Are we great yet, America?

It hasn't seemed particularly great to me lately, so I started asking around:

I asked a grandmother in Texas, terrified that her social security and Medicare may soon be evaporating. She wasn’t convinced.

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USAID Fraud Allegations: Fact vs. Fiction

Fact
Inspector General’s Investigations:
- USAID’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) actively investigates allegations of major fraud, corruption, and misconduct within its programs and operations, demonstrating accountability in addressing internal issues.

They are feeling they’ve won something by watching strangers suffer.

And they are doing this all while having the audacity to pretend they give a sh*t about Jesus, or anything he lived or taught or called his followers to.

These self-identified Christians are celebrating the separation of parents from their children and spouses from one another; cheering families being torn apart, lives being violently uprooted, and human beings being terrorized at school, work, and church.

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A blessing, for these days. From the Black Rock prayer book.

I hear that the triumvirate has been reduced by one. I guess Lepidus has been forced out. Now we’ll see what happens to the South African Marc Antony.

A reflection on the meaning of America for MLK Day. If you need a reminder of a genuine American hero and what it means to work on behalf of a truly great America.

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