Shawn Coons

How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles There's a growing movement, among some conservatives, pushing back against traditional notions of empathy. What's behind it, and what might it mean, especially for Christian conservatives?

Unfortunately, I think it is exactly why a number of people voted for him - to give themselves permission to be their worst self.

We are headed down a road of vengeance and meanness that I'm not sure we can get off...

Raygun as Elizabeth Schuyler is the casting I didn't know I needed.

Judge blocks anti-Israel Columbia agitator Mahmoud Khalil from deportation as politicians come to his defense A federal judge in New York ordered Columbia University anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil is not to be deported for now.

Even Fox News can't report on a legitimate reason for the unlawful detainment of a legal, permanent U.S. resident.

Having just watched "I'm Still Here" about governments "disappearing" their residents and citizens. This is a new level of injustice from trump, his administration, and his supporters.

This says it all.

Guilty.

Each year since 2021 my wife and I attempt to watch all of the Best Picture nominees. We made it just under the wire, finishing with The Brutalist.

IMO, this year's picks were a step up from previous years.

Except for The Substance. That was stupid.

I'm wrapping up a 5 week series on the making of the Bible. This week is the road to canonization.

The focus has been how the church in every age took the story it had been given, re-interpreted, added it's own chapter and passed it on.

It has lent itself to current events too well...

I don't think we can share the side-by-side of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute next to Nazis doing the Nazi salute enough.

Giving MTG a run for her money as stupidest Rep from Georgia.

Despite assurances, USDA freezes farmer funding for some programs, contracts The news comes as a surprise to a community that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the past three presidential elections

You really have no idea how many federal grants and subsidies go to rural areas, don't you?

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Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

Newly discovered asteroid now has a slightly higher risk of hitting Earth | CNN A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

We're up to a 1 in 50 chance. Given the state of things these days, is it bad if to be cheering for 2024 YR4? Asking for a friend...

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power.

2/2

Working on my sermon for this week when I came across this and I thought of someone...

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,

1/2

This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.

If you haven't been paying attention to trumps' attacks on trans people, you need to. It's scary stuff.

The WWE is in my town! Anyone else watching the Royal Rumble tonight?

Also note when he sticks to his script and when he goes off script. In the condolences part he's sticking to the script pretty closely, but in the vengeance and pettiness part he uses his own words.

He doesn't know how to be a decent human being without a script.

If you want to know what kind of person trump is just listen to his press conference about the plane crash. Ignore the horrible things he said and listen to how he said them.

Note when he speaks with emotion. Not when he's offering condolences, it's when he's placing blame and going after enemies.

Thank you.

FFS. I hate #FOTUS but this is MAGA level crap.

What if the plane crash wasn't trump's fault and wasn't DEI's fault?

Not with that attitude. ;)

Thanks! I love it!

Patrick: I'm gonna be the left Joe Rogan and talk about other stuff than politics.

Also Patrick: lemme talk about politics and some more politics.

;)

#resist

After 13 years of going to Gen Con, I've figured out a way to display my commemorative Gen Con dice!

Great place to live!*

*if you're white.

I'm preaching on how the Bible came together, and how them biblical stories were not written to us, yet they echo through to today.

Lifting up Bishop Budde and trump as an echo of Jeremiah and Jehoiakim or Isaiah and Ahaz.

I've been talking with the real Mariann Budde today and she has told me that this account is a fake. She asks our assistance in taking it down. @mariannedgarbudde.bsky.social