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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.

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I suspect the next few weeks of living in a Dorothea Lange photo are going to shatter a lot of Americans' preconceptions about who's using SNAP and WIC.

The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.

Whether it's Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Trump dumping brown liquid on protesters, both presidents have made some controversial earth-tone color choices.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

A Rogue Nation on the High Seas Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.

Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.

Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.

Horrific to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. Political violence must be always and totally rejected. Praying for him and all who may have been injured or impacted.

No. I thought Americans would stop before sacrificing the health of their children on the altar of their resentment.

Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever

It's baffling to me that someone could ask themselves, "what would Jesus do?" and come up with an answer that includes mocking, degrading, and exploiting other people.

Last week, people whom I know and respect, and who are anti-Trump: "Yeah, Trump will do some bad things and symbolic stuff in D.C.--but he can't *actually* take over the D.C. Police Department. That would be crazy."

Today, Trump: I'm taking over the DC Police Department.

Being awful to Americans who honorably served the country for nearly two decades, just to be bigots.

This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.

Talarico speaking on Rogan: I'm a Christian, and I think there is no more dangerous form of government than theocracy—because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

We’re one more revelation away from MAGA telling us that sexually abusing teenage girls is good, actually.

“Whoever the victims are, they will be heard. Whoever those who harmed them are, they will be found out. The Epstein files may never be opened on earth, but do not be deceived; they are open in heaven.”

Weird America A few words about America on the 4th of July.

A few words about America on the 4th of July.
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After fifty years of reading the Bible I can summarize the politics of the Torah, the Prophets, and Jesus in one sentence:

Make sure everyone has what they need and protect the little people from the big people.

Because you got a nice office and a pension and people bring you coffee and drive you around and do whatever you tell them to do and you don’t have to live at home among the people you claim to represent, who you probably don’t very much like to begin with

What would Jesus say about transferring wealth to the rich? No speculation needed. "Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep" (Lk. 6: 24-26).

Jesus Christ brings to an end the most ancient of theological lies:

That God calls us to achieve righteousness by killing the bad guys.

America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

America is a reality TV show out of ideas, desperate for ratings.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

What a sad state of American affairs, these are our visionaries and *leaders*

We are, each and every one of us, taking a test daily to see if we want to be an American in the 21st century.

So many are failing.

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

Prayers for President Biden and the Biden family, for a full and speedy recovery.