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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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As clear and concise a definition as you'll ever hear about Advent - in less than 2 minutes.
Advent Calendar: December 2 open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Advent Calendar: December 2 open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Advent Calendar: December 2
First week: The mystery of time
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December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
As clear and concise a definition as you'll ever hear about Advent - in less than 2 minutes.
Advent Calendar: December 2 open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Advent Calendar: December 2 open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
And your part is misaligned with that ghastly 1985 blouse gurl omg 🤮🤷🏼♂️💅
Beck Host: The “Evil Spiritual Principalities Of Halloween Are Intertwined With Pride And LGBTQ Pride” [VIDEO] www.joemygod.com/2025/10/beck...
Beck Host: The "Evil Spiritual Principalities Of Halloween Are Intertwined With Pride And LGBTQ Pride" [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
“There are evil spiritual principalities at work, and we should acknowledge that and we shouldn’t minimize that at all. There is, I would say, a big intertwining of Pride and LGBTQ pride with…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And your part is misaligned with that ghastly 1985 blouse gurl omg 🤮🤷🏼♂️💅
The DNC does not operate in top down manner that could make such an order.
I assure you most democrats at the grassroots level (99% of our action) are already heavily engaged in food banks, far more than any other party, for decades.
If you bothered to show up rather than bitch you’d know this.
I assure you most democrats at the grassroots level (99% of our action) are already heavily engaged in food banks, far more than any other party, for decades.
If you bothered to show up rather than bitch you’d know this.
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The DNC does not operate in top down manner that could make such an order.
I assure you most democrats at the grassroots level (99% of our action) are already heavily engaged in food banks, far more than any other party, for decades.
If you bothered to show up rather than bitch you’d know this.
I assure you most democrats at the grassroots level (99% of our action) are already heavily engaged in food banks, far more than any other party, for decades.
If you bothered to show up rather than bitch you’d know this.
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SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!
July 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!
So why did your legislative body confirm her?
Your oversight function, also in the constitution, is what failed us first. It’s you.
Don’t complain to us. Do your job or even exceed your job like she does. 🤪
Your oversight function, also in the constitution, is what failed us first. It’s you.
Don’t complain to us. Do your job or even exceed your job like she does. 🤪
Sec. Noem oversees hundreds of thousands of employees across 10 agencies—many with the power to arrest citizens. She should understand what 'habeas corpus' means. The fact that she doesn’t is deeply concerning and raises serious questions: Does she know her job? Has she even read the Constitution?
Has Sec. Noem even read the Constitution?
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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May 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
So why did your legislative body confirm her?
Your oversight function, also in the constitution, is what failed us first. It’s you.
Don’t complain to us. Do your job or even exceed your job like she does. 🤪
Your oversight function, also in the constitution, is what failed us first. It’s you.
Don’t complain to us. Do your job or even exceed your job like she does. 🤪
Doesn’t Leon already have a makeup bag?
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's bag was stolen, including her driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.
If she can't even secure her bag, how can she be trusted with homeland security?
If she can't even secure her bag, how can she be trusted with homeland security?
April 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Doesn’t Leon already have a makeup bag?
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After the prior 4 years of this, it’s maddening. Nothing this loser says ever sticks, and everyone not just the press is losing their shit. 😑🤮
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
After the prior 4 years of this, it’s maddening. Nothing this loser says ever sticks, and everyone not just the press is losing their shit. 😑🤮
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Postcards From Babylon is FREE!
That’s right, absolutely FREE!
From now through Sunday the Kindle Edition of Postcards From Babylon is available at no charge. $0.00
I just want to get the message out. Unfortunately it’s more timely than ever.
So get yourself a free ebook and spread the word.
That’s right, absolutely FREE!
From now through Sunday the Kindle Edition of Postcards From Babylon is available at no charge. $0.00
I just want to get the message out. Unfortunately it’s more timely than ever.
So get yourself a free ebook and spread the word.
January 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Postcards From Babylon is FREE!
That’s right, absolutely FREE!
From now through Sunday the Kindle Edition of Postcards From Babylon is available at no charge. $0.00
I just want to get the message out. Unfortunately it’s more timely than ever.
So get yourself a free ebook and spread the word.
That’s right, absolutely FREE!
From now through Sunday the Kindle Edition of Postcards From Babylon is available at no charge. $0.00
I just want to get the message out. Unfortunately it’s more timely than ever.
So get yourself a free ebook and spread the word.
Always remember:
our country is FAR more racist than you’d ever assume.
our country is FAR more racist than you’d ever assume.
January 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Always remember:
our country is FAR more racist than you’d ever assume.
our country is FAR more racist than you’d ever assume.
