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HENDERSONVILLE, NC!

Can't wait to see you all tomorrow (Sunday morning) at First Congregational Church.

9:00 am Community Conversation
10:30 am Service

We have a lot to talk about!

Congratulations! Elijah is beautiful. 💙

The war on immigration is just all bad in every possible direction.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.

There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.

Cartoon by @laloalcaraz.bsky.social.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

What does JD Vance do besides take luxury vacations?

📌 Off to yet another vacation in a $10K/wk English manor while Americans struggle to afford groceries.

I read that the new facility that she was transferred to doesn't even have a fence. I wonder how long before she walks out and disappears.

The morning starts with Los Angeles civilians setting up lives at ICE targets across the city. The sun has only just risen, it’s not even 7 am yet. But citizens know the only way they’ll help protect their communities is to document the abuse.

ICE is ignoring the restraining order.

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literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”

Maybe instead of FBI searching for TX Dems, they can look for a Republican with a spine.

That will surely keep them busy for a LONG while

Excellent idea. I hope the family does sue. Bill Cassidy should also have his license to practice medicine reviewed. "First do no harm" seems to have been omitted in his confirmation vote.

A very long 4 years...

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Before her death, Virginia Giuffre confided to Tara Palmiere that Elon Musk personally promised to release the Epstein Files after they spoke in DMs on his own platform.

Today—on Virginia’s birthday—her voice is gone, but the truth is not.

How Trump’s Acting U.S. Attorneys Are Driving the DOJ’s Partisan Turn Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

NEW ANALYSIS: To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys’ offices, legal experts warn that Trump and the DOJ are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that circumvent the appointment processes laid out by the Constitution and federal statutes.

@margaretcho.bsky.social served up a blistering #CupOfJoe to Dean Cain.

“Always Wong, never white.” 💥

#DemsUnited

🧾 Cain has stated that several members of his family were interned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho. - Wikipedia

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Donald Trump has announced a press conference that will pretend to address a *fictional* rise in crime in Washington DC. In reality, it is just a big barrel of bullshit that will be used as a pretext for an authoritarian takeover of the city.

If Kamala Harris had used our tax dollars to raise a river’s water level so that her family kayak vacation would be more fun, Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7 for two weeks straight.

A family's fishing trip ends with the dad at 'Alligator Alcatraz'. Here's their story Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.

Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.

#EpsteinFiles
Today would have been Virginia Giuffre's Birthday...

In her memory
Let us all keep fighting #EpsteinFiles

Her family wants you to know

"She wanted the world to know what they've done to her and so many other survivors "
"SHE fought till the last day."

Please fight for her now

Social media does not miss 🔥

To dodge suppression, folks are using “music festival” as code to tip off or report on ICE protests in Los Angeles.

Thank you as always for your Bulletins. Just astonishing to me that there are so many people in this administration, including elected officials that bow and scrape to a convicted felon scum bag.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 187. 8/7/25 … I predicted that Phase 2 of Trump’s attempt to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 presidential election was going to be a scam to redo the census mid-decade.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 187. Sorry this one is out late tonight - only because it’s pretty long and packed and took me quite a while. Here is everything that happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

The cult leader's hold weakens Trump's bungled Epstein coverup demonstrates that he's past his prime.

"Trump is rarely the source of his conspiratorial notions. He instead draws and then popularizes them from the always active bowels of his raging cult." That's the source of his resilience, says @davidrlurie.bsky.social, but his control is eroding. Cause for hope? www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epst...

"I wouldn’t be shocked to see this SCOTUS come up w/ a way around the crystal clear language & original intent on who is counted in the census. I’m more skeptical they’ll accept a new one-off census. But they could. It’s a deeply corrupt institution. That’s your path to the dissolution of the union"