Robert Bingham

Opinion | A Christian Answer to Trump and Trumpism Is Finally Here

"The approach that Pope Leo takes, by contrast, puts virtue outside and above politics. His declarations are the living embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s admonition that the church “is not to be the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience of the state.” #OnEarth

…a clip from my sermon last Sunday on our communal responsibilities- from Isaiah 6

for the complicit― words worth remembering in these days of corporate wickedness...

“A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.” ― Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom

“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.” Isaiah‬ ‭10‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭(in the background of my sermon this morning.) #OnEarth

Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do

…if Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live. #OnEarth

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Opinion | Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor.

madness on the right is ever rising… #OnEarth #GiftArticle

Opinion | Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.

“The right is now eager to embrace the ideas that led to tyranny, the gulag and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.” #OnEarth

prayers up tonight and tomorrow...looks horrific. (In earlier times in America, we might have FEMA and our military ready to go and help...I'm guessing that's not going to happen with this administration.)

a formative book for me in my early 20's

Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does

“history shows that when might makes right, things go terribly wrong.”

#OnEarth GiftArticle…

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By the numbers

Opinion | The Right-Wing Myth of American Heritage

“The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common cultural heritage; we’re exceptional because we’ve been able to cohere despite faiths, traditions and languages that set us apart, and sometimes against one another.” #OnEarth

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Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

Trump is infamous for distracting and obscuring his worst deeds. What do you think tops the list of Trump evil deeds since inauguration? First place for me is "cutting off USAID and other aid for the poorest around the world." Gift article attached tells the story.

What is your number one? #OnEarth

Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from Our World in Data compared causes of death in the United States against how much those causes are covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News. The results are about what you would …

what are you worried about?

State Surveillance - Hugh Howey In 1949, George Orwell coined the term “Big Brother” in his (unfortunately) timeless novel 1984. The fear then — and now — was that mass surveillance would give totalitarian states even greater contro...

interesting read - looking at our fears of surveillance from the inside-out...

"Basically, we should turn the Surveillance State into State Surveillance. Watch what government is doing at all times. If anyone doesn’t like that, get a different job. See who is okay with their masks off." #OnEarth

I Thought I Belonged. Then I Realized What I Was Part Of. Why I left the conservative movement--and why you can too.

In light of the exposure of the horrific texts of young Republicans, I recommend the story of one young (former) Republican who finally saw the movement for what it was and is… (thanks to TN) #OnEarth

Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

“Evangelicals might be growing in political power, but there is not much evidence that they are growing in devotion.” #OnEarth

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

Opinion | A Lesson From the German Resistance That Applies Today

“the best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program, prince — or president.” #OnEarth #GiftArticle

Sigh..,

Opinion | The Appalling Campaign to Erase Jan. 6 Never Ends

"...in a sane democracy, it would have ended Trump’s political career as Republican lawmakers barred the doors forevermore.

But the lackeys at last week’s hearing continued to prop him up and to pretty him up, to pamper and to please him..." gift article #OnEarth

laugh every time…

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

“Time and again, the message is the same — pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” Gift article #OnEarth

signs!

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado for keeping ‘the flame of democracy burning’ The award went to María Corina Machado despite a months-long campaign of self-promotion by US President Donald Trump.

Bravo Marina Corina Machado...well done!

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