Caleb Barrett

Hot take: what if Maranatha (Come, Lord Jesus) is not so much about the Second Coming, but about Christ's presence in our lives now. I know I need Him.

A consistent ethic of exploitation of the vulnerable runs through this administration’s actions, and the callous treatment of unhoused image-bearers in our city is only the latest manifestation of it.

There aren’t shelter beds for everyone living outside.

There aren’t treatment facilities for everyone living outside.

You cannot jail & fine your way out of homelessness.

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

Pointing out again that these are not “equal opportunity” attacks - the Federal workforce feeling the bulk of DOGE layoffs and court-approved attacks on bargaining rights is more female + more POC than the overall workforce.

Yesterday it was the recruiting ad with the Times New Nazi font.

Today it's the recruiting ad referring to a book published by someone with clear ties to the Turner Diaries--the deeply racist book about a race war that inspired, among others, Timothy McVeigh.

This is all damn overt.

FBI and Border Patrol patrolling the streets of Washington DC after Trump’s federal takeover of the city.

They return at evening,
snarling like dogs,
and prowl about the city.

See what they spew from their mouths—
the words from their lips are sharp as swords,
and they think, “Who can hear us?”

…For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride.

—Psalm 59

Fascism, out in the open now. And the American people are the enemy.

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

the issue is that producing stark declines in crime and public disorder is generally not reported on, but that any instance of violence is given sensational coverage, so that the perception is of growing crime even when american cities are safer than ever

Has anyone figured out yet where the money from these schools is going to go?

I mean, to be fair to Trump's take, the city IS run by a lawless crime boss, a convicted felon who escaped punishment and corruptly protect thousands of violent lawbreaking followers from punishment.

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.

This line by Klein, unsurprisingly, really gnawed at me.

So a few months back I wrote a rebuttal to it @newrepublic.com.

The tl;dr: Klein is right that we cannot fact-check our way out of vibes on crime ... bc media and podcasters (like him!) keep the general public afraid of it!

2/2 Our fruit says whether Christ is ours and we are his. Not our idiotic quibbling over man’s attempt to codify God.

When we face God on that great day … He won’t ask us what scholarship we clung to or what doctrinal camps we subscribe to. He will ask what we did for the least of us.

/ENDS

Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists.

Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague

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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Just more proof, not that it is needed, that “tough on crime” politicians have never cared about safety, but social control.

They “back the blue” only insofar as the police further their agenda of control.

When police thwart that, FOR SAFETY, it is acceptable to call for their death.

I have been ardently pro-Israel all my adult life. I served in joint ops with the IDF. I've been to the West bank, Ramallah. Stayed at a Kibbutz. Looked down into Syria from the Golan Heights.

They've lost me. I began flying the Palestinian flag in front of my house. Feed the people already

So ridiculous. (And so familiar)

Every state needs this bill introduced. The klan wore masks too

CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.

Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”

RFK Jr is doing to the US what he did to Samoa:
“In the small island country of Samoa, lives have been forever altered by an outbreak of the disease in 2019 that caused at least 83 deaths & 1,867 hospitalisations, mostly of babies & young children. Thousands more fell sick” bsky.app/profile/aust...

At least half my views on our current predicament come from the years I lived in South America. I’d recognize these mob boss type politicians anywhere.

It’s so annoying that US media treats GOP policy as serious attempts to address problems. It’s just crime, my dudes. Extortion. Bribes. Theft.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

A Christianity rooted in patriarchy will always define women first and foremost by their relationship to men.

A Christianity rooted in the gospel of Jesus will always see women first and foremost as fellow human beings created in God's image.

May we understand the difference.

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.