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Matthew J Frizzell, PhD

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theo-ethics nerd, liberation theologian (PhD Chicago Theological Seminary); girl dad; irreverent GenX; Chicago south sider; spiritually grumpy; audiophile & funk-lovin’ blutopian; do unto others, their welfare is your welfare; hope is defiant; #cofchrist

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I’d love to hear about it.

15.06.2025 03:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Police say they have recovered writings in a car used by suspect in shootings of Minnesota lawmakers In separate shootings of Democratic legislators, state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded.

More premeditated domestic terrorism chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world...

14.06.2025 17:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt (2005)
YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt (2005)

Those who oppose MAGa and fascism a la Trump might reconsider Harry G Frankfurt’s clear distinction between lying and bullshit. #onbullshit #harryfrankfurt youtube.com/watch?v=o0MF...

26.05.2025 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With a long list to blame, they’ve convinced us that US citizens have no rights to healthcare, education, or welfare but the privileged need more control & tax cuts. #refusefascism

21.05.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just got back from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan camping. Thanks for sharing the lake! :). Happy camping! Happy Victoria Day weekend to my Canadian friends and neighbors. #camping

15.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli 'bunker buster' bombs used in Gaza hospital strike, experts say CCTV footage obtained and verified by the BBC shows the moment before impact and the immediate aftermath. Munitions experts told BBC Verify that the strikes and destruction are consistent with the use...

This is horrifying. Stop the genocide. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

15.05.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Human rights are human rights regardless of identity. Equality before the law is equality before the law regardless of identity. #equalrights #stopthehate

07.05.2025 02:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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05.05.2025 20:14 — 👍 19542    🔁 6080    💬 551    📌 205
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

06.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 12024    🔁 3701    💬 700    📌 533
As a result, thousands of transgender service members will be discharged from the military while litigation proceeds in the lower courts.
People who volunteered to risk their lives for their country will be cruelly punished simply for who they are. People like Emily Shilling, the named plaintiff in this case-a transgender woman who has served as a naval aviator for 19 years, flown more than 60 combat missions, logged 1,750 flight hours in Navy jets, and earned three Air Medals. The Navy has spent $20 million training her. Soon, she will be forced out of service entirely. If the Supreme Court was going to condone this self-defeating act of invidious discrimination, the least it could have done was explain why. J

As a result, thousands of transgender service members will be discharged from the military while litigation proceeds in the lower courts. People who volunteered to risk their lives for their country will be cruelly punished simply for who they are. People like Emily Shilling, the named plaintiff in this case-a transgender woman who has served as a naval aviator for 19 years, flown more than 60 combat missions, logged 1,750 flight hours in Navy jets, and earned three Air Medals. The Navy has spent $20 million training her. Soon, she will be forced out of service entirely. If the Supreme Court was going to condone this self-defeating act of invidious discrimination, the least it could have done was explain why. J

Thousands of transgender troops who have served our nation honorably will soon be purged from the military because of their identity. It is shameful that the Supreme Court’s majority won’t even explain why it greenlit this mass act of unconstitutional discrimination. slate.com/news-and-pol...

06.05.2025 22:45 — 👍 3791    🔁 1297    💬 169    📌 70

The odd position that the US needs less government instead of equal legal protections and fair taxation of wealth, takes a media industry to sustain. #propagandanotpropaganda #corporatewelfare

05.05.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The MAGA/GOP approach to immigrants is morally reprehensible. It’s evil from the perspective of human equality and basic rights based in the imago dei. The US has become even more unsafe for anyone not white. Based on Matthew 25, this country is anti-Christ. #americanevil #refusefascism

02.05.2025 22:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tyrannical Capitalism

In democratic capitalism, the government’s role is regulation, governing markets, maintaining rights and competition by busting monopolies.

In tyrannical capitalism, the role of government is to ensure domination of property, rights of capital to rule, & protect the rich.

25.04.2025 12:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Equality & vulnerability are difficult. They require self-awareness, strength of character, inner resources, intelligence & compassion. Equality & vulnerability require & are the way of community. This is why isolated & lonely men want for power. It is easier than relationship. #communitymatters

19.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t ever forget that authoritarianism and pleaure at the appearence of power flow from weakness, helplessness, and fear. Weak men love power because their experience with it limited. #refusefascism #resist Continued…

19.04.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

Dear Community of Christ,
This move by the US State department contradicts and opposes World Conference Resolutions 1087, 1184, and 1228. Call and write your representatives as peacemakers and disciples of Jesus. #cofchrist #humanrights #RefuseFascism

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18.04.2025 12:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AKA bullshit

17.04.2025 12:50 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t have words I feel about the US government, it’s apparent abuses of freedom and human rights, and the sense of threat that I’m next because I oppose this abuse of power and idolatrous nationalism. I think America died for me September 12, 2001. We have become what we hate. #refusefascism

17.04.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Passion Week, we remember the God of Love and Justice seen in Jesus Christ
…not the god of empire
…not the idol of nationalism
…not the god of worldly “greatness”
…not the idol of self & self-obsession
…not the god of wrath & death
…but the opportunity to see God in the cross & new life. #cofchrist

15.04.2025 12:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

This regime and its leader don't care about you or your children. Pharoah's regime is so sure climate change is harmless, they will stop monitoring it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

11.04.2025 21:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chicago protest. #handsoff #chicago

05.04.2025 23:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Human Rights Team Statement | News | Community of Christ In this statement from the Human Rights Team, Community of Christ uphold the fundamental and equal human rights of all people regardless of sex and gender differences.  The team challenges indivi...

Community of Christ statement on equal rights of all persons regardless of sex and gender differences. #cofchrist #lgbtqia #feminist
cofchrist.org/news/human-r...

21.03.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And that’s on that 😌

21.03.2025 04:14 — 👍 73887    🔁 8815    💬 1298    📌 256

We live in an immoral country where the idea of universal healthcare, education, and social security are "extreme" and "impractical," while wealth buys elections and coopts the outrage of its victims.

21.03.2025 18:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In wealthy nations, political ideologies that substitute churches and charity for democratic social policies and legal protections for the poor, vulnerable, and at-risk are a naked defense of empire and disposable people.

26.02.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is how priests and apologists of religion indoctrinate followers.

26.02.2025 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For pregnant girls and women
in the United States
who don’t want to have a baby
or can’t afford to raise a child
and don’t have access
to a safe abortion,
hear our prayer
#WomensRightToChoose
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights

25.02.2025 01:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge U.S. Flag Hung Upside Down in Yosemite - Gripped Magazine The action was in protest to the recent firings of hundreds of National Park staff

Love it. gripped.com/news/huge-u-...

24.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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