Benjamin Raber
@benjaminraber.bsky.social
Here to learn. Following Jesus. Advocate: Youth Justice Compassion Education Health Arts Design Liberation. People Music Photography + Travel make my heart come alive. 💡🏀🎹📚🌮✌🏼🚲🗺🎸📷 #reimagine ED: NETwork Ministries in PA
In the period immediately following the Civil War, Black men held office. Schools were built. Wealth was accumulated. It was called Reconstruction. White Americans dismantled it. They retaliated not because Reconstruction failed, but because it was working. That pattern is repeating today.
Put another way—academic departments diversified at the same time as the pie shrank. This put women and minorities in the captain’s chair of a sinking ship. Convenient targets when, of course, those responsible for the crisis were largely white men with tenure who got their jobs in boom times.
"A country can never be great with a dishonest president." He almost said it!
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4mo agoUnderstand that media works with the president. You’ll be talking about this today. That’s all that matters. Instead of talking about the removed climate sensors, gas prices, Iran war, etc, this will be the focus that will unite people behind this program.
“Men’s child care time has quadrupled in the past few generations. Millennial dads are now spending about as much time with their kids as baby boomer moms once did.”
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 4mo ago“Men who prioritize fatherhood may lose some sleep, gain some extra weight and enjoy less free time, but they can also discover a richer life with greater meaning, purpose and connection. And when it comes to brain health and mental fitness, becoming a father is one of the best things you can do.”
BIANCO: “.. Feb 27 is the day before the war began. The black line is the S&P 500; it is up 10+% since Feb 27. The blue line is the S&P WITHOUT the AI stocks. .. It is still DOWN 0.66%. Maybe soaring gas prices are having an impact on the market after all?”
That’s how voter suppression has often worked in America. The rules are presented as race-neutral, while the effect is to diminish Black political power.
I only have a few words at this moment, mainly deep disappointment. The demolition of the Voting Rights Act is not simply a change in election law. It is a shift in who can effectively shape the future. It's a shift in America short lived democracy.
Wait. Did they tell Trump to say the screenshots of his Truth Social post were "doctored," but he misunderstood and said it was a picture of him as a "doctor"?
Kansas tried to require proof of citizenship in 2013: The result was that 30 cases of undocumented voters were prevented- but 31,000 legitimate citizens were prevented from voting. This is why the SAVE act is harmful. Should You Need to Prove Citizenship to Vote? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
Should You Need to Prove Citizenship to Vote? Ask Kansas.
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Sorry folks you’re going to have to be sincere and earnest and uncool and otherwise lame if you want to defeat fascism
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 7mo agoCringe is praxis
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.
Imagine saying, “they have to obey the law“ when it comes to immigrants but not when it comes to the people holding the highest positions of power in the country yet still somehow expecting everyone to believe you take the law seriously.
At this point, people who deny the presidential administration's white supremacist assumptions and aims are either willfully ignorant or quietly supportive. The evidence is simply to overwhelming to deny.
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is that we should be more concerned about immigrants possibly being criminals than we are about those in the highest positions of power, who wear crosses, quote scripture, while actually just using Christianity as a tool to perpetrate injustice.
A denomination formed in support of slavery would truly be surprising to act in any other way.
Christa Brown@christabrown.bsky.social · 8mo agoAbout that video depicting the Obamas as apes... "The silence of SBC leaders in this moment proves there is, in fact, nothing Donald Trump can do to lose their support." - @markwingdallas.bsky.social This is the Southern Baptist Convention. #ThisistheSBC baptistnews.com/article/will...
Mandated reporting, but for unauthorized immigrants is some real Nazi stuff. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
The story isn’t necessarily that Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas election in a district Trump won by 17 points Or that Rehmet was outspent 20-to-1 Or even that his opponent was backed by Trump and Greg Abbott It’s that 57% of the voters were REPUBLICANS And Rehmet STILL WON by 12 points
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 8mo agoJUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Immigrants used to be able to vote and had other rights. Those racially eligible for citizenship. Basically, mainly white immigrants. Hiroshi Motomura's book details this history. I first learned of this from Charles Barron's campaign for NYC immigrant voting rights. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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And if you don’t think the American flag is an idol, just try removing it from an American church’s sanctuary and see what happens.
Most people are underestimating how aggressively this regime is organizing to suppress votes ahead of the midterms. For the far right, winning them is existential.
Sometimes only satire can cut through the hypocrisy and callousness.
An experimental finding sure to shock: white evangelicals are especially attuned to slights against Christians, but significantly less likely to view same actions as discriminatory when against a religious out-group. And this double-standard is unique to white evangelicals. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
@timamor.bsky.social , I'm getting Dirk Williems vibes here.
Jay Kirell@jasonkirell.bsky.social · 9mo agoTwo women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
The fact that ICE has now murdered multiple white American citizens in #Minneapolis is unveiling that the same racialized state violence built to target Black & Brown people spills over to white people resisting the status quo. Black people have lived this our entire time in this land. #LinkArms
God is clear about the sins of kidnapping (man-stealing), murder, and bearing false witness. God is clear about his care for foreigners, neighbors, the poor, and those on the margins. Righteousness, justice, mercy, and love for neighbor are not conditional standards for Jesus' followers.
