Jen Thomas

New York City Mayoral Election Results 2025 (Gift Article) Get live results and maps from the 2025 New York general election.

Polls don't close until 9 p.m., but here's a gift link to the results page for the NYC mayoral election to bookmark to watch once they do. (No needle for this one.)

Your daily reminder that Trump absolutely can fund SNAP through contingency funds.

He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month.

He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.

Here's a list of DemocratsI am grateful for who have been actively communicating and fighting against autocracy every damn day since all hell broke loose in February.

1. Chris Murphy
2. Gavin Newsom
3. AOC
4. Elizabeth Warren
5. Jamie Raskin
6. Jasmine Crockett
7. JB Pritzker
8. Kathy Hochul

Dog lying on a bed

Roasted vegetable and t-bone broth

Home stuff today. Protest tomorrow. Worship on Sunday.

“Video of the arrest taken by an onlooker showed ICE agents handcuffing Brockman after they forced her to lie on her stomach. As the agents were detaining her, Brockman told the onlooker her name and asked him to let her employer, WGN, know what had happened to her.”

WATCH: María Corina Machado, champion for democracy in Venezuela, wins Nobel Peace Prize Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” https://to.pbs.org/3IZu4v6

We’re literally learning to resist racism at our clergy conference. Prepare. Resist. Follow Jesus.

A quiet weekend at home celebrating nephew’s graduation from basic as well as good food, pet snuggles and a friend’s book pre-release

NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.

Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺

New #ELCA Presiding Bishop Curry!

History is made! 🔥

I'm ready to support his leadership.

#ELCACWA25

I’m so excited about the election of Bishop Curry but also everything in me is warning me not to hope, because this machine just crushes so many people and is so deeply resistant to change.
And I hate that I am afraid to place hope in my church body.

Just a reminder we still have exactly as much racism to confront in the church as we did before. Bishop Curry is not our ticket out
#ELCACWA25

To eat. We go out to eat.

Here are all candidates on the second ballot for ELCA Presiding Bishop at #ELCACWA25

I’m progressive. For all people. Against war, famine and disease.

Made waving friends with Amish kids wearing this t-shirt at the Eagle Point Park overlook. Life is weird. We saw lots of pelicans, but alas no eagles

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.

And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

Alligator Alcatraz.

FL lawmakers are finally being let in—after Dems got turned away last week.

Here’s the catch: the tour’s not ‘til Saturday

They know the conditions are inhumane. Scrub the cages, hide the worst of it, and pray no one asks too many questions.

Don’t let them sanitize the truth!

I need to go to bed early for my day tomorrow. This sweet Rose joined me.

I saw a woodpecker in the tree this morning

Micah 6:8

People are dying