Rev. V. Ruth Schulenberg

Frankly it’s embarrassing how much George Orwell’s “1984” gets wrong about 1984. The publisher should update it to be more accurate, e.g. “Winston heard ‘Eat It’ by Weird Al Yankovic playing on the radio. ‘I’d hate to be Michael Jackson right now!’ he said to Big Brother”

We want to take a moment to express how proud we are of you, America. You have stood up and spoken out every step of the way—especially when Congress and the media remained silent. When we called for help, you answered.

Elon Musk is a terrible president!

USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion annually in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers.

In honor of black inventors.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Trump claims he’s on the side of the working class. Really?

The reckless decision to release billions of gallons of water from the Terminus and Schafer Dams is already hurting farms and farmers.

It’s a massive waste.

I'm demanding answers from the Army Corps of Engineers about what happened. And why.

February 6, 2025 The U.S.

February 6, 2025

People are talking about having to change their CVs in order to continue to work with certain grant funded programs or for their own program to be contracted for services. Can't specialize in black folk/culture/community anything.

i dunno. i think when someone invokes the Fifth Amendment during their confirmation hearing to be director of the FBI, something is amiss.

@kashpatel.bsky.social #bloop

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:

- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more

#NIH #MedSky #research #science

Is the criteria to be an FBI agent swearing allegiance to the Constitution?

Or is it swearing allegiance to Donald Trump?

Musk to rehire Treasury DOGE staffer behind racist posts after Trump endorses idea Marko Elez was on the DOGE team formed by Elon Musk and tasked by President Donald Trump with cutting federal spending and reducing the government workforce.

The guy so overtly fascist and pro-eugenics that even Musk fired him from DOGE?

Yeah, Trump is rehiring him

www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/e...

Oops 😬

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

Another of musk's youth turns out to have a shady past, this one for leaking secrets. Particularly important given that he has unlawfully been given access to the private information of all government employees

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

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I was there and appreciate their commitment to democratic principles.

I’m deeply concerned about Musk’s takeover of key federal tech infrastructure and the constant attacks on career federal employees trying to keep their oath to defend the Constitution.

“A president is not a king”.

“A law is not a suggestion”.

“We have a constitutional crisis”.

Senator Jeff Merkley, ranking Democratic Party member of the US Senate Budget Committee, just now.

Thank you! I was there tonight in Salem & pleased to see a large crowd. I appreciated your and Sen. Merkley’s responses.

One question still concerns me: How can we support the remaining career federal employees who are trying to defend the Constitution amid these attacks on our infrastructure?

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

I wrote this on one of the darkest days of my life. It gave me an anchor to hold onto.

LOOK CLOSER: My oldest son operates a 300k crane. It's a big crane. Today, he was sent home early because the undocumented workers who do the hard, labor-intensive work staging the loads to be picked up didn't come to work. His current job site, which is usually bustling, is a ghost town.

That’s terrible because it’s a fantastic and important book.

That is disrespectful of you to try to steal some of the honor being given to Rev. Dr. Gafney. Do you not see the hypocrisy of using “wisdom” instead of “Lord” in the Psalms while engaging in the white feminist sin of “lording”over a Black woman by centering yourself here?

"I will light candles this Christmas" by Howard Thurman

Agreed!

They also use massive and unsustainable amounts of energy.