Pastor Jim (he /him)

Ireland elects a leftist who campaigned on economic justice, Gaza Catherine Connolly, an independent endorsed by Sinn Fein, campaigned on calls for urgent domestic reform with an unflinching critique of Israel’s war in Gaza.

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$130M Pentagon Donor Has Ties to Jeffrey Epstein That's right. All roads lead to Epstein. Timothy Mellon is the heir to the Bank of New York Mellon, which was just sued by an Epstein survivor for funding Epstein's sex trafficking ring for years.

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GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy The GOP is anti-democracy party

GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy
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Before Ice Raids, There Was Stop and Frisk Before ICE raids terrorized American neighborhoods, there was stop-and-frisk. In marginalized communities, where its members’ civil liberties have been historically threatened by organized violence, t...

Starlette Thomas: "Before #ICERaids terrorized American neighborhoods, there was stop-and-frisk. In marginalized communities, where its members’ civil liberties have been historically threatened by violence, the country behaving like a police state is unsurprising."

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This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

Enten: "Americans have moved more against tariffs than any other major Trump policy that he's been pushing during this second term ... 60% of Americans are opposed to Trump's tariffs."

Very concerning, if true.

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The Abdication of Congress

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No Kings in Lexington, KY with my mom. Two former Republicans who once believed the lie that the GOP is the Christian party. Indoctrination is a helluva drug but so glad we woke up. Now we stand against Christian nationalism & MAGA because it's the opposite of Jesus' teachings.

I wrote a book about my time in Christian Nationalism: GOP campaigns, America Say Jesus bus tour, working at CBN/700 Club etc..

Christian nationalism is a perversion of the faith & the constitution. Learn more about how I left it behind and why America should too in Star-Spangled Jesus:

Also, the transparently political nature of the Argentina currency swap suggests Trump II will not hesitate to create moral hazard for partisan purposes that will then undermine the IMF's fiscal and economic goals.

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

Two chapters into this, and it is such a pleasure.

As @hofrench.bsky.social explains, more than a biography of Nkrumah, it's an examination of pan-Africanism as both political movement and identity, what Howard calls Global Blackness.

The ideas are breathtaking, and the prose is exquisite, too.

I know I have a reputation for being smug and uppity (only one of those is true). But as far as I know I have rarely, in life, penalized someone for sharing what they’re curious about instead of arguing me down for being stupid or not saying what they want me to say.

“Indeed, throughout modern society, the availability of statistics is often mistaken for the availability of knowledge and deep meaning.”

Todd Gitlin in 1979 with a line that feels profoundly prescient for our outsized contemporary worship of computer scientists and MBAs.

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

It looks even worse by video 😢

Making Argentina Great Again

That’s seven.

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American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

ICE scrambles to hire more healthcare workers as detainee deaths and lawsuits rise The agency is seeking doctors, nurses, and pharmacists as unprecedented numbers of people swept up in Donald Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ drive

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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it’s affecting our humanity

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ARE YOU READ TO FIGHT FASCISM? Let the world hear you: #NoKings! We will not submit to authoritarianism [or a rematch of the civil war]. The attempt to divide and conquer will not prevail. When the people are united, justice will prevail!
~ Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social