Zach Grant!

What's giving you the most bang for your buck in terms of doing good in the world?

I'm really enjoying being on the boards of some non-profits in a way I never thought I would, and my church is doing a great job of putting me into friendship with folks I likely wouldn't find otherwise.

Bluesky has been accused of being an echo chamber, but one thing I love about not having to engage with trolls and bots is that it nurtures a more constructive engagement in me.

It's not healthy to spend the whole day dunking on people and imagine that's good for me and good for the world.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

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Organizing and care for our local community is the only way I can stay grounded.

There are lots of ballrooms that don't cost 300,000,000. You can buy tents or not have everything covered in gold, cowards.

This is not who we want to be. A terrible indictment of who we currently are.

Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a detainee at Dilley wrote: “I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”

“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”

- Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo

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This is not who we want to be. What cold, inhuman way to treat people.

Get 'em!

These guys are in a race to extract as much wealth as they can and parasite as much life from the world as they're able. They only care what people think about them in the superficial money-lens they view their whole lives.

Ash from the evil dead in a promotional poster holding an ax and a shotgun

happy ash wednesday

Thank you for sharing!

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Sun is breaking through.

Coffee is made.

Time to gracefully ease into our Sunday.

Good Morning, America!

#RadioFreeAmerica

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The book cover for "Cripping* Youth Ministry." It features an image depicting Jesus in a wheelchair.

Zach and Chris in the car smiling

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I was able to write a chapter and work on another chapter with Chris for this amazing book. I'm really excited for it to come out and to read what the other contributors wrote.

Snark when I read it in a response to one of my own posts or arguments always seems like an attempt to evade what's really at stake. It's difficult to eliminate it from my own range of responses, but it always leads to much better discussion.

“Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, stole a bunch of its oil, sold it, and stashed the money in banks in Qatar” is a stone-cold CLASSIC of this genre

Absolutely incredible hackjob while *quoting the tweet you're chopping up*.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Honey-colored dog sitting in a leather arm chair

Honeydog is the first dog I've ever had. She's also my favorite dog I've ever met. Does everyone feel this way about their dog?

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

What's getting you down?

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More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.

This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.