Kerry Greenhill

This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

Jesus’ life and death are closer to the arrested and visa-cancelled students across our country than my own.

Jesus’ life and death are closer to the suffering Palestinians in the Holy Land than my own.

Jesus’ life and death are closer to my transgender neighbors than my own….

Remember Jesus Truthfully

Holy Week commemorates the last week of Jesus’ life.

This week we remember that Jesus was a wrongfully accused person, a non-citizen with no voice or vote, and sentenced to death by the state….

Heyyyyyyyyyyyy here is a reminder in Tax Day that most pastors serve tiny congregations, are underpaid, bust their their behinds for their communities, love justice and Jesus, and are being crushed under a 30% income tax.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Incantation of the First Order by Rita Dove Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby. No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars will diminish the fear or save you from waking into the same day you dreamed of leaving— mockingbird on back order, morning bells stuck on snooze—so you might as well get up and at it, pestilence be damned. Peril and risk having become relative, I’ll try to couch this in positive terms: Never! is the word of last resorts, Always! the fanatic’s rallying cry. To those inclined toward kindness, I say Come out of your houses drumming. All others, beware: I have discarded my smile but not my teeth.

I’m a social scientist but I always get obsessed w/ poetry when I start writing a book. So here’s something apt that I encountered today. Maybe it’ll resonate with you, too.

The death-rattle of Empire is horrific

And it will take as many with it as it can

But a new world is possible

And a new world is in the process of emerging.

We must work to bring it into being as quickly as we can.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

"I enjoy paying taxes. With them I purchase civilization." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, not otherwise noted for his wokeness

60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

Thou shalt not claim to be improving efficiency when all you do is fire people and then beg them to come back.

Since we’re debating Rep. Al Green’s method of dissent this week, here’s a quick reminder: tone policing is a form of suppressing opposition.

When someone objects to the tone of criticism, they are trying to set the terms of debate in a way that is favorable to them.

Fuck. That. Noise.

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

Mary Eliza Church Terrell 1863-1954
was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th century.

A king is not a king unless we bow - Rev dr William barber

Amen.

Anyone who tells you you're overreacting is underreacting.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

the phases of the moon are shown in a circle on a dark background . Alt: the phases of the moon are shown in a circle on a dark background .

Ramadan Mubarak, Muslim beloveds.

Wishing you every blessing during this holy time. 🌙 ✨❤️

Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

Maggie L. Walker (1864–1934), was a pioneering activist for black education and economic empowerment. She founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903, becoming the first Black woman to charter a bank. “Prejudice is the most unreasonable, inhuman, unchristian animal.” #BlackHistoryMonth

Democrats face decision point on shutdown strategy Republicans rebuffed Democrats' demands in shutdown negotiations. Democrats now have a choice to make.

If the government were functioning, I’d be against a shutdown. The government is not functioning. Democrats should stand their ground and refuse to fund DOGE. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.