Why I wrioe Secretary of Faith? Our dept is, you might say putting on the full armor of God, because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual…God is good, evil is not, & America’s military must understand the difference.” — Hegseth quoted by USA Today

As surprising as it is that the army did the right thing, blatant as this was, they had to. Equally significant is that the now government controlled military.com wrote about it.

Army Takes Action Against Chaplain Accused of Telling Black Captain He'd 'Tie Her to Tree'

A female captain learned the outcome of an internal Army investigation months in the making.

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Immigration checkpoints are being set up w/in the US, & more than 213 million Americans live inside a 100-mile band running inward from every land border & coastline where federal agents can now stop your car and demand proof of your immigration status.No international crossing required. ViaAlternet

“The whole idea is that it’s simply trying to make [religion] such a fundamental aspect, so inextricably intertwined into the mind of our military,” #MikeyWeinstein #MilitaryReligiousFreedomFoundation

Annual 'religious liberty training' for troops could be on the way

A White House panel recommended an annual training requirement for troops along with expanded role for religion across Pentagon.

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@connieschultz.bsky.social I'm wondering if there are plans to get Ohio Dems who might be afraid to vote in person on Election Day, due to immigration, etc to vote early? We should enlist volunteers to drive said people to their Boards of Elections to vote early and in all counties. Know anything?

Hope’s a state of mind independent of the state of the world.If ur heart's full of hope, u can b persistent when ur not optimistic.U can keep faith despite evidence,knowing tt only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing.So while I'm not optimistic,I'm always hopeful. WilliamSloaneCoffin

Jeff Sharlet recognizing patriot & hero, Mikey Weinstein. He “has taken on the role of constitutional conscience of the military, a man determined to force accountability on its fundamentalist front through an assault of lawsuits and media appearances." Imagine, Taking on PeteHegseth’s Pentagon.

Jesus Killed Mohammed, by Jeff Sharlet

The crusade for a Christian military

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While Ohio spends a billion dollars a year on school choice, Cincinnati Public Schools Schools face a $58.6 million budget deficit.

Cincinnati schools says 'hands are tied' on cuts

As Cincinnati Public Schools trudges along its budget discussions, teachers are speaking out against the district's investments into private vendors.

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As in Hitler’s early days, any Americans’ lives have not changed. Under Trump, the US is functioning as a dual state. The most obvious example is immigrant communities that are targeted by ICE agents. But there is another way that Republicans are weaponizing the dual state: voting rights.- MarcElias

What’s left of the EPA moved to roll back limits requiring coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers. Officials claimed the 3-year-old rule is unduly costly for the energy industry at a time when energy demand is spiking. ViaAlternet

Minimized by MSM, 8 anti-ICE activists were convicted of providing “material support for terrorism” for the crime of wearing all-black clothing to a demonstration outside an ICE detention facility in Prairieland, Texas. 7 face up to 60 yrs, & DOJ pledges this is just the beginning. ViaTheIntercept

So good. So earth-shatteringly true.

What I Told the Baltics about Donald Trump

A speech in Turku on what Finland already knows about Russia — and what Americans still won't say out loud.

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Thanks again to @MikeyWeinstein and the #MilitaryReligiousFreedomFoundation

Army Reopens Investigation: Supervisor's 'Tied to Tree' Remark to Black Captain

Military.com broke the story of the captain going public after a chaplain superior allegedly made an incendiary comment, then denied it.

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I don’t want to be on your panel about art in the age of A.I. “The point is, I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.” Colson Whitehead, a fiction writer ViaNYTimes

Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds

Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

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SherrodBrown facesJonHusted, appointed as a replacement for JDVance.The SenateLeadershipFund, the GOP super PAC is planning to spend a whopping $79 million to help Husted hold his seat. Still, CPR has moved that race from “Lean Republican” into the “Toss Up” column. If you can, pls support Sherrod

Our main problem is the shadow docket. When SCOTUS overturns a 90 pg magisterial district court opinion w/one paragraph, tt’s not the rule of law.We’re in the fight of our lives every day until the election, then after, we keep fighting all the way until we seat a new DemCongress. -Jamie Raskin

If you haven’t already seen this, stop what you’re doing and watch.

A French Fan of America Rings the Alarm

What Claude Malhuret knows

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Orban lost!!!!! People, we can do this!!!!!

When extremist versions of religion meet, particularly in the Middle East, there will be blood. Rivers and rivers of blood, all caused by humankind.

Trump's strategy depends on the illusion of inevitability.He needs his opponents to believe fighting back is pointless, institutions are fully under his control, & anyone who stands up to him will be crushed.Caution in the face of a reckless opponent is not a strategy- it is a surrender-MarcElias

Do the men and women of the US miliatry serve Trump, or the Constitution? Or do they serve an even deeper law than the Constitution — the universal moral imperative to protect the innocent and the vulnerable? ViaNYTimes

JDVance's unprecedented visit shows 'who is interfering in what,' Germany says rejecting his accusations that the European Union is interfering in the upcoming election in Hungary. The fact that he’s in Hungary “already shows, or speaks for itself, who is interfering in what.” ViaTheGuardian

STUNNING: Trump is now bragging about agreeing to use Iran’s 10-point peace framework as the basis for negotiations. Here’s what that 10-point framework includes. There’s no other way to spin this—it’s complete and utter capitulation.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Liberal judge cruises to victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Liberal judge cruises to victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Chris Taylor’s win doesn’t come as a surprise.

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Trump Wants $200 billion more for war on Iran. Tell Congress NO!

We demand that Congress reject the Trump administration’s request for a massive funding package to pay for its illegal war against Iran. Multiple media reports indicate that they are seeking as much a...

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The Nuremberg Tribunal called the crime of aggression the “supreme international crime” the one that “contains w/in itself the accumulated evil of the whole”because it is the crime that makes all others possible. These men have confessed to it in speeches carried by international broadcasters.

Jeffrey Sachs: Two Madmen Play God

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths. B...

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