RevMom
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Mom, retired teacher, Episcopal priest, historian, poet, reader, guitarist, and Okie by the grace of God. Micah 6:8
Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez are both native-born U.S. citizens, born to native-born US citizens.
This cannot be said of four of Trump’s five children, who had immigrant mothers.
Nor Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and Jim Risch, either.
For the record. No pun intended.
This cannot be said of four of Trump’s five children, who had immigrant mothers.
Nor Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and Jim Risch, either.
For the record. No pun intended.
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez are both native-born U.S. citizens, born to native-born US citizens.
This cannot be said of four of Trump’s five children, who had immigrant mothers.
Nor Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and Jim Risch, either.
For the record. No pun intended.
This cannot be said of four of Trump’s five children, who had immigrant mothers.
Nor Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Thune, and Jim Risch, either.
For the record. No pun intended.
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Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
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Your heart is like a room. Why not escort all the things that are crowding that room out the door? Then there will be room for Jesus, who is your treasure. A meditation on today's Gospel: outreach.faith/2025/08/wher...
Where is your real treasure? - Outreach
Your heart is like a room. Why not escort all the things that are crowding that room out the door?
outreach.faith
August 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Your heart is like a room. Why not escort all the things that are crowding that room out the door? Then there will be room for Jesus, who is your treasure. A meditation on today's Gospel: outreach.faith/2025/08/wher...
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The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
August 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
Will people realize that this “new revenue stream” for the government is a new tax on consumption, which always affects those with less income more disastrously?
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Will people realize that this “new revenue stream” for the government is a new tax on consumption, which always affects those with less income more disastrously?
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
After a $1 TRILLION cut to Medicaid just got passed by this Congress and this administration…. We SHOULD be crying.
And fighting.
That’s $1,000,000,000,000.
And fighting.
That’s $1,000,000,000,000.
July 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
After a $1 TRILLION cut to Medicaid just got passed by this Congress and this administration…. We SHOULD be crying.
And fighting.
That’s $1,000,000,000,000.
And fighting.
That’s $1,000,000,000,000.
And then, just down the road about 50 miles, I laid my eyes on the absolute nadir. I mean, holy what the actual….
(It did seem emptier than Samuel Alito’s heart, so there’s that…)
(It did seem emptier than Samuel Alito’s heart, so there’s that…)
June 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
And then, just down the road about 50 miles, I laid my eyes on the absolute nadir. I mean, holy what the actual….
(It did seem emptier than Samuel Alito’s heart, so there’s that…)
(It did seem emptier than Samuel Alito’s heart, so there’s that…)
So today was the zenith. I love Thistle Farms, its mission, and its products.
#thistlefarms #nashville #loveheals
#thistlefarms #nashville #loveheals
June 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So today was the zenith. I love Thistle Farms, its mission, and its products.
#thistlefarms #nashville #loveheals
#thistlefarms #nashville #loveheals
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A short video about Juneteenth:
What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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June 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A short video about Juneteenth:
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Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!
Fascinating! I always wondered about something like this happening.
🗃️ “I made a form of prayer, instead of the prayer for the King, which was much approved.”-William Palfrey, 1775 From the @susih.bsky.social archives: I wrote about royalty, revolution, and religion #USIH #skystorians s-usih.org/2017/07/no-k...
No ‘King of Kings’ | Society for US Intellectual History
Can you pray a country into existence? This idea refueled warsick colonists as they made bloody progress through the American Revolution. Certainly, young William Palfrey thought so. On New Year’s Eve...
s-usih.org
June 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Fascinating! I always wondered about something like this happening.
Because they both profit from undocumented labor and they vote for the current administration?
Amplify this more (from a former DOJ prosecutor).
Haven’t seen one employer arrested. That needs to change if these raids are to continue.
Haven’t seen one employer arrested. That needs to change if these raids are to continue.
Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.
June 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Because they both profit from undocumented labor and they vote for the current administration?
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Last night, Capitol Police arrested roughly 60 veterans and their family members outside the U.S. Capitol. The group had gathered to hold a peaceful sit-in on the Capitol steps, but police intentionally set up a barrier of bike racks to prevent them from demonstrating.
June 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Last night, Capitol Police arrested roughly 60 veterans and their family members outside the U.S. Capitol. The group had gathered to hold a peaceful sit-in on the Capitol steps, but police intentionally set up a barrier of bike racks to prevent them from demonstrating.
June 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
June 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
What’s fiction is the words “The Honorable” in front of Zeldin’s name….
ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why.
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What’s fiction is the words “The Honorable” in front of Zeldin’s name….
Today we had a visitor at the pool— a broad-headed skink!
May 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Today we had a visitor at the pool— a broad-headed skink!
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WATCH: “THE MATH DOESN’T ADD UP… this was not about safety.
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat tells NC5 DHS undercut their own narrative by naming just 5 violent criminals out of 196 arrested in the @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE raids.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2YlHP...
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat tells NC5 DHS undercut their own narrative by naming just 5 violent criminals out of 196 arrested in the @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE raids.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2YlHP...
May 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
WATCH: “THE MATH DOESN’T ADD UP… this was not about safety.
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat tells NC5 DHS undercut their own narrative by naming just 5 violent criminals out of 196 arrested in the @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE raids.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2YlHP...
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat tells NC5 DHS undercut their own narrative by naming just 5 violent criminals out of 196 arrested in the @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE raids.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2YlHP...
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"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM.
All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
Did staffing cuts at weather service affect Kentucky’s tornado response?
Due to staffing shortages, the National Weather Service in Jackson no longer has overnight staff. But NWS and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear say the office was staffed Friday night and early Saturday.
www.kentucky.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM.
All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
The politics are bad because the policy is not just bad, it is cruel and inhumane.
WATCH: “The politics of this are so bad it literally blows my mind.”
Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.
1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.
Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.
1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The politics are bad because the policy is not just bad, it is cruel and inhumane.
Maybe it’s not about the immigrants, except as that topic fosters the inhumanity and the cruelty?
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
May 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Maybe it’s not about the immigrants, except as that topic fosters the inhumanity and the cruelty?
There’s a liturgy for that in my outdated copy of the Book of Occasional Services. It’s right after the Chalking of the Portcullis.
May 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There’s a liturgy for that in my outdated copy of the Book of Occasional Services. It’s right after the Chalking of the Portcullis.
This is life in a police state.
@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is life in a police state.