Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde stood in a Washington, DC cathedral and did the one thing spiritual leaders are here to do: she let her faith speak unequivocally—pushback, conflict, and retribution be damned.
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This is the country we’re now living in: dictatorial, unrepresentative, and deeply unkind. What will be left in four years?
Day one of Trump's launch of his empire of self-aggrandizement has passed, with dry, uninspired oratory, a flood of bile and executive orders—and the launch of his own wife's crypto coin grift.
Notes on Inauguration Day 2025.
White Christian nationalism isn’t just an existential threat to this nation, it’s a sickening, collective sin that flies in the face of Jesus.
Evil doesn’t negotiate—it devours. That is the peril of trusting Republicans with America’s future. The GOP isn’t interested in Democracy, and it’s time to wake up.
Compassion is the defiant, relentless, rebellious burden that will not allow us to turn away when someone is hurting—and there are so many who are hurting right now.
A single memo launched the Republican strategy to control media, courts, and public opinion, reshaping American democracy. Democrats have a ton of work to do to reclaim it.
As California begins rebuilding, this nation is going to have to decide whether or not we’re going to accept the death of empathy on our watch.
Trump keeps yammering about taking Greenland over for "national security purposes," spouting "facts" like Truman trying to buy it in 1867 though that was 17 years before he was born.
Living well isn't just the best revenge—it's also the greatest resistance. Take care of yourselves and those around you.
In just 14 hours on January 6, 2021, America tumbled from the mountaintop and into a fiery pit of Republican homegrown terror.
Time to give thanks for the rabble-rousers and the good troublemakers who serve as a thorn in the side of the sorrow-bringers; those who confound and exasperate and push back when human dignity is assailed.
I believe America will be less secure, less diverse, less compassionate, and less decent under his leadership. And so, I proudly declare my future resistance to his grotesque version of American “greatness,” no matter how difficult this becomes.
How the groveling Washington Post got it so terribly wrong with an editorial cartoon, and how my newspaper, Stars and Stripes, got it so perfectly right.
It is good to be the king as they say, but America has always been a bad place to try and build a kingdom.
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