Jeffrey Zalatoris

Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C.

BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C.

Let’s be clear about what this is.

This is NOT about homelessness or crime.

This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.

What a beautiful space! Where is it?

NO KINGS Cumberland-Lavale Maryland · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Not sure I’ve ever seen this many visible clergy participate in a single protest outside the Capitol.

NO KINGS Cumberland-Lavale Maryland · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now.

Tell the Senate: Christians say vote NO on the SAVE Act: Christian nationalists are on the verge of silencing millions of women. Tell your senators to oppose the SAVE Act now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/senate_...

Signalgate! This fits as high crimes and misdemeanors, i.e. an impeachable offense. And there is precedent that Congresses have impeached heads of Cabinet level departments.

Text reads: I've been in a cave for 40 days, only a spark to light my way. I wanna give out; I wanna give in. This is our crime; this is our sin. But I still believe. I still believe! Through the pain and through the grief.

The opening lines from The Call's deeply faith-infused power anthem I Still Believe felt very real, even literal, this morning. (And while the biblical number 40 is an indicator of symbolic time, not literal time, the arrival of this song in my head this morning felt like a literal kairos moment).

Whoever could have seen through the gossamer veil last fall that the goal was to be dictator...? OK, I'll bite - the new King Ahab who must have a Jezebel ... oh, yes, named Elon.

Icicle Appreciation

Too vivid...too true

My 20th century music listening preferences seem so relevant to the present as I listened to XTC's Here Comes President Kill Again.
Excerpt:
Here comes President Kill again; from pure White House to Number 10; taking lives with smoking pen; President Kill wants killing again.

February 15, 2025 – Black History Month In the Time of Trump: Rev. Jacqui Lewis  This week, activist and theologian Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discuss the celebration and reflection of Black history, and the intersection of faith and activ...

This week on The State of Belief: Black History Month in the time of Trump with @revdrjacquilewis.bsky.social, senior minister at @middlechurch.bsky.social in New York City

To Defend Religious Freedom from the Trump Administration, We Need to Fight Book Bans: Book Censorship News, February 14, 2025 Book bans are not only real, they're a threat to religious freedom. That, plus this week's roundup of book censorship news.

“To defend religious freedom from the Trump Administration, we need to fight book bans,” writes our President & CEO, @raushenbush.bsky.social, in @bookriot.bsky.social.

Why is this happening? How is it legal that non government foxes (or Musk-ovites) are running the government hen house? Are non government, non contractor people supposed to have this much access and control?

Keep vigilant and keep up the pressure

Great, sober, and responsible explanation for fulfilling the advise and consent duty. I wish all senators actually held and practiced the principles you described.

I had to look at the calendar, again, this week to confirm that this is 2025, not 1984!

A visual meditation for this January...

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

Diseases and health risks don’t take breaks during presidential transitions. Preventing health agencies from communicating with the public is flat out dangerous.

An abysmal and vile action designed to install systems for misinforming the public. If unchecked, this will be repeated across the entire executive branch to enable lies, promote disinformation, and sow more distrust.

Rejecting Refugees, Rejecting Christ If you’re a follower of Christ passionate about social justice, of if you attend a church that claims to be enthusiastic about global missions, or if you’re part of a Christian organization that…

"It may cost us wealth, comfort, time, energy, and even our sense of well-being, but this is what following Jesus means: to love our neighbors as ourselves, to love refugees." (2015)

ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants under new policy The directive signals Homeland Security will consider operations at sites previously deemed off-limits.

NEW: Immigration officials can raid churches and schools to arrest undocumented immigrants after the Trump administration scrapped a policy that protected sensitive spaces.

Trump rolls back Biden directive to study methods of lowering prescription costs Among the dozens of Biden-era executive orders he rescinded on day one, President Trump nixed one that aimed to explore new health care payment models that would lower prescription costs for Medica…

Surprise surprise: one of Trump's first moves was to roll back important efforts to lower prescription drug costs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid.

So the guy who ran on "lowering prices" is doing the opposite as he does the bidding of Big Pharma and mega corporations.

The January 6th rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol and tried to overthrow our democracy.

They assaulted and bloodied police officers.

To pardon them shows contempt for law enforcement, for the rule of law, and for our justice system and Constitution.

"Our country’s strength lies in its commitment to justice, accountability, and the preservation of democratic values. We must continue working to ensure treasonous acts of violence are never normalized or repeated," said SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang." bit.ly/42owKtM

Trump fires four-star Coast Guard chief Adm. Linda Fagan is the first top military officer to be terminated under the new administration.

Admiral Fagan has served our country with distinction and played a pivotal role in our response to the Key Bridge collapse.

This politically motivated firing is outrageous and sends all the wrong signals to our men and women in uniform.

As people of faith, we have a responsibility to speak up.

Our response to just some of the initial actions taken by President Trump on his first day in office: interfaithalliance.org/interfaith-a...

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