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@wentsing.bsky.social
bay to socal via dc. love the immigrant kind of christian, not the obsessed with your sexual orientation and genitalia kind.
“This is a victory for 🇺🇸— because our goal from day one was for Iran to open the strait that wasn’t closed until after we attacked…” 🤣 (H/T @waltermasterson.bsky.social )
i guess this is what all those conservative pastors have been warning me about, so they'll probably say something in their churches next sunday. right? right?
Rev. Benjamin Cremer@brcremer.bsky.social · 4mo ago
Imagine taking the few Bible verses on human sexuality and women being silent in church as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing the +2,000 verses calling for a generous economy and redistribution of wealth for the sake of the poor to a personal choice.
"I think we’re as weak as we’ve ever been as a country, at least in a long time, because our leadership is so misguided. There’s a lack of humility, a lack of dignity, a lack of understanding of the world, a lack of embracing other perspectives. The belligerence."
Has Steve Kerr Had Enough? — The New Yorker
The head coach for the Golden State Warriors on his future with the team, his complicated relationship with Draymond Green, and whether he might give politics a try.
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"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark."
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo agoThe world’s richest men “have clearly left the world of consequences behind,” Noah Hawley writes. “Their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” Here’s what Hawley learned about the ultra-wealthy at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat:
"While Esther is able to survive and rise to power in this system, even saving her people, the edicts that harm girls and women are not reversed, and the story ends with the glory of Mordecai (10:3). The story begins and ends with, or sustains, gender oppression."
Alexiana Fry@alexianafry.bsky.social · 8mo agoGrateful to share my thoughts on Purim, Esther, and trauma @baptistnews.com. baptistnews.com/article/reim...
Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said. Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war
US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges
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“Here is my work permit,” Mayllazhungo said to an agent who was arresting him. “And he told me, ‘I don’t care.’ They told us, ‘You are criminals.’”
Emily Belz@emilybelz.bsky.social · 8mo agoAn Ecuadorean man with legal status was shackled and left with broken bones in ICE detention. Excellent reporting by my colleague @andyrolsen.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/chur...
Great local journalism is advocacy journalism: Advocacy for decency.
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 8mo agothe Cincy enquirer has def taken up a front page cause, the Feb 20 print edition top headline is: “Haitians sparked a revival in Springfield” That is the Cincinnati enquirer’s idea of a matter of fact, straight news front page print headline now in the current climate
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
Tina-Desiree Berg@tinadesireeberg.com · 8mo agoCCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
Tina-Desiree Berg@tinadesireeberg.com · 8mo agoCCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold. As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.
i don't think this protest is helpful or effective. first and most importantly, this church has the right to worship freely and that appears to be interrupted. also this is the kind of protest that will energize right-wing christians and support their belief that they are the ones being persecuted.
DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
The U.S. Department of Justice says it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S.
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dear pastors who remain “apolitical”, although it would have been better if you spoke up a year ago, or five years ago, or ten years ago, it’s not too late. please address and call out this blasphemy. don’t bury your head in the sand, care for your congregations as you have been called to do!
Brian Kaylor@briankaylor.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew DHS video is so gross, perverting Jesus line from Sermon on the Mount to justify their militarized violence. This is Orwellian "war is peace" but with blasphemy added in. Sadly, it's not 1st time DHS has co-opted Bible: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-bible-...
Although DHS has been co-opting Bible verses in several videos (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-bible-...), this is 1st time they used words of Jesus or any New Testament verse. That, of course, makes this video even more theological problematic! Here's what they've used over last several months:
Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good: "It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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@jemartisby.bsky.social and others have long warned: it’s easy to imagine federal agents with limited training opening fire, dozens killed/injured, which leads to martial law being declared, which results in future elections being cancelled.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 9mo agoLook at this shit! Is it just me or does it seem like the Trump administration is looking to provoke violence so that they can create the conditions for a harsh crackdown? Be careful, everyone. 📌 500 ICE agents are being moved to Minneapolis from other cities.
what "law enforcement officers" film their activities on a cell phone?