Rev Christophe

Happy LaVerne-al Equinox to all who celebrate

Still equally baffled, angered, and unsurprised by this

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.

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Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

I want to buy it from this black family, who is NOW ALSO at risk of losing their long-term government jobs, due to D0GE's layoffs.

I looked at over 200 vans. This one has everything I need, AND they deserve our help.

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My role in this resistance is PROCUREMENT.

No one can afford anything, & I can find you ANYTHING YOU NEED at a discount.

I have sources on everything from groceries to gristmills, from meat to metal detectors.

However, in order to work safely, I need a work van.

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Oh duh 🤦🏻‍♂️ you’re a genius!

📣 DO YOU SUPPORT TRANS YOUTH? Join us tomorrow Thursday 2/13 at 12pm for a rally to support the first nationwide challenge to Trump’s gender affirming care executive orders.

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For clergy attending would this be a “professional attire” situation or preferred regular clothing?

This way they can just recruit and arm MAGA white supremacists and weaponize them inward towards Americans

Careful Pastor, we may lure you to Lutheranism yet… 😉

Fellow anti-fascist Christians, let us attend…

gritty has seized control of the federal government

“You cannot be great without the greatness of others.” - Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni after winning Super Bowl VIX.

More. Of. This. PLEEEEASE.

I think I’m going to frame this entire thread for my office

Found this tracker very helpful and regularly updated

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

CBF joins lawsuit to restore protections for houses of worship removed by abrupt shift in policy - CBF For Immediate Release Media Contact: Aaron Weaver | aweaver@cbf.net February 5, 2025 DECATUR, Ga. — Out of its historic commitments to religious freedom and ministry among immigrants and refugees,...

NEW: The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (which also happens to be the late President Jimmy Carter’s denomination) has joined the Quaker lawsuit against the Trump admin, arguing the ending of the sensitive locations policy “violates the religious liberty of congregations” cbf.net/cbf-joins-la...

all of these congressional dems are madder than i have literally ever seen them and they are using the exact words you want to hear them use.

dog with coffee in burning house meme, but the line is “they can’t do this. it’s illegal”

this cannot become the vibe right now

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Similarly, the executive branch can't close a federal agency created by congressional statute, but too much reporting credulously states the closures as if they are sort of done deal.

Career civil servants have statutory protections. Too few news outlets even acknowledge their existence in coverage

The president's press secretary at her rostrum. "White House"and "Washington" are on the wall behind her, but the angle of the photograph obscures everything but "White Washing."

Glimpsed from a certain angle, an inadvertent truth appears.

NEW: A statement from Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service:

“Global Refuge condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the false accusations being lodged against our humanitarian work.”

NEW: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton is releasing a video, saying the church remains “steadfast” in its work & accusing Musk/others of of spreading “misinformation” and “casting baseless doubt” about “funding that supports Lutheran (orgs) across our country.”

Elon Musk @elonmusk Subscribe The @DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments

General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn Subscribe ..• Now it's the "Lutheran" faith (this use of "religion" as a money laundering operation must end): Lutheran Family Services and affiliated organizations receive massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, and the numbers speak for themselves. These funds, total BILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars. Here are just a few of the recent grants awarded (pre @RobertKennedyJr ) by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE INC: $367,612,906 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH, INC: $134,190,472.95 LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA, INC.: $82,937,819.95 There are MANY more organizations cashing in on our hard-earned money. These entities are receiving huge sums, which raise serious questions about how taxpayer funds are being spent and who's benefiting. It's time to hold these organizations accountable. American taxpayers deserve transparency. Enough is enough! And there is much more where these screen shots below came from.

Elon Musk and DOGE are now publicly targeting Lutheran groups for cuts.

Among those listed: Global Refuge (formerly LIRS), one of 6 faith-based groups that have long helped the govt resettle refugees.

Not clear why Musk contends this funding, which is longstanding and well known, is "illegal."

Musk saying he’s shutting down illegal money launderers and it’s Lutheran Social Services

Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down

Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?