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An excerpt from Eliza Griswold’s interview with Reverend Mariann Budde that reads, “Treat people with dignity, be honest, be humble. Care for your neighbors—not only care for your neighbors but care for the stranger. I mean, this is pretty basic spiritual practice.”

If Mariann Budde’s sermon earlier this week—in which she addressed Donald Trump, personally and directly—came across as radical, that just says something about the times we are in, the bishop says.
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Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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Welcome 2025 the next 4 years of agnotology

Twenty-two States Sue to Stop Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order The lawsuit to block the president’s executive order is the first salvo in what is likely to be a long-running legal fight over immigration policy.

New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew J. Platkin:

“Presidents are powerful, but [Trump] is not a king. He cannot rewrite the Constitution with a stroke of the pen.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

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Well said

Four years of Trump’s freak squad or hide under a blanket until 2028? Desi is choosing the blanket

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