Seamus Enright

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Eisenhower

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The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

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Morality is a Long Game - emptywheel Remembering Jesse Jackson as a Kind Man As you doubtless know now, Jesse Jackson has left us to make our way without him. People have been speaking of the broad sweep of Jackson’s life, how he trailbl...

I picked my seminary for other reasons, but when I found out that Rev. Jackson was an alum, it was further confirmation that I was in the right place.

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I fully lost my mind this is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard???????????

In Ps. 31:24 today: 'be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord.' These days require courage to seek the truth, live by facts, and act responsibly. Cultivate a strong inner life. Make the peace bigger than the chaos. Courage is my work today.

For years I've told the joke: You know what's so great about hitting yourself in the head with a hammer? It feels so good when you stop.

We need a solid building trades program so that these guys can learn the right way to look good with a hammer.

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.

I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

All right, the dogs want walks but it's raining so I'm procrastinating. Gonna do a thread that's been on my mind for a long while, about exactly what "never again" means.

"Never again" got famous after the Holocaust & it's frequently deployed since--in response to, say, the US Japanese internment.

I’m a longtime fan of Terry Pratchett and lamented the end of new Discworld novels. This week I realized that I had missed the Tiffany Aching books and bought the boxed set. So happy.

Same goes for guilt and fear.

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“Two Magicians” for pairs would be a helluva program.

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The writers for this season are just phoning it in now.

In Ps.36:9: 'Within you is the spring of life. In your light, we see light.' Light does not come only to the powerful. Light blesses all. Light turns to sugar to produce fruit. Lent is a season to examine life and fruit. Solidarity with the vulnerable. Light is my work today.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

In Ps.41:12 today: 'You support me in my integrity...' Integrity, wholeness, isn't arrived at but a direction. God sustains that movement in grace & love. Deeper love of neighbor is needed now. Integrity between word & action. Wholeness & healing. Integrity is my work today.

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

“A modern-day concentration camp”

Seamus Culleton, an Irishman still detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 5 MONTHS (making private prisons rich), here LEGALLY for two decades, married to a citizen— describes horrific conditions: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Good morning, beloved.

You’ve never seen a day quite like today before.

You’ll never see it again.

What a gift!

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Strength blesses.

you know it's bad when they would rather us think that a rando staffer has unfettered access to the social media accounts of the President of the United States, where we also now know that world leaders direct message him

That guy needs to be fired. No control. If he hasn’t already, he soon will abuse his authority by doing violence to a vulnerable human.

Thank goodness, that was shaping up to be one hell of a St. Patrick’s Day.

Good morning, beloved.

Release what you must.

Steward what you can.

Be generous in all.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

5 things we need:
1-“I did that”
2-“it was wrong”
3-“I’m sorry”
4-“I won’t do it again”
5-“How can I make it better”

A community is devastated after ICE raids an LA church and arrests a congregant during a church event.

“This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.” ~ Church officials, in a press release