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In the world of Substack where I have no idea what I am doing, I am finding consistency to be my best friend.
President Trump called the woman pictured below a “loser” for being captured. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DOGE ordered her service history to be deleted from the Department of Defense archives because she was “DEI” and “woke.”
Ruby Bradley was serving as an Amy nurse in the Philippines when she was taken prisoner just weeks after t…
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
What a great story...I love how you tell them and how applicable they are to current events. Now may we figure out how to reclaim democracy again.
When "democracy" can no longer in principle degenerate into a food fight, something is terribly wrong. The rebirth-struggle of death defying renewal is a composting process: rot serves to fertilize the inspired life-force powerfully motivated to get some distance on the persistent flies and bad smells. The urge to live is often too focused on running toward, and not enough on the often more credible running from.
Accepting the truth of that statement, the next upsurge of democratic activism will be powerful indeed because the layer of fertilizer runs very deep right now.
No s$#t