On the "Religion is a Problem" meme: Many religious people are certainly problems, too many, but not all. "Religious" people CAN be a problem, except those of a HEALTHY religion. Just as "political" people can be, and yet we don't say that ALL politics need to be rejected. We, instead, should maintain an insistence that we do HEALTHY, COMPASSIONATE politics Continue Reading

I've never understood the desire of so many Democratic voters to go on and on about the "great economy" under Biden. I do understand that it was far better than what he inherited, and far better than what it is now after just two months of chaotic over-reach, but , for someone with a growing sense of foreboding about what Continue Reading

“Trump administration officials have hinted that they are indeed making the case that efforts to limit climate change are worse than its harms and that warming might benefit humanity on balance.” — https://www.vox.com/climate/403877/epa-climate-rollback-endangement-trump-environment I've often thought about how the sane leaders in the world might collaborate to determine to stop a country or countries whose activities threaten the rest of Continue Reading

I grieve for a time when we had a Press and a Supreme Court that stood up for the right of the people to know. When I've re-watched "The Post", I grieve for a time when this idiocy gets QUASHED by the rule of law. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-attack-free-press-shaky-ground-rcna195835

Far more than "stretched the bounds of what is ethical in the White House". It's an absolute smashing of the ethics of the Presidency, or ay public servant, for that matter. But Trump has never served anyone but himself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/trump-musk-tesla-white-house/

I keep rolling my eyes when I hear the exasperation about how Trump's actions are going to "collapse the world economy".  He certainly is hastening it,  much more quickly than the collapse currently underway.  But , people,  the "Economy" has ALWAYS been "calculated" for us by mainstream economics,  which has NEVER considered the costs of ecological damage in it's "assesments" Continue Reading

Thinking about how stressed so many healthy, decent Americans are right now about the dangerously corrupt powers taking things and smashing them. I am also stressed about it, and worried. And then I think about how we have already been facing, for decades, a danger even more dangerous and life threatening, but has been hitting in places and ways that Continue Reading

“The problem with making Christianity a cultural force rather than a redemptive one is that anything culturally normative becomes the Gospel. When the fruit of discipleship are measured by anything other than Christ's example, it's not Christianity … it is merely mammon.” — Thoughts from Bonhoeffer's Child on Substack https://substack.com/@bonhoefferchild/note/c-95292286

Inept. Inefficient. Criminal.

OMG. Trump and this GOP are EVIL. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/05/pentagon-watchdog-halts-review-of-military-efforts-root-out-extremism.html

Anyone who gets upset over actual and visible pushback from Trump opponents are , themselves, the very definition of DESPICABLE. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5178106-axelrod-calls-al-green-despicable-for-trump-address-protest

“Call them Republican Tariffs. When we pin words like "Trump" and "Musk" on these moves, we grant their enablers safe passage. Let's not do that.” — David Dark Amen, David! https://daviddark.substack.com/p/republican-tariffs

We all know the protests THEY consider “illegal” : ALL of them. The reply (w/comment) to this RT of Trump’s insane blathering on Truth Social is oblivious, typical of attempts to “normalize” and obviously ABNORMAL personality. (Except for the part where he is serving oligarchy. Unfortunately, serving oligarchy is FAR from ABNORMAL in our society. May it become more so Continue Reading

“Anora is having a good night,” the comedian said, referring to the success of Sean Baker’s film, which picked up several awards… “That’s great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.” https://buff.ly/wQITsjg   I had caught the tail end of that joke, and forgot to look it up Continue Reading

Seems the screen is about off on my phone. Top, bottom, and sides are cut off. Can barely click a button. It seems fixed when I turn the phone sideways and the screen switched to landscape. Really liking what I'm seeing.