Paul Derrick

Paul Derrick (@paulderrick) Standing with and advocating for the poor, the marginalized, the immigrant, or anyone else who is “othered” or disadvantaged in society is not only political, it’s precisely what Jesus meant when he s...

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Maybe I’m just oblivious to what’s going on in the world, but I’ve never even heard of smart wool. (Please tell me that there isn’t also such a thing as ignorant wool.)

Alas, Dale often lacks any sense of self-awareness. Could be entertaining to watch, though.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Maduro has maintained a “reign of terror” over the United States? Huh. Weird.

As were each of the subsequent strikes in various locales.

Lest anyone doubt Trump's total commitment to the war on drugs...

I’m increasingly convinced that this administration and its supporters have no knowledge or understanding of the gospel and teachings of Christ.

Because she’s female, she’s a service member, and she didn’t kiss Trump’s ring while she was alive.

Trump always blames Biden for anything that goes wrong, but it was Trump who granted the National Guard shooter asylum in April 2025 after determining that he was properly vetted and posed no undue risk.

Haven’t you heard? The repeated recitation of the word “kinetic” is something like rubbing a magic talisman. By means of judicial alchemy, it changes felonious criminal conduct into “just another day in paradise.”

Even after previously being mocked for showing his mathematical ignorance in exactly this way, Trump once again claims that he has caused drug prices to fall by 500-700+%. Yet, no one in the media will ask him how any price can fall more than 100%. (Maybe they’re ignorant, too.)

Bless her ignorant, lying heart.

Ah, just one more thing, Mr. President. You blow up those fishing boats, claiming they’re carrying drugs, but you pardon the guy who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. Help me understand that.

Why? Because it’s true and it is faithful to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and the law.

Senator, keep speaking out against this insecure and malicious would-be dictator. I happily and publicly stand with you. (4/4)

It’s scandalous and treasonous that our POTUS doesn’t. He’s apparently never met an oath or law he couldn’t break.

Since February of this year, I’ve given service members, both in-person and on social media, the same message that you and your colleagues gave in the recent video. (3/4)

I served in a Republican administration and, as before, I swore an oath to protect the Constitution and to faithfully uphold the law. I honored that oath, too.

Decades later, I’m neither Republican nor Democrat but I still believe in upholding the Constitution and honoring the rule of law. (2/4)

My first job after college was in law enforcement. I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and to faithfully enforce the law. I honored that oath.

A decade later, I went to work as an attorney for the federal government after graduation from law school. … (1/4)

North Carolina is the nation’s largest producer of sweet potatoes, and plenty of us here devour sweet potato pie whenever it’s around. Anyone who turns up their nose at such wholesome goodness is to be pitied…possibly even shunned.

🎯 Gotta be sure there’s plenty of room to take in the white South Africans who are being systematically “terrorized and slaughtered.”

“Diversity is being invited to the party.
Inclusion is being asked to dance.
Belonging is being missed when you’re not there.”

— Jason G. Edwards

No matter who you are, God loves you.

No matter what you’ve done in the past, God loves you.

God’s love doesn’t come with fine print or strings attached.

God loves you so much that he sent Jesus to take all yours sins and die on the cross for you.

That’s some serious love!

Thank God for it.

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

Christianity, itself, is not in danger. That which is made by God, mankind cannot destroy. America, on the other hand, is already suffering the effects of the attempted hijacking of faith by white Christian nationalists. They *can* destroy this country.

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Apparently, Hegseth either doesn't know or doesn't care that initiating a bogus investigation is, itself, prohibited by the UCMJ. Article 107 (False Official Statements) and Article 134 (General Article) are most applicable, but other articles also may be implicated, depending on the specifics.

Understanding Insurrection and Sedition CSIS security experts define acts of sedition and insurrection and evaluate the seriousness of both charges.

Trump, Johnson, and others are tossing around the word "sedition" as if the repeated incantation of it, through some feat of legal alchemy, will somehow give their baseless pronouncements about what it means a gloss of truth. They're merely incorrect.
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