Shaun Casey

Making America White Again | Contending Modernities To the extent that there is a comprehensible theology underlying the Trump Administration's engagement with the world, it is not premised upon an understanding or tenet of Christianity.

So I wrote a little something.

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I assume Trump will attend the National Prayer Breakfast unlike Biden. He will undoubtedly go full MAGA in his speech and give the right wing DC religious freedom crowd the red meat they want.

Elon Musk Casts Doubt on Trump’s $100 Billion Stargate A.I. Announcement Mr. Trump had claimed the A.I. announcement as an early trophy, taking credit for the companies’ decision to spend up to $500 billion building data centers.

The children are already fighting! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

Loved the movie, but had a hard time envisioning a universe where Lord Farquaad might become pope!

Trump will give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom before it’s all over.

Bold move by Biden on the death penalty.

Biden should return Bedminster to the Leni Lenape.

He’s my Congressman and I am more than perplexed.

I'm normally very dovish, but even I admit that the case for a rate cut was pretty evenly balanced given recent data. And projections about future Fed policy are almost pointless: everything depends on whether Trump really does what he's been saying he will, in which case hard to see any cuts

Update from Ruth Graham

Little bit of news: The activist Sean Feucht announced this week that he would headline a rally at a Catholic parish in Washington on the night before the inauguration. The priest there told me it's not happening. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

Trump’s religious freedom policy was a grift last time. It won’t be any different this time.

Last night I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of former Sec. of State John Kerry’s portrait. He hired me to launch the Office of Religion and Global Affairs. As we slide into a new era of authoritarianism it good to remember the US was once a promoter of democracy and not its enemy.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus to an unknown destination, say two senior army officers Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination, two senior army officers familiar with the incident told Reuters on Sunday.

Reuters has two sources saying Assad's fled Damascus

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Congrats! Does this mean you get to hand out free NPR mugs at RNS?

Oh no! We have to clone him!

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

If it is self reported I’m pretty sure it has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Is this self reported data?

Missed this! It’s too bad.

I’m sticking with Stacey Abrams.

Can you say more about what James would add to this discussion?

Stacey Abrams is one of the candidates for DNC chair. If she ran the joint it would become inclusive, anchored in grassroots organizing, fundraising for local candidates, not DC centric, in it for the non millionaire class, and not afraid of houses of worship. She led the fight to turn GA purple.

If I understand the current state of analysis of so-called White Christian Nationalism, we don’t know exactly where the adherents are distributed nor to do we know their concentration in specific congregations. It would be helpful to figure that out.

His network was amazing. Sort of the Christian Realist Kevin Bacon.

The hiking is pretty good, too.

But Berea, KY was off the beaten path even for RN.

@lpburrows.bsky.social Berea College is a jewel of a school. Reinhold Niebuhr spoke there twice, once in the Twenties and once in the Thirties.

#6 and #9 should switch places.

Last night Bill Nye was on the Jumbotron at the Celtics-Wizards game and the crowd went nuts.