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@chapster.bsky.social

Retired Army and VA chaplain. Lifelong Democrat. Husband of a teriffic RN.

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'No due process': L.A. nurse, veteran among citizens forcefully arrested by ICE amid immigration crackdown | CBC News Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grow...

🧡ICE is detaining US citizens. They are profiling Latinos, going on nothing but their appearance. Many have to provide proof of their citizenship status before getting released. Have we seen this before in America? You betcha! Stay with me, folks. (cont)

www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

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What would happen to you, if you didn't show up for 6 weeks?

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The Collar Effect Recently, there was a protest event where people gathered to object to the increasing trend toward authoritarianism in the United States. I attended the event, and chose to wear my clerical collar. Usually, I don’t wear the collar. I see it as a sign that I am under a call. That is, I have been given a job to do for God and God’s people.

The Collar Effect

Recently, there was a protest event where people gathered to object to the increasing trend toward authoritarianism in the United States. I attended the event, and chose to wear my clerical collar. Usually, I don’t wear the collar. I see it as a sign that I am under a call. That…

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Rep. Buddy Carter on No Kings: "This is nothing more than a bunch of antifa socialists and marxists who hate democracy. I mean, you could've very well called this 'I Hate America Campaign.' They want socialism like they have in Russia and China."

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Couple of old guys just out hating America.

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Shutdown Fight Reopens Debate in G.O.P. Over Health Care

Republicans finally came up with a plan to replace Obamacare. Their plan is POVERTY. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Thomas Merton's thoughts.
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.

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The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.

Apparently, Nazis are like zombies, refusing to die and valuing brains only for the caloric content.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Opinion | We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics

Declaring your opponent to be evil can only end in tears. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

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RECOGNIZING GOD I ran into God the other day. It happened at Costco, in the candy aisle. I was with my wife, and we weren’t shopping for candy. Just on our way to the check out line.Β  Understand, I don’t ofte…

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RECOGNIZING GOD I ran into God the other day. It happened at Costco, in the candy aisle. I was with my wife, and we weren’t shopping for candy. Just on our way to the check out line. Understand, I don’t often find myself at Costco. I was only there incidentally. My wife and I had been running some errands, and she said she’d like to stop there on the way home.

RECOGNIZING GOD

I ran into God the other day. It happened at Costco, in the candy aisle. I was with my wife, and we weren’t shopping for candy. Just on our way to the check out line. Understand, I don’t often find myself at Costco. I was only there incidentally. My wife and I had been running some…

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β€˜I Hate My Opponent’: Trump’s Remarks at Kirk Memorial Distill His Politics

Exact opposite of Jesus Christ, who said "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." This would be what the Anti-Christ would say, no?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/politics/trump-kirk-memorial-hate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE8.dpac.n4x2o3zkqrJ3&smid=bs-share

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Kathy (@kathy622729) Michael Fanone’s Statement to the American People on The Death of Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot in the middle of a speech at Utah Valley University. I am not going to sugarcoat it: I have ...

substack.com/@kathy622729...

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THE FORGIVE ME NOTΒ SYNDROME Forget-me-nots grow in lots of places around here. Forgive-me-nots are even more common. Recently, I discovered a general truth. It is that apologies vary in their authenticity. Some ways of apologizing are deep and true. Others are as empty as a skeleton in the desert. Look at two common ways of apology and see for yourself. β€œForgive me” is a message that has become rather rare these days, or so it seems to me.

THE FORGIVE ME NOTΒ SYNDROME

Forget-me-nots grow in lots of places around here. Forgive-me-nots are even more common. Recently, I discovered a general truth. It is that apologies vary in their authenticity. Some ways of apologizing are deep and true. Others are as empty as a skeleton in the desert.…

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Chia Nazi.

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Today after the shooting in Minneapolis when Right Wing stooge Marc Short brought up gender dysphoria out of nowhere, MSNBC’s Katy Tur should have thrown him off her show. That she didn’t is part of what’s wrong with corporate media today. There’s no β€œother side” to slaughtering children, Katy.

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ME: "AI Chatbot, create an image of shameless, servile sycophants kissing the ass of the stupidest person in the United States to ever get famous."

AI CHATBOT: "That image already exists."

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Mr.Tangerine Man
YouTube video by Piedmont Raging Grannies Mr.Tangerine Man

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Good paying Union jobs are being lost due to Trump’s reckless move away from renewable energy to more fossil fuels

Clean energy in America will be a thing of the past and our dependence on fossil fuels will grow

Guess the coal, oil and gas billionaires that coughed up millions for him are happy

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RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Idiocracy at work.

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Vintage black and white portrait of a woman with wavy hair, wearing a dark blazer with a light-colored, patterned blouse and a lapel pin.

Vintage black and white portrait of a woman with wavy hair, wearing a dark blazer with a light-colored, patterned blouse and a lapel pin.

31 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Lea Burstein, was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. She did not survive.

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GOSSIP Gossip is something I can talk about.

normanwear.substack.com/p/gossip

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"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that."

Neal Katyal

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Wondering if he has boxes of govt docs in his bathroom? The absolute heights of hypocrisy.

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Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.

We are a criminal nation supporting a nation of murderers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

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