Jake Messersmith

This is what it means to take the Lord's name in vain. So gross & yet this is what 81% of White evangelicals have lifted up.

When you demonize and harm the immigrant, the poor, the sick, and the marginalized with oppressive laws, you don’t need to tell me about your religious beliefs.

You've already shown me what they are by how you're mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the sick, and the marginalized.

Exactly ..

As a pastor, I'm not concerned about those who question God or even doubt God. That’s just part of faith.

My concern are those who claim to know the mind of God better than anyone and therefore act as though they have the right to impose their beliefs on everyone else.

Bacon: "Why are we showing favoritism to the thug, to the dictator, to the murderer? It doesn't make sense to me."

🇺🇦Supporters of Ukraine have unfurled the world’s largest Ukrainian flag on the White House ellipse, pushing for the U.S. to continue its aid against the Russian invasion: “Do not abandon Ukraine!”

"America is back!"

Trade war raising prices
Measles
Destroying alliances
Killing aid to people who need food, clean water, and health care
Medical and scientific research hobbled
National parks closed
Inhumane deportations
Putin very very very happy

Feeling some strong Hosea 8:7 vibes these days... "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

What Fresh Hell Do We Have Today? Sure, we’ve abandoned Ukraine, launched a trade war with our neighbors, and insulted close allies. But at least we’re screwing over our veterans, too.

"In the minds of many Canadians, extreme measures are legitimate because 'this isn’t really a trade war—it’s a shakedown.' The same day Trump said tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods would go ahead, a story broke that he is seeking to ease sanctions on Russia." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puti...

‘America First’ Is a Lie America has *always* been about putting America first. Trump’s “America First” movement is about something else entirely.

"The ability to spend money is one of our key advantages. And yet today’s 'America First' class thinks that spending money in order to shape the world is some kind of weakness."

“I would rather go down to my political grave with a clear conscience than ride in the chariot of victory.” – George Norris, 1942.

Any chance there is a George Norris left in Republican leadership?

Trump Now Has His Election-Denial Dream Team Patel, Bondi, and Vance have helped Trump lie about 2020 and still refuse to concede he lost. That makes them a threat in 2028.

"When Vance tells the Europeans that the greatest danger facing democracy is 'the threat from within,' he’s right. But that threat isn’t coming from Europe. It’s coming from the United States." ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-now-...

Opinion | Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia’s dictator.

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance.

Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin

WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.

But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.

He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Bullying, berating Trump shows his worst self in Zelenskyy ambush The president said his horrific blowup would make ‘great television’ – the White House has rarely seen anything like this

“Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised & protocol was shredded…As Trump got into a shouting match with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.”

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.

He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

More class in his pinky than Trump has shown his entire life.

On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.

Story by Nasrin Nawa. AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon.

"When God gives us his Spirit, it's partly to equip us to be his agents in holding the world to account." @ntwright.bsky.social clarifies the church's vocation in the public sphere (🎙️Holy Post 644)

A day of shame.

Don’t Give Up on America No previous generation abandoned this country’s ideals. We shouldn’t, either.

"Only a revived faith in who we are, what we have been, what we have achieved can provide the energy, purpose, and direction to help us find the courage and determination to perpetuate our special democracy." It's over when we give up.

No, Trumpism Can’t Be Fused with Reaganism Unless you’re willing misrepresent one or the other.

"Reagan was a zealous patriot, a gifted orator, and a statesman. Trump is a grifter, a humorless clown, and a dangerous demagogue. The very idea of a Trump-Reagan fusion is a grotesque calumny of the Gipper." Gabriel Schoenfeld from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trumpis...

It's not about Brown, or Caine, or other individuals. It's not about reforming DOD . What it's about, at DOD and DOJ and the FBI and the intelligence community, is breaking all institutional resistance to Trump, and ensuring as much as is possible personal fealty to Trump.