happy birthday Weird Al 🥳

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

By unilaterally sending the military into states over their objections, Donald Trump is setting a dangerous precedent for further violations of separation of powers and the rule of law in America.

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Every independent analysis is clear: the budget bill passed early this morning by the House GOP will gut essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP for working Americans, and make the ultra-wealthy richer.

We must do everything we can stop this bill in the Senate.

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!

It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

When we Christians interpret the Bible with an unforgiving literalism towards our fellow citizens, yet interpret it with graciousness towards our preferred politicians, that’s when we can be certain we are just using it to leverage our own power and privilege rather than to actually love others.

Justice for Breonna Taylor
Justice for Sonya Massey
Justice for Sandra Bland
Justice for Tamir Rice
Justice for Kalief Browder
Justice for Eric Garner
Justice for George Floyd
Justice for Daunte Wright
Justice for Alexia Christian
Justice for Rayshard Brooks
Say Their Names!!!

re: love is blind

Imagine cheering on people in power who are actively targeting and harming the hungry, the poor, the sick, the elderly, the veteran, the disabled, the different, and the stranger and still somehow expecting people to believe you follow Jesus.

Trump just said the US will take over Gaza and “level” it.
He said the US will “own” it.
And forcibly remove the 1.8 million Palestinians who live there.
And it will become the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

It is not just illegal. It is immoral.
And dangerous. And evil.

Started referring to the Super Bowl as the Soup Bowl and I fear I’ll never call it by the proper name ever again

No Other Land officially Oscar nominated with no US distribution. Someone release this film properly!

Last night at a restaurant the guy sitting next to us was lamenting that everyone hates mansplaining now & how he misses it. He then turned to me & said “Can I PLEASE just mansplain one thing to you?!”

I said “oh absolutely fucking not 🥰” and he laughed it off but ???? Houston?? Wtf is happening?!

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)