“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”

-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol

No other president has ever done less, longer.

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A Christianity that causes the hungry to go without food, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be mistreated, and God’s creation to be ravaged, all while the greedy and cruel satisfy their every desire, is a Christianity that can no longer claim to follow Christ.

Is Trump going to bail out the other businesses who are going under or losing money because of his tariffs, or only people who sell soybeans to the Chinese?

If Antifa were a real group, you’d be able to buy merch.

Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.

The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.

As federal authorities sweep homeless encampments in D.C. , I want to resurface the reporting we @propublica.org did last year on the possessions people lose, which include the things they need to survive: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name." -- John Stuart Mill (1867)

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
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Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes start crashing into each other.

Elon Musk:

- Welcomed neo-Nazis to X
- Replies to neo-Nazis on X
- Reposts neo-Nazis on X
- Funds neo-Nazis through X
- Engages with racist memes on X
- Posts racist, anti-trans and other bigoted rhetoric on X
- Performed three Nazi salutes on stage while the world was watching

This isn't hard.

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech?

We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!