Steve Patterson

“I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you a nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us don’t tell! They’d banish us you know!”
- Emily Dickinson (and Yours Truly)

[Steve Patterson @StevePatters0n]

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[Steve Patterson @StevePatters0n]

Please help this precious little girl get the word out ! She desperately needs a bone marrow match . Please get the word out!

it’s a matter of life and death !

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Bravo, my friends. Your one big, beautiful bill is going to blow a hole through the deficit to give permanent tax breaks to billionaires on the backs of real Americans. 

We will 💯 vote no.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Every Republican officeholder who does not speak out against Trump's thuggish threats against Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor should understand that they are giving the green light for Democrats to target them and their political organizations.

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Agreed.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed, by hanging, for his resistance to the Nazis.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer studied theology in Germany and the United States and pastored a church in London before returning to Germany as a leader of the Confessing Church, which tried to resist Adolf Hitler. Though Bonhoeffer returned to Germany a pacifist, he became a resistance worker and was part of a failed plot to assassinate Hitler (for the record, I think his decision to try and assassinate Hitler was a mistake... something I wrote about in Jesus For President).

Nonetheless, he has so much to teach us about community, discipleship, and nonviolence.

It was actually his evasion of the call-up for military service that led to his arrest.

Perhaps he died because of his political convictions and not as a Christian martyr, but he would have said that there is no distinction between the two.

His book Life Together is one of the first books we read together as we started @theSimpleWay.

Here are a few of my favorite Bonhoeffer quotes:

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them."

"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ."

"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."

Amen.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree 💯💯💯

[Rep. Bennie G. Thompson @BennieGThompson]

This is sickening. The entire staff of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) was fired due to the HHS layoffs.

LIHEAP was designed to help millions keep their heat on in the winter and their A/C running in the summer. Now, it has been gutted—all in the name of “government efficiency.”

Meanwhile, the poorest, the elderly, and families with young children are left to suffer. This is cruel and disgraceful.

[Bennie G. Thompson @BGThompsonMS]

Mike Johnson tells us to “trust the president's instincts on the economy” as if Trump didn't bankrupt several businesses.

[Derrick Johnson @DerrickNAACP]

Is this what you call winning, @POTUS? Because we’re all tired of it.

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

Imagine the arrogance of thinking: screw ALL the economists, screw everything we know from history, screw our allies, screw American workers and farmers, screw my own voters who just wanted costs to go down…I’m going to take down the GLOBAL economy. Because I can. That’s a special kind of narcissist.

[Rep. Bennie G. Thompson @BennieGThompson]

Welcome to Trump's Golden Age for America.

You asked for it and you got it.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Cory Booker against the GOP!

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Pete Hegseth would not be Sec of Defense without @RogerWicker. He had the power to stop the nomination.

So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?

https://t.co/i0FkAdLfal

[Steve Patterson @StevePatters0n]

Wonder what Senators Russell, Stennis ,Nunn, Goldwater, Tower,and Warner, all Sen. Armed services committee chairs would do if faced with an admiration that approaches national security like it’s a pee wee Herman movie ? Think about this Sen Wicker ? You know the answer .

[Rep. Bennie G. Thompson @BennieGThompson]

What is the Republican agenda?

Firing federal workers who protect our government while giving billionaires access to America’s most sensitive systems.

[Rep. Bennie G. Thompson @BennieGThompson]

It’s only been a month, and the Trump-Musk administration is already making America less safe, putting other countries first, and breaking their promises to the American people. Even Secretary Noem said, "We can’t trust our government anymore."

And you know what?

She’s right!

[Bennie G. Thompson @BGThompsonMS]

The Trump-Musk administration is characterized by chaos and controversy!

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

The shame of America's support for Putin's genocide will last for generations.

Republicans have undone in under 100 days what it took over a hundred years to build: America as a force for good in the world.

Thanks to Republican capitulation, America now stands with and for evil.

Do not forget. Do not forgive.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I heard @realDonaldTrump hates this image. Please don't use it to tag him, his staffers, or his media allies.

That would be wrong.