Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza

How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

The Economy Only Works For One Group Of Individuals And Not The Rest Of Us….

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Opinion | The Stupidity of the Tariffs Are the Achievement of a Lifetime Maybe we’re just not good at thinking anymore.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Opinion | Black Americans Are Not Surprised by What Trump’s Doing Many Black Americans are not surprised by the way Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, because they have seen it happen throughout American history.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Fred!!

Opinion | Globalization Is Collapsing. Brace Yourselves. The world was just as intertwined 100 years ago, and its unraveling was a disaster. Can we avoid the same outcome?

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o.... This is a long but good read. Really helpful analysis.

Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. (Gift Article) Beijing’s message to America: We’re not afraid of you. You aren’t who you think you are — and we aren’t who you think we are.

“President Trump is focused on what teams American transgender athletes can race on, and China is focused on transforming its factories with A.I. so it can outrace all our factories.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Not okay:
-Throwing a water bottle on a March Madness basketball court,
- Setting a fire in a Tesla dealership,
- Crashing into the U.S. Capitol,
- Threatening a judge’s family
Free speech doesn’t include hurting people & property.

H/T to Bruce Grady.

WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it:

“Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

Sarah McBride targeted in heated exchange about her gender in congressional hearing Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first transgender person elected to Congress, faced attacks from her Republican colleagues, who have repeatedly misgendered her.

Dehumanizing people seems to be a GOP family value. Note: Rep. McBride is a Presbyterian Christian.
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When We’re Accused Being “Too Woke” I once heard Dr. James Forbes preach on the Luke 15 parables: The Parable of the Lost Sheep, The Parable of the Lost Coin, and The Parable of the Prodigal Son. He reminded us which character was Go…

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Dumbest administration ever.

Freedom isn't Feudal I have noticed a particularly cheap dropline used by many in the collective Opposition: Calling Trump, Musk, and the MAGA movement “fascists”.

This makes alot of sense to me open.substack.com/pub/fosterth...

Yes please

So has the PCUSA made a statement in support of her? We should.

Thanks. Really helpful.

Oh my yes.

It is all so heartbreaking. I hope congregations do what they can to make a stand.