Rev. Jen Butler

CEO of Faith in Democracy
BLUE SKY: @revjenbutler.bsky.social

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico on abortion bans: “It doesn’t seem like it’s about children. It doesn’t seem like it’s about mothers and women and girls. It does seem like it’s about control. That’s what we see across this Christian nationalist movement. This is religion at its worst. Trying to control people and what they do”

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.

He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.

He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.

He was impeached by his own party for corruption.

Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.

Together we will stop him.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. https://t.co/nUveUBkApa

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

How authoritarian corruption works

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

You could start by walking down the hall. See why your boss keeps pardoning people convicted of money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, and securities fraud.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

Looting public funds to pay off allies and henchmen is a naked abuse of power, but doing it to precisely the tune of 1.776 billion dollars is a brazen civic blasphemy.

https://t.co/QdxpZTYVE2

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Trump’s Border Patrol chief abruptly resigned amid allegations he traveled abroad to solicit sex workers https://t.co/IUllbPmFjz

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

This weekend, I joined the @uwomenfaith Assembly in Indianapolis, where I had the honor of meeting Elizabeth Eckford. One of the Little Rock Nine, she bravely integrated an all-white high school in 1957. Her courage advanced the civil rights movement, but almost 70 years later, we find ourselves continuing to fight for equality. Because our freedom is never free — but it is ours to win.

Photo by Mike DuBose, United Women in Faith.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies.

I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics.

It makes Nixon look like a boy scout.

https://t.co/h50c8yzXtJ

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

No American president has ever sought to benefit so directly, and so immediately, from his own political decisions. Unprecedented

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

BREAKING: Second ICE agent criminally charged in Minnesota.

Christian Castro has been charged with assault after shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in January.

Minnesota prosecutors are going after ICE agents.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “The only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God. Our faith in Jesus should lead us away from theocracy, tyranny, Christian nationalism and toward a multi-racial, multi-cultural democracy”

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

Trump’s More Than 3,700 Trades Provoke Wall Street Astonishment https://t.co/zJr7OzU4pH

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

You can’t make this stuff up.
They just erected a 22-foot golden statue of Trump.

It’s as if they’ve never heard the story of the narcissistic King Nebuchadnezzar — or the faithful resistance of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Or the idolatrous golden calf in Exodus 32.

This is simple.

Do not bow down to idols. Do not be intimidated by tyrants.

Follow Jesus. Not Trump.

[Rev. Jen Butler @RevJenButler]

It does feel some days like we have chosen to die, chosen to bring this country down.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power.
https://t.co/Fv7p6tkzoH

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Unia Europejska jest niedoskonała, irytująca, nudna, ale niczego lepszego w naszej historii nie wymyśliliśmy. Czas pokoju, dobrobytu, wolności, demokracji i solidarności między narodami przez wieki walczącymi ze sobą to cud. Niech trwa jak najdłużej.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry.

This is what idol worship looks like.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Massive US airlift this morning to Gulf.

Strong indicator of attack on Iran likely imminent