the idea of conducting a raid or enforcement action in a church service, at a school? VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Well, let me, let me address this. Of course, if you have a person who is convicted of a violent crime, whether they're an illegal immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you have to go and get that person to protect the public safety. That's not unique to immigration. But let me just address the- this particular issue, Margaret. Because as a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement. And I think that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We're going to enforce immigration law. We're going to protect the American people. MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah. VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Donald Trump promised to do that. And I believe the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, if they're worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border of Joe Biden--
January 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: In letter, a broad group of influential Jewish groups urge Trump not to enact "widespread persecution of immigrants" —> religionnews.com/2025/01/27/i...
In letter, Jewish groups urge Trump not to enact 'widespread persecution of immigrants'
(RNS) — 'Please do not enact policies that would turn places of solace into places of fear,' the letter reads.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference.

They are DEIA hires.

Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
January 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM