The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
Last Saturday, at the park I once (miserably) ran around in 7th grade PE, I stood on a picnic table to stoke the patriotic spirit of 3,000 of my neighbors — and it was a thrill I’ll never forget. I had just flown home the night before from Istanbul, where a grassroots upwelling of concerned citizens is standing up to autocracy, making our local gathering feel even more poignant.
I thought you might enjoy a few highlights from the speech I wrote on the plane flying home. Please join me in spirit — and if you have any great photos or reflections from your own local #HandsOff rally, I’d love to see them!
Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend. History will not be kind to those who are helping him, especially those who call themselves Reagan Republicans while they pretend not to see what’s happening.
Actually no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"
In response, Jesus tells the story of a Jewish man who has been beaten by robbers and is lying by the side of the road. The man is helped not by those closest to him (a "priest" and a "Levite"), but rather by a Samaritan. At the time, Jews and Samaritans would have considered one another enemies.
So Jesus's fundamental message is that *everyone* is your neighbor, and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you. It's specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other. They are all our "neighbors."
But Jesus's deeper point can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the "stranger."
Here’s a thought. If the administration is keen to improve the Fed’s response to disasters, they might want to approach @chefjoseandres to head the mission. True, Jose is not a supporter of the current leadership, but he’s proven he understands how relief organizations can be efficient & effective. It would show amazing leadership for the administration to seek the most qualified, not the most politically loyal. No idea if Jose would accept
This is quite incredible. The US Justice Dept, under Trump, is defending its birthright citizenship Order by arguing that immigrant children covered by the Order cannot be citizens because... the children of Native Americans aren't US citizens.
La empresa Toro Verde, propietaria del innovador ecoparque que se establecerá en Tondos, tiene un espacio en el stand de Castilla-La Mancha de FITUR 2025 como uno de los proyectos de desarrollo turístico más importantes que se llevan a cabo en Castilla-La Mancha.
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El secuestro de María Corina Machado es un acto de desesperación y cobarde por parte del régimen totalitario de Maduro en Venezuela. Es hora que todos los países democráticos exijan su liberación inmediata y se nieguen a reconocer al dictador como presidente del país.
Hawai…En términos de empleo, ingresos, salud, educación, progreso y calidad de vida, ninguna república Latinoamericana, ni el ELA le llegan a los tobillos…La ignorancia es atrevida…
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@JBKSchlossberg Greatly appreciated support. There is no perfect union if 3.2 million Americans are denied equality even after a fourth plebiscite favoring it.
Honoured to meet my friend, President @ZelenskyyUa in Kyiv.
I am here to discuss concrete EU support for Ukraine’s defence – weapons, money, sanctions, training of soldiers, political and diplomatic support.
There is more to come.
Ukraine will prevail. Freedom will prevail.