Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Today, I had my first pastoral conversation with someone who is worried about a family member who has been deported and they don’t know where he is…
She said, “‘They’ just don’t know what they are doing.” And, I said, “Yes. They do.”

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11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says ‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.”

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As our new president and his favorite broligarch move to dismantle US foreign aid in the name of making America “great again,” consider this:

And, Jesus wept.

Spending this weekend reading and reflecting on the work of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. From watching Selma, reading his speech “Our God is Marching On” and a few of his sermons, I am reminding myself that the work continues…
May we continue the work of justice, mercy, and humility.

As we begin the season of Advent tomorrow, I shall do my best to share light and reflect hope in all I do.
Y’all the light continues to shine. Shine. Shine. Shine!

It’s not even 2025 and I am already so tired. Sheesh.

Welp. Hoping this might end up better than the other “place”.