@pastopher.bsky.social
Assistant Vice-President for Re-Evaluation & Co-Chair of Subcommittee on Redundancy and Duplication Removal. Also in my free time I’m a UMC Pastor, husband to Robin and dad to 2 great young men. Soccer fan, book devourer, and ponderer of many things.
hmm seems like a problem
03.06.2025 00:04 — 👍 4483 🔁 679 💬 202 📌 35Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
We saw the storm brewing a mile away.
29.04.2025 19:58 — 👍 23206 🔁 3780 💬 565 📌 167one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
18.04.2025 05:20 — 👍 16757 🔁 2840 💬 154 📌 89The most relevant piece of information here is the R which Senator Murkowski keeps next to her name. She and three other Senators could take full control of the government out of the hands of the organization she herself describes as using terror tactics.
17.04.2025 16:07 — 👍 5053 🔁 1371 💬 220 📌 82Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
13.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 31804 🔁 7579 💬 629 📌 207Trump’s new tariffs don’t make economic sense — and that’s the point. These tariffs are designed to cause widespread pain so that Trump can use the power of relief as a form of extortion: indivisible.org/tariffs
11.04.2025 12:46 — 👍 755 🔁 244 💬 33 📌 8They are totally aware that social security goes to children who’s parents have died. They are totally aware of the tragedy lived by millions of families for whom that social security is a tiny, tiny bandaid. They don’t care. The cruelty is the point.
10.04.2025 21:54 — 👍 326 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
10.04.2025 10:30 — 👍 19081 🔁 5011 💬 394 📌 169PLAY AROUND: With a new tool built by the Nebraska Examiner's Zach Wendling that lets you go deeper into how your legislative district voted in recent elections on different races.
11.04.2025 02:39 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1This is exactly why they did it with plain clothes, masked officers. To trigger this.
11.04.2025 00:32 — 👍 50 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2No. He can’t.
He’s shattered the trust with our allies. He can’t just undo the damage already incurred, let alone what the days ahead bring...
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Trade deficits sound scary, but aren’t. Buying more from a grocery store than it buys from you is normal - so is a trade deficit. Trade deficits are often larger when we have money to spend.
Setting tariffs based on trade deficits is like taxing your grocery store hoping it’ll shop at your house.
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
06.04.2025 14:14 — 👍 8903 🔁 2478 💬 157 📌 83An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
06.04.2025 22:09 — 👍 632 🔁 399 💬 113 📌 86Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
06.04.2025 17:18 — 👍 11356 🔁 4193 💬 577 📌 472X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW ), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
16.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 49112 🔁 9303 💬 983 📌 363The President of the US is actively spreading Russian Propaganda. What a disgrace. Thankful former VP Pence for speaking out.
19.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Google renamed the Gulf in maps & dropped Black History & Pride from calendar, despite EO's having no legal force outside the exec. branch (and the US not actually owning the Gulf). I switched all my default search engines (browsers & phone) to no longer use Google. I encourage you to do the same
12.02.2025 00:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."
11.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 23255 🔁 5087 💬 1229 📌 250JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Connect the dots...
-Tech barons express interest in launching financial transaction apps
-Trump's company announces it will sell a crypto fund
-Trump shutters the CFPB, which recently proposed supervising payment apps the same way as banks
Pure corruption.
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before
I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
01.02.2025 00:02 — 👍 59000 🔁 11421 💬 756 📌 250Using the tragic plane collision over the Potomac that cost 67 human souls as an occasion to slam DEI hiring was obscene. There’s zero evidence at this point that an underqualified air traffic controller or pilot had any role in this crash.
30.01.2025 16:54 — 👍 28849 🔁 5831 💬 1284 📌 300Letter to the Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde from United Methodist Committee on Faith and Order.
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