Tim Suttle

Lover of justice. Author of Shrink, Public Jesus, An Evangelical Social Gospel. Writer of songs w/Satellite Soul. Wrote my dissertation on Lacan, Zizek & Hegel.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

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I don’t know if we can have a heaven on earth, but I know we need not have hell on earth… Our foolish leaders spend their days telling us who to fear, blame, despise, & destroy. They’re promoting a fantasy that has never worked.

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[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

What if we've already had our last free election?
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[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

This is not normal.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month. https://t.co/2lu3CsGgaE

[Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman]

Jared's attorney pushing back hard on this.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

@NoahShachtman @VanityFair This goes far beyond grifting & profiteering. This is a violation of federal bribery laws. This is treason.

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.

Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.

Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: https://t.co/PRoWgY5pSo

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

“To them, violence, power, cruelty, were the supreme capacities of men who had definitely lost their place … they elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society’s humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy.” Hannah Arendt (on Authoritarians)

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank.

The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

@FoxNews I would say the condition of billionaires in this country is the worst it has been in all of history. They've lost their moral imagination, they own the politicians, skirt the law, hoard the wealth, & blame liberals for problems they've created.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

Support of Putin’s terror campaign against Ukrainian civilians should be disqualifying for any U.S. leader, especially for a president.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

@BenjaminPDixon I would say the condition of billionaires in this country is the worst it has been in all of history. They've lost their moral imagination, they own the politicians, skirt the law, hoard the wealth, & blame liberals for problems they've created.

[Ruth Graham @publicroad]

Christianity Today has seen about half its staff quit or laid off in the last 14 mos. Former employees told me that new business leaders have intervened in editorial decisions & are effectively abandoning the outlet's commitment to independent journalism. https://t.co/Q4Iy7v5mQB

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

NEW: Trump keeps promising ‘goodies’ on the campaign trail—but only if Republicans win

It’s not just $5,000 checks. Conditioning use of official power to political aims on exec actions, disaster relief and grants.

w/ @megancshannon @sarahmdean95 & team https://t.co/86tzh5ve3u

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

@AFP The cost of living crisis is worldwide. The reason is simple: corporations and billionaires have found a way to own the governments, outright, for profit.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

This article broke my heart. This is what regular Americans are going through under Trump.

After the hottest summer on record, residents in Oklahoma are getting letters from their local utility giving them a fixed number of days to pay their summer bill or face disconnection.

NYT: ““The summer had just ended, and they had just gotten the bill for all of that electricity, and it was far more than their monthly income, almost $1,500.

It also came with a bold lettered disconnection notice that said they had nine days left to pay.
My colleague Eli Saslow says that for the couple he met, Genia and Darryl, it's not just about the lights may be going off.

A disconnection would mean they also couldn't run the oxygen machine or the CPAP they depend on. Eli says he saw how the couple tried to limit their electric bill by more or less moving their whole life into the living room where the AC is, hanging curtains from the doorways to keep the cool air in, sleeping there, eating there, but all that still wasn't enough.”

The couple tried to go to churches charity thrift shops, tried to get doctors notes, to help pay the bill, but everyone was overwhelmed by clients having the same issue, and facing having their electrical turned off.

The utility said they needed the higher rates to perform maintenance on their system, in part to keep up with increased demand coming from data centers:

“But the utility company in that part of Oklahoma, which is called PSO, says it's facing its own pressure.

The grid is old and needs updating. These hot summers also are straining electrical companies because they need to provide more power. And also, there are a huge number of what they call large load customers coming onto the grid.

These are new businesses and in some cases, new data centers for artificial intelligence that are going to increase the demand for electricity like never before.”

What an incredible and heartbreaking story about what regular Americans are facing.

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[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

There have been tons of voters in Tennessee that have come forward complaining about how when they went to vote & pushed the button to vote for Jerri Green & Marsha Blackburn’s name came up instead & if you weren’t watching closely you would have voted for the wrong person.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

I’ll stipulate that Trump is an agent of Putin.

Go down the checklist.

1. Destroyed the Western alliance? Putin wanted that.
2. Threatened a NATO ally over Greenland? Putin wanted that.
3. Pulled out of the intermediate nuclear pact? Putin wanted that.
4. Withdrawing 25-40,000 troops from Western Europe while Russian bellicosity is rising? Putin wanted that.
5. Russian satellites giving coordinates to Iranians killing our soldiers, and his response is “they kill us, we kill them”? What American president says that?

I think he’s been compromised.

The election of Donald Trump may be the greatest foreign policy success in post-Czarist Russian history.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

The left v. right political wars & their culture wars are just the bread & circuses of the true political divide: the 1% v. the rest of us.

[Tim Suttle @Tim_Suttle]

We're doing this to ourselves.
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[RiShawn Biddle @dropoutnation]

Under White Supremacy, the lives of Black children are deemed unworthy of protection.