@pastopher.bsky.social
Assistant Vice-President for Re-Evaluation & Co-Chair of Subcommittee on Redundancy and Duplication Removal.
Also in my free time I’m a UMC Pastor, husband to Robin and dad to 2 great young men. Soccer fan, book devourer, and ponderer of many things.
Also in my free time I’m a UMC Pastor, husband to Robin and dad to 2 great young men. Soccer fan, book devourer, and ponderer of many things.
Reposted
hmm seems like a problem
(Reuters) - Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources ..
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
June 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
hmm seems like a problem
Reposted
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
Reposted
We saw the storm brewing a mile away.
April 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We saw the storm brewing a mile away.
Reposted
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
April 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
Reposted
The most relevant piece of information here is the R which Senator Murkowski keeps next to her name. She and three other Senators could take full control of the government out of the hands of the organization she herself describes as using terror tactics.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
April 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The most relevant piece of information here is the R which Senator Murkowski keeps next to her name. She and three other Senators could take full control of the government out of the hands of the organization she herself describes as using terror tactics.
Reposted
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
April 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
Reposted
Trump’s new tariffs don’t make economic sense — and that’s the point. These tariffs are designed to cause widespread pain so that Trump can use the power of relief as a form of extortion: indivisible.org/tariffs
April 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Trump’s new tariffs don’t make economic sense — and that’s the point. These tariffs are designed to cause widespread pain so that Trump can use the power of relief as a form of extortion: indivisible.org/tariffs
Reposted
They are totally aware that social security goes to children who’s parents have died. They are totally aware of the tragedy lived by millions of families for whom that social security is a tiny, tiny bandaid. They don’t care. The cruelty is the point.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
They are totally aware that social security goes to children who’s parents have died. They are totally aware of the tragedy lived by millions of families for whom that social security is a tiny, tiny bandaid. They don’t care. The cruelty is the point.
Reposted
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
Reposted
PLAY AROUND: With a new tool built by the Nebraska Examiner's Zach Wendling that lets you go deeper into how your legislative district voted in recent elections on different races.
‘Will of the voters’: Recent election results by Nebraska legislative, congressional districts • Nebraska Examiner
The Nebraska Examiner is launching a new resource to break down election margins by legislative and congressional districts for recent years.
buff.ly
April 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
PLAY AROUND: With a new tool built by the Nebraska Examiner's Zach Wendling that lets you go deeper into how your legislative district voted in recent elections on different races.
Reposted
This is exactly why they did it with plain clothes, masked officers. To trigger this.
Cases of civilians posing as ICE agents to detain migrants are on the rise
Paola Nagovitch
April 10, 2025
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
Paola Nagovitch
April 10, 2025
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
Cases of civilians posing as ICE agents to detain migrants are on the rise
A man has been arrested in Florida for impersonating a federal agent after chasing two Latinos who refused to prove their immigration status
english.elpais.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is exactly why they did it with plain clothes, masked officers. To trigger this.
Reposted
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Reposted
ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Reposted
Trade deficits sound scary, but aren’t. Buying more from a grocery store than it buys from you is normal - so is a trade deficit. Trade deficits are often larger when we have money to spend.
Setting tariffs based on trade deficits is like taxing your grocery store hoping it’ll shop at your house.
Setting tariffs based on trade deficits is like taxing your grocery store hoping it’ll shop at your house.
April 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Trade deficits sound scary, but aren’t. Buying more from a grocery store than it buys from you is normal - so is a trade deficit. Trade deficits are often larger when we have money to spend.
Setting tariffs based on trade deficits is like taxing your grocery store hoping it’ll shop at your house.
Setting tariffs based on trade deficits is like taxing your grocery store hoping it’ll shop at your house.
Reposted
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”
wapo.st/4jdXL8m
wapo.st/4jdXL8m
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
wapo.st
April 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
Reposted
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
National Park Services removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage | CNN
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump a...
www.cnn.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
Reposted
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Reposted
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
The President of the US is actively spreading Russian Propaganda. What a disgrace. Thankful former VP Pence for speaking out.
February 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The President of the US is actively spreading Russian Propaganda. What a disgrace. Thankful former VP Pence for speaking out.
Google renamed the Gulf in maps & dropped Black History & Pride from calendar, despite EO's having no legal force outside the exec. branch (and the US not actually owning the Gulf). I switched all my default search engines (browsers & phone) to no longer use Google. I encourage you to do the same
February 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Google renamed the Gulf in maps & dropped Black History & Pride from calendar, despite EO's having no legal force outside the exec. branch (and the US not actually owning the Gulf). I switched all my default search engines (browsers & phone) to no longer use Google. I encourage you to do the same
Reposted
As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."
February 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."
Reposted
JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Reposted
Connect the dots...
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
Trump’s biggest corruption yet
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Connect the dots...
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
Reposted
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.