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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 9h

That’s what they were singing about - an America seeking justice, equality and real love. That’s what I miss. That America. The one committed to being all those things.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 12h

Watched an old PBS special on Peter, Paul and Mary. When they sang Blowin’ in the Wind at the end, I cried. How I want that America back.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 18h

This looks like anti-Christian bias to me.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

This is (1) undermining and mocking the despicable claim that the anti-Trump protests are terroristic AND (2) quietly reclaiming frog symbolism from the alt-right. Our amphibian friends deserve better than the notoriety of perpetual Pepe.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 1d

A Beautiful Year. My twelfth book.

What a gift to be a writer. Opening the box with the first copies of a book never gets old. I’m as happy today as I was with #1.

I’m older though. 😂

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

There are two stories of pastors making the rounds today.

If you think the first is Christ-like, you probably failed Sunday School. And the second? Well, it speaks for itself.

WWJD? It ain't hard to figure it out.

A Tale of Two Pastors
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A Tale of Two Pastors

WWJD?

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 2d

There are two stories of pastors making the rounds today.

If you think the first is Christ-like, you probably failed Sunday School. And the second? Well, it speaks for itself.

WWJD? It ain't hard to figure it out.

A Tale of Two Pastors
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

A Tale of Two Pastors

WWJD?

open.substack.com

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 3d

Join us online for a thoughtful, hopeful conversation about spiritual searching - and the need to tell new stories.

www.earthandsoul.org/events/diana...

Diana Butler Bass and John Philip Newell: An Evening Dialogue (Livestream) — Earth & Soul

Join John Philip Newell and Diana Butler Bass for a lively and hopeful conversation about the themes of John Philip Newell's book  The Great Search . Known for their spiritual...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 3d

Your health insurance premiums are doubling so an ever-richer Elon Musk can indulge in a fantasy of living on Mars.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

A chicken crossed a Portland street....and Kristi Noem was on the other side?

Yep. It really happened.

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A Chicken Crosses a Portland Street

To show who the real chicken is...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

A chicken crossed a Portland street....and Kristi Noem was on the other side?

Yep. It really happened.

open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

A Chicken Crosses a Portland Street

To show who the real chicken is...

open.substack.com

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

two women are sitting next to each other on a couch laughing and pointing .

ALT: two women are sitting next to each other on a couch laughing and pointing .

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

Also, this is why your health insurance is doubling or being cancelled.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 4d

I'm certain that millions of Americans are deeply grateful that the US government is spending tax money to protect the nation from guys in chicken suits.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

Southern Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

And I’d love to see how that breaks out by religion…

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

Southern Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 5d

It really truly seems that Miller and Vought are running the show.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 5d

"2000 years ago, a family became refugees..."

The great @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social ran this excerpt from the immigration chapter in "Separation of Church and Hate."

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From "Welcome the Stranger" to "No Room At the Inn"

The Cottage August Bookapalooza: “Separation of Church and Hate” by John Fugelsang

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 6d

Today's psalm:

Do not fret because of evildoers;
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.

For they shall soon wither like the grass,
and like the green grass fade away.

Refrain from anger, leave rage alone;
do not fret yourself; it leads only to evil.

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Sunday Musings

On rage, faith, grass, and trees

dianabutlerbass.substack.com

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 6d

I've been thinking this is happening for some months now....

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 6d

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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