Sara Baron
@snarky-pastor.bsky.social
Progressive United Methodist pastor, math geek, amateur baker and skier, introverted justice seeker.
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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
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This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
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The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich.
And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years.
Oligarchy.
And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years.
Oligarchy.
If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
This is his part-time job
This is his part-time job
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich.
And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years.
Oligarchy.
And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years.
Oligarchy.
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All four constitutional amendments have been officially ratified across The United Methodist Church!
#MFSAVoices #JusticeSeeking #UMC #InclusiveChurch #BelovedCommunity
#MFSAVoices #JusticeSeeking #UMC #InclusiveChurch #BelovedCommunity
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
All four constitutional amendments have been officially ratified across The United Methodist Church!
#MFSAVoices #JusticeSeeking #UMC #InclusiveChurch #BelovedCommunity
#MFSAVoices #JusticeSeeking #UMC #InclusiveChurch #BelovedCommunity
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How to answer a loaded question.
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How to answer a loaded question.
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
All of this
The mad would-be king cannot abide even a moment of calm. He thrives on crises, emergencies, chaos, disarray — all of which give him more power, if we let them. How should we cope with this Trump chaos? Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-coping-with-trumps
Sunday thought: Coping with Trump's chaos
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All of this
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their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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They will price people out of healthcare, a living wage, and now even basic necessities. Millions will starve without funding for SNAP benefits. Now, the Republican Party has started interfering with private businesses. They want to prevent them from being able to help the communities they serve.
Not only are they cutting SNAP and refusing to send food to food banks, “the administration has told grocery stores that they cannot offer discounts to customers affected by the lapse of SNAP.”
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
You see this EUGENICS here?
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
You see this EUGENICS here?
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
They will price people out of healthcare, a living wage, and now even basic necessities. Millions will starve without funding for SNAP benefits. Now, the Republican Party has started interfering with private businesses. They want to prevent them from being able to help the communities they serve.
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This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
U.S. strikes alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side.
In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...
In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...
U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side
This is the first U.S. strike against an alleged drug vessel on the Pacific side of South America.
www.cbsnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So no terrorism then?
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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We have laws against murder. Those laws should be enforced against the people murdering people on Caribbean boats.
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We have laws against murder. Those laws should be enforced against the people murdering people on Caribbean boats.
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NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
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Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.
September 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The need to silence your critics only reveals how weak and fragile you are.
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outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois:
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
September 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois:
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.
a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.
It's dictatorship consolidating power.
Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's dictatorship consolidating power.
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The Trump administration can’t threaten to punish media organizations like ABC and the New York Times because they don't like what they have to say.
The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.
The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The Trump administration can’t threaten to punish media organizations like ABC and the New York Times because they don't like what they have to say.
The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.
The right to speak freely, protest peacefully, choose our own religious practice, and access a free press is foundational to our democracy.
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Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year.
Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.
It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared
Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.
It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared
How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year.
Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.
It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared
Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.
It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared
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First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.
August 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.
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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
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July 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
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Not. A. Victim. Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sexually abusing children. Yes. Children. She herself. That was in addition to recruiting grooming for Jeff Epstein.
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July 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Not. A. Victim. Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sexually abusing children. Yes. Children. She herself. That was in addition to recruiting grooming for Jeff Epstein.
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