The young woman on the right goes to school with my daughter. Her father was snatched by ICE when he was picking up tools for work at Home Depot. If you've got a few extra bucks to help out this dear family in this moment of crisis, it would be much appreciated.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

No one seems 100% sure why this international student was arrested... including the people who arrested him.

open.substack.com/pub/thesesto...

Hi All, they are trying to eliminate NEPA and start selling off our public lands. We have 30 days to comment. Please go to this link and add your comment in opposition. You can do so anonymously.

NEPA Proposed Dissolution

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

27-year-old Artemis Ghasemzadeh was an English teacher in her home country of Iran. She met some Christians in the underground church and became a Christian. Fearing for her life under Iran's extremist religious laws, she ran for the US, only to be picked up by US immigration authorities. 1/8

Theories of Atonement as GIFs from The Office -- a thread.

1: Ransom Theory (Origen) -- Jesus's death was a ransom given to the devil in exchange for humanity's freedom

"Why use tax dollars to fund public health research when, in the event of a pandemic, I can just spend millions building myself a hermetically sealed chamber?"

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

If you haven't seen the Coldplay/Dick Van Dyke video yet, it's really lovely:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol...

Tiger sitting on his portrait

For victory!

Today’s #warcoffee
with a breath of nature

(warcoffee is every coffee I have in Ukraine since February 24, 2022)

Hmmmmm

Everyone has a crow story and this week over at substack I share one of mine!

And also some thoughts about crows, some crow news, a couple crow books I've read and there might even be some poetry about crows.

If you don't like crows it will be a good hate read.

open.substack.com/pub/mattmika...

I watched Frozen 2 last night (again) and as Olaf is flurrying away, he says, "I know the one thing that doesn't change! It's love." And I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 1:13- " and now these three remain: faith hope and love. And the greatest of these is love." I am leaning into love.

A year ago this week one of my daughter's college aged friends was shot by a stranger on the street in Vermont, along with two of his friends.

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Recognize this painting? It's "Murder in Mississippi," depicting the brutal murder of three activists during the civil rights movement.

Guess who the artist is.

Norman Rockwell.

That's right, the guy who painted white Americana for the Post.

Check it out:

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