Trip Jennings
@trip-44.bsky.social
Nonprofit ED/Journalist who believes life is incomplete w/o family, friends, books, music & The Wire. Culturally adventurous. Lived all over. Seminary educated. Conflicted about religion, cool with doing justice & loving mercy.
"The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE” in bold blue letters."
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Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
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December 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE” in bold blue letters."
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I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
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Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
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Is AI a bubble of financial speculation soon to burst or a good investment? Time will tell.
A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea
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December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Is AI a bubble of financial speculation soon to burst or a good investment? Time will tell.
A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
It's a good question the author of the essay poses. To punish all immigrants who are from certain countries because of a sole criminal act perpetrated by one man. To single out people to question for possible deportation because they have Brown skin.
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Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's a good question the author of the essay poses. To punish all immigrants who are from certain countries because of a sole criminal act perpetrated by one man. To single out people to question for possible deportation because they have Brown skin.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Rising food prices got you down? Is buying a house out of reach? Don't worry, be happy. At least you can get into national parks for free on Donald Trump's birthday. But forget it on MLK Day or Juneteenth.
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National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Rising food prices got you down? Is buying a house out of reach? Don't worry, be happy. At least you can get into national parks for free on Donald Trump's birthday. But forget it on MLK Day or Juneteenth.
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Note to prospective jurors: When a judge warns you not to talk about the trial you're sitting in on, listen to the judge. Otherwise, consequences that might not occur to you might happen as a result of your actions. Like a judge throwing out a multimillion dollar jury award for a suffering family.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Note to prospective jurors: When a judge warns you not to talk about the trial you're sitting in on, listen to the judge. Otherwise, consequences that might not occur to you might happen as a result of your actions. Like a judge throwing out a multimillion dollar jury award for a suffering family.
“It’s no different than Mount Sinai and how the Holy Spirit came to be,” said Wendsler Nosie Sr., a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. “It’s a holy place that gives the teaching of God’s creation to all of us. It makes us who we are."
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A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine
An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to transform the sacred site in Arizona.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“It’s no different than Mount Sinai and how the Holy Spirit came to be,” said Wendsler Nosie Sr., a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. “It’s a holy place that gives the teaching of God’s creation to all of us. It makes us who we are."
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"President Donald Trump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.”
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Another line of attack: White House sets up a hall of shame for news outlets
President Donald Trump's White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"President Donald Trump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.”
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The document "echoes some of the language of the Great Replacement Theory, a nationalist conspiracy theory embraced by some of his top aides that warns of a deliberate effort to replace white people with nonwhite immigrants."
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Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
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December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The document "echoes some of the language of the Great Replacement Theory, a nationalist conspiracy theory embraced by some of his top aides that warns of a deliberate effort to replace white people with nonwhite immigrants."
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‘Signalgate’ report contradicts Hegseth’s claim of ‘total exoneration’
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‘Signalgate’ report contradicts Hegseth’s claim of ‘total exoneration’
The defense secretary’s actions “created a risk to operational security,” according to an independent assessment by the Pentagon’s inspector general.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
‘Signalgate’ report contradicts Hegseth’s claim of ‘total exoneration’
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White Friday - Northern Lights
YouTube video by Michael Falcone
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December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Spotify has informed me that this was my top song of 2025. Makes sense. 2025 was definitely Joe Strummer time.
#ThrowbackThursday
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#ThrowbackThursday
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Joe Strummer - Fantastic (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Joe Strummer Official
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spotify has informed me that this was my top song of 2025. Makes sense. 2025 was definitely Joe Strummer time.
#ThrowbackThursday
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#ThrowbackThursday
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"The Trump administration says it is targeting Venezuela to stop the flow of illegal drugs. But the country is not a source of illicit fentanyl to the United States, and Colombia and Mexico are much more important players in the global narcotics trade."
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Trump’s Threat of Military Action Is a Major Challenge to Maduro. Here’s What to Know.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The Trump administration says it is targeting Venezuela to stop the flow of illegal drugs. But the country is not a source of illicit fentanyl to the United States, and Colombia and Mexico are much more important players in the global narcotics trade."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...
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"Federal authorities had charged Cuellar, 69, and his wife with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico."
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Trump pardons Texas Democratic Rep. Cuellar in bribery and conspiracy case
President Donald Trump has pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Federal authorities had charged Cuellar, 69, and his wife with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico."
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When Jerry Mitchell interviewed the killer of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1990, most Americans bristled at Byron de la Beckwith’s beliefs. Now, 35 years later, the assassin is gone, but some of Beckwith's views are mainstream.
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Extreme views of assassin Beckwith from 35 years ago now in mainstream - Mississippi Today
Jerry Mitchell writes Beckwith's "anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-immigrant and anti-federal government rhetoric have made their way into the mainstream."
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December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When Jerry Mitchell interviewed the killer of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1990, most Americans bristled at Byron de la Beckwith’s beliefs. Now, 35 years later, the assassin is gone, but some of Beckwith's views are mainstream.
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“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, who was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in 2019, has requested a pardon while his trial is ongoing.
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Netanyahu Asks Israel’s President to Pardon Him in Corruption Cases
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November 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Benjamin Netanyahu, who was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in 2019, has requested a pardon while his trial is ongoing.
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