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I have a very bad feeling about this...

Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

3 reasons why itt's hard for people of faith to write things like this [GIFT LINK]

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

The wandering has started. Time to start looking for memory care centers.

Looks more like he's baring his teeth. Always predatory.

EXCLUSIVE: Governor Newsom ADDRESSES State and Nation LIVE YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Watch it here with audio

www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...

Thank you for speaking up!

I wish there was an edit button. "the Americans" - I am an American too. Should have left out "the" and used "us" instead.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

Good advice for the Americans. Here are a few:
• Do not obey in advance.
• Stand out. Do not just go along.
• Believe in truth.
• Investigate.
• Learn from peers in other countries.
• Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
• Be as courageous as you can.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

My dad didn't serve 20 years in the U.S. Navy for us to become Putin's puppet now by way of the orange menace. Stop the coup!

Classic coup, right? Exactly what you’d see in a movie. Surreal!

This!

I’ve said goodbye to another friend today. I truly believe that our country and the people in it are at a crossroads. I’m choosing one path. She is choosing the other. The Divided States of America

Toxic positivity, be damned, Herman Hesse reminds us that true optimism is not the denial of suffering. It is the will to perceive beauty amidst the suffering, and to conceive compassion despite suffering: “because the world is so full of death and horror I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell“

From @yepicurus on instagram

Have you watched Bad Faith on Amazon Prime. I’m sure the tome has more depth, but the documentary is good. And yes, very disturbing!

I saw the first on a bumper sticker today. My immediate thought was the second. I'm so disgusted by the rise of "Christian" nationalism.

I think I've decided on my inspirational word(s) for 2025: "tragic optimism."

Things I'm Struggling to Believe After the Election Not only do the times change, the times change us.

Over recent weeks, I've realized how many of the previous sacred givens and accepted truths are now up for debate in my heart and how much grieving this reality has yielded.

Maybe you’re in the same place of uncertainty and instability.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/things-im-...

YouTube video by MSNBC RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.

I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

2015. That should have been the end of it. So many moments like that. And yet, here we are.

Yes, World, it's That Bad Here in America. (Actually, it's Worse.) A friend from Australia texted me last week.

This is a Constitutional crisis and it’s a family emergency.

Yes, our Democracy is in peril, but our most treasured relationships with people are in tatters too.

We are trying to salvage both and it’s exhausting.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/yes-world-...

New here. Decided to start with a feel-good post.