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The West Wing has become my emotional support show. #whatsnext #bartletforpresident

When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.

When you worship power, the harsher the treatment towards your "enemies," the more righteous it will look.

When you worship power, the value and dignity of others is solely measured by their conformity to you.

Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.

The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.

And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff

NEW: In August, the nursing home industry gave Trump's Super PAC $5M and had a private lunch with him at his golf course.

They asked him to repeal a rule that would have increased nursing home staffing.

Here's what happened next --> w/ @kenvogel.bsky.social:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Amanda Gorman is so eloquent. 🤍
@amandagorman.bsky.social

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

“Renee Good was a domestic terrorist.”

“Liam Conejo’s father fled the scene.”

“Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.”

These are all examples of our “Christian government” breaking the 9th commandment:

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." (Exodus 20:16)

Lord, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy.

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

Ambassador of Denmark to the United States…

ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.

ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!

'This is not what I fought for.'

And a blow up Grinch and a sleigh with all 12 reindeer and two life size gremlins on a swing set with wooden soldiers standing beside. That's all I can remember but there are also lights and music and more decorations.

We have a neighbor who repurposes Halloween decorations for Christmas, so toddler skeletons dressed in velvet holiday dresses next to Mickey AND Santa (normal) w/ Mrs. Claus (also a dressed-up skeleton)- that's just the porch. Skeleton reindeer in the yard on either side of a nativity.

The work of the church is not the call to ministry. Spiritual success is never measured by human outcomes. Our true work is that of manifesting likeness to Christ in all things, whether it is in success or failure, criticism or praise.

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Trump continually overturns the decisions of American citizen juries.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Finding the Apostle Paul in the Epstein Files The Epstein controversy has shown how the rich have trapped themselves in senseless and harmful desires.

i wrote about the apostle paul and the epstein files, and how the “what’s so bad about grown men being attracted to teen girls?” ethical astroturfing is an example of a “trickle down morality” from the rich to the rest of us.

❤️❤️❤️

Just finished The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis this afternoon. I'm in the middle of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Trump’s Refugee Policy ‘Is Slamming the Door on Persecuted Christians’ - Christianity Today Faith organizations hope the Trump administration will reverse course after the announcement of a historically low refugee ceiling.

Trump admin focusing on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria .... but also no longer accepting persecuted Christian refugees.

from @harvestprude.bsky.social - www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/refu...

Not just in my youth. My pastor recently described her as a woman who "traded sex for rent." (I pushed back- she likely had no agency to choose her position & even if she did, Jesus didn't speak to or about her in a dehumanizing way.)

Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas

Today with @haleaziz.bsky.social :
Most of the Korean workers detained during an ICE raid on a Ga. battery plant last week were on short-term businesses visas. In at least one case, ICE acknowledged a worker hadn't violated his visa, and forced him to deport anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...

Discovered this today 😥

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

No, President Trump.

Forcing seniors with traditional Medicare to get prior approval from AI companies before they can receive the health care they need won’t make America healthy again.

It will make AI companies even richer by denying care to seniors.

DON’T CUT MEDICARE.

Hurricane Katrina forced changes at FEMA. Trump is rolling them back The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.

The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.

I'm guessing @margaretatwood.bsky.social didn't intend for the succession of Texas from the United States to be the most unbelievable part of The Testaments, and yet here we are. This is a fantastic audiobook, by the way!

The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.

@taskmaster.tv is exactly the show I need right now. I know it's been around for ages, but I'm so glad to have recently discovered it and to have hours of laughter to look forward to.