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This Australia politician lays it out clear and straightforward.

Our constitution built inefficiency into our government to protect from tyrants. But Trump’s impatient constituency will trade away democracy itself for the instant gratification of having an app for that. Trump’s unleashing of Musk and his henchmen tech boys (DOGE) to root out federal government inefficiencies, …

February 7, 2025

The foxes are in the hen house but don’t look now, keep your eyes on the real estate mogul-in-chief as he distracts the world with wild claims about taking over Gaza to build hotels.

February 4, 2025

I’m remembering Black History Month in my local community.

"4 ... The idols [of the nations] are silver and gold, The work of man’s hands.5 They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see;6 They have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot smell;7 They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; Nor can they make a sound with their throats.8 Those who make them will become like them, ...."

- Psalm 115:4-8 AMP

“[t]he people who now dominate the executive branch of the government…are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation.” “Think of the federal government as a car,” he wrote. “You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don’t look like m…

February 2, 2025

I’m celebrating February Black History Month

I’ve always admired John Danforth, ever since my grandmother gave me a little leather-bond copy of “I Dare You,” by Danforth’s grandfather William Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina. That he is a preacher added to Senator Danforth’s stature in my mind, and it is from that perspective that this article in A Public Witness stand out to me…

John Danforth, Former GOP Senator & Episcopal Priest, Calls Bishop Budde ‘Prophetic’

The oligarchs are dismantling our democratic government in order to consolidate power and wealth to themselves while the rest of us squabble over our magnified differences. Once they’ve dismantled the social safety net and monetized (privatized) as much of it and other parts of government as they can, every town in every county across th…

Trump's first week: The Real Story

Oh, let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King And recognize that there are ties between us All men and women, living on the earth Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood

That we are bound together In our desire to see the world become A place in which our children can grow free and strong We are bo…