Hi Reverend Tara, I'll take a pdf! Tomtancredi@gmail.com. Recent ELCA convert from Catholicism, I'm trying to learn how to "Lent" the Lutheran way!

Pausing an organization to do an audit is the corporate equivalent to taking your car for an oil change. They probably need to review the current projects and the roadmap.

Well said. Trump took over the populist movement from Democrats after Dems squashed all opposition in their own party (sidelining Bernie, railroading primaries). Then went on to demonize people like me for voting for a similar under another Party

Genuine question: why? Like, if they're here illegally then why are they here? Was there a meeting of liberals that decided all immigration is good, and I missed it? If it's legal immigration I get the support - those folks have gone through a naturalization process.

In California? Run by a Democrat Mayor, with a Democrat legislative and judicial majorities, with a Democrat Govenor, with a Democrat Senators? I am *sure* those pesky conservatives really put the pressure to cut essential resources on (checks notes) the richest neighborhoods in the world.

We can hire DEI folks to be put in charge, but they also have to be accountable. It can't work any other way. You can't be responsible and not be accountable. Bass has some reparations to do...

Well, it's a balancing act. Some people think being queer is weird. It's literally in the name "queer." So we have to accommodate those beliefs as well as others. Ultimately, society is going to have to find a compromise that no one will like

Why did the mayor of LA cut $20M funding from the fire department? Why did insurance firms cut coverage months prior to the fire?

Is the complaint that Republicans aren't grifting on a castrophy with bogus GoFundMe websites? Missed opportunity, I guess. Maybe the spectacle of a major city burning gives people pause on their greed.

Rewarding companies for social engineering is literally a fascist process, regardless of the good intentions. That's assuming the best and it's not due to external pressures and incentives

Yeah, achievements were accomplished through a lot of bad stuff. Most come through competition and war, which are engines for repression and disregard of human life. We are lucky to live in the brief point of experimentation with liberal democracies, but it's not normal. Russia is normal.

Such a pleasure seeing USA compete in the Olympics. You never get to see everything but it's cool to see less-seen events like fencing and hammer throwing

It matters a lot. This was a land based empire of dozens of cultures and languages. A centralized and brutal government was needed to unite them it was effective until it wasn't - part of that was literacy. Central Asia was always a mess to govern except now there's aging nukes

Very good engineer and math curriculum under the Soviet system. They caught up dramatically

I don't understand why anyone who believes in helping their fellows thinks this is a good thing. J6 folks aren't and never were the enemy in my opinion. I think they got set up and the media ruled against them.

This issue puzzled me. I've voted green and Dem all my life. But the prosection of these folks turned me to trump. It just seems so lopsided - protesters and rioters firebombed state capitols with no charges and in some cases were actually paid for their inconvenience. Then this. I don't understand

I hope he pardons most of them. Some of the people weren't even at the capitol that day. That's a crazy miscarriage of justice.

For real? Send me a link!