Jon Trott

Yep. The problem with American Christian nationalism is that it has always been white. Always. Which is why Jesus followers cannot adhere to it and meaningfully be called Jesus followers.

A fine Southern Baptist. They know how to oppress women over there, those Southern Baptists do. Largest Protestant denomination in America. And they hate women. Just like their leaders do. Am I a pissed Christian who loves women? Yes I am. Exvangelicals make some noise.

Paul de Kruif's 1926 "Microbe Hunters" (complete w the exact artwork below) tells of the heroic discovery of microbes and vaccines. I read it as a kid in the mid 1960s. Like all good science, vaccines are not the creation of one person, but hundreds. Thousands. RFKJr's worm eaten brain vs all that.

If a soul was around for the screaming Evangelicals did about Bill Clinton's sex with an intern era, watching all of this makes that vexed soul want to scream back, loudly, YOU DAMN HYPOCRITES! But of course they don't care.

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'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on Bluesky Past comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged"

A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

As a Christian activist... or just an activist period... how do set priorities beyond merely typing (as I'm doing now)? Do you march? Do you contribute $$ to activist organizations? And how do you prioritize between - for instance - marching for womens' rights and BLM marches?

Hey, look! It's the new Evangelical poster boy, covering for the amoral dude appointed by the bigger amoral dude. Nice work. And to think Bill Clinton got in trouble with these moral midgets for one intern.

What hobby do you pursue in this dark Drumph time to help comfort yourself? For me, fixing old cast-off laptops up with Linux is a soothing diversion. In the below case, a *really* sad HP (I did clean it up later from what looked like whiteout spilled on it.)

I'm not an atheist, but in the past 15 years have progressively moved away from Evangelicalism. Still a believer, but also a mutt theologically, and suspect I'm going to remain that way.

Outspoken Christan tired of Christianity doing its best to destroy the country. And the world, for that matter.

As a Christian since my 16th year (I'm 67 now) I cannot fully explain just how totally disgusting, disquieting, and evil this whole Evangelical Christian Nationalist movement is. Huckabee says there is no such thing as a Palestinian.

I'm trying to suppress my rage. I work at a homeless shelter that depends on government money - in part - to run at all. There is no way Trump's America gives a rat's. And this tragedy is about to be writ large everywhere in America.

Georgia’s Fulton County Jail subjects inmates to ‘inhumane, violent’ conditions that threaten their safety, DOJ finds | CNN The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday, announ...

Trump hates the DOJ. That's because even as imperfect as it is, the DOJ does sometimes pursue justice for the least of these. Like this:
www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/u...

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Deleted my Twitter account when Musk started dismantling that platform. Here I am on BlueSky. Hoping for a social media platform that is more about users than endlessly sifting our information. And hoping for a little more humanity, which tech ought to be able to generate.