Believing what the rich and powerful say about the poor and powerless rather than believing what the poor and powerless say about their actual lived experience is the root cause of so many of our problems today.

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."

-Pope Francis

invoking one history’s all-time losers as i charge headfirst into a trade war i neither can defend nor even understand.

annual reminder to not ruin the thanksgiving meal by bringing up politics

ruin the meal by telling your family you don't know half of them half as well as you should like and like less than half of them half as well as they deserve, then vanishing while they try to figure out what you meant