Tom
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Retired Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister - still working ... liberal, progressive, blue, thoughtful, history buff ... fan of Bonhoeffer, Barth & Tillich ... fan of Heather Cox Richardson & Kristin Kobes DuMez.
What's Been Going On For Me
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What's Been Going On For Me
an update
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December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What's Been Going On For Me
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When a nation is governed for the rich by the rich, it all goes to hell. The God Mammon gladly destroys those who are stupid enough to bow down before it, and those nations selfish enough to make money their gawd and business their savior.
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When a nation is governed for the rich by the rich, it all goes to hell. The God Mammon gladly destroys those who are stupid enough to bow down before it, and those nations selfish enough to make money their gawd and business their savior.
December 3, 2025 No clearer voice on the present moment than than of Dr. Heather Cox Richardson ...
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December 3, 2025
Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
December 3, 2025 No clearer voice on the present moment than than of Dr. Heather Cox Richardson ...
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Trump and Gang are strangling this nation to death ... evangelicals believe this will pave the way for a new age ... the rich believe they'll pad their coffers ... the malcontents have no idea, but are glad to sing a funeral dirge for the nation. Those who hate love it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trump and Gang are strangling this nation to death ... evangelicals believe this will pave the way for a new age ... the rich believe they'll pad their coffers ... the malcontents have no idea, but are glad to sing a funeral dirge for the nation. Those who hate love it.
#Hegseth behaves like a mad beast with the smell of blood in its nostrils. He's profoundly immature. He speaks of war, when there is no war, but only a ruse, as Trump and his cronies gin up votes. Chaos, confusion, deception, lies, and madness.
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
#Hegseth behaves like a mad beast with the smell of blood in its nostrils. He's profoundly immature. He speaks of war, when there is no war, but only a ruse, as Trump and his cronies gin up votes. Chaos, confusion, deception, lies, and madness.
Living in the truth
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Living in the truth
via the past
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December 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Living in the truth
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November 30, 2025 Spiritual problem: when greed becomes paramount ... and those with wealthy manipulate the government to further their own interests - a kleptocracy ... a Trumpocracy? open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
November 30, 2025 Spiritual problem: when greed becomes paramount ... and those with wealthy manipulate the government to further their own interests - a kleptocracy ... a Trumpocracy? open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 29, 2025 Truth rising to the surface, Trump failing ... Republicans reassessing ...
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November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
November 29, 2025 Truth rising to the surface, Trump failing ... Republicans reassessing ...
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November 28, 2025
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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November 28, 2025
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November 26, 2025
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November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 26, 2025
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November 25, 2025 Consumer Power ... "We're not buying it!" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
November 25, 2025 Consumer Power ... "We're not buying it!" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
When Gratitude Eludes Us
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When Gratitude Eludes Us
Choose it anyway
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November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
When Gratitude Eludes Us
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November 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025
U.S.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
November 24, 2025
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The White House is occupied by a bed-wetting, spoiled, bratty, rich kid, who treats the employees with disdain, who expects everyone to bow ... a petulant grudge-holder with the intelligence of a motel placemat.
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The White House is occupied by a bed-wetting, spoiled, bratty, rich kid, who treats the employees with disdain, who expects everyone to bow ... a petulant grudge-holder with the intelligence of a motel placemat.
Ukraine Peace Plan: Trump bows down to Putin.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ukraine Peace Plan: Trump bows down to Putin.
40% of America has always been White Christian Nationalist … it’s a cancer that has continued to eat away at the American soul …
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
40% of America has always been White Christian Nationalist … it’s a cancer that has continued to eat away at the American soul …
Epstein's web
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Epstein's web
Don't look away
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November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Epstein's web
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November 20, 2025
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November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
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November 20, 2025
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November 19, 2025
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November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
November 19, 2025
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American’s resistance to taxes … about as much sense as never changing the oil in our car, and when the engine has seized up, we curse the car.
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
American’s resistance to taxes … about as much sense as never changing the oil in our car, and when the engine has seized up, we curse the car.