Zuck desperately wants to be the next Leon he’s now praising X even as it became even more douchey than FB has been,,,until now. What a joke.
Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point.
And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?
And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Zuck desperately wants to be the next Leon he’s now praising X even as it became even more douchey than FB has been,,,until now. What a joke.
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My partner went into our local hospital for the same: $13,000.
I had mine at a clinic across the street, with more exams per day on one floor, but the same drs that serve the hospital across the street: $1200.
Our insurance knocked the 13 down to 1300, we paid 300. Mine was nothing.
What a JOKE
I had mine at a clinic across the street, with more exams per day on one floor, but the same drs that serve the hospital across the street: $1200.
Our insurance knocked the 13 down to 1300, we paid 300. Mine was nothing.
What a JOKE
In June, Tom Contos of Chicago underwent a colonoscopy. The hospital then charged nearly three times what it had estimated.
“I told Northwestern, ‘I’m not paying that, and I don’t care if you send me to collections,’” Contos said.
“I told Northwestern, ‘I’m not paying that, and I don’t care if you send me to collections,’” Contos said.
He went in for a colonoscopy. The bill was $19,000.
“I told Northwestern, ‘I’m not paying that, and I don’t care if you send me to collections,’” Tom Contos said.
wapo.st
December 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
My partner went into our local hospital for the same: $13,000.
I had mine at a clinic across the street, with more exams per day on one floor, but the same drs that serve the hospital across the street: $1200.
Our insurance knocked the 13 down to 1300, we paid 300. Mine was nothing.
What a JOKE
I had mine at a clinic across the street, with more exams per day on one floor, but the same drs that serve the hospital across the street: $1200.
Our insurance knocked the 13 down to 1300, we paid 300. Mine was nothing.
What a JOKE
WANT
December 20, 2024 at 2:44 PM
WANT
“No one has objective perception; .. listening and learning from others who perceive differently isn't a *threat* but a *gift*
Humility is learned through not getting what we want in ways that won't destroy or dehumanize us.. ” read more::
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Humility is learned through not getting what we want in ways that won't destroy or dehumanize us.. ” read more::
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Provocations on theology, culture, ministry, and justice. Musing about things that cause a holy ruckus. Click to read A Sanctified Ruckus, by Matt Tebbe, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscr...
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December 14, 2024 at 5:54 PM
“No one has objective perception; .. listening and learning from others who perceive differently isn't a *threat* but a *gift*
Humility is learned through not getting what we want in ways that won't destroy or dehumanize us.. ” read more::
matttebbe.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Humility is learned through not getting what we want in ways that won't destroy or dehumanize us.. ” read more::
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People who don’t understand their opposition are a large part of why we are stuck here. This stance is little better than the fascism itself.
December 14, 2024 at 2:30 AM
People who don’t understand their opposition are a large part of why we are stuck here. This stance is little better than the fascism itself.
If I lean forward to like eat or type, my kitty sits there next to me lookin at me like
Hey where’s my lap I demand you open it this instant!! 🐱
Hey where’s my lap I demand you open it this instant!! 🐱
December 7, 2024 at 2:15 AM
If I lean forward to like eat or type, my kitty sits there next to me lookin at me like
Hey where’s my lap I demand you open it this instant!! 🐱
Hey where’s my lap I demand you open it this instant!! 🐱
Volunteer busing tables at the local pay as you can cafe tonight and MAN I can barely do 90 minutes ugh
I’m such a baby
I’m such a baby
December 7, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Volunteer busing tables at the local pay as you can cafe tonight and MAN I can barely do 90 minutes ugh
I’m such a baby
I’m such a baby
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude” —Barth
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— Joseph Campbell
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude” —Barth
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Sunday Musings: Advent 1
The oldest words of an ancient faith are the first words of Advent
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December 6, 2024 at 12:41 PM
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude” —Barth
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
— Joseph Campbell
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude” —Barth
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Is your hope anticipatory or participatory? Well wishing or well acting, watching or acting? Throws up hands or trusts in God? Hope is up to you to define and see.
December 1, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Is your hope anticipatory or participatory? Well wishing or well acting, watching or acting? Throws up hands or trusts in God? Hope is up to you to define and see.
Not how politics works today. See other party for proof.
November 29, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Not how politics works today. See other party for proof.
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PBS's Leonardo da Vinci documentary is worthy of its subject. Very thoughtful and painstakingly, yet beautifully, rendered.
November 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
PBS's Leonardo da Vinci documentary is worthy of its subject. Very thoughtful and painstakingly, yet beautifully, rendered.