GOP reactions to Trump’s indictment are tribal. Outside of democracy and rule of law, American creed.
When tribe trumps all, democracies can fail. Why we are in such a precarious moment here in the US. Right wing tribe is losing, using all means necessary to hang on.
To all the folks referring to Sodom and Gomorrah to condemn LGBTQ folks and Pride Month...
This is what the Bible actually says about the sins of Sodom. Sodom was "ARROGANT, OVERFED, & UNCONCERNED. They did not help the poor and needy." Those were the sins of Sodom.
"... it’s impossible to discount the degree to which Obama’s presidency lit this whole thing on fire."
But with Trump, we experienced a whole new, never seen before level of fear, racism, hatred & conspiracy that culminated in 2020. 23 million guns bought. https://t.co/dqd8OQpoH9
It's not the public finances that constrain us so much as a lack of imagination and political vision. It's finances of hard-pressed households, not government finances, that are the locus of human suffering right now - and which therefore should be the focus of policy attention.
@alex_kirshner • Set up an email account for them and send emails with what’s happening, your thoughts, hopes, pics, and videos to that account for them to have when they’re older
• Take non-posed pics of your wife + baby frequently; book a newborn photo session for 4-6 weeks
• Breathe
It’s our culture of violence and isolation and radicalization.
But it’s also the semiautomatic weapons.
You can change culture over time, and we must do that, but you can fight like hell to get the semiautomatics right now.
No amount of carnage seems to move the needle. It's still unfathomably easy to buy a military grade rifle in our country and our mental health system remains woefully under-resourced. These two realities collide – time and time again – to produce dead children and dead teachers.
I hope we're all aware that other countries haven't had an opioid epidemic like ours, and that that really does ultimately boil down on the US healthcare industry's inability to protect itself against greed.