Loren Strait

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

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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It tells me the insult and humiliation thrown at Zelenskyy was a planned and coordinated stunt. Trump is a national embarrassment.

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

Love Your Enemies. Are You Kidding Me? A sermon about living under a reign of revenge

Love Your Enemies. Are You Kidding Me?

Jesus doesn't want doormat followers in the face of Roman oppression. He wants people to stand up for dignity, equality, justice, and peace.

How we've gotten "turn the other cheek" wrong.

Don't give in. Resist in love.

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Don’t take any lectures about government fraud or waste from folks demanding to fund a second sector of education with unaccountable school vouchers—and cutting in middleman vendors to run the thing at 2.5-10% off the top of each transaction

YouTube video by Robert Reich The REAL Waste That DOGE Should Cut

Tax loopholes for the rich.

A bloated military budget.

Lucrative contracts and subsidies to private corporations.

These are all huge sources of federal waste and fraud, but don't expect Elon Musk and DOGE to take aim at any of them.

Wasn’t the outrage over Hillary Clinton’s private email server at home the possibility that it *might* contain sensitive information?

But now South African Michael Scott can just install a commercial server at OPM to scoop it all up?

It was almost effortless when one considers the speed in which Musk’s team accessed sensitive and critical government information.

It makes one wonder about Trump’s victory speech where he praises how Musk knows computers - also stating, “Those vote counting computers.”

It was almost effortless when one considers the speed in which Musk’s team accessed sensitive and critical government information.

It makes one wonder about Trump’s victory speech where he praises how Musk knows computers - also stating, “Those vote counting computers.”

It was almost effortless when one considers the speed in which Musk’s team accessed sensitive and critical government information.

It makes one wonder about Trump’s victory speech where he praises how Musk knows computers - also stating, “Those vote counting computers.”

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones | Substack Analysis and reflections on religion, white Christian nationalism, & protecting a pluralistic democracy. Hosted by NYT bestselling author Robert P. Jones, president/founder of PRRI. Click to read Whit...

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There are a lot of fake people out there. Jimmy Carter wasn’t one of them.

All the above!

Currently reading Nexus.

YouTube video by Big Think We can split the atom but not distinguish truth. Our information is failing us | Yuval Noah Harari

"If we are so smart, why are we so stupid?"

Information connects, unfortunately the easiest way to connect and unify large numbers of people is not with the truth but with fictions, fantasies and delusions.

Yuval Noah Harari, author of Nexus.

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