Jeff Courter
@revjcourter.bsky.social
Presbyterian minister, Doctor of Ministry in Social Justice from New York Theological Seminary. Married, kids, granddaughter. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can make our part of it better - that's my mission statement. It keeps me energized.
This is what corruption looks like
💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government. n.pr/48P2QSb
December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is what corruption looks like
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We see it time and time again: a single investigation can ripple across the world. But this reporting only happens because readers like you refuse to stay silent.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We see it time and time again: a single investigation can ripple across the world. But this reporting only happens because readers like you refuse to stay silent.
If you can donate to us today, we'd greatly appreciate it. tinyurl.com/y6wzer7w
If you can donate to us today, we'd greatly appreciate it. tinyurl.com/y6wzer7w
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CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
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“Our insurance premium is set to more than triple. More than a mortgage payment. It’s not affordable. We’re choosing to not have health care.”
Our system is BROKEN. 🇺🇸
#MedicareForAllNOW
Our system is BROKEN. 🇺🇸
#MedicareForAllNOW
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“Our insurance premium is set to more than triple. More than a mortgage payment. It’s not affordable. We’re choosing to not have health care.”
Our system is BROKEN. 🇺🇸
#MedicareForAllNOW
Our system is BROKEN. 🇺🇸
#MedicareForAllNOW
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To protect the 6,000 acres of land the state of New Mexico & the New Mexico Land Conservancy have partnered with Ghost Ranch & the Presbyterian Church Foundation through conservation easements.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
This Landscape Inspired Some of Georgia O'Keeffe's Best-Known Works. Now, It's Receiving New Protections
A conservation plan will help preserve 6,000 acres of land in northern New Mexico, a region that frequently appears in the 20th-century artist's paintings
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
To protect the 6,000 acres of land the state of New Mexico & the New Mexico Land Conservancy have partnered with Ghost Ranch & the Presbyterian Church Foundation through conservation easements.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
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MORE from Jack Smith:
"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat."
"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat."
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
MORE from Jack Smith:
"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat."
"If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat."
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.
December 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.
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For years we have said the Republican goal was to privatize the VA, and Project 2025 underscored that. Now, the VA is about to transfer a trillion dollars worth of VA care to the for-profit sector, and ask that it only adhere to private health care industry standards of care.
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
For years we have said the Republican goal was to privatize the VA, and Project 2025 underscored that. Now, the VA is about to transfer a trillion dollars worth of VA care to the for-profit sector, and ask that it only adhere to private health care industry standards of care.
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Reposted by Jeff Courter
Reposted by Jeff Courter
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
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The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
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Billionaires Don't Know Our World Is Dying Outside Their Gates
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Billionaires Don't Know Our World Is Dying Outside Their Gates
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Billionaires control the cable channels, social media, newspapers, movie studios and all we consume.
Greedy leaches.
A majority of Americans now believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
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Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’
Vandals destroyed Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity. It replaced Mary with a sign saying she’s in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
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Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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This is the clearest example of the positive power of vaccines. No change in hygiene eradicated smallpox. No scientist ever developed an antiviral against it. Moms did not host smallpox parties to boost herd immunity. The reason (the ONLY reason) it is gone is widespread immunization. Period.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is the clearest example of the positive power of vaccines. No change in hygiene eradicated smallpox. No scientist ever developed an antiviral against it. Moms did not host smallpox parties to boost herd immunity. The reason (the ONLY reason) it is gone is widespread immunization. Period.
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#GVerse #Veterans
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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When the president acts like a petty thug, spewing slurs and bullying at will, he doesn’t just set a bad example he gives permission for every small-minded coward in the country to do the same.
'Shameful': Tim Walz 'deeply concerned' over drive-by shouts of Trump's slur
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Thursday that people are driving by his home, rolling down their windows and yelling a slur for developmentally disabled people, mimicking President Donald Trump after...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
When the president acts like a petty thug, spewing slurs and bullying at will, he doesn’t just set a bad example he gives permission for every small-minded coward in the country to do the same.
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NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
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The U.S. has collected about $257 billion in tariff revenues so far this year, and $167 billion of that stemmed from tariffs Trump has imposed in his second term.
The federal income tax, meanwhile, brought in about $2.4 trillion in 2024. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4piJria
The federal income tax, meanwhile, brought in about $2.4 trillion in 2024. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4piJria
Trump has said tariff revenue may allow Americans to stop paying income taxes. The math doesn't add up
The federal income tax brought in about $2.4 trillion in 2024, which is more than 14 times what Trump’s second-term tariffs are generating.
www.pbs.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The U.S. has collected about $257 billion in tariff revenues so far this year, and $167 billion of that stemmed from tariffs Trump has imposed in his second term.
The federal income tax, meanwhile, brought in about $2.4 trillion in 2024. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4piJria
The federal income tax, meanwhile, brought in about $2.4 trillion in 2024. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4piJria
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ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care
The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
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As ACA tax credits are about to expire, nearly 6 in 10 respondents in a new poll said that they wouldn’t be able to afford even a $300 annual increase to their health care costs. premium payments are expected to increase by 114% for 22 million Americans.
As Credits Are Set to Expire, Poll Shows Most ACA Exchange Participants Can’t Afford Even Modest Increases in Health Costs
Senate Democrats will force a vote next week on whether to extend tax credits for people on the health exchange.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
As ACA tax credits are about to expire, nearly 6 in 10 respondents in a new poll said that they wouldn’t be able to afford even a $300 annual increase to their health care costs. premium payments are expected to increase by 114% for 22 million Americans.